Arkansas Blog: Blogger Wills

Is House Speaker Robbie Wills really doing all this blogging and tweeting and etc. himself between presiding and dining with lobbyists?

Don't know. But a lot of it is useful and some of it entertaining.

Such as this post on Dick Armey's (artwork courtesy of Wills) visit to town next week to raise money for Republicans and oppose the tobacco tax,

This is, of course, a logical tactic against the healthcare package: bring in a politician from Texas to tell us Arkansans how we ought to do things. What a great idea. As we all know, all Arkansans LOVE Texans and all things Texas, right? ....

So, Mr. Armey will jet in, rail against our healthcare package, raise a little coin then hop a plane back to D.C., leaving Arkansas as he found it: the only state in the country without a level I trauma center, one of three states without a statewide trauma system, on the verge of losing eight community health centers, potentially losing over $80 million dollars in federal Medicaid matching funds, with the seventh highest incidence of smoking-related deaths, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to treat smoking-related illnesses, with not enough doctors and nurses and critical healthcare programs on the verge of extinction.

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I was skeptical when I saw him use the word excoriate, so I asked around. From everything I heard, he's doing his own blogging.

Posted by: mcbsmith | January 30, 2009 03:15 PM

For more on Dick Armey's stature, qualifying him to advise Arkansans on what's good for their well-being, click blue name.

Posted by: Snapback | January 30, 2009 04:14 PM

I welcome Mr. Wills' blogging. His words are the some of the first cogent statements I have ever heard from an Arkansas legislator concerning tobacco. Some of his colleagues are damn near functionally illiterate. I rarely have looked forward to a politician's career but he seems like somebody to watch.

Actually all the blogging is fantastic. Was Under the Dome the first legislative blog? On one hand we have bright young ambitious policy makers seeking to make their work transparent. On the other hand you have some policy makers that don't even post their email address. In this day and age making an email address public should be a prerequisite to serving.

Posted by: Zarathustra | January 30, 2009 04:20 PM

Yes, I write all my own blog posts. If you'll notice the time stamps from most of my posts, they are usually late at night. Who on the House staff would stay on the clock that long? Certainly not Jamie Gates! I sometimes have others proof my work (though not always, as evidenced by numerous typos) My wife says my posts sound too much like Max Brantley and John Brummett. I think was a complement. Thank you for checking in at robbiewills.com for information on the Arkansas House of Representatives. Signed, the real Rep. Robbie Wills

ARK. BLOG: I think the problem is you sound too much like Jamie Gates.

Joking.

Posted by: Rep. Robbie Wills | January 30, 2009 05:05 PM

"the only state in the country without a level I trauma center, one of three states without a statewide trauma system, on the verge of losing eight community health centers"

Wow, all that, but we can still afford to give 5 mil to a football stadium...

Posted by: Any*Mouse | January 30, 2009 08:02 PM

Whenever I hear anything about Dick Armey, I recall how he referred to Barney Frank as "Barney Fag."

So now, I always refer to Dick Armey as "Dicky Fag."

Posted by: DrRingDing | January 31, 2009 04:53 PM

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