The recent special session that had tax payers footing the bill, was an unprecedented grab at transparency laws in Arkansas. The Republican Supermajority in this state worked to protect their leaders engaged in wrong doing rather than the interests of Arkansans. 

Additionally, about half of Arkansas Republicans currently run unopposed in general elections. With no one to oppose them, they automatically get the job, no matter how they act or vote. When voters don't have a choice, they don't feel a need to show up and vote. When politicians are opposed, it improves their job performance.

Pet overpopulation is burdening local governments. Instead of offering funding or support, this last session, my opponent and his republican colleagues limited local governments' ability to make laws that impact this issue. City animal shelters and non-profits house animals for court cases, take in animals from large animal cruelty cases, abandoned animals and more with insufficient resources and no answers from government. Local governments need MORE resources to deal with this issue, not FEWER.

Cryptomining on a large commercial scale is resource intensive. Any local community housing such an operation should be benefitting from these operations since their resources are being drained. Instead, foreign actors lobbied our state legislature to protect their interests, over the interests of the local community. Republicans passed it, and Sarah Sanders signed it into law. Usurping local control once again.

Our people and our natural resources draw millions of visitors to Arkansas each year. Many Arkansans make their living off the land. But little is being done to protect those resources. And it seems with our new governor and her opportunistic husband, a lot of foreign interests have flooded the state to take advantage and take all the monetary benefits for themselves leaving Arkansans with fewer resources and no benefits at all.

One thing is clear on a nice fall drive- we need better enforcement and stiffer penalties for littering and dumping.