Big questions: Why did Josh Mahony drop out of the Senate race? Did Republican operatives have anything to do with it? Do we really need lectures on the rule of law from Doyle Webb?
Barbara Webb
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Supreme Court race to become official today
A contest for Arkansas Supreme Court will become official this morning when Barbara Webb, currently serving in a Republican administration appointment at the Workers Compensation Commission and wife of Arkansas Republican Party chair Doyle Webb, will file for the seat currently held by Justice Jo Hart, who’s expected to retire.
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Trump to file in Arkansas Friday.
The Trump campaign says he’ll file for the Arkansas primary election ballot at 11 a.m. Friday in the persons of his former press aide, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, now a Pleasant Valley resident, and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge.
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Judge Chip Welch files for Arkansas Supreme Court
One candidate is in the race for Position 4 on the Arkansas Supreme Court, currently held by Justice Jo Hart. Circuit Judge Morgan “Chip” Welch filed for the seat.
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State GOP chair’s wife, Barbara Webb, joins race for Supreme Court
A candidate with Republican connections will enter the race for Arkansas Supreme Court.
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Committee rejects bill to expand use of judge on election ballots
The House State Agencies Committee today rejected a bill widely understood to be backed by Republican Party Chair Doyle Webb to allow people who’d once served by appointment as judges to identify themselves as judges on election ballots.
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Inside judicial baseball: All in the family?
Since the legislature isn’t meeting today, here’s a bit of the kind of legislative trivia that gets buried in the avalanche of bigger issues: A little ol’ bill that could help get a better state job for the wife of the chairman of the state Republican Party, Doyle Webb.
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Hutchinson names Barbara Webb to fill vacant judgeship in Saline County
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has named Barbara Webb, currently chief executive officer of the Workers Compensation Commission and wife of state Republican Party Chair Doyle Webb, to a circuit court vacancy in Saline County.