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                Representing Washington County on June 8 at the summer state committee meeting of the Republican Party of Arkansas at RPA headquarters in Little Rock were Jim Wilson, county chairman; Sharon Stuthard, president of the Arkansas Federation of Republican Women;  Mike Landry, state committeeman, and Barbra Landry, carrying a proxy for State Committeewoman Susan Gessler.                 Among items focusing attendees’ attention were reports regarding serious flooding in portions...

            Members of the Washington County Republican Committee expressed shock at the death of former State Senator Linda Collins-Smith of Pocahontas, considered a friend to the Washington County committee and to some of its individual members.             “Linda, you will be dearly missed, my friend! I will never forget how hard you worked on my Senate campaign,” Sharon Lloyd posted on Facebook. State Rep. Robin Lundstrom called Collins- Smith “a fearless...

  Arkansas Republican Party Rules Committee Member and auctioneer extraordinaire Tom Lundstrom cajoles dollars from attendees at the May Washington County Republican Committee meeting during the annual Washington County Republican Women Pie Auction.  Tom used his usual salesmanship, high pressure, and shameless shaming of people into bidding.  “Remember, this is a fund raiser,” Tom says.  If bids are too low, Tom will sit down and say “Fine.  We’ll stay here all night,” until someone’s bid...

At the Washington County Republican booth, Felice Barrett and Alicia Devin discuss conservative versus liberal values with attendees of the 2019 Cinco de Mayo festival.  During the all-day event, Republican volunteers gave out 85 copies of a two-sided paper containing the values comparisons written in Spanish and English. Felice Barrett and Ellen Reynebeau discuss conservative values with attendees of the 2019 Cinco de Mayo celebration at the Jones Center in Springdale.  A dozen people asked...