We are minutes away from the gavel opening the third day of the Democratic National Convention. Tonight, former President Bill Clinton will speak to the convention and Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) will accept the Democratic nomination for vice president. Other...
Rebecca Gwatney, wife of the late Arkansas Democratic Party chair Bill Gwatney, will stand in for her husband at the Democratic National Convention. Gov. Mike Beebe said Rebecca Gwatney accepted an invitation from party leaders to fill the vacancy left...
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, DNC Vice Chair Lottie Shackelford, and former mayor of Little Rock, and Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer, the President of the Association of State Democratic Chairs, issued the following statement on the passing of Arkansas Democratic Party Chair Bill Gwatney.
The networks called several states since the polls closed at 8:00pm. Here's a shocker: Gov. Mike Huckabee won his home state of Arkansas. Gov. Mitt Romney was able to hold on to the state he, apparently, despised for the twenty-plus...
Is Mike Huckabee's campaign hiding a devastating--but delicious--secret?
Summary of state process
Tim Griffin, the controversial U.S. attorney in Arkansas, has resigned. Griffin is a protégé of Karl Rove and formerly research director of the Republican National Committee. In 2004, Griffin led a "caging" scheme to suppress the votes of African-American service members in Florida.
This week, Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor delivered the Democratic Radio Address. To listen to his remarks, click here. Good morning. This is Senator Mark Pryor from Arkansas. Coming nearly five years after 9/11, the bombing plots uncovered in London last...
As the Department of Homeland Security's Undersecretary for Transportation and Border Security, Arkansas Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson oversaw the Bush Administration's failed leadership and misplaced priorities on homeland security. On his watch, the Bush Administration ignored the 9/11 Commission's recommendation on port security and failed to take the steps necessary to secure our borders. Hutchinson was a leading architect of the Bush Administration's dangerous incompetence on homeland security, which garnered failing marks from the 9/11 Commission. [Final Report on 9/11 Commission Recommendations, 12/5/05]
The day he announced his candidacy for Arkansas governor, state Attorney General Mike Beebe declared "You can't come up the way I did and not believe that anything is possible." Beebe was raised by a single parent, a mother who...
Today, the Double Talk Express will ride through Arkansas as Senator John McCain stumps for gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson and tries out his newly minted stump speech for the 2008 Republican primary.
This week, Congressman Marion Berry of Arkansas delivered the weekly Democratic Radio Address. To listen to the audio, click here. "Good morning. I'm Congressman Marion Berry of Arkansas, a senior citizen, a pharmacist, and someone who has spent the past...
(The following entry was submitted by Christy Agner, Director of the Women's Vote Center at the DNC -- Tim) Last week, the South Dakota GOP-Controlled Legislature passed legislation specifically to challenge the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling - a...
As I mentioned earlier, a good number of state party officers from across the country descended on Washington, D.C. this weekend for various trainings and discussion; here are two more video clips. The first is Governor Dean detailing some of...
KTHV TV. 684 Registered Voters. MoE +/- 3.8% Beebe (D): 49% Hutchinson (R): 44% Other: 4% Undecided: 3% KTHV TV. 684 Registered Voters. MoE +/- 3.8% Halter (D): 34% Hutchinson (R): 56% Other: 5% Undecided: 4% These numbers struck me...
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman today apologized for the "Southern Strategy," his party's despicable decision to ignore and demonize minorities for electoral gain in the 1960s and 1970s. Mehlman's empty apology for 30 year old political tactics lacks credibility in the face of President Bush's failed policies.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean will meet with Arkansas Democratic Party Hispanic Caucus members and Hispanic candidates, and will later address the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) at their 76th Annual LULAC National Convention & Exposition in Little Rock, Arkansas on Friday July 1, 2005.
Arkansas Democratic Party 1300 West Capitol Little Rock, AR 72201 501-374-2361 501-376-8409 (fax) http://www.arkdems.org/ Chair: Bill Gwatney Vice Chair: Karla Bradley Executive Director: Mariah Hatta...
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