Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Beebe: Dems can overcome
Posted by Gerard Matthews on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:20 PM
Gov. Mike Beebe made an appearance at a ceremony this afternoon, celebrating the move of KATV's enormous video collection (over 24,000 hours of film) to the Arkansas State Library in Little Rock. The collection will be digitized and made available to the public through the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas. Afterward, Beebe answered questions from reporters, not a single one about the video library. When asked if he would, as it appears at least one Democratic candidate has decided to do, run against the Obama administration, Beebe said that if Democrats make themselves and their positions known to the people of Arkansas, they will be able to win in November.
On the jump, Beebe responds to questions raised by his opponent, Jim Keet, about his positions on the lottery and health care reform. When asked about charges that the governor was AWOL on the health care discussion, Beebe says, "I was here, AWOL's being in Florida."
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Beebe: Keet Voucher Proposals Would Land State in Court
By The Associated Press
8/25/2010 1:06:15 PM
HOT SPRINGS -- Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe on Wednesday accused Republican challenger Jim Keet of backing education proposals that would land the state back in court over the way it funds its public schools.
A day after Keet said he supports taxpayer-funded vouchers for students to attend private schools, Beebe said he opposed the idea and that the former legislator's school ideas threaten to reopen the long-running Lake View school funding case.
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.as…
I have a 15 point power point essay on all this stuff...but I'm too tired.
Beebe will stomp Keet handily without resorting to running against Obama or pulling any tricks or promising the moon. He's not been Mike Huckabee for a minute, he didn't have a Cuban Crisis at Fort Chaffee, he didn't raise the price of car tags, he's not in the TV cable business, he's in bed with Ginger every night and he didn't block the Lottery.
Best of all he put 2/3rd of the grocery tax back in our pockets. He's solid like a rock and the voters know it.
Then there's our own Blanche, a southern belle whose drama plays less like the DuBois one in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and more like the Regina Giddens one in "The Little Foxes."
From today's nyt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/opinion/…
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