What does it mean when Governor Asa Hutchinson endorses a candidate in the Republican Primary? It means the candidate is the least conservative candidate in the race. That is not a guess; it is based on Hutchinson’s clear track record of working against conservative Republicans and supporting Republican candidates more willing to vote like a Democrat. ASA’S TRACK RECORD: Supporting least conservative candidate in Republican Primaries In 2016, Hutchinson tried to defeat perhaps the…
The old tale goes… You can’t just put a frog into boiling water because the frog will just jump out, but if you put the frog in cold water and continue to turn up the temperature one degree at a time and the frog won’t realize it. Eventually the water is boiling and the frog is cooked without ever realizing what is happening. That tale probably doesn’t work for frogs, but the same strategy has proven to work on Arkansas taxpayers. Just consider how the Arkansas sales tax became one of the highe…
Governor Asa Hutchinson’s head of economic development, Mike Preston, says don’t worry about the four-year delay in locating a paper mill in Arkadelphia. But, Clark county residents are worried about their $10 million investment to attract Sun Paper. The parent company of Sun Paper is Shandong Sun Paper Industry which means Sun Paper is a communist Chinese company. The massive project has not been officially canceled but Stephen Bell, CEO of the Arkadelphia Regional Economic Development Allianc…
In 2019, Representative Jana Della Rosa (Rogers) had a hard time finding a tax she didn’t want to increase. Although she voted for some tax relief legislation, she took it all back and more with her votes for tax increase bills. When you add together her votes for relief bills and tax increase bills the overall increase in the tax burden for Fiscal years 2020 and 2021 are $63.6 million in 2020 and $53.4 million in 2021. And this huge increase doesn’t even include her vote “FOR” HJR1018 w…
