Brummett: Ross Has Eye On Governor’s Race
by July 25, 2011 7:00 pm 54 views
Columnist John Brummett offers his take on the Mike Ross announcement yesterday that threw another curveball into Arkansas’ political dynamic.
Brummett sizes up the looming 2014 gubernatorial Democratic primary between Ross and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. Says Brummett:
I will tell you two things I know about Mike Ross.
One is that he is running for governor in 2014, information I’ve gleaned from him, albeit in a cryptic way.
“I think you know what I’m planning on doing in 2014,” he has said more than once in conversations about the politics of something or other.
If you don’t believe him or me, talk to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, with whom Ross likely will tangle in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
If not otherwise busy bragging in a public service spot about fighting Internet child predators with money from lawsuit settlements to which he gets to help himself, McDaniel would tell you about people telling him that Ross has been going around saying tacky things about him.
Dustin might even give you some vice versa, some tit for tat, on that.
The second thing I can tell you about Ross is that whatever he is saying or doing is politically calculated. This is approximately the most thorough political animal I know.
Brummett gives his essential size-up of the race to replace Ross. You can read his
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