That’s not just my opinion, it’s absolute moral fact. | I agree with this. We've absolutely been routed from this state. Fight for the rights of the individual regardless of financial status, age, race, or gender. As the classification comes from normies. That would be the “actively anti-racist” thing to do, no? Harrington's other ideas include demilitarizing the police ("If police are using the equipment our fighting forces use to crush our enemies, what does that mean the police think about the people?"). Swinging from “Tom Cotton called slavery a necessary evil” to “Tom Cotton never said any such thing” is a pretty big swing in the truth-o-meter. The half leopard half hippo hybrid? This country is done for. Mahony was the only Democrat who had filed to run against Cotton. Our campaign is seeking passionate volunteers and interns to help give Arkansans their voices back! Not really. | Jacob Sullum The statement enraged Harrington. "Going to war should be one of the last things humans do. I believe that Christopher Hitchens once said that he ‘swore on his mother that he’d never place ellipsis in a quote, where the rest of the quote fundamentally changed the nature of what was said’. Cotton still faces Ricky Harrington, a Libertarian candidate who works for the state corrections department, and Dan Whitfield, who calls himself a progressive … “… he supports Medicare for All. If you flatter and fawn upon your potential audience, I might add, you are patronizing them and insulting them. No one is running against Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas this year, and that’s a shame. Josh Mahony was the only candidate to … Perhaps a good journalist might follow up with an interrogation of Tom Cotton, asking him to clarify what he said (although it seems clear enough to me) or perhaps just ask him, “Sure, Tom, but what do YOU think about Slavery– was it a necessary evil” at which point he might hang himself and say, “Yes.”. How bad is the worst? To this day, I struggle getting people to understand that some of the issues they think I should “fix” are beyond my control. August 25, 2020 11:12 am RICKY DALE HARRINGTON JR. Ricky Dale Harrington Jr., a prison chaplain from Pine Bluff, the only candidate on the ballot against barking mad … Tom Cotton is a piece of shit, but let’s remember he’s the one challenging efforts to turn NYT’s 1619 Propaganda into a curriculum for public schools. Goddamn shame we lost him. The only Democratic senate candidate in the state of Arkansas decided to call it quits just one day after the filing deadline. When Bubba running and picking up steam he told my old man that he wasn’t to be trusted and referred to him as “knee deep in organized crime”. Paul's non-interventionist stance on American foreign policy won him over, Harrington recalls. I’m an Arkansas voter, and I’d never heard of this guy. Tom Cotton has no chance at all of ever becoming president of United States. He’s going to get votes both from libertarians, and woke idiots! His claims about previous employment and sources of income had come under scrutiny in a September investigation by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, but he still enthusiastically filed for the race days before the deadline. Northwest Arkansas, long a Republican stronghold, is getting bluer by the day, and party activists in that corner of the state have long felt ignored by the party's historic base in Little Rock and southern Arkansas. 2.8.2021 1:08 PM, "What I keep hearing is you're trying to undermine the work that has been done through this process. What Tom Cotton’s Racist Speech Against D.C. Statehood Says About the GOP . 2.5.2021 2:45 PM. Slavery itself wasn’t necessary. Tom Cotton, incumbent U.S. senator; Libertarian nomination Nominee. If the dude is intelligent, fact-oriented, Libertarian and has two autistic kids, what are the chances this guy is autistic? He is not an idiot (at being a politician). Junior Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) successfully eliminated a Democratic opponent in this year's race. Instead I was labeled as having anger control and low self esteem issues and immaturity issues. The following article, Only Democrat Running Against Tom Cotton Drops Out Just Hours After Filing Deadline, was first published on Flag And Cross. Between this and Cotton's comments over the past few weeks, which range from calling slavery a "necessary evil" to calling for military force in American streets, many Arkansas voters worry that the Republican incumbent is running unopposed. "We can't support lasting growth when we are messing up literally every opportunity for party base-building. I’m not making an impassioned defense of Cotton, I’m only interested in the truth. A lowly nigger trying to defeat a superior white man? As he puts it, "You can't sit here calling yourself pro-life while supporting babies being maimed over drugs.". I am again reminded of how modern journalism is a game of telephone, and a pretty shitty one at that. "We need to stop someone who has said the things that he's said. Cotton has started running a hard-hitting spot in Ohio targeting Joe Biden over his policies toward China. Between this and Cotton's comments over the past few weeks, which range from calling slavery a ". Although we’re still not sure if he knows where Aleppo is, definitely need to clear that up before I can decide. At least some varieties, such as Asperger’s. I am a universty student and I work n my part time just 2 to 3 hours a day easily from home. You have to be as obnoxious as Trump or Cotton nowadays to survive the modern media if you’re not a “party” member. If You Want To Know Who’s Running In 2020, Watch Capitol Hill, ... and how to handle new charges of sexual misconduct against lawmakers. "I find myself perplexed that police officers can't do the same thing. I started this four months/ago and immediately started to bring home minimum $97 per/hr. This country is done for. "Ricky is an exceptional candidate," Pakko adds. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. The best sounds pretty good. Tom Cotton just made a pitch for their votes in 2024. But that’s specifically how you get to be an ‘influencer’. See I was wrong as well, which just reinforces my point. Perfect dog whistling divisiveness. ", Grassroots political organizing has never been a strength for either party in Arkansas. Every black libertarian is superior to every white non-libertarian. Even if he makes it on the ballot, though, Cotton will likely skate to victory. He is expected to ramp it … "My job is to try to remove government's heavy hand in the system," Harrington says. He wants to remove regulatory hurdles like. © Copyright 2021 by the Institute for Southern Studies. Actually, there's Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr. "There is an alternative to Tom Cotton," reads a Tuesday headline from the Arkansas Times, reminding voters that Cotton's race is not as uncontested as some people believe. If the DNA tests show that Arkansas killed an innocent man three years ago, Harrington says he will "vehemently oppose" the practice. The southern colonies would never have signed on without it. I suggest you check out his brother, Peter. He had spent months touting a run, and had gained the support of state party elites and progressive activists despite losing his House race by more than 30 percentage points. Being one has its advantages. Ricky Dale Harrington is polling at 38 percent in a two-way race against one of the … On Jan. 22, Salon published a piece that critics say was an attempt to smear Cotton … My Dad and his younger brother have not been diagnosed but both demonstrate strong traits that suggest they (and their father) are also on the spectrum. It has been hi-jacked by the left to mean more rules which always translates to more of our money. No one is running against Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas this year, and that’s a shame. Besides criminal justice reform, Harrington's other major issue is health care. “Tom Cotton said ‘slavery is a necessary evil’ as a complete, unadorned sentence has altered the original significance of what Tom Cotton actually said. There is definitely strong evidence that autism may be sex linked. Smith was part of Denise Garner's campaign for state party chair, which released a platform calling for complete structural reform. The aim is to confuse rather than convince, to trash the information space so the audience gives up looking for any truth amid the chaos. He's also the son of a corrections officer and a nurse, which he says is particularly fitting since his campaign's main issues are criminal justice reform and health care reform. And slavery WAS a necessary evil At the time the republic was formed. And, in both parties, because successful candidates' organizations are independent they are occasionally the seeds of dissention within the party even when those candidates are not in direct competition.". | A 38-year-old El Dorado native announced plans Wednesday to run for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in the 2020 election, seeking to face Republican incumbent Tom Cotton. Democrats don’t believe in individual rights, or private property. Jared Lee Loughner, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, John Wayne Gacy, Paul John Knowles). won his uncontested GOP Senate primary in Arkansas on Tuesday, paving the way for his reelection in November. Exciting growth, party doubles in size overnight! They know the only way they can sustain power is … Inside Putin’s Information War – Peter Pomerantsev. More recent medical quote, not from that guy: “Fatigue is a non-specific symptom, we won’t just go looking for the cause.” LOL. "The Libertarian Party of Arkansas is very enthusiastic about the campaign of Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr. to unseat Senator Tom Cotton," says Michael Pakko, the Libertarian Party's state chair. (Photo by Michael Vadon via Flickr.). Mahony claimed that an unspecified family member's unspecified illness was the motivation behind his sudden exit. How will newcomers affect tight Senate races in the South? hide. I predict Cotton in a landslide. On January 11, 2005, Cotton joined the United States Army and entered Officer Candidate School in March 2005. The dialog in the comments is way better than the article. I’ll let you guys decide if the writer is to be despised. reached out to Cotton's campaign for its thoughts on its Libertarian challenger but did not receive a response. There is no limitAtions, it All depends from you And how much you wAnt to eArn eAch dAy…..Go to link. In a press conference held two weeks after Mahony withdrew, state Democratic Party Chair Michael John Gray said Mahony didn't give party leaders a heads-up that he was leaving the race, and hadn't been in contact with party leaders since — even skipping a meeting party leaders had set to determine if there was a path to finding a replacement candidate. On a separate note it is laughable that Cotton believes he has a chance at the Oval Office. “Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., is running to keep Tom Cotton out of the White House”, You didn’t know? Perhaps this time it’ll get invited to the debate. Further, he suggests that we are in fact flawed and imperfect (as all nations are if one ever travels or reads the history and current events of any nation on the planet) but then goes on to suggest that America is a great land full of great people. Celeste Williams of Bella Vista, an advanced practical registered nurse, recently announced she will run for the 3rd Congressional District in Arkansas as a Democratic candidate in 2020 against U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers. “As daddy used to say, everyone’s shit stinks” means that you believe it as well, and are merely making sure no one mistakenly attributes the quote to yourself. In other words, if unreason is advocating this guy, he’s bad news. I’ve been working on developing eyes for people who are on the spectrum. He was also checking himself quite a bit to evaluate his own reactions, to see how he was coming off (video calls are great for watching what people do with their eyes.) The statement enraged Harrington. Log in or sign up to leave a comment Log In Sign Up. "We need health care revolution.". A black guy, forced into the prison system, running for U.S. Senate? This whole article smacks of progressive bullshit. This man is better than we deserve. (Speech therapy got him out of the “expressive/receptive language disorder” territory.) People view this as lacking empathy. Tom Cotton’s campaign manager, Justin Brasell, just placed a hit job on Nebraska airwaves against Ben Sasse. Hahahahaha! If I lived in AK I’d throw my vote away on this guy in a heartbeat. He doesn’t say “the founding father’s believed” or “incorrectly believed” or any such distancing. 7.31.2020 4:20 PM. Sort by. He then adds some notes (correct, in my opinion) that this nation is not “an irredeemably corrupt, rotten and racist country”. A former congressman with a military background, Cotton is frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for open cabinet positions, and he's consistently one of the most right-wing voices in the Senate. One of them was clearly on the autism spectrum (think Sheldon). Though he has no Republican primary opponent or Democratic challenger, Cotton isn't running completely unopposed: In the general election he will face Libertarian Ricky Dale Harrington Jr. and Dan Whitfield, a Bernie Sanders-style progressive activist running as an independent. He was very thorough, had some difficulty with eye contact (even over video/telehealth) and while clearly concerned, it manifested in that earnestness about the information, rather than emotional relating. Compassionate sounds like more government involvement. I want “Patton” and I want him to take the fight to the bureaucracy and ram the Constitution right down the throats of the FBI. Ricky sound like the most rational person running for Federal Office from Ar-Kansas in decades..far better than Clinton, Hockabee, and Cotton…go Ricky. Covid-19 is emptying it all out. A Libertarian prison chaplain who hopes to be Arkansas' first black senator, Harrington is indeed a unique candidate. It will also appear as a digital spot nationally. If you’re older than 19 and haven’t passed it, you’re kicked out of Journalism school because you’ll never learn it beyond that age. That’s why I said they’re doing a shitty job of it. | He once worked as a takedown specialist at a psychiatric hospital, a job that primarily consisted of simply talking to patients when they seemed like they were about to become violent. There’s too few of you and a little too much of everything else. Sort of an interesting juxtaposition, a christian Tory to Christopher’s atheist Trotskyite. Reading the Cotton components and their blatant distortions makes me doubt the accuracy of both sides of the comparison. The republicans should know better. I gave the guy a few bucks – he sounds decent enough and Tom Cotton really is the sort of hard-core law-and-order Oberführer you should fear. "Tom Cotton.". Is that what you disagree with? We also tend to value accuracy even when it really doesn’t matter. I’m a nihilist so I just sent him $5 bucks. NEXT: Detroit Police Department Settles Another Dog Shooting Lawsuit After Video Contradicts Cop's Account. Reading this article confirms it. Harrington's other ideas include demilitarizing the police ("If police are using the equipment our fighting forces use to crush our enemies, what does that mean the police think about the people? You touch on something important here. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) became the first Republican senator on Sunday night who is actually a supporter of President Donald Trump’s agenda to oppose a challenge of the electoral college, issuing a statement saying he is concerned it would create dangerous precedents that Democrats would all but certainly use in the future to undermine election integrity. Harrington has ideas about reforming other parts of the criminal justice system at the state and federal level, beginning with sentencing. It's over. His campaign ad says, “Character, Integrity, Compassion.”. ", It took a lot of work to get Harrington on the ballot. Do we trust it? Here is Christopher Hitchens on this very technique: But if you leave out absolutely everything that might give your “narrative” a problem and throw in any old rubbish that might support it, and you don’t even care that one bit of that rubbish flatly contradicts the next bit, and you give no chance to those who might differ, then you have betrayed your craft. "There is a faction who are either unwilling to accept how bad it is out there in Arkansas, how truly low the Democratic Party is in the state, or are waiting for something to change," said Smith. He graduated magna cum laude. The Arkansas article says that Harrington supports the 1619 project. So when Harrington applied for a number of jobs after moving back to America from mission work in China, he was surprised that the only call back he received was for a position as a prison chaplain. As he puts it, "You can't sit here calling yourself pro-life while supporting babies being maimed over drugs.". "This situation … is indicative of the need for a massive structural overhaul and complete rebranding," Bailey Sexton, another alum of the Garner chair campaign and a Democratic organizer, tweeted last month. At times, teachers were even openly abusive towards me. Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton won't have a Democratic opponent in 2020. 2.9.2021 9:30 AM, Andrea O'Sullivan ", "People shouldn't be in prison where there is no victim," he says. And I have an IQ in the 130s and high memory retention of written and verbal. Then, two hours after the filing period closed, he abruptly dropped out, leaving Arkansas Democrats without a candidate against one of the most ambitious, powerful politicians in Washington. I assume Arkansas will ‘pick Cottons’ . "He is an ordained minister who has experienced life as a missionary overseas, giving him a worldview that is both expansive and nuanced. 1. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is pushing back on a report that he alleges is trying to smear his military service. During. Tom Cotton (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Arkansas. (AP) — Arkansas' junior U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton says he's running for reelection in 2020, but that his focus now is on helping Republicans win state and national offices in this year's midterm races. The online magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies, Cambridge Analytica's reach into Southern politics, Meet the Southern senators critical to blocking Obamacare's repeal. FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2020, file photo, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., right, speaks during a campaign event for Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., left, at the Recteq facility in Evans, Ga. Six years after being elected in an expensive and heated race, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton is on the ballot again and he's campaigning hard — just not in Arkansas. My earliest clear memory is from when I was around 27 months old and involved the Kirby dealer dropping off my mom’s new vacuum cleaner. From Guantanamo to Iran, food stamps to women’s rights, here are ten reasons why Tom Cotton is a dangerous dude. We also tend to have flatter affects, especially during emotional situations because we tend to have difficulty expressing our emotions (especially strong emotions). easing the burden on public defenders ("It's hard to give someone a good fighting chance if they're overloaded"). The party then "embarked on a petition campaign while simultaneously challenging the new higher threshold in federal court. U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton said today that he’s running for re-election in 2020. Can you get a desoxyn ‘script or something? "It is rare to find a high-profile race like this featuring a two-way contest between a Libertarian and an incumbent. Just a week after returning to America from China, Harrington says, he was pulled over by aggressive officers in Sherwood, Arkansas. ), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) many Arkansas voters worry that the Republican incumbent is running unopposed. Anecdotal, a few of my co-workers over the years have had autistic kids. Harrington worries that his opponent has his eyes on the White House, something that concerns him given Cotton's history of authoritarian comments. 2.9.2021 11:24 AM, Christian Britschgi With the help of an injunction that survived a state challenge in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Libertarian Party and Ricky Harrington will be on the ballot in November.". He’s going to get votes both from libertarians, and woke idiots! No one would say that and then say “whoa, *I* wasn’t saying everyone’s shit stinks”. I miss Hitchens, he could be an insufferable asshole at times but the man had tegrity. With the help of an injunction that survived a state challenge in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Libertarian Party and Ricky Harrington will be on the ballot in November.". It’s not a game of telephone, it’s deliberate lies and propaganda. He was also tasked to be a chaplain for both the families of murder victims and families of death row inmates during executions. I don’t think of Libertarians as compassionate politicians. Harrington delivers death notifications, both to prisoners about their families and families about the prisoners. Jacob Sullum Either way this country is finished. Democrats are keeping their options open. learn More, “Between this and Cotton’s comments over the past few weeks, which range from calling slavery a “necessary evil””. He mentions the fight to posthumously test DNA evidence in the case of Ledell Lee, a death row inmate executed in 2017. It's just like evangelization," he says. Thank you for putting a blatant, easily disproven lie in the first paragraph so I didn’t have to waste any time reading the rest of the article. Breitbart reports Cotton, a pro-life Republican, told his fellow senators that they should not confirm Becerra because he is so radical and out of touch with most Americans. Growing up, his father "scared him straight" with horror stories about the prison system. He seems to indicate such study in a positive light. Asking for a friend. I really don’t like Tom Cotton and even more so despise having to defend a politician but Katherine Mangu ward Ward needs to do a better job at stopping this bullshit. and promoting prison rehabilitation programs that offer inmates an education and teach basic life skills ("We want people to serve their time, get out, and never come back"). Best part? Ok then. , reminding voters that Cotton's race is not as uncontested as some people believe. Cotton (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent Arkansas.He won in the general election on November 3, 2020.. Cotton won election to the seat formerly held by Democrat Mark Pryor in 2014. Is this some sort of weird reference to your dating life? | Tom Cotton Won't Debate His Libertarian Challenger. With rumors swirling that Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton will soon head for the CIA, another Senate race may be added to the 2018 list. What we have, in Tom Cotton’s own words, is a politician riffing on the value of studying slavery and its impact on the nation. Hard to support a fella that believes in made up, non-factual history. Ricky Dale Harrington Jr. from Pine Bluff will be seeking the Libertarian Party of Arkansas’s nomination for US Senate, running against Republican incumbent Tom … of the aforementioned freedom-crushing statists. Included enhanced cognition. "I think Tom Cotton is just placating people's fears and uneducated proclivities. “Tom Cotton skipped the Warren Pink Tomato Festival and was at a Koch brothers event in 2014. He might be better than Tom Cotton, but that’s a pretty low bar. Cotton was born on May 13, 1977, in Dardanelle, Ark. Full stop. Same, sounds like a guy I could vote for. You would think the corporate media would be pimping this guy.
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