Taxpayer-Funded Legislative Meal Plans: Another Possible Blessing From Issue 3

Caleb Taylor December 8, 2014 1 Comment Arkansas Legislature, Arkansas Politics, ethics reform, issue 3, Jon Woods

Taxpayer-Funded Legislative Meal Plans: Another Possible Blessing From Issue 3

Scott Trotter, a local attorney who helped write Issue 3 and who currently serves as a kind of volunteer advisor to the misnamed Independent Citizens Committee, said during the panel discussion that one of his suggestions to the committee would be to make taxpayers pay for legislators’ meals in the future.

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Caleb Taylor November 10, 2014 0 Comments Affordable Care Act, issue 3, jonathan gruber, obamacare, term limits

O’Care Architect: “Lack Of Transparency” Reason Law Passed

A new video of Jonathan Gruber, one of Obamacare’s architects, surfaced Sunday in which he said a “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter” were big assets in getting Obamacare passed into law.

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Caleb Taylor October 21, 2014 0 Comments issue 3, save arkansas term limits, talk business

Issue 3 Terribly Unpopular With Voters

We wrote recently about the disdain certain state legislators have for ordinary Arkansans who don’t think weakening term limits through Issue 3 is such a swell idea.

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Caleb Taylor October 17, 2014 0 Comments arkansas ballot initiatives, Arkansas Politics, issue 3, Jon Woods, save ar term limits, term limits, U.S. Term Limits

Voting Against Weakened Term Limits Doesn’t Make You a Nut

Yesterday the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette featured an interesting quote from state Senator Jon Woods about Issue 3, a constitutional amendment that would greatly weaken term limits.