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Arkansas

Art_from_Ark

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5. It did seem like we were pretty progressive, for a while

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 11, 2014, 06:29 PM

Dec 2014

We had J. William Fulbright in the Senate for 30 years, Dale Bumpers and David Pryor for several terms each, and most recently, a pretty decent governor in Mike Beebe, who kept the hounds at bay. We even had a pretty decent Republican governor once, Winthrop Rockefeller, way back in the late '60s. But all of that's been cast by the wayside, it seems.

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Voters in Fayetteville repeal the Human Rights Ordinance. [View all] sinkingfeeling Dec 2014 OP

For non Arkansasans who read this on LBN ... DreamGypsy Dec 2014 #1

I am so tired of Arkansas. For awhile we were pretty progressive. Now I feel like 1965 Selma. LiberalArkie Dec 2014 #2

It did seem like we were pretty progressive, for a while Art_from_Ark Dec 2014 #5

I met Rockefeller as a kid. My dad was an appointee of Rockefellers to do the new food stamp program LiberalArkie Dec 2014 #6

The 1966 Arkansas gubernatorial election was the first election I was aware of Art_from_Ark Dec 2014 #7

Well, pass it again! KamaAina Dec 2014 #3

Probably won't happen in the next 10 years. It passed the 8 member council sinkingfeeling Dec 2014 #4

HUH? justgohogs Jan 2015 #8

Precisely. KamaAina Jan 2015 #9