Arkansas GOP says it will hold health care town halls
Posted: August 11, 2009 at 11:42 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Republican Party says it will hold its own town-hall meetings in each of the state's four congressional districts on health care overhaul bills before Congress.
GOP chairman Doyle Webb told reporters Tuesday morning the meetings would be held sometime in August, though he offered no specifics. Webb says the move comes as U.S. Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, D-Ark., have avoided holding public meetings over the proposed overhaul.
Democrats hold all but one of the state's congressional seats. Todd Turner, chairman of the state's Democratic Party, says elected officials, not party leaders, will decide whether they want to host the meetings. U.S. Reps. Vic Snyder and Mike Ross met an unruly crowd at such a meeting in Little Rock last week.
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