2022 AR Governor's race: on Government Reform


Chris Jones: Every community deserves to claim their seat at the table

We all have the potential to claim the power of our vote. Right now Arkansas is dead last in voter registration and turnout. This is the campaign that's going to flip the script and give people a reason to turn out to the polls. Every community deserves to claim their seat at the table.
Source: 2022 Arkansas Governor campaign website ChrisForGovernor.com May 26, 2022

Leslie Rutledge: OpEd: Lawsuit alleges election challenge was self-serving

The lawsuit alleges Rutledge overstepped her authority by supporting failed lawsuits seeking to overturn presidential election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. "Rutledge ... engaged in highly partisan political activities as Attorney General in order to further her political standing and to promote her own personal political ambitions at the expense of the taxpayers of Arkansas," according to the lawsuit. Rutledge denies the allegations.
Source: Associated Press / KY3-News on 2022 Arkansas Governor race Mar 24, 2021

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: As undergraduate, fought for student voting rights

One nationally prominent Republican once took the opposite stance on student voting. As an undergraduate at Ouachita Baptist University, Sarah Huckabee--now White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders--sued to allow students to vote after being one of more than 900 purged from the county's rolls. "It's almost like taxation without representation," she said at the time. "They thought that because we were young that they could walk all over us, but obviously that's not the case."
Source: ProPublica on 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial race Aug 15, 2018

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: We'll never know the depths of 2020 election fraud

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary under Trump, has run a low-profile Arkansas gubernatorial campaign with only sporadic public comments to the media. But when the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper asked her this spring whether she believes the election was stolen from Trump, Sanders declined to affirm the election's legitimacy--saying, "I don't think we'll ever know the depths of how much fraud existed." She continued: "We know there is fraud in every election. How far and wide it went, I don't think that will be something that will be ever determined."

Sanders didn't go nearly as far as her obscure primary opponent, who flatly declared the election stolen. Still, she chose to vaguely cast doubt on the outcome. (There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, certainly not enough to have changed the winner in any state.) The Sanders campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Source: CNN on 2020 Election Denial in 2022 Arkansas Governor race Sep 9, 2022

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CA-11:George Miller(D)
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