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Debra Hale-Shelton

@nottalking

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Mother, journalist, feminist. Retweets are not endorsements or agreement. Pronouns: she/her.

Conway, Arkansas
Joined January 2009
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
I am a member of the Church of Christ, too conservative for Baptists. I've voted for Reps & Dems. In 72 years, I've smoked 1 tobacco cigarette. The most addictive things I drink are Diet Cokes. I'm the "radical left" Sarah Huckabee Sanders professes to fear.
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Some tweets don’t age well.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
Cheaper insulin for Americans? Tom Cotton and John Boozman say no. I’m so fed up with the corrupt and backward Arkansas politicians. These two are a sham.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
I may get murdered any day by an assault rifle as may my family and friends. But thanks to Arkansas’ ever-vigilant, sex-consumed Republican Party, I won’t have to worry about a drag queen coming to my funeral if it’s in a church building.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 months
Long, at times eyebrow-raising video released of Conway School Board member Linda Hargis' DWI arrest. She takes aim at trans people, Black Lives Matter and yours truly in the video. School board president issues statement.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Sanders is dishonest, arrogant and cruel. She avoids interviews with respected Arkansas reporters while going on the pathetic FOX “News.” She cares zero about Arkansans. It’s all about her & her future.
@ArkansasBlog
Arkansas Blog
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There are a lot of issues Arkansas women would like to ask you about. But they don’t have Fox News shows. And I know some women journalists who’d like to challenge you on crime, economy and border assertions.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
So, yes, I'm sensitive to the pathetic refusal of @JohnBoozman and @TomCottonAR to support legislation limiting drug prices. Unlike those two guys, I don't get handouts from big pharma and the NRA. I'm on my own.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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But what if the “birth giver” is a 10-year-old girl thanks to anti-abortion laws? That mother is not a woman as ⁦⁦ @SarahHuckabee ⁩ Sanders’ authoritarian order dictates. SHS’s words don’t always work. But what does she care?
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
Arkansas is no longer my home. The far right has taken it over and is trying to turn it into a fascist state. I am afraid to live here much longer. You should be too.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
Effective Tuesday I begin working for the Arkansas Times. I will be reporting and blogging and welcome news tips. I plan some investigative reporting and already have a couple ideas, so stay tuned. Please feel free to share news tips with me via email, message or phone. Thread…
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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@funder And yet big government is taking care of her and paying her salary right now.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
1 year
The turning point (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette), Oct 01, 2023 Thanks to Rex Nelson for writing the sorely needed truth about this state’s governor and her bored and meddling hubby.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
Has anyone else noticed that the leaders of Arkansas’ far right really hate literacy and knowledge? After all, it’s easier for them to control people who are uninformed and uneducated.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
In 40 years, I’ve never been treated as disrespectfully as I was tonight by the Conway School District.I was parked legally but forced to move. In process, I was drenched by rain then forced to wait outside in rain until exactly 5:30 although others were inside. (Thread)
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
My daughter Annie graduated magna cum laude from UCA. I’m so happy for her.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Her first interview as governor should have been with an Arkansas media outlet. This alone shows she’s more concerned about national publicity than Arkansas. @SarahHuckabee
@SarahHuckabee
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
2 years
It’s been an amazing week, from my inauguration and swearing-in to my executive orders to show the world that there is still a place in America where freedom reigns and liberty will never die, and that place is Arkansas.  Watch my first interview as governor on @FoxNewsSunday ->
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Former state Sen. Jason Rapert, who has said Jesus would likely have burned library books, is now a member of the Arkansas State Library Book. You have @SarahHuckabee and a spineless legislature to thank for this.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Why did Arkansas send a bunch of white people, mostly white males, to honor a Black woman, a civil-rights leader in her day? I saw one Black man there. And if it's going to be a white-folks event, couldn't we have found some whites who at least believe in civil rights for all?
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Arkansas Blog
6 months
Embarrassing. A lineup of white Republicans who oppose affirmative action and diversity efforts and effectively endorse school segregation and racial gerrymanders commandeer civil rights spotlight. Get real.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
The far right professes to support parental rights. Truth: That’s only when the parents agree with everything a right-leaning school board does, espy in Conway, Arkansas.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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The more I learn about LEARNS, the more disgusted I am. It’s hurting our children, our teachers and our state’s future.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
4 years
Arkansas just keeps giving teachers reasons to want and need unions.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
1 year
Huckabee Sanders hires a man to head a state department. But she quickly sends him back home, then calls a secret meeting of the agency's public commission. Now, a member says he didn't know the panel had to be open about meeting. Democracy? via @arktimes
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
What I’m wearing to tonight’s Conway School Board meeting.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Arkansans, does this remind you of someone?
@daynasteele
Dayna For Congress TX36 💙🇺🇸
1 month
Hey Texas. It’s not immigrants taking your tax dollars. It’s Dan Patrick and others flying private jets like taxis. KHOU investigates: Lawmaker used private jets as an ‘air taxi’ from his Houston-area home to Austin.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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My 92-year-old mother who’s led a very conservative life was taken aback at how hateful Sarah Sanders’ speech was Tuesday night. I knew what to expect from Sanders. My mom, a Christian, did not. @SarahHuckabee
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
Sarah Sanders hides from the media because she knows little about Ark govt & fears getting her facts wrong. She also can’t explain Trump’s lies or his abhorrent behavior as police were being beaten on Jan. 6. Her ties to him are her only resume item that counts to most Arkansans.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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I would never encourage anyone to move to Arkansas. It is a poor state with a high maternal mortality rate & poorly funded public schools. Now, Sarah Sanders is making Arkansans’ lives even worse with her arrogance, lies and scowling dismissal of those who don’t bow down to her.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
1 year
I’m embarrassed and frankly scared to live here: Arkansas to inspect AP African American Studies lesson plans for evidence of critical race theory, indoctrination
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Debra Hale-Shelton
1 year
@BlueHogReport It’s a waste of tax money. She pretends to be conservative but not when it’s something she wants or needs to cover up (lectern). SHS is neither liberal nor conservative. She’s a selfie — whatever promotes herself.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
6 months
Because some people are so offended that the Arkansas State Library Board has only one male member, I suggest reporters start noting whenever a state board is all or predominantly male. We should be busy.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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So now the Huckabee Sanders regime is promoting a private church school. If I disagree with this school's religious teachings, Sanders demands that my tax money help fund it anyway. Will the Scientologists be next to get state support in Arkansas?
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Arkansas Department of Education
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Because of Arkansas LEARNS, parental empowerment is thriving across the state. At Cornerstone Christian Academy in Tillar, the growth and change are overwhelmingly positive for teachers, students, and their families. #ArkansasLEARNS
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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And it's happening closer to us/you than some think.
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Dan Rather
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News anchors looking into camera and reading a script handed down by a corporate overlord, words meant to obscure the truth not elucidate it, isn't journalism. It's propaganda. It's Orwellian. A slippery slope to how despots wrest power, silence dissent, and oppress the masses.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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I care, snd you can bet: I will pursue this.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
1 year
Metal detectors to be installed at AR Governor's Mansion, hypocrisy detector not needed - Arkansas Times
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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If you are OK with immigrants -- men, women (some likely pregnant), children & babies -- getting killed in a river of barbed wire as they grasp for freedom, you are not remotely pro-life. Rather, you are supporting and encouraging murder as is the Texas governor.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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There’s a word for such behavior — hypocrisy.
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AR Democrat-Gazette
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Arkansas' U.S. senators on Wednesday joined a majority of Republican colleagues in blocking a bipartisan legislative package on U.S. border security and aid to Ukraine and Israel.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Excellent column about the pathetic state of governance in Arkansas and its impact on those of us neither wealthy nor spending taxpayers’ dollars extravagantly as @SarahHuckabee Sanders is doing.
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Blake Rutherford
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Probalems jn Arkansas continue to escalate under the @SarahHuckabee administration. My thoughts in today’s @ArkansasOnline
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
If you are a politician and you draw a salary as do members of Congress and the Arkansas Legislature, you make as much or more than many people, including teachers. So quit calling yourself a public servant. You’re a public employee.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
For the first time, I’m covering a school board routinely. It’s a board packed with book banners, a self-anointed patriot, an archaic bathroom policy & a secretive treatise to abolish rainbow flags & history lessons. This is how governments spread hate & fear, not democracy.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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So, when is the Arkansas governor going to apologize for her cruel assumption about this woman? @SarahHuckabee professes to be a person of faith. A person of faith would sincerely apologize and mean it and then move on. But SHS just moves to other targets.
@SarahHuckabee
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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'It used to be illegal for men to beat up women, and now people are putting it on TV and watching it.” Well said, Payton. Where are the so-called feminists?
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Arkansas desperately needs a governor who cares about the state.
@retiredlife
My best friends call me Papaw
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Every circus has a 🤡
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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I am an adoptive parent. I love my daughter as much as I hope Sanders loves her children. Hate never helped any child anywhere. Sanders isn’t helping anyone but herself and Trump. Leave children out of your politics, @SarahHuckabee .
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Tom Mars
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ICYMI, as if discrediting parents who don’t have biological children wasn’t bad enough, Sarah Sanders’ “my kids keep me humble” line was just another lie. In fact, Sanders stole the line from Tim Waltz just for the despicable purpose of smearing Kamala Harris.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
The Conway School Board unanimously approved a new contract for Superintendent Jeff Collum tonight but adjourned without releasing any details of it. I was told to check the school’s website tomorrow. This, folks, is anything but transparency.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
10 months
This is the same politician who pretends to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today. Only her support-her-no-matter-what cult falls for such pretense. @SarahHuckabee .
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Paying big bucks to "worship" with Sanders? A $100K donation to the inaugural committee gets 4 reserved seats for prayer & worship at Fellowship Bible Church on Jan. 10 and more. Will there be crumbs & a prayer for the Lazaruses of Arkansas? via @arktimes
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Sanders spends more time tweeting than trying to heal this state's divisions much less protecting the poor, sick, the victims of discrimination. She never talks about empowering teachers; she wants to take what little power they have (virtually none) away. @sarahhuckabee
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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President Biden, I’ve done more in 5 weeks than you’ve done in 5 decades to give “every kid, in every zip code…access to every education opportunity possible.” I guess, for some, it’s never been about empowering parents or students, but protecting a broken government system.
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Will any Conway School Board members bother to testify before state legislators about the need for better teacher pay? Or are they just worried about genitalia and bathroom issues?
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This is awful. Now, the so-called pro-lifers can keep forcing 10-year-old rape victims to have babies and pregnant women in health emergencies to risk death. I no longer want to live in a state that cares only about the unborn, the rich and no one else.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
1 year
Everyone who favors transparency and opposes corruption should support this with one caveat — make it the way it was before Huckabee Sanders took an ax to it.
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Doug Thompson
1 year
Former state legislator Nate Bell and attorney David Couch said they will form a group to enshrine the state FOI in the Ark. Constitution.
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Racism and bigotry of all types are apparently welcomed by all too many Arkansans and those who support the current governor. The only other credible excuse is ignorance.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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The coverup is often worse than the original offense and what ultimately brings down the powerful. Sarah Sanders wasn’t alive in 1973, but she should read up on Richard Nixon. Or her dad can fill her in.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Then I had to sign in with a police officer as did others. So much for democracy in Conway. The superintendent & school board favor authoritarian rule. They and their attorney break the FOI law daily. But who cares?
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Debra Hale-Shelton
6 months
Want to wager how many interviews Sarah Huckabee Sanders would have given journalist Daisy Bates? I'll go first: None.
@uscapitol
Architect of the Capitol (AOC)
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#USCapitol 's newest statue! Arkansas' Daisy Bates joined the #NSHCollection today. The depiction captures her confidently striding forward w/ notebook + newspaper (1957 headline) in hand—references to her involvement in the Arkansas State Press. More ➡️
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Huck Sanders ‘ hastily and shabbily prepared LEARNS bill will backfire on Republicans and the Gov when it starts destroying our public schools. The elections of 2024 and 2026 await. Democrats and Independents must start preparing now.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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They fear the people might actually get to vote! Trolls try to sabotage effort to restore abortion access in Arkansas
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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I married at age 47 and later adopted my daughter. I own one cat. If that makes me a cat lady unworthy of J.D. Vance's respect, fine. He is not someone I want to emulate. I view his criticism as a badge of honor as should VP Harris. Motherhood is a choice, not a resume booster.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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It was a love fest tonight for Conway School Board member Linda Hargis, recently arrested for DWI. The board showed no empathy for others, tho, when it interviewed 5 candidates for a vacant seat. Members David Naylor Jr. & Trip Leach made it clear: Never question THEIR board.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
2 years
Protesters of the Conway School Board’s anti-transgender policies just entered the administration during a crowded board meeting and are chanting, “Trans lives matter.” @ArkTimes
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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The judge’s order opened with a quote from Ray Bradbury, author of the classic dystopian novel “Fahrenheit 451”: “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
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In 40 plus years of journalism I’ve never seen a board adjourn just because they’re thinned skin and can’t take criticism. That’s what happened tonight.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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No, this is not true. Arkansas ranks low in almost everything. Don’t move here if you want the freedoms and the wages offered in many other states.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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With low taxes, a low cost of living, and massive job growth, Arkansas’ economy is booming.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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I neither know nor care what an “unforced error” is. Corruption is an error, period.
@MarkJacob16
Mark Jacob
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The New York Times, assessing Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ chances of becoming Trump’s running mate, calls the $19,000 lectern scandal an “unforced error,” as if it’s an isolated incident instead of the perfect symbol of her shady conduct and reflexive lying.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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The temperature in Arkansas is now 451 Fahrenheit.
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1 year
This purge was the Huckabee Sanders administration’s handiwork.
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Skip Rutherford
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Sad as Thanksgiving approaches: Arkansas ranks #1 in food insecurity; Thousands of Arkansas children have lost health care as the result of a 6 month purge (not 12 month review like most states) of medicaid recipients; 53% of rural hospitals are in fiscal distress @MikeWickline
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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We do not need another exorbitantly paid football coach in a state that treats its poor residents like dirt.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Do not be misled. Gov. Sanders does not want to "update" the FOI Act. She wants to gut it and advance government secrecy. #FOI #Sanders #StopGovtSecrecy
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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The Arkansas governor wants to “empower” only those parents who agree 100% with her. To disagree with Trump’s protege is to invite her and her disciples’ hateful rhetoric. She won’t tolerate dissent.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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So is she OK with right-wing indoctrination in the classroom? Sounds like it. @SarahHuckabee
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders
2 years
I am proud to have signed an executive order prohibiting leftist indoctrination and CRT in the classroom. We will not apologize for America or indoctrinate our kids with the lie that America is a racist and evil country. America is the greatest country the world has ever known.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Author ⁦⁦ @susanorlean ⁩ spoke Sunday at the amazing Fayetteville Public Library. Banning books amounts to banning a person’s thoughts, she said. #libraries #1stAmendment
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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Why would anyone choose to live in a state - Arkansas - where cold-hearted legislators treat rape victims & other women with hate? I regret moving here. It’s all about politics and bigotry.
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Debra Hale-Shelton
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I’d rather look at great art any day than listen to the bigotry that has Florida & Arkansas in a race for the most backward states.This is not vulgar Now, a legislator asking a trans woman if she has a penis — that’s vulgar. And it happened in Arkansas.
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Sanders expected to officially cast her lot with Trump. Why? Because of his moral values 🥹 and because she lacks half the courage of her predecessor, Asa Hutchinson.
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