Arkansas Bill to Vastly Increase Candidate Filing Fees for Primaries

On April 13, Arkansas State Senator Trent Garner (R-El Dorado) introduced SB 684. It eliminates the ability of parties that nominate by primary to set their candidate filing fees. Instead a state law would dictate the amount of fees, which would be considerably higher than the fees now set by the Democratic Party. U.S. Senate and Governor would be $12,000; U.S. House would be $10,000; State Senate would be $4,500; State House would be $3,000.

This would probably result in even fewer candidates on the ballot. Already over half of all Arkansas state legislative races already have only one candidate on the ballot. Also, if the bill is signed into law, there would probably be many more instances of candidates declaring themselves “paupers”, which enables them to avoid fees, but is bad public relations.

In 2012, Senator Garner was the author of the bill that indirectly moved the petition deadline for new party petitions to November of the year before the election, and deadline that still exists. Thanks to Mark Moore for the news about the bill.


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Arkansas Bill to Vastly Increase Candidate Filing Fees for Primaries — 26 Comments

  1. Gerrymander monarchs at work — even less opposition.
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    EQUAL nom pets
    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  2. The Arkansas legislature certainly is working hard to keep choices off of the Arkansas ballot.

  3. In all honesty, the only real choice is blue pill versus red pill.

    Do you continue to live in a fantasy world where men become women by saying so? Where children are routinely chemically castrated and their parents celebrated as virtuous? Where millions are slaughtered in their mother’s wombs in the name of almighty feminism? Where illegal aliens receive better treatment than natural born citizens out of compassion? Where Anglo-Saxon traditions and historic accomplishments are forgotten and replaced with those from lesser cultures? Where Anglo-Saxon lives are devauled for others whose criminal propensity is ignored and disbelieved? Where basic common sense and statistics are ignored and disbelieved? Where multinational corporations and their media mouthpieces have our best interests in mind? Where a senile dementia patient is actually running the country?

    Do you believe all that and continue to ingest the blue pill or do you take the red pill and see society as it really is?

    That’s the only real choice that exists.

  4. There is nothing magical or special about Anglo-Saxon anything. What makes an American is the acceptance of Republican Democracy as outlined in the Constitution of the United States. It doesn’t matter where your ancestors came from, how soon you got here, or how you got here. Blood and soil is worthless shit.

  5. As for the Arkansas bill, it pushes this country even further into oligarchy, the opposite of the republican democracy that Robert pointed out the Constitution tries to mandate.

  6. The same guy sponsored another bill that would turn the setting of filing fees over to a commission appointed by his buddies with no limitations listed. If, on the eve of the filing period, they wanted to make the filing fees $1 million for Governor, nothing in the bill would stop them. What a wonderful way to keep out the Tea-Party and Woke-Left trash with one fell swoop, restricting our choice to corporate sock-puppets. At least we could “choose” between the one that wears the red tie vs. the one that wears the blue tie.

    Heck under that bill, if they wanted to rule than incumbents did not have to pay a filing fee but challengers did, nothing in the bill stops them. For that matter they could rule that their party candidates didn’t have to pay the fees but the “bad guys” do.

    What does history tell us about one party systems and corruption? And yet members of each DC club constantly scheme stuff like this to put themselves in position to be even more corrupt cesspools!

  7. Wouldn’t these fees violate Carter v Bullock?

    Perhaps voters could designate a candidate they wanted to vote for when they paid their poll tax.

    This would eliminate the need for voter registration, and limit voting to serious voters who had skin in the game. The tax could be $11 (minimum wage). Those who could not afford that could perform labor under a work-study program at re-education camps building fencing, barracks, and classrooms.

  8. “There is nothing magical or special about Anglo-Saxon anything.”

    Then maybe you should stop speaking English. Maybe we should stop relying on English common law in our judicial system. Maybe we should throw out the concepts of due process, trial by jury, and checks and balances. Maybe we should burn the Magna Carta. Maybe we should stop reading Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, and Dickens.

    Get a grip. Take the red pill.

  9. English is a derivative of Porto-German and largely influenced by French; two groups of people that wouldn’t be considered Anglo-Saxon (the Germanic tribes that did make it to England were expected to assimilate not maintain their Germanic roots)…. and if you want a pure Anglo-Saxon language you should stop speaking English and start speaking “Anglish”.

    And btw people like you had a term in the 1770s….. loyalists. Just move back to England and kiss the crowns ass.

  10. Like usual, Aiden is misinformed.

    Per the article Demo Rep linked:

    “The development of an Anglo-Saxon identity arose from the interaction between incoming groups of people from a number of Germanic tribes, both amongst themselves, and with indigenous British groups. Many of the natives, over time, adopted Anglo-Saxon culture and language and were assimilated. The Anglo-Saxons established the Kingdom of England, and the modern English language owes almost half of its words – including the most common words of everyday speech – to their language.”

  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Statutes_of_the_Realm

    1200s onward

    Printing started – 1440s-1450s

    ie some/many olde laws ***lost*** — esp monarch / early parliament *laws*.

    Some early SR items refer to earlier laws being amended/repealed.

    England in DARK Age until 1660 – Charles II regime repealed much of the old feudal stuff.

    Set stage for 1688-1689 crisis and *modern* Brit regime.

    Thus 1776-1789 States/USA stuff mix of Brit olde and then new — more SOP.
    ——-
    PR new 1840s
    APPV new 1970s
    TOTSOP known 1740s / earlier but NOT made total.

  12. Don’t take any pills except as prescribed by a licensed physician who has examined you, and take them only in the prescribed doses and frequency.

  13. Louisiana has an above average number of problems with its legal system. For example, the state keeps 83% of its prisoners in prison for an average of 72 days beyond their release date. They kept one guy for 589 days after they were supposed to let him go. The Louisiana Department of Corrections has been found guilty of false imprisonment and is being investigated by the US Department of Justice.

    English is more of a mutt language than any other: Brittonic (Celtic), Anglo-Saxon (West Germanic), Norse (North Germanic), French, Latin, and then, just for fun, some Greek and (at least in the US) some Spanish.

  14. NORMAN FRENCH GOT INTO BRIT LEGAL SYSTEM AFTER THE 1066 CONQUEST.

    MUCH LATER LAW REQUIRED LEGAL STUFF TO BE IN YE OLDE ENGLISH >>> *MODERN* ENGLISH.

    THUS ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW STUFF — MIX OF LATIN / OLDE ENGLISH / FRENCH / MODERN ENGLISH.

  15. Slavery was not ended by legislating an 8 hour five day work week for all slaves. Slavery was abolished. Agitating for just a bit less in fees and petitions will not end the censorship of the ballot. All ballot access laws must be abolished.

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