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"Pritt's 'full-throated' version" - now there's a mental picture I did not need today...

Cover charge to a good cause, the Lymphoma Society . . . $10.

A few beers at the bar . . . $15.

Seeing Bart Haynie's awesome rendition of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs?" . . . Priceless.

This had to be one of the best Democrat events I've been to in a long time. Great idea!

The Top Five Acts -

5.) Susan Altrui - LOVE SHACK

4.) Bart Haynie - WAR PIGS

3.) Jason Willett - The Johnny Cash Song.

2.) Drew Pritt - Toss Up Between WHEN YOU'RE GOOD TO MAMA & MOUNTAIN MUSIC.

1.) Pat O'Brien - YMCA (Priceless!)

I wish I could've slept off my hangover... If only I didn't have to go to work today. Last night was a blast! I can truly say, been there, done that and got the t-shirt!

What Beebe, Martin, Hathorn, Wooldridge, Halter, Suskie, McDaniel, Shoffner, Mac, House people were there?

Brett Kincaid absolutely brought the house down with his rendition of the Man in Black. Rock on. Cant wait till next year.

After Pat Obrien sang, No one was afraid to get up there.

Those top 5 acts were good, but Brittany Hillyer's "One Way or Another" stole the show.

Speaker Benny Petrus and Rep David Dunn got on the mic

Jason Willett had a mean karaoke of Cash's Folsom Prison. Very good--seriously.

Drew Pritt can sing.......and seemed to enjoy it. Don't let anyone say they dont have some harmony coming out of Hermitage,AR.

Did Warwick sing? if so, what?

ARKBLOG: Negative, ghostrider.

I had a large time, but no hangover.

Just a couple of quick notes on the photo:
1.) Does anyone else notice that Warwick has an unnatural year round tan? What does he moonlight as a garden gnome for someone in the heights?
2.) Is it just me or does it look like Drew Pritt marinated his teeth in butter?

Observer you are ignorant obviously to the fact that Pritt is a cancer survivor. One of the lingering effects of the cancer is the coloring in areas like his teeth. So maybe you should think twice before attacking someone. I like Pritt a lot more now once I have gotten to know him.

Did sparklemotion dance?

The highlight of my night was hearing Anders Reynolds threaten to sing "Hello" by Lionel Richie so that people "could fall in love."

Then he stole the plunger from the bathroom.

Dustin McDaniel's bi-partisan dance troupe, Sparklemotion, was not in attendence.

After a long week including a special session and twice-a-day rehearsals, the members of Sparklemotion decided to take a break.

Dustin is looking forward to debuting the troupe's new full-body sequined unitards.

there were many hot chicks there too. whoever said that only the republicans were hot obviously missed an excellent opportunity last night to see some of the Dems finest......

Indeed there were some of the Dems finest. However, I noticed a Repub or three in the crowd. Nothin' like alcohol and bad music to unify an electorate.

hot chicks?

somewhere jeff fitch is crying...

there was alot of bad dancing. But that's part of what made last night magical.

and still no picture of Willett's performance on arkfam.com...amazing.

Bart continues to prove he truly is Satan's spawn and one of the best looking fellas in the Democratic Party! Grrr...

Thanks, Gabe and Bud for putting on a great event! We had a blast!

I enjoyed chatting with Paul Suskie. He sometimes comes off as kind of buttoned up and serious but he was very laid back last night. I didn't really care too much about the AG race but I was impressed with him.

Good pic of Warwick and Drew.

It's good to see the Dems having some fun. We all need that regularly, especially under the BA. Ha, don't make me come to the next one and sing some Joplin.

Love the comment about the white teeth thing. If people devoted as much time to saving this country as they do to bleaching their teeth we wouldn't have any problems. Guess the priorities just aren't too straight? Or is that the teeth?

I just thought his teeth were blood stained from the latest piece of hide Pritt tore from Halter's backside!

Comments such as those from the Observer is why I read this POS publication.

That was a good one...

Kudos to Gabe and Bud--ya'll did a kickass job bringing political harmony via musical discordance.

Special thanks as well to Pat O'Brien. That man has balls to sing so poorly and so often...

And why, god ,why was Drew still wearing a shirt saying he was running for LG? Why didn't Bud Jackson tackle him at the door and throw him into the street like the attention whore he is? Someone give this guy the number to Maury and Montel so at least the boy can get his fix out of the state and leave us to drink and be philanthropic in peace.

"Basil" - aka Bud Jackson, learn to read you bald headed bastard. No where on his shirt did it say Drew Pritt for Lt. Governor.

It said : "Drew Pritt - http://www.DrewPritt.com/

You think you Soprano Extras wannabes are the only ones who got material printed up NOT mentioning a political office on the logo???

I assure you I am not Mr. Soprano, err, Jackson. I have a more luscious head of hair than Drew and Bud put together, not that that means much.

Everybody loves to hate Drew... it's a party unity thing.

"hot chicks?

somewhere jeff fitch is crying..."

I know for a fact, and have evidence that Jeff Fitch is gay. He once vomited the first time he saw a booby. I am so disappointed.

"Basil" it still doesn't change the fact that Drew's shirt did not say anything about running for Lt. Governor. Also most people like Drew, so don't put the rest of us in party down with your ignorance and arrogance.

You know last night as I had a drink and visited with Drew I felt compelled to apologize for what is written on this blog. You know what? The crap you all write on here doesn't faze him or bother him. Drew Pritt is a class act and I for one am glad he is around. He's not a bad guy and if anything he's something we don't see much of in politics. He is genuine.

Dear What a Maroon,

It says a lot that someone who writes "learn to read you bald headed bastard" is judging Drew Pritt as "a class act."

(As if you are a good judge.)

Drew is an attention whore. Gabe and Bud should have thrown his ass out of the party. If anybody was a class act last night, that award would go to Gabe and Bud for not doing what most everybody wanted done: getting your bald headed bastard, publicity whore friend Drew Pritt out of the club and away from distracting others from having a good time.

Anonymous the last time I checked MOST politicians are attention whores. Also who are you trying to convince with this claim that Drew Pritt should have been tossed out the door? Why should he be tossed and not the Halter people?

Pritt may be an attention whore but some in that room were money whores kissing Bud's butt (just like you) giving nothing but a damned for their own career.

I'll take a genuine attention whore over a money whore with no soul anyday.

Ok children... The event was fun, it was for a good cause. Why must everyone be so negative?!

It was HELLUVA good time. Me thinks we should do stuff like that more often, forget the formal Demo. parties and the like. Lets get more good conversation and bad singin' goin'.

Let me state for the record, I care less what anyone writes negatively on this board. I am all for "Concur's" idea for more good conversation and singing. Although, I suggest we add in a few good drinks. A nice glass of Glenlivet for me please.

As far as Bud Jackson goes, we shook hands and we exchanged "No Hard Feelings."

Finally as far as the "Attention Whore" business - whatever. I do what I do and believe what I believe because it is the right thing. I fight and speak out because thats the role I fill. Its a role filled before by people from Samuel Adams down to Paul Wellstone. Its a role I will continue to fill as long as I have breath in my lungs.

Drew is a fighter...and will continue to fight for what he believes in. He isn't doing it for the 'attention' for himself but for the attention to the issues that need to be addressed!

We had fun catching up at karaoke about the cooooooooooooold days of winter during Clark's New Hampshire campaign.

Drew,

You are no martyr.

You are not talking shit because its the right thing to bring accusations that always end up being FALSE and put the party as a whole in a negative light. Your intent is egotistic and malicious. If you really want to make a difference, go give blood. Volunteer at a homeless shelter. Mow an elderly neighboor's yard. Support a candidate that actually has a snowball's chance in hell of winning.

Drew, people don't make fun of you because they are scared of you, they make fun of you because you are absolutely hilarious. I hate what you do to the party (not to mention the innocents you are attacking) but I would miss the comic relief your delusions of grandeur provide if you were gone.

Basil do you even LIVE in Arkansas? If you do then tell me what I said that was not true?

* I said the Bond Program was a bad thing for the State of Arkansas. That ended up being the truth and was backed up by others who spoke out against it and the majority of Arkansans who voted it down.

* I was the first candidate to speak out, write a proposal, and put onto paper an Education Lottery for the State of Arkansas. Mr. Halter sure suddenly has taken this issue out to be something he believes in.

* I stated that Mike Huckabee used the state-sponsored email system to promote that bonds. It later was entered into evidence he DID send out eight emails and had three websites built.

* Now I have shown through legal cases and by fact that Bill Halter has claimed Washington, D.C. as home.

Can you with a straight face say Bill Halter has spent the majority of the last seven years being involved in Arkansas? If he was, where was he for Jimmie Lou when she needed help?

Also when most of Clinton's true staffers and dream team left at the end of the administration, why did Bill Halter accept an appointment from GEORGE W. BUSH???

I never said I was a martyr and the party has not been "hurt" by anything I have said and done. If anything the party is fresher, more vibrant, and more active because TRUE Democrats like me remember where we came from as a party.

We win as Democrats, not Democrats-lite. We win as Democrats when we offer plans and talk issues, not personalities or money. We as Democrats have a calling to serve the people, not the money interests.

Basil - Till you have the intestinal fortitude to speak to me as a man, openly, HONESTLY, rather than hide behind a screenname like a sniveling, scared, stabbing in the back Republican, I have nothing more to say to you.

Did Bud and Gabe do a duet? I heard OBrien was pretty bad. I also heard Bud was up early the next morning trying to identify the people on his camera from the night before. Maybe where he could show Halter what current arkansans look like. Bud also called a party official I know 'off the record' to get a phone number of a young lady he met.He also did some major dancing california style. Ask Bud about this and youll probably be met with his usual response: 'not true'

"Not true."

- Bud

I volunteer for another LG candidate. Met Bud for first time @ karaoke. Never saw him dance at all. Sang couple times maybe.

I wish I'd had greater intestinal fortitude during your rendidtion of "My Way." I almost messed myself I laughed so hard.

Basil, thats the whole point of why I sang it. It was so people could laugh and have a good time. Man you need to take a laxative, have a drink, or do something and just chill out. Your more sour than a rotten lemon dude.

Look, Basil, you don't have the guts to admit yourself on here. Fine, I am cool with that okay? Let it go, let me be, and I'll let you be. Just end this nonsense!

I heard that no one at UALR will sit next to Drew because he smells like tinkle.

"Is it just me or does it look like Drew Pritt marinated his teeth in butter?"

That one is classic. I know, all you gay lovers are defending him with his cancer and corn-hole experiences...but that was a good one. If Pritt wants to be involved in politics, he has to take the bad with the good.

"...marinated in butter?" That is funny stuff....

Pritt has horrible personal hygiene. I'm sorry, but it's true. I knew him when he had more hair, and he would show up for events with dandruff all over his suit coat. He might have improved some since then, but I can tell you that having had cancer is no excuse for smoker's teeth.

Where there any other reporters at the event?

Seems odd someone in a profession of impartiality would so closely align himself with a political party?

ARKBLOG: And we all know how important impartiality is when it comes to covering karaoke parties.

But to answer your question, there was a reporter from the Dem-Gaz there, too. No word on how he shielded himself from becoming partial to the karaoke-singing Democrats.

Drew Pritt did not file a financial disclosure statement this month.

Who will file an ethics complaint?

Forget ethically challenged Drew Pritt!

What will Drew Pritt tray next?
Any guesses?

Drew and Hillary?