A lawyer has said petitions submitted for a statewide vote on retail alcohol sales in all 75 counties were submitted to late under the Arkansas Constitution and cannot be certified.
Here's an open line for a new week. Some news today on campaign fund-raising. Mike Ross leads in the governor's race bankroll. Walmart has put $600,000 into allowing alcohol sales in three growing counties.
Lawyer says petition drives for alcohol sales elections in three counties and statewide are progressing well. The county measures should make the ballot. A campaign sidelight: Alcohol sales foe Sen. Jason Rapert has benefitted financially from alcohol-scented money from Conway County, where dealers would prefer to keep their regional monopoly on alcohol sales.
A Republican Arkansas legislator likes points being made against Walmart in wet/dry election in Faulkner County. He wishes Sam Walton was around. But his kids still call company shots and they'll be on hand this week for a raft of questions raised by company critics, from beer in Faulkner County to bribery in Latin America.
The open line includes David Leiws' great music video "I've Been Everywhere" (in Arkansas), plus news of groundwork for a proposal to make sale of alcohol legal statewide.