Lt Gov Bill Halter (Ark) Secured the Free Clinic Site in Little Rock (possible primary for Lincoln?)

[jsamuel]

http://ltgovernor.arkansas.gov/newsroom/index.php?do:newsDetail=1&news_id=97

Saturday's free health clinic at the Statehouse Convention Center treated more than 1,000 uninsured Arkansas residents with a variety of health problems, many of them serious. More than 90 percent were diagnosed with three or more life-threatening conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and pulmonary disease.

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Lieutenant Governor Halter helped secure the clinic site for the NAFC. Leading up to Saturday's event, the Office of Lieutenant Governor worked with a group of 25 Arkansas health-care providers, non-profit associations and government offices to help recruit the volunteer team of medical professionals and non-medical support staff, as well as get the word out about the clinic to as many uninsured people as possible.

"We talked with people who hadn't seen a doctor in years," said Halter, who helped register patients at the clinic alongside his wife, Shanti. "We were glad to get them in to see a doctor Saturday and, more important, to provide them with a connection to continuing care in the immediate future, and not five or 10 years later."

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For those who don't know him, he got a progressive lottery system passed where all proceeds go to full scholarships to any high school graduate with a GPA above 2.5. Those scholarships can be used at community colleges or trade schools as well. Arkansas is near dead last in education, but this lottery will change things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Halter

He is a vocal supporter of gay-rights and one of the most prominent officials to oppose the anti-gay marriage amendment passed in Arkansas in 2004.

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There is also some speculation as to whether or not we will challenge incumbent Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln in a primary race for the Democratic nominee for the Senate election in Arkansas in 2010.

He has been described as a "classic populist, progressive Democrat."

Video of him on MSNBC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb5TI2UI4R8

[jsamuel]

1. updated

[jsamuel]

3. updated again with a video of him on MSNBC

[pundaint]

2. I will contribute $5 to every non-blue dog opposing another Democrat in a Congressional primary

Let's roll All of Congress, make the special interests buy a whole new majority.

[lins the liberal]

4. He would have my vote

I hope he challenges Lincoln. I am quite impressed with him. Thanks for posting this information and the links.

[niyad]

5. k and r--looking forward to hearing far more about him. so, while blanche was spouting

nonsense in DC--the lt. gov, and his wife, were volunteering at the free clinic that blanche didn't give one moment's notice to (nor did the msm, apparently)

[WhiteTara]

6. I'd like to meet him...maybe he will be my new

candidate. I love working on campaigns...next year this time, it will be private citizen Blanche. Senator Halter. Great name.