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Arkansas Politics

State Treasurer Faces Extortion Accusations

AP | ANDREW DeMILLO | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas' state treasurer was accused Monday of taking at least $36,000 in cash – sometimes stashed in a pie box &ndas...

No Criminal Charges For Man Who Suggested Shooting GOP Lawmakers

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics

Arkansas state police have cleared the husband of a Republican official who used a county GOP newsletter to suggest that Republican state legislators ...

GOP Newsletter Floats Idea Of Shooting Lawmakers

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics

Chris Nogy, the husband of a Republican Party official in Arkansas, suggested it was a shame that voters couldn't just threaten to shoot GOP state leg...

John Celock

Arkansas GOP-Controlled House Passes Anti-Rapist Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.06.2013 | Politics

The Republican-controlled Arkansas House of Representatives on Tuesday unanimously passed legislation which would strip convicted rapists of parental ...

Abortion Ban Supporter's Anti-Obama Comments

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 02.01.2013 | Politics

New video has surfaced of the Arkansas Republican state senator who sponsored the state's new abortion-ban bill making racially charged remarks about ...

John Celock

Lawmaker Targets Rapists' Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.28.2012 | Politics

A Democratic legislator in Arkansas wants to strip convicted rapists of their rights to children conceived during the rape. State Rep. John Charles...

John Celock

Dems Celebrate Statehouse Gains Over Tea Party

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.07.2012 | Politics

Democrats are celebrating gains in state legislatures around the country -- including capturing control of eight chambers -- two years after a Republi...

Republican Accuses Democrat Of Practicing 'Nazi-Style Political Intimidation'

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.11.2012 | Politics

The Republican Arkansas state legislator, who created a firestorm with past writings in which he says slavery may have been a "blessing," has accused ...

Republican Calls For Parental Sterilization

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.10.2012 | Politics

The Arkansas Republican who has called for deporting all Muslims and for instituting the death penalty for rebellious children is also calling for the...

GOP Legislator Doubles Down On Pro-Slavery Position

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.11.2012 | Politics

The Republican Arkansas state legislator whose writing in favor of slavery has embroiled the state GOP in controversy is now defending his viewpoints...

John Celock

Koch Group Backs Pro-Slavery Legislators

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 10.10.2012 | Politics

Americans for Prosperity, the advocacy group backed by billionaires David and Charles Koch, has distributed mail praising votes cast by two members of...

John Celock

Republicans Run From Slavery, Child Death Penalty Comments

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 10.09.2012 | Politics

Arkansas Republicans are distancing themselves from two state legislators and one legislative candidate who have written in favor of slavery, the depo...

Another Republican Endorses Slavery

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.08.2012 | Politics

A Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives has a history of writing in support of slavery and the Confederacy, along with comparing ...

Republican Calls For Children's Death

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.15.2012 | Politics

Charlie Fuqua, the Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives who called for expelling Muslims from the United States in his book,...

GOP Seeks Distance From Republican's Shocking Slavery Comment

AP | CHUCK BARTELS | Posted 10.07.2012 | Politics

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves Saturday from a Republican state representative's assertion that slavery was a ...

Republican Endorses Slavery In New Book

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.08.2012 | Politics

Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has written a new book in which he says slavery was "a blessing" for Africa...

John Celock

Tea Party Leader: 'We Are Good People'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 06.15.2012 | Politics

The head of a Tea Party group in north-central Arkansas said a group leader who told a racist joke at a rally last week stepped down. Richard Cast...

Tea Party Leader Makes Racist Joke

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 06.14.2012 | Politics

Tea Party leaders in Arkansas are on the defensive after a board member of a Tea Party group in the Ozarks made a racist joke at a rally over the week...

Amanda Terkel

Democratic Operative's Cat Slaughtered, 'Liberal' Painted On The Corpse

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 01.24.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The race for the Arkansas' third congressional district took a gruesome turn on Sunday, when the campaign manager for Democratic challen...

Sam Stein

Lincoln Under Siege From Both Sides For EFCA Position

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Sen. Blanche Lincoln's decision to oppose the union-backed Employee Free Choice Act, two years after supporting it, seemed at the time to take a thorn...