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.
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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
Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Webb, of late, had been making $150,000 a year working on legislative redistricting for Rutledge (though there hasn’t been much work to be done until final Census numbers are in.) The Associated Press, in reporting Webb’s candidacy, said he’d submitted his resignation Friday from the job with Rutledge. Still, hard to imagine he’d jump to a race she may yet make.
Former Republican Jason Davis makes official announcement as Democratic candidate for attorney general Democratic candidate for attorney general.
He made his candidacy official today with a news release.
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He said the state can’t afford more “hyper-partisan” drama and wasting of tax money on challenges to the constitutionality of state actions.
He refers to current Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s busy national litigation agenda (subject of a pending lawsuit over illegal spending), including a lawsuit that would bring an end to Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion program. Rutledge is term-limited and running for governor. Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin and
Leon Jones Jr. have announced as Republican candidates.
April 29, 202111:48 am
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge cheers today one of the two pillars of her legislative “agenda” (the other was discriminating against transgender children). That is Governor Hutchinson’s signing of what she terms the “
Faith Family Freedom Acts.”
I prefer the “Last Refuge of Scoundrels Act” for the legislation’s reliance on phony patriotism to whip up the Trumplican base.
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The news laws require the playing of the National Anthem at EVERY school sporting event, I guess including cross-country and trap-shooting. It also redundantly mandates a moment of silence, already part of the law, following the required recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.