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For Immediate Release:

Oct. 19, 2006

LITTLE ROCK— “Recently, Bill Halter accused Senator Jim Holt of cheating on his property taxes over an old van a friend gave him. Jim Holt provided complete access to all his records to the media, and proved he was innocent of the charge. Now, we have some property tax questions for Bill Halter,” said Clint Reed, the Executive Director of the Republican party of Arkansas.

“However, we are not going to accuse him of being a tax cheat in the same fashion as Mr. Halter did Senator Holt. We just want Mr. Halter to be as open as Senator Holt has been in releasing all records to the media so we can find out the truth on why Mr. Halter has taken property tax credits that he was not entitled to, including a Senior Citizen’s Credit in 2003. It also appears that Mr. Halter took a homestead exemption to which he was not entitled from 2003-2005.”

This was on a home Mr. Halter owned in Washington D.C.

“Will Bill Halter stand up to the same high standards of honesty and transparency exemplified by Senator Holt by releasing his property tax audit documents to the media, including the amount of fines he was assessed for taking deductions to which he was not entitled?” asked Reed. “The people have a right to know these things of a man who says he can take care of the people’s business.”

Reed offered to show documentation that Halter had taken the exemptions, and that revisions had been made to his exemptions as the result of an audit and while contemplating a bid for Governor and/or Lt. Governor.

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Democrat Mike Beebe suggested Tuesday that his Republican rival's plan to train state police on immigration enforcement would overwork state troopers, while Asa Hutchinson accused Beebe of not understanding immigration policy as the two faced off in their final televised debate.

More than 250 people attended the third and final debate between the two major party nominees for governor, held at the Clinton Presidential Library in downtown Little Rock.

Beebe questioned Hutchinson's proposal to provide additional training for state troopers on immigration and said it would shift a federal responsibility to the state.

"If you're talking about state police arresting somebody that's here illegally and taking (them) back across the border to Laredo and not giving them to the federal government we're going to need a lot more state police," Beebe said. "If that's your plan, we need to go back to the drawing board."

Hutchinson called Beebe's remarks "the silliest thing I've ever heard."

"You don't understand at all immigration enforcement," Hutchinson said. "The state police would be trained so they could process them and hold them at the federal government's expense until the federal agents are able to get them and return them across the border."

The two nominees stuck largely to the same debate topics - namely, competing proposals to eliminate the state's six-cent tax on groceries
- that have highlighted their previous two televised debates.

Tuesday's hourlong debate was broadcast live on Little Rock television station KARK.

Tuesday's debate, like the two previous, excluded independent gubernatorial candidate Rod Bryan and Green Party nominee Jim Lendall.
Earlier Tuesday, a state judge rejected Bryan's attempt to stop Tuesday's debate because it included only the major-party nominees.

Hutchinson criticized Beebe for voting as a state senator against Gov.
Mike Huckabee's covenant-marriage proposal that makes it difficult for couples who engage in such a marriage to get a divorce.

"It helps send a signal to our young people that marriage is serious,"
Hutchinson said. "It's a way for couples to reinforce their vows."

Beebe defended his vote against the covenant-marriage proposal and said he did not want to create second-class marriages.

"Adding a second marriage to the first marriage and having another ceremony won't change the marriage," Beebe said. "You either have a marriage or you don't have a marriage ... You're either going to try and stay that way or you're not."

I don't know how many of you have seen this so called blog "Greasy Creek". They lack all moral dignity and principles. Recently they accused the Arkansas GOP of not having anything in their platform dealing with internet predators.

"Does anyone else find it absurd that the Arkansas GOP is calling out the Democratic Party of Arkansas for omitting language on gay marriage when it appears the Arkansas Republican Party has nothing in its platform specifically addressing internet predators (whereas, the Democratic Party of Arkansas does)?

In fact, does the Republican Party of Arkansas even have a platform? It appears they're too ashamed to put it on their website. Could somebody email it to us?"




Do you not find this ridiculous that they would state the Republican Party has nothing in its platform in regards to sexual predators when they don't even have a copy? Well Greasy the platform is on the website and it does have a section on sexual predators. Why don't you go look at the platform before you make outlandish statements and lies. You are a classic example of the Democrat Party and what they stand for. Thank you for your stupidity. It continues to prove The Truth about the members of the Democrat Party. FYI : Here is the link to the platform because I doubt you could find it by yourself. Read pages 9-11...

http://arkansasgop.org/About/Default.aspx?SectionId=72