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• Great segment with Senator Lincoln on the congressional overview. She also discusses a “recess appointment” for Tim Griffin as U. S. Attorney for Eastern Washington.

• Classic interview with Vic Snyder holding his baby. He has a lot to say about the house organization and his prospects.

• Bill Halter chats with me and I do pose the $1 million question.

• Little Rock Mayor-elect Mark Stodola spends a few minutes on the show discussing crime development and politics.

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Summary of Wednesday wonders

Republican Asa Hutchinso has conceded defeat in the governor’s race with Democrat Mike Beebe. With 72% of precincts reporting, Mike Beebe leads with 57% of the popular vote.

Bill Halter raised over $2 million for his Lieutenant Governor campaign, including a $1.17 million loan from himself, and defeated Jim Holt, who raised just under $200,000 by a comfortable 59 to 41 percent margin.

Dustin McDaniel, Democratic candidate for Attorney General, has defeated Republican Gummer DeLay by a margin of 59 to 37 percent, with 73% of precincts reporting.

With a majority of votes counted across the state, Democratic incumbents for secretary of state, auditor and land commissioner appeared to have victories in hand.

BINGO for charitable purposes will be legal in Arkansas, and a $250 million bond program that will pay for construction and technology upgrades at Arkansas’ public colleges and universities appear to have gained approval.

Saline County Sheriff Phil Mask won re-election to a fourth term in Tuesday’s election, and county voters also chose a new prosecuting attorney, sent mayoral races in Benton and Bryant to a Nov. 28 runoff, and approved a voluntary tax to buy emergency weather radios.

In a three-way contest, former Pulaski County prosecutor Mark Stodola won enough votes to become the next mayor of Arkansas’ capital city, without a runoff.

Arkansas representatives in congress have easily won reelection an dCongresman Vic Snyder is poised to advance on the House Armed Services Committee. Mississippi’s congressional delegation, fresh off Tuesday wins at the polls, says it will push for more hurricane aid and reforms to laws governing disaster response and insurance companies.

Fort Smith’s Baldor Electric Co. says that its $1.8 billion offer to buy an operating division belonging to a Milwaukee, Wis.-based competitor will make it the leading North American manufacturer of industrial electric motors and power transmission products.

A defense attorney and a federal judge got into a shouting match Tuesday, leading to a mistrial request that the judge subsequently denied in the trial of Newport alderman Pinkey McFarlin. The angry exchange occurred during attorney Morris Thompson’s cross-examination of a key government witness, after U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. had scolded Thompson several times, with jurors watching, mostly accusing the attorney of being unprepared or slowing the proceedings by asking questions about irrelevant issues.

Jimmy Jacobs, the house manager of a Salisaw, Oklahoma facility for developmentally challenged clients, has been charged with four counts of sodomy and three counts of sexual abuse by caretaker after he allegedly forced residents of the residence to perform sexual acts upon one another.

Four teenagers are under arrest after a Russellville man was injured and several businesses, cars and schools were damaged by an apparent weekend BB gun shooting spree that spanned the towns of Russellville, Atkins, and Dardanelle.

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Hangin’ out with Saddam

If you saw the news video of Saddam Hussein being sentenced to death, I think we can agree that he did not take it well. Neither have the Euro-wimps and the other internationalist weaklings. Of course, I am against the sentence as well, but I don’t care what Muslins think or whether they act out like spoiled children throwing a supermarket tantrum.

On second thought, I do care if any of our troops get hurt, but there is another reason I am against giving Saddam the death penalty, I am against state sanctioned murder and you should know by now I would not have hanged Hitler. I am old enough to remember the kangaroo court that sentenced Eichman to death. His judges were all related to people who died in concentration camps. That is not a fair trial. Saddam probably did not get one either, at least as we consider American style procedural due process.

As a human being, he deserves it, but I won’t be standing outside in the rain holding a candle on execution night, in very the remote possibility it comes down to that. Saddam should be locked up with the other common criminals and if one of them does him in, as was the case with Jeffrey Dahmer, so be it.

This is not the kind of example we, as the strongest nation on earth, should be setting for people who are still trying to get the hang of freedom.

(Broadcast November 7, 2006)

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ACLU Annual Dinner

There is a news release from my long time friend, Rita Sklar, Executive Director of the Arkansas ACLU. You may not always agree with the ACLU, but we really need it.

ACLU of Arkansas Hosts National ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero at Banquet
Annual Banquet Honors State Representative Joyce Elliott as Civil Libertarian of the Year
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LITTLE ROCKæ The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas will host national ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero at its annual banquet tomorrow night. State Representative Joyce Elliott will be honored at the banquet as Civil Libertarian of the Year for her work to protect civil liberties as a state representative. Mr. Romero will be available for interviews by appointment.

Anthony D. Romero took the helm of the American Civil Liberties Union in September 2001, a week before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Under his leadership, the ACLU has continuously stood up for civil liberties and steadfastly maintained that it is possible to be both safe and free. Romero, an attorney with a history of public-interest activism, has also presided over the most successful membership drive in the ACLU’s 83-year history. He is the ACLU’s sixth executive director, and the first Latino and openly gay man to serve in that capacity. Born in New York City to immigrant parents from Puerto Rico, Romero was the first in his family to graduate from high school. A graduate of Stanford University Law School and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, he was a Dinkelspiel Scholar at Stanford, a Cane Scholar at Princeton, and a National Hispanic Scholar at both institutions.

“Anthony’s work to strengthen and support small ACLU affiliates such as ours is immeasurable,” said Rita Sklar, Executive Director of the ACLU of Arkansas. “Anthony has addressed head on the fact that the rural states where the small ACLU offices are often have the worst civil liberties problems and the least resources.”

Rep. Joyce Elliott was born in Willisville, Arkansas. She earned degrees in English and speech from Southern Arkansas Univ. (SAU) in 1973 and a graduate degree in English from Ouachita Baptist Univ. in 1981. She has taught high school students for 31 years. “Joyce was one of the few in the Legislature dedicated to preserving civil liberties. Her eloquent and persuasive voice, speaking up for the rights of ordinary Arkansans, will be missed.”

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