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How can Arkansas benefit from this? The problem is noone in our government is thinking of solutions.

Bill Halter could be an Ambassador for this state. He has the credentials, connections and credibility to meet with and persuade the corporate board members of these company to move and stay in Arkansas.

You think getting the attention of a politician is difficult? Try a corporate exec with the power to make these decsions. Thats why my vote is going to Halter.

With such a politically worthless office, only Halter has the ability to turn the office into a virtual think tank and economic development arm of the state.

Listen....Toyoto is not gonna put a plant here as long as we have our ridiculous 7% state income tax and the horrible death tax...ain't gonna happen. Our hands are tied by a Democratic Leg who is also afraid of a Judge that keeps them singing Taxes, Taxes and more taxes for the schools. ...."it's for the kids".....yeah...well the kids need high paying jobs when they graduate more then football stadiums or they will leave this state.

That is the best argument I have heard so far for considering Halter. Don't know if it is a staffer or what - but that makes sense to me.

Hey Best Argument (aka Bud Jackson)....get real.

That's like saying because Wooldridge is in healthcare that electing him will lower insurance premiums and prescription medication.

Nice try.

Nice try? Is that your response? Instead of offering a solution, your reply is nice try?

At least someone out there is willing to try. Thats more than I can say for the rest of the candidates in this race.

Oh, and what expertise do you have that Halter is incapable of these things? How many Fortune 500 company boards have you sat on? How many Ivy League degrees do you possess? Right - the answer is none and none.

I recently read about an auto plant are locating in Canada because a well educated workforce and nationalized health care make it cheaper for them to operate. Matter of fact, I think it was a new story on this blog.

The age of agriculture ended a couple of hundred years ago. The industrial age is petering out. The ONLY way for Arkansas to catch up with the knowledge economy is through education. We ought to quit providing corporate welfare to corporate farmers and factories and invest that money in education.

Bill Halter doesn't need to be Lt. Governor to do all of those things for the state. If he truly cares about Arkansas, why would he not do them anyway? To try and blackmail the voters of Arkansas in that regard is abominable. But what else would you expect from a Neo-Carpetbagger!

How can Halter influence corporate boards? The companies that he sits on are little more than penny stocks and have no weight in the financial community.
All this talk about him being some kind of corporate bigwig is hogwash. He got the post on the boards of these companies because he was a former bureaucrat and could help these companies get a few government contracts.
He and Hutchinson have both parlayed their government work into board seats, and that is the bottom line.
After that, they are pretty much worthless Washington bureaucrats who are trying to convince Arkansas voters that they are top-notch
businessmen who are coming home to make the state a better place to live.
If there was any real reporting going on during this election, Arkansas voters would already this.

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