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WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 11:27 AM Oct 2018

Free Parking - Vote out Corruption!

This week's column is about our very own corrupt state rep now running for state senate. He is one hot mess!

http://eureka.news/free-parking-54/

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Bob Ballinger has been in our statehouse for six years and all he has done is vote for a 100% increase in his salary, “earn” $25,000 for “pretend” notarizing a deed in the Ecclesia College swindle and in a gesture of cold Christian charity, voted to take healthcare away from needy adults in our state.

Bob has only introduced one piece of legislation and that is to strip citizens’ rights for a jury trial in civil litigation. Bob thinks corporations need to be protected against the people, not the other way around. Bob’s bill is so unconstitutional that it will immediately be struck down in any court.

Bob Ballinger, like Brett Kavanaugh, is a member of the Federalist Society, a group of far right-wing lawyers who want to nullify our Constitution and replace it with one that will be Of, By, For the Corporation. Now Bob is taking outside, special interest, dark money to achieve that end. He does not care about us, the citizens of Arkansas’ 5th Senate District.

I am grateful that this election we have real choice and chance. Jim Wallace believes that our state government should work for the people, not the corporations. In contrast to what Ballinger hasn’t done, Jim Wallace plans to bring high speed Internet to all the rural areas in Arkansas. If we had decent rural Internet access, many of those people thrown off healthcare rolls would be able to comply with the new restrictive laws Ballinger helped put in place.


Read the rest at http://eureka.news/free-parking-54/ and give me that all exciting eyeball click!

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Free Parking - Vote out Corruption! (Original Post) WhiteTara Oct 2018 OP
Oh. sheshe2 Oct 2018 #1
No. Our side is too poor WhiteTara Oct 2018 #2
I wish you luck. sheshe2 Oct 2018 #3
Jim has a chance WhiteTara Oct 2018 #4

sheshe2

(83,791 posts)
1. Oh.
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 11:50 AM
Oct 2018

Bob sounds like a real gem. Ugh. I hope you all can vote him out and elect Jim Wallace for the 5th district. Are there any poll numbers out on how the race is going, White Tara?

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)
4. Jim has a chance
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 12:56 PM
Oct 2018

our state rep may have a good chance our governor and US rep are toast. We are blood red MAGAts here

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