Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Arkansas Politics Beebe forms unholy alliance with Jason Rapert
Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:55 PM
I didn't follow up. John Brummett did. And since it's on his blog, as opposed to the regular D-G website, I think you can read it. He doesn't get why Beebe dissed Democratic senators and gave this piece of legislative gravy to Rapert whom Brummett calls "singularly the most grandstanding right-wing blowhard in the Republican caucus."
Did Beebe extract something in return from Rapert, who's been nearly unhinged over Obamacare and the governor's attempts to extend nearly universal health coverage to the working poor of Arkansas? If he did, he's not saying.
I don't get it either.
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