Post by pavel on Apr 3, 2016 20:46:14 GMT -6
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Dan Kemp says he doesn't know the identities of donors to his winning campaign for chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
He cites the state Code of Judicial Conduct, which instructs candidates to "as much as possible, not be aware of those who have contributed to the campaign."
Yet those gaps in knowledge leave him in a quandary.
He wouldn't know, for example, that one of Arkansas' best-known business families -- Stephens of Little Rock -- and executives from Stephens companies contributed about $35,000.
Or that three other influential Arkansas business families and their executives -- Walton, Tyson and Murphy -- gave a combined $41,050.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/apr/03/rules-on-giving-in-judicial-races-creat/
He cites the state Code of Judicial Conduct, which instructs candidates to "as much as possible, not be aware of those who have contributed to the campaign."
Yet those gaps in knowledge leave him in a quandary.
He wouldn't know, for example, that one of Arkansas' best-known business families -- Stephens of Little Rock -- and executives from Stephens companies contributed about $35,000.
Or that three other influential Arkansas business families and their executives -- Walton, Tyson and Murphy -- gave a combined $41,050.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/apr/03/rules-on-giving-in-judicial-races-creat/