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January 16, 2004
Politics Back in the Day
One of the local papers has a daily column featuring news from past editions. One entry from today's column caught my eye.
100 years ago Jan. 16, 1903 HOPE — Mayor Black’s court room was crowded with citizens, and details of the fight on Dec. 18 between Gov. Jeff Davis and Judge Carroll D. Wood were heard anew in the trial of the two candidates on charges of assault and battery and disturbing the peace.
A fistfight between the governor and a judge. Heh. Given the current pissing match battle between the governor, the state legislature and the state Supreme Court over Arkansas' unconstitutional school funding system and the struggle to meet the President's asinine "No Child Left Behind" standards, we may get to see another fistfight or three.
Arkansas politics. Not for the fainthearted.
Posted by Rita at January 16, 2004 08:21 AM
Comments
It would have been about 25 years ago that the mayor and police chief of Phoenix Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, got into a shootout over control of the town's drug trade. I think the police chief lost; anyway he got replaced. Next police chief lost his job when he shot and killed his estranged wife.
Posted by: triticale at January 19, 2004 01:08 PM