Jon Woods has won the District 7 state Senate race. Woods won with 51.6 percent of the vote, according to first results. The tally was 2,784 for Woods and 2,614 for Pritchard. “It was the people who wanted a change, the people who worked for me and the ones who voted. It’s their victory,” Woods [...]
View PostThis months campaign finance reports are dribbling in. The first available this morning is from Democratic candidate for State Senate District 7, Diana Gonzales Worthen. Others will get some comment as they come available. Worthen will face the winner of the GOP primary between Sen. Bill Pritchard, R-Elkins, and Rep. Jon Woods, R-Springdale. Worthen raised [...]
View PostIncumbant state Sen. Bill Pritchard, R-Elkins, criticized his Republican primary challenger for the Senate District 7 seat, Rep. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, for accepting a $1,000 contribution from the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employee. Pritchard called the AFSCME “a proud backer of Democrats across America” that “recently endorsed Barack Obama for President.” Woods [...]
View PostState Senate Dist. 7 GOP candidates Sen. Bill Pritchard, R-Elkins, and Rep. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, will debate at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27 in the Arvest Ballpark’s Sam’s Club Community Room, 3000 S. 56th St. in Springdale. A reception begins there an hour before the debate. Conservative Arkansas, a non-profit political group, is hosting. [...]
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 [...]
View PostThe Arkansas Right to Life political action committee has endorsed Sen. Bill Pritchard, R-Elkins, in the state Senate District 7 race. Pritchard is facing Rep. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, in the May 22 Republican primary. Woods is the only other announced Republican. Diana Gonzales Worthen, a Springdale Democrat, also is running for the seat. Wayne Mays, [...]
View PostRep. Jon Woods says he wants his race for the Senate District 7 seat to be about the issues, not a skirmish over a music video featuring his band playing “Whiskey ‘Fore Breakfast.” Yet the band he plays bass for, A Good Fight, placed politics front and center during a concert before closing time early [...]
View PostA Good Fight is the name of Rep. Jon Woods’ band. That name also could define his state Senate race. The band became the center of controversy earlier this month when Sen. Bill Pritchard, Woods’ only announced Republican opponent in the Senate District 7 race, questioned the band’s music video featuring the song “Whiskey ’Fore [...]
View PostThe two announced Republicans in the Senate District 7 race are scheduled to hold fundraisers after the expected end of the legislative fiscal session. Rep. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, said he has a fundraiser in March on an undetermined date with former University of Arkansas basketball coach Nolan Richardson. Sen. Bill Pritchard, R-Elkins, has scheduled a [...]
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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 [...]
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