Crossland Construction Co., along with businesses and individuals affiliated with it, contributed $8,000 of the $10,300 the Bart Hester campaign took in from mid-March to mid-April, campaign financial records show. Hester is running in the GOP primary for the state Senate, District 1 seat against Rep. Tim Summers, R-Bentonville. Hester’s contributors included three members of [...]
View PostAutomated calls telling voters that Rep. Tim Summers, R-Bentonville, supports “Obamacare” are “a flat-out lie,” Summers said Friday. Summers is a candidate in the GOP primary for state Senate District 1. He said Friday that an automated telephone poll asks voters if they would still vote for him if they knew he supported Obamacare, leaving [...]
View PostRep. Tim Summers, R-Bentonville, confirmed Monday that a phone bank making automated calls on behalf of his state Senate campaign listed a number for Decision Point, a non-profit addiction treatment center he administers, on caller ID. The calls were not made from Decision Point phones, he said. “The phone bank asks for a call-back number [...]
View PostFormer U. S. Rep. John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison has endorsed state Sen. Bill Pritchard in his effort to win re-election. Pritchard, R-Elkins, is running for the Senate District 7 seat encompassing Springdale, Johnson and parts of Fayetteville and eastern Washington County. Pritchard’s only announced opponent in the May 22 GOP primary is Rep. Jon [...]
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Arkansas’ 135 House and Senate members began meeting today in Little Rock for a fiscal session on the state budget. In some cases, their election opponents also are addressing money matters — campaign money matters. State House members are prohibited from raising campaign contributions during the 30-day session, but their opponents who don’t serve in [...]
View PostRepublican state Senate candidate Bart Hester said a fundraiser in Little Rock Thursday featuring Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee brought in about $5,000 in campaign contributions. Hester said the 50-60 people attending the two-hour event at Doe’s Eat Place enjoyed a buffet that included tamales and boiled and fried shrimp. Attendees at the $250 [...]
View PostFormer U.S. Rep. John Paul Hammerschmidt, R-Ark., on Wednesday endorsed state Rep. Tim Summers in the Bentonville Republican’s campaign for the state Senate. “Representative Tim Summers will always put Northwest Arkansas first,” Hammerschmidt said in a news release. “You can trust him to fight for lower taxes, make job creation his number one priority and [...]
View PostRep. Uvalde Lindsey doesn’t have an announced opponent, but he had more campaign money available at the end of 2011 than almost every other legislative candidate in Washington and Benton counties. Candidates still have time to enter the race, though any new contender would be behind in fundraising against Lindsey and others who have raised [...]
View PostA campaign fundraiser Monday evening for Rep. Tim Summers, R-Bentonville, raised about $20,000, according to a campaign source. The fundraiser was at the Holiday Inn at Pinnacle Hills in Rogers. Among the approximately 100 people in attendance were Jim Walton, Doug McMillon, Michael Lindsey, Burt Stacy and Angela DeLille. Summers, 67, a two-term House member, [...]
View PostBart Hester has lined up a trio of baseball luminaries from his University of Arkansas playing days to help raise campaign money. Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee, a lefty who won the Cy Young Award in 2008 while playing for Cleveland, is scheduled to appear at a Hester fundraiser next month. The event is set for [...]
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