Again, what an asshole:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
A Republican Senate candidate from Arkansas voted against billions of dollars in assistance for Hurricane Sandy victims in January 2013 and then proceeded, both in interviews and on his campaign website, to stubbornly defend his votes opposing the federal disaster relief.
But it appears Rep. Tom Cotton's (R-Ark.) campaign has taken down two blog posts in support of those votes from his website.
According to an Internet archive, the blog items, which were posted months before Cotton announced his bid to unseat Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), were online until late January of this year.
The first post from January 2013 was a letter to the editor calling Cotton's approach to the federal aid for Sandy victims "sensible." Cotton had explained that he believed that "a lot of that money was not going to natural disaster relief" and he didn't "think Arkansas needs to bail out the Northeast."
The second, from the same month, was a piece that spoke positively of how Cotton decided which way to vote. The representative told the author that he would have voted for the relief if it had been offset by spending cuts.
Cotton was the sole member of Arkansas' congressional delegation to vote against $9.7 billion in funds for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be able to pay out flood insurance claims. - Huffington Post, 5/13/14
With the most recent tornado damage in Arkansas, he probably doesn't want voters to know how much he's against federal disaster relief aid. Of course Cotton's been trying to emphasize his military career to win over voters but it's not really working for him:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Sen. Mark Pryor, the embattled Democratic incumbent in Arkansas, made a serious gaffe in March when he questioned Republican opponent Tom Cotton’s reliance on military service as a campaign theme.
While praising the congressman for serving, Pryor told a TV interviewer that he didn’t consider Cotton’s military record in Iraq and Afghanistan a special credential. “I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off,” Pryor said. “Almost it’s like, ‘I served my country, let me into the Senate.’ ”
For Cotton, who turns 37 on Tuesday, it was a gimme: He filmed a playful ad with his Army drill sergeant responding to the “entitlement” charge. “Did I say ‘At ease,’ Cotton?” the sergeant barks.
The ad went viral. But, surprisingly, it seems not to have helped Cotton’s campaign.
A New York Times Upshot/Kaiser Family Foundation poll last month before the ad was released showed Pryor with a 10-point lead over Cotton. A NBC News-Marist poll, released Monday, shows Pryor with an 11-point lead. A Pryor win is by no means certain, but the fact that the Democrat is even in contention in a state where President Obama’s approval rating is just 33 percent suggests Cotton’s military record is no magic bullet. - Washington Post, 5/13/14
Of course Cotton is trying to show that he's still competitive but even his own internal polling has flaws:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
The Cotton campaign poll, published by Roll Call on Tuesday, shows Cotton leading Pryor 42 percent to 40 percent.
In the memo accompanying the internal poll, pollster Wes Anderson said the NBC-Marist poll under-sampled Republicans. Anderson also criticized the survey for polling registered voters rather than likely voters.
The internal Cotton campaign poll was conducted by OnMessage Inc. It surveyed 600 likely voters across Arkansas between May 6 and May 8. Thirty-six percent of those surveyed were Republicans, 36 percent were Democrats, and 26 percent were Independents. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. - TPM, 5/13/14
Again, what an asshole. If you would like to donate and get involved with Senator Mark Pryor's (D. AR) re-election campaign, you can do so here:
http://pryorforsenate.com/