Then after a couple of years the virus renders him, well, hopelessly candid. The sonofagun can't stop spewing an almost cynical truth, something nearly worthy of a newspaper columnist. It happened to Ben Allen of Little Rock, who by the mid-'80s was disposed to seize the floor of the Senate a couple of afternoons each week and peel back varnish and veneer. Then there was Jay Bradford of Pine Bluff. I ve only got one more election, if my wife will let me run one more time.
People can take it for what they think it's worth.
The other day Riggs went over to a Little Rock restaurant to provide the lunch program for an organization of lobbyists. I got a report on what he said. He told me I hadn't heard the half of it. So he reached for his notes and said he'd be happy to go over it. He said the state has no economic development policy or strategy, and that, frankly, we don't need any more chicken plants or hog farms.