AR-SD34: Northwest Arkansas Senate candidates focused on education, affordable housing

Education is a key focus for Republican Rep. Jim Dotson and Democrat Kaylee Wedgeworth, candidates competing to represent Senate District 34, Northwest Arkansas’ only contested Senate race.

A first-time candidate, Wedgeworth said she’s running because she’s long been tired of not seeing multiple candidates on her ballot.

“We have got to have options for people. You really can’t have democracy or accountability without having multiple options for that,” Wedgeworth said. “A lot of times citizens are told if you don’t like your elected representatives, don’t vote for them in the next election. But when that’s your only option and they automatically win because they’re the only option, then you don’t really have that voice.”

Wedgeworth, a 33-year-old Arkansas Department of Human Services attorney living in Centerton, is seeking to unseat Dotson. The 46-year-old Bentonville resident said he wears multiple hats as Ozark Mountain Roofing’s marketing and business development director, a licensed Realtor with Gibson Real Estate and someone who may “occasionally build a house or two.”


https://arkansasadvocate.com/2024/10/15/northwest-arkansas-senate-candidates-focused-on-education-affordable-housing/