Sellars Goes from GOP to AARP
by March 4, 2002 12:00 am 122 views
We hear Sam Sellers is back in Arkansas.
He’s now associate state director for the AARP, where he does lobbying and communications work.
Sellers was best known in Northwest Arkansas as owner of the conservative political magazine, the Arkansas Review, based in Springdale. In 1999, the monthly Review broke the story that U.S. Sen. Tim Hutchinson was getting a divorce and suggested that Hutchinson was having an affair with a former staffer.
Sellers, then 32, had the inside track on that story. He is a former aide to Hutchinson.
The Donrey Media Group newspapers immediately followed up on the story the story, naming Randi Fredholm as the alleged other woman, then didn’t mentioning her in subsequent articles.
His partners at the Arkansas Review were David Sanders, now a columnist for Stephens Media Group (formerly Donrey Media Group) and Dan Greenberg, son of Paul Greenberg, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist.
The Arkansas Review was around for about six issues before the owners ceased publication, Sellers said.
For the last couple of years, Sellers was communications director for the Independent Insurance Association in Topeka, Kan.