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Friday, May 16, 2008 - 20:51:43
Take that, Brummett
John Brummett has been covering that Court of Appeals race in NWA where Ron Williams, member of the Hutchinson extended family, is facing a well-funded and politically astute opponent in Courtney Henry. Williams made a critical mistake in hiring wackjob Sen. Jim Holt to help him campaign. Maybe that's a sign of bad judgment; maybe Holt just knows where to stick campaign signs.
In any case, the Brummett attack has brought a fierce response -- not from Holt, but from his wife. Read on the jump.
(Why do I think John will get another column about this?)
Comic genius: Assassination humor
Oh, that Mike Huckabee. Such a kidder. First it was fart jokes and yukking it up about financing his campaign with convenience store stick-ups. Then today, while speaking before a gathering of the National Rifle Association in Louisville, Kentucky, Huck finally got around to riffing on the laff-riot subject of political assassination.
During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
Max here: The governor's loose lips just shot him in the butt. This is the kind of thing with long legs. Here's the video. Dead silence followed the second sentence. Even the wild and wacky gunmen of the NRA were stunned. Perhaps Tim Russert can play the clip this Sunday on Meet the Press. Huckabee is a guest.
UPDATE: He apologized. Sort of. Be sure to read Huckabites' comments.
Judicial investigation
More rumblings today in the matter of Circuit Judge Willard Proctor, whose operation of the Cycle Breakers probation program has been the subject of a critical state audit. It figures, according to sources, in an ongoing investigation of Proctor's court by the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission. Multiple sources have told of testimony by couthouse workers to the commission. The commission does not comment on incomplete investigations.
My source said the matter is also the subject of a rare sealed proceeding before the Arkansas Supreme Court. Supreme Court Clerk Leslie Steen confirmed for me today that there had been a proceeding of an unspecified nature filed at the Court and a subsequent court response had also been filed under seal. He said he could give no other information, including the date of the filings. He did not confirm that it related to Proctor.
My source, however, said Proctor received a communication from the court today and that he was heard to express happiness about it.
I asked Proctor's lawyer, Blake Hendrix, whether Proctor was the subject of the sealed proceedings and whether he'd comment on that or the reports of a Judicial Commission investigation. After conferring with the judge, Hendrix said he'd have no comment.
William Randolph Hussman
Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman is bullish on newspapers, even if some in the industry are not. Already owner of papers in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Chattanooga, Hussman's media company, though not Hearstian yet, apparently is looking at some good-sized acquisitions in Virginia and North Carolina, Arkansas Business reports today. No bids yet, but papers in Norfolk, Roanoke and Greensboro are being evaluated.Airport blowout
Some tense moments today for passengers on a flight coming into Little Rock National Airport from Cleveland. A spokesperson for the airport confirms that around 2:15 p.m., a small Continental regional jet blew a tire on touchdown. T.J. Williams with the airport said the jet, an Embraer 145, was able to land safely and proceed to the gate as scheduled. Firetrucks and other emergency support vehicles were never called out.“It was really a non-event for us,” Williams said.
Lights, camera, etc.
Slow day. I think I'm going to play hooky and catch the 4 p.m. Little Rock Film Festival showing of "Silhouette City," the documentary on religious extremism that features people and places of Arkansas interest, including the Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord encampment and the leader of that Christian militia group, Kerry Noble, who went to prison after a raid of the CSA's North Arkansas compound in 1985. Mike Huckabee makes an appearance in the movie, too. Noble will participate in a panel on the movie at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Chamber of Commerce following a 5 p.m. screening.
This weekend, look for an essay on-line on the topic by Michael Wilson, (I had his name wrong in the original post) a Little Rock Central and Hendrix graduate, who wrote and edited the film and who also will be on Sunday's panel.
If you haven't been doing it already, you'll want to turn to Lindsey Millar's Rock Candy blog for this and other continuing coverage of the Film Festival. Heckuva turnout Thursday night for "War Eagle, Arkansas."
So you want to be an astronaut?
Virgin Galactic, which is promising to be the first commercial carrier of travelers into space, will be in Little Rock Sunday for a program at 3 p.m. at the Aerospace Education Center planetarium. "Space Agent" Tony Poe of Poe Travel is arranging the event. More on the jump.
NOTE: A deposit to make one of the flights is $20,000. The flight will cost $200,000. Save your pennies.
Benton County bank bust
Just say no
Epitaph for Dixie?
Gay marriage: A political wedge?
Judicial candidate hypes record
Almost heaven
McCain:Bush dittohead
Judgment in Little Rock
Lottery bankroll
Another ruling for same-sex marriage
Bushs***
The Arkansas nightmare
Roy Brooks' buyout
The choice lobby divided
Not on Countrywide's side UPDATE
Oh, woe is us
Disorder in the court race
Animal cruelty UPDATE
Cell phone bills
Help for the polar bears
Edwards to endorse Obama
On-line access
Huckablog and the GOP 'brand'
Where does the buck stop?
Cruelty to kids
Alamo up north
Shooter's testimony delayed
Fun with numbers
Obama stoops to conquer
Signal Democratic victory?
Full of baloney
House candidates debate
Judicial race goes to pot
Election watch
Seem hot to you?
Newspaper war story
Bowen gift to UALR
Library continues to discuss cuts
Lottery signature jackpot
Country-fried prejudice UPDATE
For Joyce Elliott UPDATE
Farm politics
Open records at LRSD
Huckabee's cross UPDATE
Hot race for courthouse
John Prine wrote a song about this
Who you callin' partisan?
Huckaveep UPDATE
The Bush wedding
Arkansas first?
Halter family growing UPDATE
Mayor Hays' RV lot
Fun with numbers
The next voter suppression trick
Pondering the 'dream ticket'
Carrie Underwood at Alltel
Huckabee: Problem or solution for McCain
M is for the memories
'Sexism on parade'
And furthermore re Petrino ...
Great minds -- football
Term limits are for suckers
About that early primary
Regrets, he'll have a few
What it says
Legislative crossovers
Debate this, punk
Roundtable on 'Iron Man'
The primary numbers game UPDATE
Dirty pool
Tracking the DINOs
Open mic
Bank fails in NWA
Cops: pay us to 'gear up'
The presidential primary
The fight for clean air
Leslie is back
Drug courts get an audit
The case for blogs
Politics in the pulpit
The Duggars do Mother's Day UPDATE
A last-gasp scenario
If you can't believe Josh Lyman ... UPDATE
Open line
The glories of privatization
MLK Commission slapped on wrist
The Donald
Perry County road kill
Library to sue; cuts coming
Fayetteville: Back to the drawing board
Deaths in the LR family
Family values candidate
Jonesboro confidential
Independents make ballot
Happy Mother's Day
Huck: The post-campaign life
The race for president
Shale impact inflated
Beebe: Me, too
Dogtown doings
It's not over til ...
Whitbeck plea bargain
'Drug war outrage'
The world wants to know ...
'Hi, I'm Frank White'
Ballot title approved
Effective punishment
Should Hillary continue?
Late developments in Indiana...
Split decision?
Injudicious
Hendrix to hit gridiron
Styling
Do state employees need a pay raise?
When the Justice Dept. is corrupt ...
Movies in the Park
Tax holiday mania UPDATE
McCain didn't vote for Bush in 2000
Steve Clark revisited
The good, the bad, the Blog
ACORN picks
Why Obama will win
Go, Rebels UPDATE
Silent is Golden Bear UPDATE
Telephone TV
Project Vote Uninformed
Walking over water
Marriage pioneer dies
Stadium sculpture
Polls schmolls
Judgment day
Who you calling a fighter?
Wal-Mart pitches in
For your health
Spring open line
Mississippi Mike
McCain's pastor and the race card
How Hillary can win
Deja vu all over again
Bayou state news -- UPDATE
Saturday night sorrow UPDATE
Is McCain a p****?
Ballparking
When guns are outlawed, etc.
American dream
Oh, what a beautiful morning
Unrepentant
OK, OK
Case dismissed
Mike Huckabee v. Ethics Commission UPDATES
Stormy weather -- seven dead
Not enough debates at library
All-Stars squared
A golden oldie
Count the chairs
Memorial statuary
State money watch
'For the record'
New flights to Cleveland
Candidate's wife dies
Correction
Duh
What it is
Biker friendly
Reagan Democrats?
Weather matters
Executions to resume in Ark.
Most unpopular in American history
Keep those machines jingling
Independents file
The governor's budget
The state of LR
UALR Law
The Donald
800 jobs gone
Speaking of the Travs
The lone parking man theory
Evolution revolution
Real issues on display
Pryor sides with unions
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