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Questions raised about legality of ad coordinated between attorney general candidate Leslie Rutledge and Super PAC

Southern Progress, an organization aimed at bolstering Democrats in the South, yesterday highlighted what appear to be legal problems with an advertisement from the Republican Attorney Generals Association for Leslie Rutledge, the state's Republican nominee for AG.
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Democrats file ethics complaint against GOP House candidate

The Arkansas Democratic Party's executive director, Candace Martin, today announced she had filed an ethics complaint against Republican state House candidate David Ray Wallace of Leachville over an apparent excess campaign contribution.
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Outside money pouring in to the Pryor-Cotton race

More than $2 million has already been spent in TV advertising on the race for Senate in Arkansas between incumbent Mark Pryor and challenger Rep. Tom Cotton. The overwhelming majority of that has come from outside groups, the Washington Post's Reid Wilson reports. Americans for Prosperity alone has spent at least $1.4 million on advertising in the race.

Huffington Post digs up Tom Cotton's college column on campaign finance

Huffington Post whips out a column on campaign finance from Tom Cotton's days as a Harvard Crimson columnist, but the hypocrisy charge here falls flat.
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The Gilbert Baker saga continues; UCA's Tom Courtway sees the light

Debra Hale-Shelton of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette inquires further  today into the tangled business of political activity involving taxpayer-financed UCA lobbyist Gilbert Baker, local Circuit Judge Mike Maggio and nursing home magnate Michael Morton of Fort Smith.

We were warned about electing judges

Ernie Dumas writes this week about the accurate predictions of people such as former Supreme Court Justice Robert Brown and Judge David Stewart on the perils of electing judges. Special interest money and conflict of interest come with elections, as recent events show.
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Another bundle of nursing home cash for a legislative candidate

Another day and another illustration of how the nursing home lobby builds the sort of influence in the legislature that helps it win better reimbursement rules and increased profitability. Today, it's a Republican House candidate with a significant chunk of campaign contrbutions from that industry.

Martha Shoffner makes federal court appearance

Former Arkansas treasurer Martha Shoffner made an initial appearance in court today on recently filed federal charges that she'd illegally spent campaign money on herself. David Goins of Fox 16/KARK reports that Shoffner had no comment for reporters and that her attorney said he was prepared for trial Monday on earlier charges that she took money from a securities salesman in return for state bond business.
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Government files more details on former Treasurer Shoffner's use of campaign money

The U.S. attorney's office yesterday filed more details of evidence it hopes to introduce into former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner's trial on taking money for state bond business. It details her alleged illegal use of campaign money for personal expenses, plus gifts from a favored broker.

An early open line: Outlet mall, Razorback basketball, more

Still cold. Still not much else to report.
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Lobbyists slop congressional hogs at 'destination' fund-raisers

You've heard of destination weddings? Read in the New York :Times today about "destination" campaign fund-raisers for members of Congress, luxury events at ski resorts, for example.

Mike Ross claims a record fund-raising year

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross reports raising $550,000 in the fourth quarter of 2013 — about $100,000 more than his leading Republican opponent Asa Hutchinson raised — and starts the year with $2.5 million in the bank.
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