It isn’t how it’s done

Enough with the dirty politics. Jake Bequette hasn’t lived in Arkansas for years. Now he is back and is bringing dirty politics with him. There is a new commercial that was put out by Jake Bequette’s campaign, paid for by a Chicago billionaire, Dick Uihlein, who is single-handedly bankrolling his campaign. The commercial is so blatantly over-the-top false it is laughable. It looks like it belongs on an episode of “Saturday Night Live” — where the desperate candidate will go to any length necessary to slander the other and it just gets absurd.

Arkansans are smarter than this, Jake. We actually know John Boozman and what he stands for. We know he is a strong conservative, and if there is any doubt we can use the Internet, where fact-checking takes literally seconds. Boozman is known in D.C. as one of the most conservative members in all of Congress. He has voted with the Republican Party 98% of the time. To say otherwise is just not true.

This is an Arkansas primary election. We don’t treat our own like this — or we didn’t used to, anyway. Jake has to make up lies about Boozman because he doesn’t have anything to say about himself or what he would do differently.

Boozman is a humble statesman, not an entitled millennial. He is highly respected among his peers in the U.S. Senate, which is far more valuable to us Arkansans than a loudmouth self-proclaimed “fighter.” Yelling and screaming and playing dirty doesn’t get actual legislation done — working across the aisle in a dignified manner is how Boozman has been able to make his way on to critical committees for Arkansas such as Agriculture, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Environment and Public Works.

At the age of 32, maybe Jake should think about starting a career, getting some life experience, and looking into politics on the local level to learn how it’s done here in Arkansas.

LA DONNA HILL

Rogers