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Doyle Webb announces for lieutenant governor Doyle Webb announces for lieutenant governor Former Republican Party chair Doyle Webb of Benton has announced as a candidate for lieutenant governor, joining Sen. Jason Rapert and Surgeon General Greg Bledsoe in the GOP primary race. Advertisement I’d guess this suggests an end to lobbying by assorted Republicans to encourage Attorney General Leslie Rutledge to drop her primary race for governor and clear the field for presumptive favorite Sara...

For the prosecution: Arkansas Supreme Court votes 4-3 April 8, 202110:26 am The Arkansas Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision to deny post-conviction relief to a man convicted of first-degree murder has interesting aspects. Emmitt Riley, convicted in Drew County, was 59 when he shot Josh Martin, 26, during a fight. Riley shot Martin after Martin had already broken his ankle. He shot him once, despite having plenty of ammo, and called the police. Riley contended he acted in self-defense. He contended ...

The lineup is lengthy for proposed constitutional amendments The lineup is lengthy for proposed constitutional amendments The Arkansas legislature may propose three constitutional amendments every two years (or a fourth if it pertains to their salaries). The deadline for filing proposals passed this week and produced 43 proposals. Advertisement Here are the 25 proposed in House Joint Resolutions. My particular favorite of the bad ones: A final solution for judicial elections from Rep. Robin L...

Arkansas legislative district lines to be redrawn after census data is released Share Updated: 6:42 PM CST Feb 3, 2021 Share Updated: 6:42 PM CST Feb 3, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript ON WHEN WE CAN EXPECT TO SEE NEW LINES DRAWN UP. ((KENDALL)) DOYLE WEBB SAYS DUE TO THE PANDEMIC; THE STATE WONT RECEIVE THE CENSUS DATA UNTIL JULY. HE SAYS AS OF NOW, THE REDISTRICTING TEAM IS ASKING FOR PUBLIC INPUT BEFORE RE-DRAWING THE STATE LEGISLATIVE LINES. ((TAKE PKG)) (D...

Court filings last week gives me the answer to my question that new Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Barbara Webb declined to answer: Webb doesn’t intend to recuse from cases in which a party is Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who recently hired her husband Doyle Webb at $150,000 to be director of the office’s work on legislative redistricting. The last attorney general used existing staff and brought in no one else to work on apportionment. Advertisement Here’s one of three identical ...

The Rutledge Report, Part II: Her record, including her ties to Donald Trump January 24, 20219:58 am Attorney General Leslie Rutledge continues to add chapters to the book of her public record, generally lamentable particularly in her devotion to Donald Trump. Advertisement The latest chapter, as I mentioned earlier, is an outlay of what likely will exceed a quarter of a million dollars in public money on partisan assistance in redistricting that could have been done at no additional cost by h...

January 24, 20219:20 am Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s use of public money to provide plump featherbeds for Republican insiders. As we’d reported previously, former GOP Party Chair Doyle Webb got the biggest public teat — $150,000 a year as “staff director” of Rutledge’s one-third share of the board that oversees legislative apportionment. Former Republican legislators Andy Davis and Doug House are suckling on the state nozzle at $6,666 a month to work on the same project. Ad...

LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has announced her new redistricting team. Former state senator, Doyle Webb, joins Rutledge’s senior staff as the redistricting director. Webb will lead the redistricting team made up of former state representatives Andy Davis and Col. Douglas House, U.S. Army, retired, who have been contracted as consultants. “I am ecstatic to welcome Doyle Webb, Doug House and Andy Davis to my team to help with this important task of redrawing state...

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January 14, 20214:28 pm In a brief order today, the Arkansas Supreme Court granted the state of Arkansas’s petition to prevent Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen from hearing a capital case. The Supreme Court ordered Griffen off capital cases in 2017 following his participation in a demonstration outside the Governor’s Mansion. But he was assigned a murder case last fall under a new court case distribution plan and refused the prosecutor’s request to have the case reassigned. The prosecutor sa...