In a courageous move to protect Arkansans from the perils of self-governance, this month lawmakers introduced a groundbreaking slate of anti-democracy bills designed to ensure that regular citizens have absolutely no say in their own laws. “We looked around and saw a dangerous trend: people thinking they had the right...
Representative Mary Bentley has announced a new amendment to her infamous “Baby Olivia” bill, the legislation requiring Arkansas students to watch an anti-abortion animated video of a fetus growing in the womb. The new amendment takes the bill to the next level by swapping out the fictional “Baby Olivia” with...
Passing more tax cuts for the rich in Arkansas is like taking candy from a baby. Except the baby is just regular people trying to make ends meet. Gov. Sanders once again dolled out tax cuts for the third time in 15 months. The most recent batch of cuts reduces...
Yes, dear voters, the legislative body is hard at work, not on solving any of the state’s problems, but on reminding you—through legally toothless resolutions—which issues you should and should not support. During the special session to help the poor rich folk get richer, Representative Ryan Rose presented a dazzling...
It will only cost $4 million to let lawmakers hide from constituents Arkansas kids can’t have health care, but our lawmakers can have a super secret tunnel on Capitol grounds. No, really. That’s what’s happening. We told you about their dumb tunnel idea back in July. Last week, the Arkansas...
Arkansas legislators want a secret tunnel between two very close buildings on Capitol grounds. Secretary of State John Thurston is also pushing for a new air handling system in the Capitol. Combined, these two projects will cost 4.4 million dollars. Money is an Arkansas Republican’s favorite topic, but the record...
The LEARNS propaganda machine is working overtime as Sarah Sanders hits the road in defense of her most prized legislative accomplishment since taking office. The Governor appears to be rewriting the definition of “town hall” with two recent stops in Jonesboro and Texarkana to promote the LEARNS Act. Ah yes,...
Dan Sullivan has had the distinct, sick pleasure of running some of the most heinous bills of our legislative session thus far. One of them was originally filed to keep pronoun usage in check under the guise of “free speech” on college campuses. It didn’t pass out of Senate Education...
According to Dan, Tim Griffin thinks Sullivan’s bill criminalizing public affirmative action is awesome sauce. If you think it’s crappy that Dan Sullivan wants to make state-sponsored affirmative illegal, you can chill. Dan said he hit up Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and Griffin is totes cool with the policy....
Yes, really. He said they would “twerk it.” TWICE. What’s more fantastic than a stuffy old white dude from Waldron saying “If we need to twerk it, we’ll twerk it” from the floor of the Arkansas Senate? Not much, honestly. Everything is terrible right now in Arkansas but at least...