she is charged with conspireing to extort money as a public official and transferring state business in exchange for that money. this case with the arkansas state treasurer involves a bond broker and involves rolls of hundred dollar bills that were allegedly delivered in pie boxes. that also had pies in them. everybody in arkansas politics in both parties up to and including the democratic governor have called on the state treasurer to resign. tonight she has resigned. her resignation took effect at 5:00 p.m. this evening local time. if convicted, she faces the possibility of 20 years behind bars. in the state of virginia today, the state republican party is now officially in possession of its slate of candidates who will run in virginia's statewide elections this fall. those candidates were chosen at a party convention over the weekend. not a primary but a convention. they include the republican party's candidates for governor and lieutenant governor and attorney general.