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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Arkansas Politics Whose side are you on in 4th District GOP primary?

Posted by Max Brantley on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:25 AM

The Wall Street Journal today has a feature on the 4th District Republican primary race between Beth Anne Rankin and Tom Cotton (and also, incidentally, John Cowart). The article (pay wall) pitches the race as one between a candidate backed by Mike Huckabee (Rankin, a former employee of the ex-governor) and Cotton, a Club for Growth candidate (nearly $200,000 in funneled Club money last I looked).

Huckabee or Club for Growth, the anti-tax lobby heavily funded by Jackson T. Stephens Jr. of Little Rock? One of those devil-or-the-deep-blue-sea choices.

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Arkansas Politics Whose side are you on in 4th District GOP primary?

Posted by Max Brantley on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:25 AM

Speaking of...

Items of interest this Monday morning from all over: * SWATTING ARRIVES IN LITTLE ROCK: Channel 4 reports that the "SWATting" phenomenon — making false 911 reports to draw SWAT teams to home and businesses — was reported recently at a home on Pebble Beach in West Little Rock. /more/

I joked yesterday about how Mike Huckabee ties a commercial pitch to just about every breaking news event, often soliciting Huck PAC contributions tailored to the latest Fox slant on President Obama. /more/

Within days, we will know whether the Arkansas DREAM Act, the legislation focused on providing in-state college tuition to undocumented young people who have been educated in the state's high schools, has legs in this legislative session. /more/

The Club for Growth ("Club for Greed," Mike Huckabee calls the outfit heavily funded by Little Rock silver spooner Jackson T. Stephens Jr.) is out with some selective results from a Republican polling firm's soundings of Arkansas voters on the 2014 U.S. Senate race. /more/

The Club for Growth today launched a website urging for primary challengers to nine Republican members of Congress, including Rep. Rick Crawford. /more/

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