Court Strikes Bad Casino, Tort Proposals From Ballot

Casinos, Current Events,

my_trusty_gavelThe following press release is from Family Council Action Committee.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, October 13, 2016

On Thursday the Arkansas Supreme Court disqualified ballot proposals, Issue 4 dealing with limits on damages in medical injury lawsuits and Issue 5, which opens three casinos in Arkansas, from the November ballot.

Family Council Action Committee Executive Director Jerry Cox released a statement, saying, “In my opinion, both of these measures were seriously flawed and needed to be removed from the ballot. While I support general medical malpractice reforms for doctors, Issue 4 could have made it possible for some nursing homes to neglect residents without facing sufficient consequences. Issue 5 would have brought casinos to three counties in Arkansas, and it would have written a specific corporation from Missouri into our state’s constitution. I am glad to see the Arkansas Supreme Court has disqualified these proposals.”

Cox said he also believes the court should have ruled against the two marijuana ballot proposals as well in order to be consistent with this ruling. “The Arkansas Supreme Court disqualified Issues 4 and 5 in part because they failed to define some of their key terms in the proposals. Marijuana Issues 6 and 7 fail to define some of their key terms as well, but the court left those proposals on the ballot. The court was right to disqualify Issues 4 and 5, but by the same standard, the court should have disqualified the two marijuana measures as well.”

Family Council Action Committee is a conservative 501(c)(4) organization based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Family Council, Gov. Hutchinson, Sen. Russ Host Event in Conway

Current Events

Last night Family Council teamed up with Governor Asa Hutchinson and former state Senator Stanley Russ  in Conway to discuss, among other things, the importance of families and public policies related to families in Arkansas.

Below are a few pictures from the event.

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Interesting Planks Emerge in Draft GOP Platform

Current Events,

Republicanlogo.svgThe Republican National Committee is reworking its platform ahead of the Republican convention, and a few interesting planks are emerging in the draft platform.

So far, noteworthy changes being offered to the GOP platform (according to various news outlets) include:

  1. Naming Internet pornography a public health crisis.
  2. Maintaining that marriage ought to be the union of one man and one woman.
  3. Putting the power to make marriage laws back into the hands of the states.
  4. Acknowledging that children raised in traditional, two-parent households are “physically and emotionally healthier, less likely to use drugs and alcohol, engage in crime, or become pregnant outside of marriage.”
  5. Stating that children have a “natural right to be raised in an intact biological family.”
  6. Affirming that students should be able to study the Bible academically as an elective course in public schools.
  7. Maintaining a pro-life position on the issue of abortion.

We will continue to monitor the different party platforms as the summer progresses.

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