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Re: “Partisan justice: Court candidate Wood gets tout from GOP's Curtis Coleman”
Rhonda Wood was violating the law if she was holding public juvenile court hearings. All such hearings are supposed to be confidential and open only to the parties to the action. Go to the Juvenile Court proceedings in Benton County and you will see the halls jammed with people, with a courtroom with only a few persons present. This is the war it is supposed to be.
Re: “Two judges disciplined for courtroom behavior”
Kent Crow has the smallest judicial circuit in the state, with the lightest case load. His court is still constantly in turmoil. It should have never been a separate judicial circuit. but was created in the early 1990s because of political influence by a Eureka Springs lawyer who wanted to insure a job for his younger brother. The younger brother was defeated by Crow. My friends who practice there tell me it is a nightmare.
Re: “Judge Wright issues injunction against abortion law”
Thank God for federal judges! If my memory serves me correctly, Susan Weber Wright was a Republican appointee back in the days when Republicans were not all bat-shit crazy.
Re: “Davy Carter: 'I don’t know if the Republican party in a primary is willing to elect a guy like me'”
Asa will have token opposition for the nomination, and Mike Ross will clean his plow in the general election.
Re: “Friday finish — An oldie but goodie for legislature? A rebuttal for Tom Cotton”
Amen to what eLwood wrote at 6:11 p.m. Ken Starr was easily the most evil person in national politics in the 1990s. Now, he lives largely in anonymity, thankfully. If we could just retire his cohort, Asa Hutchinson, to the same fate, we would all be so much better off. But that SOB just keeps hanging on, long past his time.
Re: “The death and taxes open line”
As long as the Republican Party uses Doyle Webb as a front man it can never aspire to achieving a reputation for decency or respectability. If you put a crook out front as your spokesman, how can you then claim that you are above board, and also not crooked.
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Re: “UPDATE: FBI confirms State Treasurer Martha Shoffner's arrest, apparently for official misconduct”
Political corruption knows no partisan boundaries. There, of course, are crooks in both parties. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a naive idiot, and anyone who tries to rationalize corruption by saying "Your party is no better," is contributing to the problem. Both parties must try to find their crooks, and get rid of them. The Republicans know that Doyle Webb is a crook, but they still keep him on. For the Democrats to try to rationalize and excuse Martha Shoffner's crimes would be just as bad. I say throw the book at her. It has been clear for months that there was something rotten in her allowing an old hometown friend to lose money on state investments.