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Conner Eldridge announces plans to run for U.S. Senate
With little advance fanfare, former U.S. Attorney Conner Eldridge distributed a release this morning saying that he will make a Democratic race for U.S. Senate against incumbent Republican John Boozman.
Eldridge, who's left footprints in his life in Arkansas from Lonoke County, where he grew up, to Arkadelphia where he headed a bank, to Fort Smith and Fayetteville, where he'd recently been U.S. attorney, lacks one significant feature on his resume — any previous elected office.
I believe you'll find that Eldridge turns this to an advantage in a year in which outsiders draw great favor and dissatisfaction with Washington gridlock is high. Eldridge can be expected to strike a tone of someone capable of reaching across the aisle. He won't attack John Boozman, who has relatively low name recognition despite 15 years in office but enjoys a reputation among those who do know him as quiet and kind. But he will seek to illuminate a lack of solid achievements by Boozman.
Can this win an election for a Democrat in overwhelmingly Republican Arkansas? He doesn't indicate yet how he'll handle the usual Republican 4-G liturgy against Democrats — God, guns, gays and gynecology.
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/09/09/conner-eldridge-announces-plans-to-run-for-us-senate
Eldridge, who's left footprints in his life in Arkansas from Lonoke County, where he grew up, to Arkadelphia where he headed a bank, to Fort Smith and Fayetteville, where he'd recently been U.S. attorney, lacks one significant feature on his resume — any previous elected office.
I believe you'll find that Eldridge turns this to an advantage in a year in which outsiders draw great favor and dissatisfaction with Washington gridlock is high. Eldridge can be expected to strike a tone of someone capable of reaching across the aisle. He won't attack John Boozman, who has relatively low name recognition despite 15 years in office but enjoys a reputation among those who do know him as quiet and kind. But he will seek to illuminate a lack of solid achievements by Boozman.
Can this win an election for a Democrat in overwhelmingly Republican Arkansas? He doesn't indicate yet how he'll handle the usual Republican 4-G liturgy against Democrats — God, guns, gays and gynecology.
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/09/09/conner-eldridge-announces-plans-to-run-for-us-senate
I'll be interested to hear more about Mr. Eldridge. We definitely need some new blood in Arkansas.