Remembering Bill Gwatney
The funeral for Bill Gwatney, the Arkansas Democratic Party chair gunned down last week in his office, is today in Little Rock. Channel 4 provides the relevant details here.
The weekend papers brought some fine remembrances of Gwatney from various Arkansas columnists, including John Brummett, Kane Webb, Doug Thompson and David Sanders. The AP’s Andrew Demillo weighs in with an assessment of Gwatney’s impact on the state party, and columnist Pat Lynch takes the measure of the man in a column today.
Upate: Additional AP story notes that Bill and Hillary Clinton will be among the attendees at the service.
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Those of us who knew Bill Gwatney mourn his death and pray for his family. Bill had many virtues. One was that he was very smart, and another was that he was sometimes so direct in his language and his way of relating to others that some found it startling. Most of us found his candor extremely refreshing. We will miss him.