It's the 79th birthday of the most popular and successful anti-poverty program ever — Social Security. It's also a political season, a good time for Democratic candidates to remind voters about the opposition to conventional Social Security from the likes of Asa Hutchinson, Tom Cotton, Rick Crawford and J. French Hill.
The major party candidates for governor — Democrat Mike Ross and Republican Asa Hutchinson — will meet in sequential 30-minute sessions Saturday morning with the Arkansas State Employees Association. State employee health insurance will be on the agenda.
Asa Hutchinson, the Republican candidate for governor, said he'd push for special benefits for veterans to get more of them to live in Arkansas after retirement.
Our two candidates for governor, Asa Hutchinson and Mike Ross, share their favorite recipes with Eat Arkansas — and we can't decide which sounds tastier!
Is a Democratic Party pitch that Mike Ross is friendlier to the corporate lobby than Asa Hutchinson a vote mover? I'm skeptical of the vote value of corporate welfare.
A new Talk Business/Hendrix College poll today shows Republican Asa Hutchinson with a five-point lead over Democratic candidate Mike Ross 46-41. Green candidate Joshus Drake and Libertarian Frank Gilbert had 2.5 and 3 percent respectively. About 7 percent are undecided.
AP reports that former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will campaign in Arkansas in August for Republican nominee Asa Hutchinson. 47 per centers need not apply. They couldn't afford the tickets anyway.
Mike Ross, the Democratic candidate for governor, presented a crime plan today. It includes a strong element aimed at domestic violence, an appeal to female voters often forgotten in Republican campaigning.