Thursday, January 31, 2008
Early voting continues
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CDI executive missing
Some two to three dozen officers are searching for John W. Glasgow, CFO and vice president of CDI Inc., on Petit Jean Mountain. Glasgow, 45, was reported missing to Little Rock police Tuesday.
Glasgow's Volvo was found parked, unlocked, at Mather Lodge. His laptop was in the back seat, Conway County sheriff's office spokesman Sonny Stover says. Stover said State Parks rangers are leading the search, assisted by Conway deputies and Franklin County emergency personnel.
Glasgow's wife, Melinda, who reported her husband missing, told police a .22 rifle was missing from their Little Rock home.
Stover said the search, concentrated around the lodge and trails in the State Park, will continue until dark. It's raining and sleeting on the mountain.
CDI statement on the jump.
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Bob Woodruff at Clinton School
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Huck calls home UPDATE
UPDATE: He'll swoop into the Tyson Hangar at the XNA airport in Bentonville. Don't expect him to stray too far from the tarmac: he has a 7 p.m. event in Springfield, MO.
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The San Francisco treat
The Huckster spoke just down the street from me in San Francisco today. I couldn't get away. But KGO has him.
Why is he staying in the race? "Because I still think I can win."
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Clinton IS coming UPDATE
Bill, we mean. The campaign confirms. No details yet. Rep. Steve Harrelson said he'll be in Texarkana. Don't know if that means Hot Springs is out or in addition to.
UPDATE: UAPB at 1 p.m. and Texarkana at 2:15. No Hot Springs for Clinton, though apparently Dustin McDaniel and other Clinton supporters will have an event there. Details on jump.
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Now, for something pretty
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DeLay de-listed
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Grand standing
The two candidates for president with connections to Arkansas are reaching out for the youngster vote. Salon's Machinist blog says Hillary! and Mike! will take part in a "grandly interactive 'dialogue' " on MTV and MySpace's election page.
Quoth the blog: "Mike Huckabee better be careful what he says about evolution, as there'll likely be some college kids in the audience who know about science and stuff."
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Poll dance
Beebe yes, Bush no: That's the result of a poll by Global Strategy Group of Arkansas published this a.m. on Roby Brock's Talk Business blog. The poll, of 608 state voters, produced a 58 percent approval rating for the governor and 34 percent for Bush. (Bush's rating here matches his numbers nationally.) Only 8 percent were negative about Beebe; a decisive 49 percent gave thumbs down to the Decider's decisions.
The state legislature? A 41 percent positive rating.
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Arkansas book alert
The NY Times has a sparkling review of a book with great Arkansas interest -- the tale of a quack doctor and Mexican broadcaster, John Brinkley, who implanted goat glands in men to restore virility. The story is well-known and long-told. Here's the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History entry, with their photo of his old hospital.
For Dr. Brinkley, whose story is told with uproarious brio in Pope Brock’s heavenly “Charlatan,” this 1917 epiphany was the beginning of a mercenary miracle. “Dimly he had begun to realize that he was gifted beyond the run of doctors,” Brinkley’s adoring authorized biography would one day explain. That book would also credit Brinkley with “this lovable characteristic of genius, that money is not an aim, or an end in itself, but a means of enlarging the central idea of his life-work.”
Selflessly or otherwise, Brinkley parlayed his goat-gland breakthrough into a unique place in American history. He was much more than just a mere medical quack. In a book so lively that its wild stories are virtually wall-to-wall, Mr. Brock describes early-20th-century America’s endlessly credulous populace, with “the average citizen as guileless as the wide-mouthed shad.” Brinkley and his virility scheme tapped into the nation’s penchant for mumbo-jumbo and hence into opportunities for salesmanship that had been previously unknown.
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Following the money
Here's why former president Bill Clinton's world travels and contributions to the Clinton Library are of such interest.
In today's NY Times, a story about where philanthropy, politics and big money intersect -- with Clinton on a jet to a faraway place in the company of someone seeking a huge uranium deal with a rogue government.
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Bad times in Baring Cross
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The morning Huck
HE COULDA BEEN A CONTENDA: James Wolcott of Vanity Fair says Mike Huckabee blew it:
The zombie march of Giuliani's and Fred Thompson's maladroit campaigns will entrance political dissecters for seasons to come but less remarked is the misguided direction the Huckabee campaign took after its win in Iowa. Despite his financial disadvantages, Huckabee had a real opportunity to bust open and make himself a real player and what does he do?--instead of broadening his appeal and message and opening up his passing game, he escorts himself down a narrow lane to the frayed, far-right fringe by crudely pandering on the tired old Confederate flag controversy ("If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole"--this from a preacher man) and proposing a pet list of fatuous, unpassable Constitutional amendments. He became Duncan Hunter with a grin, a most unappetizing combination day or night. Huckabee's banana-peel spill, after looking so surefooted earlier, lends credence to the Weekly Standard's Richelieu's contention that "strategy" is just a CYA buzzword for improvised scrambling and flying blind through a series of storm clouds
ODD MEN OUT: NY Times Republican debate coverage from last night consigns Huckabee and Ron Paul to concluding sentences in an article devoted to Romney and McCain tussling.
The other candidates, Representative Ron Paul of Texas and Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor whose campaign has struggled since its upset victory in Iowa, received few questions, drawing several protests from Mr. Huckabee.
“I want to make sure everybody understands, this isn’t a two-man race,” he said. “There’s another guy, I would like to say, down here on the far right of the stage.”
NOTHING BETTER TO DO: Gail Collins column:
Mike Huckabee is still in the Republican race, possibly due to a belief in miracles or a lack of any other specific occupation.
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Where were you last night?
I wasn't at Van Halen, obviously. (I was at Betelnut, which serves pan-Asian street food in a film noirish setting.) But Brian Chilson was on hand at Alltel and provides a photo.
Rock Candy has more, including a reader review.
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