http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/22/mike-ross-for-governor Comments On: Mike Ross for governor: Rumors mount 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) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Jerry Mander]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:06:06 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:18:44 -0600 Arkansas Times 1) He wants to win; and
2) We promised to find a decent barber to cut his hair.
Posted by Razorblade]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:17:28 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.steel.org/Making%20Steel/~/medi…
Add it up yourself. I still think your question is valid. But wanted you to have the facts.
Posted by dowhat]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:22:46 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by righter]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:12:48 -0600 Arkansas Times
It was Arkansas Democrats who gave us the Right To Work law back when WWII was raging around the globe...can't blame the Republicans for that. I'm guessing maybe the idea of striking workers during war time influenced their vote or maybe since back then they were the sole owners of the Arkansas Plantation they didn't want to pay workers a fair wage....either way it meant most Arkansas workers would never see membership in the Middle Class.

Is this what we want for our future? Do you really want your kids to work for damn near nothing in dangerous factories.....assuming there'll be a factory left in Arkansas or the US 10 years from now? I've known some rare union workers and they weren't monsters. They had more money than I did, but they didn't have horns or sleep with their children or worship Satan.

What kind of Arkansas do you see when our future is filled with low wage chicken-gutting-Wal-Mart wages? Shall we extend the Delta poorness from border to border? Is there something wrong with Arkansas workers that they don't deserve decent wages? Did our ancestors eat the damn snake's apple in the Garden of Eden? Why would anyone hope we suck hind tit for the rest of time?

I know the Waltons, Tysons, Hunts, Stephens, Hussmans are barely making ends meet, but I'd like to see the day come around when everyone in Arkansas who works 40 hours per week enjoys life above the poverty level. If more Arkansans had money in their pockets the more they could spend with the above named people.

It's high time we break the 194 year tradition of low low low wages and dead end futures for our kids. Maybe we'll never be Connecticut but by god why would you want us to always race Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana for last place?

Remember when FDR warned our grandparents about Fearing Fear back in 1933? Today Fear has taken over, every wingnut is fearing up a storm, arming to the teeth, seeing spooks around every corner. Even Arkansas Democrats are feasting on Fear. OH god....Unions! Oh god....Bill Halter might actually do something if he's governor! Halter might kick some Tea Bagger legislator ass if he gets in! Halter might speak impolitely to backwoods idiots! Bad things might happen to Arkansas if we wake up in 47th place!!!! And what about Jesus? I......am.....too....scared....to type......more.......
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:04:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by dowhat]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:02:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Jack]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:15:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
Regarding the Steelworker's endorsement, do these types of endorsements really mean anything anymore in Arkansas? I understand that they do from the point of view that it means a lot of money both in and out of state will come in to Halter, but as far as voters are concerned, do these types of endorsements move voters in Arkansas anymore? I guess I just don't know what kind of numbers the Steelworkers have in Arkansas. It isn't like we are Pittsburgh. Just curious.
Posted by Poison Apple]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:23:57 -0600 Arkansas Times >Obamacare is a mess and most people in this state agree with me, even Democrats. Check the polls.<<

Which polls? Whose polls? Got any links? You better spread that Obamacare fear before too many find out it's a good deal. Getting toothpaste back in the tube is not any fun.

All the seniors I know are thrilled with ACA thus far. Eliminating the doughnut hole and a cost-free physical each year is damn popular (not to mention sensible) with our grandmas and grandpas.

Here's a little primer WPS about "socialized medicine" when people like you were trying to frighten the nation about Medicare. Later, the Teflon One had to support it, defend it and strengthen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:15:16 -0600 Arkansas Times http://talkbusiness.net/2012/07/arkansans-…
Posted by WPSforLife]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:08:03 -0600 Arkansas Times

“None love the messenger who brings bad news.”
Sophocles
Posted by Zatharus]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:52:43 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by righter]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:51:08 -0600 Arkansas Times
Ross and Halter both have a great chance to lose in the general, but I would rather vote for a committed Democrat than someone who is too late in his career to switch parties.

http://dailyarkansan.com/?p=79
Posted by Daily Arkansan]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:47:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
Why, no telling what a man like Mike Ross could pull off as our governor! WPS is right! Mike Ross STAYED in Arkansas screwing Arkansas folks his entire career. He didn't go out of state to get rich, he stayed right here and sold out his constituents the old time Arkansas way.

He pioneered the scam of pretending to be a Democrat, no doubt Mark Pryor learned a lot from ole USADrugs Mike Ross. Wonder what scam he's working on now? Probably already cornered the market in Vaginal Probes and will get super rich in the future as Arkansas Tea Bagger legislators demand a whole lot of probing for Arkansas girls!

I wouldn't be surprised if Ross doesn't steal my idea and make all his Vaginal Probes in the shape of AR15s. By god he'll suck up the redneck vote for sure!
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:46:17 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by LinCo_Progressive]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:43:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
I call bullcrap.

He voted against everything of note that President Obama stood for, not even giving his Democratic Party leader a chance to even implement policies in the first two years of office that he thought would help the country. And during townhall meetings in South Arkansas where Tea Party racist call Obama names and made personal and Birthers comments about this president, Ross stood silent and never came to his defense.

And during his tenure in office, Ross hasn't achieved one thing of note - except lukewarm and hand holding piecemeal legislation with right-wing conservatives that would make one vomit. Speak for yourself, WPS, when you say he has has represented the district well - only if you are a wealthy, white chamber of commerce-type or a corporate CEO -- which it sounds like you are a perfect fit for one of those categories.

All he has done for the middle-class working people in this district is bend them over and let Koch Industry's Georgia Pacific rape the natural resources of South Arkansas. Visit any town in South Arkansas and ask any working class man what they think of this lobbyist and you will get the same answer - another worthless Bluedog politician churned out by the Arkansas Democratic Party.
Posted by Bull Connor]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:43:07 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by righter]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:40:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
The Steelworkers endorsed Halter today.

I'll give you this much, WPS. If others don't emerge and the match does end up Asa v. Ross, I will vote for Ross. Not with great enthusiasm, but without hesitation.

I wish this was San Francisco, by the way. Or any of the many other places where the constitutional promise of equal treatment under the law is held in higher esteem than it is held here.
Posted by Max Brantley]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:33:49 -0600 Arkansas Times
On the issues, yes, he's a 2nd amendment supporter and last time I checked, so is almost everyone in Arkansas. When you call Mike Ross a "gun nut" you realize you're insulting thousands of Arkansans right?? And gay rights...this is Arkansas, not San Francisco.

Obamacare is a mess and most people in this state agree with me, even Democrats. Check the polls.

My stout defense is that Mike Ross was my congressman for 10+ years and he did a hell of a job. Im not part of any "organization." I don't agree with him on every issue - I wish he too would come out in favor of gay marriage, but I realize this is Arkansas - but he worked hard and represented our district well. And now look what we get as our congressman?! A right-wing tea-partier who goes on every network he can to trash the president and Democrats. I don't want Mike Ross to run for Gov - I want my congressman back.

Halter, Asa, Cotton and Griffin all spent decades outside this state and then come back and run for office. It'd be refreshing to have someone who has stuck around his entire life here.
Posted by WPSforLife]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:15:59 -0600 Arkansas Times Let me guess.

Saline, take your bow.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:52:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
I will. I won't vote for the sumbich, and neither will any of my family members in South Arkansas.
Posted by ProfessorEmeritus]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:38:16 -0600 Arkansas Times
Ross isn't yet registered because, legally, he can't be. But a fat job as a govt. relations expert for a major industry group whose interests Ross has advances quacks enough like a lobby duck to be a distinction without a difference. If not for his knowledge of working with political hacks and bureaucrats, what, really, does Ross bring to the Southwest Power Pool? Hutchinson, Lincoln and others went down the same self-enrichment charade following their stints. Mike Ross has, in addition to supporting homophobic ballot initiatives in Arkansas, expressed consistent support for employment discrimination against gay people. Opposing equal treatment in employment is about as anti-gay, and reprehensible, as you can get. Mike Ross has worn his NRA bona fides on his sleeve for decades. He supported stripping of home rule powers from Arkansas cities in deference to gun nuts. Bill Clinton is your exemplar of the fact that you need not kiss NRA butt on EVERY SINGLE issue, as Ross has done. But his aid and comfort to the enemy on Obamacare damaged every single Democratic politician even as it denied help to a district in greater need than the rest of Arkansas. I think he'll have to change his tune at least slightly to win a Democratic primary. But perhaps not. In any case, his record is clear. It's not good. I take it his organization is up and running by your stout defense.

Beebe -- or Hitler or Huckabee or Faubus or whoever -- did it, too is something short of a ringing defense of a political candidate.
Posted by Max Brantley]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:21:54 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Jack]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:20:39 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by WPSforLife]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:56:07 -0600 Arkansas Times