The Arkansas Republican Party will have its annual Reagan Rockefeller dinner Saturday at the Marriott Hotel/Statehouse Convention Center and the key speaker is Jeanine Piro.
A Republican tipster alerts me to a state Ethics Commission complaint against state Rep. Vivian Flowers of Pine Bluff for late filing and missing details on her statement of financial interest and campaign reports 2014-16.
Ernest Dumas this week contrasts the outlook of Pope Francis and the Republican Party on serving the least among us. Timely, what with Republican majorities busily at work in Little Rock and Washington.
You won't find it on the list of scheduled events of the House of Representatives, but you can find many if not all of the legislators at the refurbished Robinson Center tonight for Speaker of the House Jeremy Gillam's formal ball. He recently engineered a law change to make sure the free wining and dining and swag bags wouldn't run afoul of the ethics law.
Plenty of free eats and drinks for the legislature this week. Also Monday, the Senate made some improvements and added some more loopholes to a proposal to further water down the already porous ethics law.
Darrell Glascock, 72, a Louisiana political consultant and former political candidate in Arkansas, died shortly after Christmas while he was in Bogota, Colombia. His time in Arkansas was, to put it mildly, colorful.
Blue Hog Report contends a series of lies allowed the Republican Party to get a new nominee for county judge in Washington County when Micah Neal dropped out with the likely knowledge he was under federal investigation. The replacement, Joseph Wood, was elected and he just so happens to have ties to the entity from which Neal carved out some money for himself.
Democrats have filed suits in four important battleground states — Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Arizona — to thwart what they see as voter intimidation tactics by supporters of Donald Trump to depress voting, particularly in minority-heavy precincts.
Though Republican leadership adjourned the U.S. House of Representatives late last night, Democrats continued a sit-in and speechmaking on the House floor in protest of Republican refusal to allow votes on pending gun control measures. Of course it was a publicity stunt.
A number of state employees wrote yesterday to report their surprise at this invitation to a Republican Party fund-raiser landing in their state e-mail box. By several accounts, the invitation hit every box in one major state agency. Anybody else get it?