Never mind on that one thing
This afternoon, most likely, Sen. Bobby Glover will put in Beebe's proposed grocery tax halving. He'll reportedly have 30, count 'em, 30, sponsors. That's of 35 senators. Please pre-emptively disregard, then, the quote from former senator John Riggs, now board chairman of Arkansas Advocates for Children, in my column in the morning in many fine newspapers in which Riggs will rather embarrassingly predict that Beebe's bill can't pass the Senate. Forget, too, the responding observation by Jack Critcher, president pro tem, that the Senate vote on the food tax will be close. It looks like it'll be a slam dunk, saving the real fight for Speaker Benny Petrus' alternative in the House. And it'll probably be a fast-track slam dunk. Six of the aforementioned sponsors will sit on the Senate Revenue and Tax Committee, which probably will hold a special order of business on the grocery tax Monday morning. A blog turns out to be a convenient thing to have when your newspaper column is already reduced to newsprint in selected places, but, as it happens, comically awry in one respect or another.