Red Wing Daily: June 17, 2024

"the more you know ...."

State

• A beautiful piece about a beautiful force in Arkansas grassroots politics: Read about Rebekah DeWitt from Lincoln County and her take on last week’s State Convention successes.

• Watch ‘em: Governor Sanders called the special session of the Arkansas Legislature that begins today at noon to deal with more tax cuts and the Game & Fish budget. But by a special vote lawmakers could take up other issues. Use your account at MyConstituents.ai to keep track and vote on the legislation (bill information updated every 15 minutes).

• Opposing LEARNS, of course: On June 7, opponents of the LEARNS Act filed a lawsuit, asking a Pulaski County Circuit Court judge to block the law, which plaintiffs say “violates the state Constitution by allowing tax dollars reserved for public schools to be paid to private schools.”

• Not in Little Rock: All four Arkansas Congressmen are demanding that the VA immediately remove the pride flag flying over the Little Rock Veterans Administration hospital via a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough.

• Arkansas is tops (!): Out Leadership’s 2024 equality report (advocating LGBTQ+ inclusion in business) shows their “equality scores” decreased in 22 states over the last year. Arkansas ranks first on their list for poor “equality” for the 2nd year in a row.

• Coulda seen this one coming: The ABC has revoked the license of the state’s first marijuana dispensary, Green Springs Dispensary in Hot Springs, after 50+ earlier violations of state law. The owner, who wants to sell to another dispensary, plans to sue.

• Here’s more from Conduit News “behind the scenes of the RPA Convention.” (Are you a member of your local Republican County Committee? Things have changed!Now’s the time to join in.)

National

• Mandatory draft for women? “The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has proposed to include a provision in the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that mandates draft registration for women.” (Senator Tom Cotton serves on that Committee.)

• Gaslighting (again): The Left gets more and more unhinged every day. Their latest? “It's a Conspiracy Theory to Say That America is a Republic and Not a Democracy!” Really.

• Medical debt won’t count against your credit: Biden has proposed a rule to ban medical debt from credit reports that could remove as much as $49 billion of bad debt from credit scores for 15 million Americans, says ABC.

• Your driver score: “You know you have a credit score. Did you know that you might also have a driver score” that shows “your driving habits — how often you slam on the brakes, speed, look at your phone or drive late at night”? Your auto insurance company can get it. Can you?