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In reply to the discussion: I just received a donation request from my Senator, Tom Cotton. Here's my reply: [View all]LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)80. Tim Hutchinson (gag) was after Pryor
I look at Win Rockefeller winning 2 terms as governor as a liberal during the civil rights era.
We could have had a Democratic Senator after Blanche Lincoln if the state party had allowed it.Bill Halter could have won, but the party closed a lot of voting places in Hot Springs for the run off and Blanche won and lost to John Boozman (R).
For some reasons the candidates that are a little to the right get the party support, those to the left of the republican don't seem to even get recognized.
The state used to be pretty liberal, but lost it when both parties decided to move to the right.
Even the stand in the door of Central High School governor Orval Faubus went to college at a Socialist college.
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I just received a donation request from my Senator, Tom Cotton. Here's my reply: [View all]
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2019
OP
Me, too. I'll even get my wife let out my class A and press it. My white cap still fits!
marble falls
Apr 2019
#79
I've received the generic responses from him in the past. They never address my concerns.
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2019
#21
It could be done, but it would take a lot of money. Arkansas could be a liberal state again
LiberalArkie
Apr 2019
#35
He (his staffers) just send me answers that raise my blood pressure. Did you
sinkingfeeling
Apr 2019
#8
Figures. He won't be going quietly. I suspect he wants to be president someday.
calimary
Apr 2019
#66
"seeing red": rage hurts the rager & blunts their weapons. Replace it w cold calculating loathing.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2019
#9
Lots. It requires a deep realization that rage doesn't work. And I mean deep.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2019
#53
I live in Florida and all I have is Republican representatives. I write respectable emails and ...
PeeJ52
Apr 2019
#15
When I get a donation solicitation from a Republican - I donate to a Democratic candidate
csziggy
Apr 2019
#18
Another vet here who agrees 100% with you, the only change I'd make is adding how McCain ...
marble falls
Apr 2019
#62
Hey you got stay mostly clean! I was a nuclear machinist mate: no chiping and scraping, ...
marble falls
Apr 2019
#77
That sounds like no fun at all. Worst I had to do was crawl into a condensor and chip ...
marble falls
Apr 2019
#82