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Curtis Supports Democrat’s Proposal to Cut Congressional Pay

It’s time Congress started leading by actually leading.  [NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR – 09 MARCH 2010]   Conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate Curtis Coleman announced today that he is supporting Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick’s (D-Ariz) bill to cut pay for members of Congress by 5 percent. “It’s time Congress started leading by actually leading,” ...

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Curtis Makes It Official

Conservative Republican Curtis Coleman made it official on Monday, March 1, and was the first candidate to file for the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Arkansas.  See photos below… Curtis signing his filing documents for U.S. Senate. (Photo by Danny Harris) Curtis' wife, Kathryn, looks on as Curtis submits his filing documents. ...

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A Stimulus Bill by Any Other Name….

Too many people who are making the rules have never played in the game. by Curtis Coleman We desperately need to create an environment in America that will create millions of new jobs and I will aggressively support a plan that will actually do that, but a stimulus bill by any other name, ...

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Curtis Supports Democrat’s Proposal to Cut Congressional Pay

March 9th, 2010 by Webmaster

It’s time Congress started leading by actually leading.

 [NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR – 09 MARCH 2010]   Conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate Curtis Coleman announced today that he is supporting Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick’s (D-Ariz) bill to cut pay for members of Congress by 5 percent.

“It’s time Congress started leading by actually leading,” Coleman said.  “Farmers have taken pay cuts.  Construction workers have taken pay cuts.  Fireman, builders, salesmen, and many hard-working Americans have taken pay cuts or completely lost their jobs.  It’s time that those most responsible for our debt and deficit mess take a pay cut too.  Let Congress get a taste of the real world.  When our country is being responsibly managed and operating with a surplus, they can get a raise then. 

“We desperately need to put small-business men and women in Congress.  We just have too many people making the rules who have never played in the game.”

Kirkpatrick’s office estimates the proposal, which if passed would take effect at the beginning of 2011, would save $4.66 million a year. Though it’s small compared to the $12.5 trillion debt, Kirkpatrick argued that it’s hard to justify pay increases. “The last time Congress took a cut in pay was 77 years ago. I don’t know anyone who has not had a pay cut in 77 years,” she said.

Coleman has also said that he will hold a town hall meeting in every Arkansas county every year that he serves in the Senate, and that he will fight for both a constitutional amendment requiring term limits for members of Congress and will limit himself to two terms.

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March 9th, 2010 by Webmaster

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Curtis Makes It Official

March 3rd, 2010 by Webmaster
Conservative Republican Curtis Coleman made it official on Monday, March 1, and was the first candidate to file for the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Arkansas.  See photos below…
Curtis signing his filing documents for U.S. Senate. (Photo by Danny Harris)

Curtis' wife, Kathryn, looks on as Curtis submits his filing documents. (Photo by Danny Harris)

Curtis is congratulated by Doyle Webb, Chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas. (Photo by Danny Harris)

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Coleman Holds Lead Over Lincoln in Latest Poll

March 3rd, 2010 by Webmaster

A March 1 Rasmussen Reports poll shows Curtis Coleman continuing to hold a two point lead over incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D), 43% – 41%., in the Arkansas U.S. Senate race.  The poll also shows Curtis holding a three point lead, 38%-35%,  over Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter who has announced his candidacy for the Democrat nomination against Lincoln.

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Conservative Comment – "Out of Control Spending"

March 1st, 2010 by curtis

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A Stimulus Bill by Any Other Name….

February 23rd, 2010 by Webmaster

Too many people who are making the rules have never played in the game.

by Curtis Coleman

We desperately need to create an environment in America that will create millions of new jobs and I will aggressively support a plan that will actually do that, but a stimulus bill by any other name, including “jobs bill”, is still just that – another ineffective debt-growing “stimulus” bill.  And the “jobs” stimulus bill now making its way through the Congress is extraordinary proof that too many people who are making the rules have never played in the game. They just don’t get it.

Here’s the essence of the Democrat’s “jobs” bill:  businesses will not have to pay their share of the payroll tax (from February 3, 2010 to December 31, 2010) for each new individual hired under the rules of the bill.  So, if a business hires someone and pays them $10,000/year, the business will temporarily save roughly $52 a month on the payroll taxes it would have been required to pay.  If a business hires someone at an annual salary of $51,000, it will temporarily save roughly $264 a month on the payroll taxes it would have been required to pay.

Now here’s what the folks in D.C. just don’t get. A business will have to spend an additional $10,000+/year to save $52/month, or an additional $51,000+/year to save $264/month!  And here’s something else the D.C’ers don’t get: Businesses have to make a profit to survive. And they have to make a profit (either directly or indirectly) because of every employee they hire. So – and here’s the bottom line – if businesses could make a profit by hiring more people they would be doing that anyway!

There are thousands of businesses across Arkansas and America hanging on “by their fingernails”.  If we want to risk adding to our exploding national debt by giving them a payroll tax holiday, let’s do it for the employees they have!  But if we really want them to prosper and therefore hire new employees, let’s do a no cost jobs-creation plan:

  1. Permanently extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts accompanied by a reduction in size and cost of government.
  2. Repeal the increasingly invasive and expensive mandates and regulations that add to the high cost of running a business, including elimination of duplicative, over-lapping bureaucratic agencies.
  3. Eliminate crippling taxes—including capital gains taxes and death taxes – that prevent investors and owners from investing growth capital and creating new jobs.

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Curtis Coleman Announces First Job Interviews

February 19th, 2010 by Webmaster

“Arkansas’ U.S. Senate seats don’t belong to the people who occupy them.”

(NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR – 19 FEBRUARY 2010) Today conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate Curtis Coleman announced the first in a series of “job interviews and town hall” meetings his campaign will be holding across Arkansas. “I’m going to go on a job interview around the state and make myself available to the people of Arkansas to interview me for the job of representing them as their U.S. Senator,” Coleman said.

“We’ve seen our Congressional delegation forget that they’re the employees of the people of Arkansas,” Coleman said, “and that the first responsibility of a U.S. Senator or Congressman is to faithfully represent the views and wishes of his or her employers.  That failure was clearly demonstrated when Sen. Blanche Lincoln repeatedly voted for the government’s takeover of our most personal health care decisions and when Congressman John Boozman voted to use our taxpayer dollars to bailout banks and insurance companies.”

His first three “job interviews” are scheduled for next week:

                Siloam Springs, AR – Monday, February 22, 6:00 p.m. (CT), John Brown University (Library Building – Room 121)

                Harrison, AR – Tuesday, February 23, 6:30 p.m. (CT), Durand Center, North Arkansas College, 303 N. Main

                Jonesboro, AR – Thursday, February 25, 6:00 p.m. (CT), Bell Community Center in the Allen Park Room, 1212 S. Church

Coleman said additional job interviews are being scheduled across the state.

“Arkansas’ U.S. Senate seats don’t belong to the people who occupy them.  They belong to the people of Arkansas who temporarily entrust them to their elected representatives.  We don’t put people in the Senate to do what they think is best.  We put them there to do what we, the people, think is best.  We’re sick and tired of career politicians looking down their noses at us as if we had no sense or understanding of the issues facing us.”

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Curtis Coleman Announces Economic Advisory Council

February 19th, 2010 by Webmaster

Council Will Develop Policies Designed to Return Small Businesses to Prosperity

(NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR – 19 FEBRUARY 2010) Conservative U.S. Senate candidate Curtis Coleman announced today the formation of his campaign’s economic advisory council. “There are a lot of people talking about the problems,” Coleman said, “but we’re going to develop real-world solutions for creating an environment in America in which small businesses can once again prosper and create new and desirable jobs.”

Coleman said that the charter members of the council held their first meeting this week in his campaign’s North Little Rock headquarters. “All the members of the council are successful small businessmen who are capable of developing common-sense solutions using their real-world experience,” he said.   The council, which is using the theme, “Restoring the American Dream,” adopted as its mission statement “To chart a path to the restoration of the role of the federal government as prescribed in the Constitution.”

 Coleman said that the council will be working to develop practical solutions in several core areas, including banking/finance, education, health care, tax reform, energy, agriculture, and regulatory reform.  He said that additional members of the Council will be announced in the coming weeks.

 Charter members of the council are:

Dan Hebert, Fayetteville, AR, (Chairman)

Mr. Hebert joined Pace Industries in Fayetteville as Executive VP of Operations in 1996. Pace soon became a Segment of Leggett & Platt, a Fortune 500 Company.  In 2002 he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Leggett & Platt and President of Leggett’s Aluminum Products Segment. Hebert semi-retired in 2009 and is working in a consulting capacity with small businesses.

 Hebert attended Auburn University School of Engineering where he earned a BS degree in Aerospace Management. Upon graduation from Auburn he joined General Electric where he remained for 25 years working in various positions of increasing responsibility including Plant and Business Executive Leadership. Mr. Hebert then joined MidWest Fabricating as VP Operations and Partner where he remained for five years.

 Richard Wagnon, Texarkana, AR

Mr. Wagnon graduated high school in Warren, Arkansas then earned a degree from the University of Arkansas in Business Management. He worked for Farm Bureau Insurance as an insurance adjuster for 7 years before he and his wife started their own business, a skilled nursing home in Batesville, Arkansas. They moved to Texarkana in 2001 and worked and started numerous businesses including residential and commercial development, medical spas, rail car storage, biotech research, oil and gas exploration, and nursing home development.

 John Lessel, Little Rock, AR

Mr. Lessel is an Attorney at Law whose practice areas include taxation, estate planning, business law, corporate law, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, nonprofit and charitable organizations, partnership law, probate, private placement, trusts and estates and wills.

 His military service includes Lt., JAGC, U.S. Navy, active duty, 1970-1979; Designated Naval Aviator, 1972; Lt. Comdr., JAGC, U.S. Naval Reserve, 1979-1994. He was admitted to bar, 1976, California; 1978, Arkansas; 1979, U.S. Court of Military Appeals; 1980, U.S. Tax Court. His education includes the University of Oklahoma (B.S.A.E., 1970); University of San Diego (J.D., with honors, 1976; LL.M., Taxation, 1981). He is the recipient, Meritorious Recognition, Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants Continuing Professional Education, 1994 and 1995; Best of CLE, Arkansas Bar Association, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 2007.

 Mr. Lessel has been selected for The Best Lawyers in America since 1993. He is the recipient, C.M. Mac Angel Discussion Leader of the Year Award, Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants, 1997. Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (1996-). Member: Arkansas Bar Association (Chairman, 1988-1989, Taxation Section, House of Delegates, 1994-1997); Arkansas Chapter of the National Committee on Planned Giving (Charter Member, 1994; President, 1997); UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging Board Member ( – ); State Bar of California; Pulaski Tax Counsel (Chairman, 1983-1984).

 Jeff Evans, Bentonville, AR

Mr. Evans and his wife own Colonial Mortgage, LLC in Bentonville, AR and presently offer a wide variety of lending options from home loans to commercial products. Evans graduated from Centenary College in Shreveport, LA where he played baseball and earned a Bachelor of Science degree with a minor in Political Science. He started his first company, Cornerstone Appraisal, Inc., in Dallas, Texas in his early 20’s and eventually expanded into Los Angeles, CA before delving into the acting business with varied television and movie experience on such shows as Strong Against Crime, Walker Texas Ranger, etc.

 Evans furthered his real estate experience with PNC Mortgage, Inc. in Colorado Springs, CO and oversaw expansion of mortgage operations for Benchmark Bank/Stratford Mortgage in Colorado until settling in Northwest Arkansas in the late 1990’s. He has remained active in the lending industry, as well as his community, with various committee appointments and charity services ranging from the Home Builders Association to Special Olympics.

Joe Tarvin, Fayetteville, AR
Mr. Tarvin is president and controlling partner of EGIS Engineering, Inc., with offices in Bentonville, Arkansas and Branson, Missouri. He earned Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering degrees from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He has 44 years of practice as a consulting engineer and is licensed to practice in Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, Delaware, and Utah.

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Curtis Comments on Stem Cell Research

February 13th, 2010 by Webmaster

As Americans, we’ve built a magnificent country and culture by treasuring and protecting life.  We value life even more against the dark backdrop of the horrific atrocities of the labor and death camps of World War II, the agony and suffering of which is fully comprehensible only to those who actually experienced them.

We must, therefore, be ever vigilant against allowing ourselves to rationalize our way into unjustly terminating life at any stage.  I have consistently and strongly supported stem cell research, especially umbilical cord stem cell research, and celebrate reports that more than 70 human diseases are being treated by this process.  I question only the specific kind of embryonic stem cell research that requires human life to be sacrificed by the destruction of a human embryo.

However, we must not allow ourselves to be distracted from the clear and present danger of our national debt, or the immorality if not insanity of Washington’s out-of-control spending which is mortgaging our children’s future.  These immediate and immense issues demand fresh new ideas, real-world solutions, and bold new leadership – which is exactly what I’m offering to the people of Arkansas.

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NBC: National debt a set-up for future shock

February 9th, 2010 by Webmaster

NEW VIDEO: Click here to watch NBC’s insightful report on the catastrophe waiting the U.S. if we don’t attack the national debt as a clear and present danger.

Please click here to read  my ”Our Children Are Going to Pay” article regarding the national debt.

You may watch my 30 sec. TV commentary by clicking here: “Out of Control Spending

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