Tuesday 06 February 2024 08:55:01 PM CST 1707274501
Not much going on apparently, checked the local news.  The ongoing Jonestown police saga continues to ongo.  No point in saying what I think, learned long ago what depends on what so to speak, who you know and how much power they have.  Or as a certain high school teacher used to say, "it's now what you know or who you know but what you know on who you know."  I see the truth of it.  I didn't always though, or not clearly enough.  Maybe someone wants this thing to go away and it didn't go as quietly as expected. 

The Jonestown paper still has the same pictures of people playing basketball.  They do have some new stories, someone got shot, one of the schools wants more money.  When do they ever not want more money?  More pictures of basketball.  Maybe the person who changes the big important pictures on the front page of the website isn't around.  Okey-dokey.


We do have the primaries coming up:

Arkansas primaries are 5 March.  Mr. Trump already has the Republican nomination locked up and the two representatives (Rick Crawford and French Hill) are unopposed.  They'll have some Democrat or other to deal with in November. 

The main state races are for the Supreme Court.  Judges races are of course non-partisan, which is to say the party isn't indicated on the ballot.  There are no non-partisan judges, but their actual political predilections are difficult to track down.  They're all lawyers and lawyers are a slippery bunch anyway. 

Here's what we have this time around.  Yellow ones look best at this point. 

State Supreme Court Associate Justice Position 1
 
Supreme Court Justice
Barbara Womack Webb 		Appointed by Governor Asa Hutchinson to be a circuit judge. Well, that's something.
 
Jay Martin Self-described conservative Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for governor as a Democrat. There's no such thing as a conservative Democrat.
 
Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Karen Baker She described herself as a 'conservative, nonactivist jurist.'  Got it.
 
Supreme Court Justice Rhonda Wood Governor Mike Huckabee appointed Wood as a trial court judge. Huck was a decent governor, so points there. Hutchinson wasn't but ran as a Republican so I'd go with Huck's choice.
 
State Supreme Court Associate Justice Position 2
 
Judge Carlton D. Jones. Circuit Court Judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit. Formerly prosecuting attorney in Helena.
 
State Supreme Court Justice
Courtney Hudson 		Ballotpedia describes her as 'mild Republican'. Most Republicans these days are pretty mild and the ones in Arkansas are no exception. Should she win presumably her present seat would become vacant and the governor would appoint a replacement, at least until the next election. Have to look into that and see how it works.

Arkansas Republicans are about like most other places, and many are Democrats in sheep's clothing as getting elected as a Democrat is pretty difficult except in local elections in some places. Local includes the state legislature.

Go for as much Republican as you can get.  The worst Republican is less bad than the best democrat.