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.

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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?  ….

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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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