Stuff From Around Arkansas, August 27
God Given: Columnist John Brummett thinks possible Senate candidate Tom Cotton may be “God’s gift to Arkansas Republicans.” But how will Cotton fare in primary match-up against Sen. Gilbert Baker? (Arkansas News Bureau)
Madame Chairman: Sen. Blanche Lincoln is posited as in line to take over the Senate Ag committee. Wait, “posited”? Who the hell writes these headlines? (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
Rifle Shot: Eagle-eyed gun nut John Anderson catches reporting snafu on assault weapon in local news broadcast. (ARCCA Blog)
Let ‘Em In: Green Party sues Arkansas for ballot access. (AP)
Pie Chart: The Radical Returns blog features nice video explanation of Obamanomics from Penn and Teller. (The Radical Returns)
Steady As She Goes: Blake Rutherford says “cool your jets” on those terrible Blanche Lincoln poll numbers. (Blake’s Think Tank)
Deseg Funding Plan Posited: Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says proposal to phase out deseg funding is better than the alternatives. I have no idea what that means. And I’m betting you don’t care. So let’s go look at gratuitous photos of hot chicks doing yoga instead. Hooray! (Arkansas News Bureau)
Gilbert Baker is making the rounds by phone drumming up support and money for some announcement or other he is planning to make early next week. He is calling friends and political contacts across the state which is NOT a play out of the Trevor Drown Playbook because one actually has to have friends and political contacts statewide before one can put it into a playbook that these folks need to be contacted. So, TAP, you can announce it here that the big news of the day is that Gilbert Baker is making a dramatic shift away from operating according to the Trevor Drown Playbook and may have sealed his own defeat or victory 5 days before actually announcing his intention to challenge for Blank’s position.
Not that any of us care really but what exactly is the connection to the hottie bending over backward and the rest of this post?
Bubba,
I’m sorry, but the fact that you had to ask that question leads me to believe you may not be ready to be an Arkansas Project reader yet. Please come back in a year and we’ll try again.
D.
Sorry – Don’t know what I was thinkin’