Gov. Asa Hutchinson‘s re-election campaign announced his finance committee and you’d have to put the cumulative net worth in the tens of billions. They are:
Johnny Allison, Conway
Ritter Arnold, Marked Tree
Neff Basore, Bella Vista
Albert Braunfisch, Little Rock
Freddie Black, Lake Village
Claiborne Deming, El Dorado
George Dunklin, Stuttgart
Alec Farmer, Jonesboro
Keith Gibson, Fort Smith
George Gleason, Little Rock
Jim Hinkle, Mountain Home
Stacy Hurst, Little Rock
Madison Murphy, El Dorado
Sheffield Nelson, Little Rock
Reynie Rutledge, Searcy
Gary Sewell, El Dorado
Warren Stephens, Little Rock
Witt Stephens, Little Rock
Philip Taldo, Springdale
Jim Walton, Bentonville
No need to detail the banking, telecommunications, oil, retail and other fortunes represented.
The list includes one successful flower shop co-owner, Stacy Hurst of Tipton and Hurst. She is also, by Hutchinson appointment, the $120,000-a-year director of the increasingly controversial Department of Arkansas Heritage.
DEMOS NOTED: 19-1 and 20-0. In other words, white men and Stacy.