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Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. The Huckster is releasing funds for a new cancer research center, and the center is going to ba named for someone besides him?

This IS news!

the problem is 1 million won't build anything. win was a nice man, i knew him a little. the med center uses naming rights for big gifts such as 20-30 million. the stephens building, the jones eye tower as an exampple., our idiot governor has cost them now 40 to 60 million by giving the naming rights to friends such as rockefeller and faye jones. perhaps he can call it the univ of arkansas piglet med school. he has no business sense and this man wants to run our country. this is an example of why he shouldn't.

zonker I imagine the 1 million is seed money, or enticement for his widow to to direct some of his charitable trust in that direction and other Rockefeller family members to do the same.

Regarding his bidness sense, he came in with close to notta and is leaving wealthy. I know publishing a book can do wonders for the bottom line but Orval never published while in office and left with plenty and Orval's wife didn't have to front for a social help agency.

Becoming wealthy doesn't
necessarily mean a person
has good business sense.
Lottery winners and bank
robbers are a couple of
examples. Self-serving
politicians are another.

Zonker, the Jones Eye Institute isn't named after Faye Jones, it's named after Harvey and Bernice Jones, the trucking tycoons who donated the money to build it just as Jack Stephens did to buy the spine center.

I agree naming rights for ACRC would cost $30-50 million. Rockefeller was a billionaire and philanthropist so it wouldn't be unexpected for that sort of donation to occur to get the naming rights. The million dollars is for research funding and endowments, not for funding for the structure itself or naming rights. That money might lure one researcher to start a lab at UAMS, that's about it. Your hope is that person then can generate NIH grants to fund his own research and that seed money can bring in another researcher, etc.

you are right, i was typing fast and was refering to faye bozman. i also have a problem with my mouth working ahead of my brain and apologize if i offended anyone. i also was quick on the trigger in referring to the rockefeller ability to draw other monies. my dislike to what the huckabees have done just spills over to many other areas. this move may work out very well.

In days of yore, the Ledge would appropriate money to an alleged Governor's Emergency Fund, an emergency being whatever struck the governor's fancy near election time. Perhaps Mr. Huckabee, who has never understood the separation of powers doctrine any better than he has the state ethics laws, thinks he can usurp the power of the purse and bestow it upon whomever he wants. It is just one more example of why he should never have been governor and certainly will never be president of anything other than his own admiration society.