http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/12/20/dustin-mcdaniel-he-can-hide-but-can-he-run Comments On: UPDATE: Dustin McDaniel: He can hide, but can he run? by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Interesting. Did our AG step on a silk-stockinged toe? Seems like regular old barnyard manure but...
Posted by clawso]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:01:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://talkbusiness.net/2012/12/will-mcdan…

He proposes two textbook scandal responses - 1) Hold a worst-out-first press conference, or 2) issue a press release and then stonewall it.

Actually, I think a press conference with his wife standing beside him is more typical for denying a relationship, not admitting one. That tactic backfired on Bill Clinton with his famous finger-wagging Lewinsky denial with Hillary by his side. It didn't work for Wilbur Mills either when he held a press conference in Fanne Foxxe's dressing room at the strip club.

Bill Clinton finessed the issue in the 60 Minutes interview with Hillary - a controlled environment, not a wide open press conference - then he retreated to the Governor's Mansion and hid out for several days, using the Ricky Ray Rector execution as a cover story until the controversy died down. A direct admission to an affair with Flowers didn't occur until years later, during the Paula Jones lawsuit.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:59:27 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:57:43 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:42:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:22:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
Since he was elected to office, there's been a steady departure of members of his top political staff from the "eleventh floor." I think every member of his permanent dozen-person political team is new since 2007. Most of Mike Beebe's extremely coterie has been with him at least a decade. Working closely with Dustin, perhaps they've seen him as too loose a cannon?
Posted by Heights Observer]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:35:38 -0600 Arkansas Times >His only posts are on this thread, joined up today. Kinda like that marvelous Mary Ann Gunn thread, .....

That's the beauty of Arkansas Times/Arkansas blog, it's open to all. Some great news tips and inside info have come from first time posters.
We're not republicans who must hold and filter every post through politically coated lenses.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:32:04 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Whatever]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:02:57 -0600 Arkansas Times
Wouldn't a better practice be to spend 30 seconds and google what the ethical rules say about required disclosure and then write about that?
Posted by janeeyredite]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:54:56 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by springdale_liberal]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:22:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
Wanna fess up? No, I didn't think so.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:03:39 -0600 Arkansas Times )). I think you mentioned in an old post you were a newspaper man, or someone who used to be in the business told me that when I was trying to figure out who the auctioneer was (and based on your version of events I would like to buy you a beverage of your choice if the opportunity arises, but I digress) you know the media always uses the most disparaging photo of someone caught up in a mess. I hope all can agree yes, his "inappropriate interaction" would have been a private matter had it been you or I (well maybe not me because I hold public office) but officials elected to high public office are held to a higher standard than say newspaper editors or bloggers. Then throw the legal ethics stick into the mix, this guy shot himself in the foot which is a shame because he should have shot himself a little higher up to really show remorse.
Radical: You left grandma getting run over by a train out of the mix.
Posted by Razorblade]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:38:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by CenArkObserver]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:17:37 -0600 Arkansas Times
No matter.

In other news re: the sanctity of whatever, sure to upset creationists and 6,000-year-old-Earthers, this whale--thought extinct for two million years, that diverged from your modern baleen whales between 17 and 25 millions years ago--just washed up in New Zealand in Peter Jackson's back yard, as it were, with a belly full of hobbits, not to spoil any home-schoolers' Christmas, but there you go.

http://www.mnn.com/stories/found-whale-tho…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:05:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
I can imagine the bumper stickers now: "Honk If You Slept With Dustin McDaniel"

Even Bill Clinton never faced a problem of this magnitude before a statewide election.

After the Gennifer Flowers story broke, the Clintons saved the 1992 presidential campaign by going together on 60 Minutes, but I'm not sure how that tactic could translate to this gubernatorial campaign. I think viewers would be more skeptical about that kind of interview today.

McDaniel has more time to work a recovery than Clinton did, but he will have to change his campaign strategy and hope that the worst is over.

The judge in Hot Springs denied a motion to seal the record. The situation is still unfolding - and beyond McDaniel's control.

I still like Dustin McDaniel, and if nothing else goes wrong, I'm still willing to consider voting for him, especially if he can accomplish some good things over the next couple of years as attorney general. Saving rural wireline telephone service is my suggestion, and it would atone for his ill-advised endorsement of the blatantly anti-competitive AT&T/T-Mobile merger, a spectacular and expensive failure. If McDaniel wants to save rural telephone service in Arkansas, and all the jobs that go with it, now is the time to throw those AT&T lobbyists under the bus.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:03:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
Seriously. The point is that he sure seems to be more interested in his penis than he is with state bidness.

Wonder how much pressure he can take?

The Peter Principal at its finest.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:59:55 -0600 Arkansas Times > Though she was famously photographed leaving the house in handcuffs, she has not been named as a suspect. It remains under investigation, but lack of a criminal charge in the case, combined with the recent McDaniel revelation, is feeding a busy whispering mill.<<

Yes, whisperers all. Why was the woman handcuffed if she wasn't under arrest and not even a suspect? Perhaps you're examining the wrong politicians.

Imagine your own wife handcuffed and taken to the police cruiser as the media was there to document that a dead body was found in your driveway and that image of your wife plastered all over the media.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:36:29 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:30:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
“It is in every family. It is in every community. The momentum is clearly now in the direction in finding some way to … accommodate and deal with reality. And the reality is going to be that in a number of American states — and it will be more after 2014 — gay relationships will be legal, period.”

Reality just keeps rollin' along.

http://americablog.com/2012/12/gingrich-su…

Will The Natural State be last again?

Pretty sure the answer's, "You betcha."
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:26:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
Tim Tebow breaks up with Camille.

After only two months, so no harm, no foul.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:18:01 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:14:37 -0600 Arkansas Times
Cone on . . .: "Bill Clinton broke the law when he lied under oath. Dustin McDaniel did not. Apples to oranges.."

Let's see if I remember correctly: He lied under oath AFTER he was asked in an official proceeding about a personal indiscretion, the details of which were none of the questioner's business, or anyone else's, but that's apples to oranges???

If it was nobody's business other than his and his wife's, why was he asked the question and why was he obligated to answer?

And what do you suppose the Attorney General's answer might have been had he been being interrogated under oath as was Bill Clinton?

Do you really think that confessing when he was caught makes the Attorney General morally superior to the President? The President also later confessed.

And tell me, Come on, when was the last time you lied? And don't bother denying that you have.
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:01:14 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Come on Man]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:44:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
That dog isn't going to hunt. Not with me. Not with AP. Not with D-G. Not with Talk Business. Not with anyone else. I'm not ready to conclude that there's an ethical issue in this, but I am ready to say we don't know enough yet to say there isn't. I have been told the a.g.'s office help was sought on the Hot Springs killing case. They might properly argue that it's outside their jurisdiction. But I think they need to answer the question. Finally: personal indiscretion is one thing. But the judgment in "interacting" with somebody with Davis' track record is not particularly reassuring. I hope McDaniel can deal with all this. My Christmas has already been ruined by the new prospect of Mike Ross as a Democratic candidate.
Posted by Max Brantley]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:39:03 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Come on Man]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:38:24 -0600 Arkansas Times