The Beebe campaign touts new per capita income figures that put Arkansas at 44th in 2009, highest evuh.

I don’t give Beebe credit for that any more than I discredit him for August’s drop in employment. The Keet people will probably say income is up because of all those wasteful featherbed gubmint jobs.

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SPEAKING OF CAMPAIGN SILLINESS: The Ark. Republican Party has filed an ethics complaint over a franked mailing by Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Looks too much like campaign promotional material, says Chairman Doyle Webb, who knows bad ethics when he sees it, having been a practitioner. Doesn’t all franked stuff essentially look like campaign material? This is a stretch for a headline, but it appears to be working. The complaint turns almost entirely on whether Lincoln complied with the law by dropping the mailing before a 60-day pre-election blackout period began or whether she should be held responsible if the Postal Service didn’t get all the mailing delivered before the period began. (With the IRS, isn’t it the postmark that counts?)

AND MORE SILLINESS: Republicans announce that the “Fire Pelosi” buscapade will be in Little Rock at GOP HQ at 6 p.m. Thursday, along with Republican Chairman Michael Steele (undoubtedly dispatched to the hinterlands to stay out of view as much as possible). I’ve asked if Steele is really riding the bus to town, or flying in to make a cameo. He’s more of a private jet type traveler as a rule. However, an RNC spokeswoman says the chairman will be “on the bus.”

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