Download or read book Inside the Arkansas Legislature written by Bill ?Scoop? Lancaster and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From October 15, 1978, until January 20, 2004, I worked for the Arkansas General Assembly, a.k.a. the Arkansas legislature. Thats more than a quarter century on the public payroll. The legislature is made up of a hundred representatives in the House and thirty-five senators in the Senate. A big part of my job as Senate chief of staff was public relationsdaily attempts to put a positive spin on the men and women who held these very public positions. My duties included speech writing, supervising a large staff, traveling the country, and even driving legislators home after they had stayed too long at local watering holes and honky-tonks. I even had to tell one preacher/legislator not to be hanging out with well-known prostitutes, and that certainly was not a pleasant assignmentfor me, I mean, not the preacher. This book is a look-back at those twenty-five-plus years. Some experiences were uproariously funny, while others were devastatingly sad and distressing. I became the Arkansas Senates first chief of staff in 1985 and stayed in this post about twenty years. My previous six years were spent in the House, where I held two positions. These pages will reflect some of what I went through in my work and will present stories about the men and women who sat in those big leather chairs in the marbled chambers. Some of them wielded enormous power, and some went away to prison for abusing that power. And the issue of term limits and how their enactment in the mid-90s changed Arkansas politics will also be a topic of discussion. I had to stand my ground when things got heated, and I always remained truthful even when the various factions pulled and tugged at me. I worked with some enormously talented individuals, including President Bill Clinton. He dropped by the office to tell us good-bye as he left his home state to take over a much bigger job in Washington, DC. It was a day to remember, like so many others there in Arkansass most imposing, century-old building. The enactment of term limits dramatically changed Arkansas history and stripped the legislature of much of its power and influence. Before terms were scaled back by angry voters, legislators in Arkansas served decades and controlled the government purse strings. There was little doubt that powerful legislators ruled the roost, and everyonegovernors, employees, and lobbyistshad to kowtow to their every need or else pay a huge price. The Democratic Party stayed in power for a very long time until term limits sent veteran legislators packing and set the stage for a Republican Party takeover of the legislature and the states constitutional offices. I witnessed the old system up close and personally and was proud and honored to be an integral part of it, and I stayed long enough to see how the new term-limited neophytes took to their publically financed playground. One of the veteran senators became governorhis name, Mike Beebe. He served twenty years in the Senate, and he was the person responsible for my taking the chief of staff job. He later served two four-year terms as governor, and over the years, he encouraged me to put this book together because he said, no one will remember how the Arkansas legislature worked or even existed prior to term limits unless some of the stories and some of the colorful history are preserved by an insider who actually worked at the place where power lived for so long. Some days at my plush office were a breeze, but others made me long for my job back at the newspaper office. Now retired, I look back on my career with great satisfaction, and Im glad that for a while, at least, I was, what one of my lobbyist pals called, the straw that stirred the drink.
Download or read book Security for House and Senate Chambers in Arkansas and Other States written by Arkansas. General Assembly. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government written by Kim U. Hoffman and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the authoritative Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government brings together in one volume some of the best available scholarly research on a wide range of issues of interest to students of Arkansas politics and government. The twenty-one chapters are arranged in three sections covering both historical and contemporary issues—ranging from the state’s socioeconomic and political context to the workings of its policymaking institutions and key policy concerns in the modern political landscape. Topics covered include racial tension and integration, social values, political corruption, public education, obstacles facing the state’s effort to reform welfare, and others. Ideal for use in introductory and advanced undergraduate courses, the book will also appeal to lawmakers, public administrators, journalists, and others interested in how politics and government work in Arkansas.
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of Arkansas Legislature in 1935 written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act written by John J. Watkins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first edition in 1988, The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act has become the standard reference for the bench, the bar, and journalists for guidance in interpreting and applying the state’s open-government law. This sixth edition, published fifty years after the passage of the Act in 1967, builds upon its predecessors, incorporating later legislative enactments, judicial decisions, and Attorney General’s opinions to present a synthesis of the law of access to public records and meetings in Arkansas.
Download or read book Arkansas Politics and Government written by Diane D. Blair and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published a decade and a half after the late Diane D. Blair s influential book Arkansas Politics and Government, this freshly revised edition builds on her work, which highlighted both the decades of failure by Arkansas's government to live up to the state s motto of Regnat Populus ( The People Rule ) and the positive trends of democracy. Since the first edition, Arkansas has seen the two-term U.S. presidency of a native son, the retirement of players who defined the state s politics in the modern era, the further realignment of the state s electorate, the passage of the nation s most extreme legislative term limits, the complete overhaul of the state s court system, and the declaration that the state s public education system was unconstitutionally inadequate and inequitable. While maintaining the basic structure of Blair s original work with its focus on important historical patterns and the ways in which the past continues to shape the present, the second edition details the causes and consequences of recent changes in Arkansas and asks whether they are profound and permanent or merely transitory variations in symbol and style. Jay Barth argues that although Arkansas currently expresses a healthier representative democracy than throughout most of its history, its political and governmental entities are still sharply limited as effective instruments of the people.
Download or read book Memorial of the Legislature of Arkansas written by Arkansas. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1874* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power in American State Legislatures written by Alex Bustard Lacy and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outline of Executive and Legislative History of Arkansas Classic Reprint written by Dallas T. Herndon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outline of Executive and Legislative History of Arkansas Congress, in an Act approved by President James Madison, January 27, 1814, made special and exceptional provision for the establishment and maintenance Of civil government in what is now the State Of Arkansas. This Act Of 1814 provided for the appointment Of' 'an additional judge for the Territory of 'missouri, who, as the chief judicial and administrative Officer in and for that part of Missouri within the limits Of the late district of Arkansas, as fixed and established while the same was a part Of the territory Of 'louisiana, was required by law to reside at or near the village Of Arkansas. George Bullit, whom the President appointed to the Office thus created, was a lawyer Of Ste. Genevieve county, Missouri. 'elected November 9, 1812, a member Of the first house Of representatives Of Missouri, he had been chosen speaker at the second session Of the first Gen eral Assembly in December, 1813. He removed, Soon after his appointment as judge of the district Of Arkansas, with his family to Arkansas Post. There he continued in Office until 1819, when the Territory Of Arkansas was created. By, an Act approved December 13, 1813, the first General Assembly Of Missouri had created the county of Arkansas, out of what had been, since 1806, the district Of Arkansas. Subsequently, the legislature of Mis souri divided Arkansas county, forming the county Of Lawrence January 15, and the counties of Clark, Hempstead and Pulaski by a single Act approved December 15, 1818. During the five years Of his judicial services, Judge Bullit held court reg ularly, two terms in each and every year, in and for the dis triet embraced by the five counties Of Arkansas, Lawrence, Clark, Hempstead and Pulaski, and otherwise effectually organized affairs-of civil government in each. Thus, when in 1819 the Territory of Arkansas was established, as a result Of the work Of Judge Bullit, Arkansas began its separate political existence with all the necessary machinery of local government already in operation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Black Hand of the Whiskey Machine in the Arkansas Legislature written by Arkansas. Governor (1909-1913 : Donaghey) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Implementation of Committee Reforms in the Arkansas Legislature written by Donna R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorial of the Legislature of Arkansas in Relation to the Public Lands written by Arkansas. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strengthening the Arkansas Legislature written by Ralph Craft and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arkansas Study written by Eagleton Institute of Politics and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arkansas State Constitution written by Kay Collett Goss and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arkansas State Constitution provides an outstanding historical account of Arkansas's five different constitutions, conventions, and amendments. Kay C. Goss presents the official text with an accompanying article-by-article commentary, providing readers with important information about the origins of each constitutional provision and amendment, as well as ways in which they are interpreted. The Arkansas State Constitution is an essential reference guide for readers who seek a rich account of Arkansas's constitutional evolution. Previously published by Greenwood, this title has been brought back in to circulation by Oxford University Press with new verve. Re-printed with standardization of content organization in order to facilitate research across the series, this title, as with all titles in the series, is set to join the dynamic revision cycle of The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.
Download or read book Resolution of the Legislature of Arkansas written by Arkansas. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book County Government in Arkansas written by Arkansas. General Assembly. Legislative Council. Research Department and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
