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Like Faubus with his embrace of racism, and Clinton his embrace of pounding on teachers,

Beebe too has a pebble in his shoe. Until they uncovered Asa!'s actually immigration record

it looked as if that NWA Bush sophist had good chance to whip Beebe over the illegalies issue.

In the Guv's case appears that it's better to be sorry and safe.

I don't mind Beebe's mindless dedication to causes unjust. Any man who refuses to debate a legitimate opponent and still bothers even pretends to support the political process has lost me from the go. I just long for the day when we can put Joyce in the guv's mansion. One of these days. Soon. Very soon.

I think it'd do Beebe good to revisit some time in a tar paper shack the way he treats common folk these days.

It's good and comforting to know that we can ALWAYS count on the pathetic dumbass Ledge to do the WRONG thing. Gotta have someone under your heel to be proud of those 3 inches!!! Gays & Messicans, GET OUT before they lock you up. Our Ledge (and pasty-white fence sitter from where else - SEARCY? Morons, miscreants, Bible-thumping dilettantes - even some of the women...
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Beebe is a coward. This is not about re-election, Governor Beebe I think you will be okay in your re-election bid.

You have 80% approval rating, for once in your political life could take the politically tough but MORALLY DIGNIFIED position and stand up for the most vulnerable students in the state?

What a brilliant opportunity wasted by our Governor, to put that good old boy back slapping street cred to good use and in a folksy way speak truth to ignorance.

Instead he waxes poetic about his Supreme Court ambitions??? Or pretends that he is still Attorney General?? it's a joke. and its a shame.

Dear huddled masses from Mexico,

please come here and clean chickens all day for minimum wage, mow my yard, cook me lunch at my favorite Mexican restaurant, work hard, pay taxes, and try and make a better life for your children...

BUT ain't no way I'm gonna allow your children in state tuition even if they graduate valedictorian from an Arkansas high school.

sincerely,
Arkansas

(p.s. seriously I cringe at the ignorance of this)

Exactly, Orval. Just think of the boost our economy gets when that valedictorian graduates and goes to work cleaning chickens. The last thing we need is uppity Mexicans putting on airs just because they've got a PhD in Engineering. It's minimum wage jobs that drive this state's economy, and the more there are of them, the better business does.

I'm still not sure what kind of a grade I'd give Gov. Beebe. He's done a lot of things right, but the things he's done wrong are the things a career politician would do wrong. I voted for him, but I did so worrying about voting in a career politician who'd be an expert on how to get reelected. And now we're seeing my fears come true.

Beebe has a little racism in him or he's a crafty politician who knows Arkansas is filled with nice church going racists who vote. But pandering to racists is just about as bad as being a racist because it keeps racism alive to come back and stomp someone another day. Does Governor Beebe stay away from Barack Obama because he doesn't much like black people? Or is it because Governor Beebe can read the margin John McCain carried Arkansas and knows the majority of Arkansas voters want their governor to avoid dark skinned people as often as possible?

A man whose good enough to cut up my chicken is good enough to get in-state tuition for his kids. If you trust him to roof your house, why not trust his kid with a college education? If Mexicans are good enough to work all day in Rogers, Arkansas, they can sure as hell go to bed there at night. Our Governor could help this situation, but he chooses to play it safe and because of that our legislature makes no efforts to come into the 21st century. Perhaps our next governor shouldn't have 25 years experience in Arkansas government. Maybe we need our own Barack Obama to drop out of the sky and do some 21 century thinking on our behalf.

I wish we could form a group that uses to votes of members on issues such as this, compares those votes with values of that member's religious tradition, and then goes into that house of worship and informs the full congregations about the vote of their co-religionist and how it squared with the values they all espouse. Can anyone spell HYPOCRACY?

You know, a fine example of testing federal law (and one which I happen to support) would the the multiple efforts to ban Partial Birth Abortion. While opponents certainly used the argument that such a ban would be invalidated in court (and at least one was) the Legislature faithfully passed version after version trying to find one that would withstand legal challenge. They did this because the vast majority thought it was "right".

*Please don't get lost here on the merits of that issue.* The point is that our Legislature doesn't hide behind potential federal legal issues on something they believe in, so one can only conclude here that they don't believe in it.

Janus: I applaud your sentiment.

But your zinger lost a little of its zing: "Can anyone spell HYPOCRACY?"

Well you can't; or at least didn't: "h y p o c r i c y."

But I'm still on your side!

Our state colleges and universities also get tons of federal tax dollars. In light of this, how can we justify charging legal US residents out of state tuition to attend Arkansas colleges. I see no reason to grant illegal aliens in state tuition until they quit charging out of state US citizens higher tuition and fees.

Got a call today from a Beebe assistant, acknowledging the governor had seen my email (posted on an earlier thread) urging Beebe to grow a backbone. I told him I held Beebe responsible (since he can get anything he wants out of these nitwits) for making AR children the victims of bigots.
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