Brumment nails it here; it’s not about us, we the people, it’s about them, their power and the Brotherhood. And no, this is not Washingtion, nor the Republican Party. It’s the Democrats and it’s happening in our state capitol.

Brumment - Cavorting in the aisle

Now we have this very Critcher, endorsed before by the Democratic chairman, endorsing the former state Republican chairman for re-election to the state Senate from Conway against the promise of vigorous Democratic opposition. And Bob Johnson is right there with them.

Baker says he simply asked them, and that they honored him by consenting.

It all happened at the Poultry Federation headquarters, more commonly called the Chicken House. The poultry president, Marvin Childers, is a former Republican state legislator. Childers tells me that any legislative candidate may use the poultry offices free of charge for a fundraiser. It’s a convenient location, a block from the Capitol. And it can’t hurt the chicken lobby.

Bill Gwatney, the current state Democratic chairman, was once in the Senate.

“It’s a club. We all know that, and I was in it,” Gwatney acknowledged. “But this deal here is different. I was shocked.”

For the record, Gwatney says the state Democratic Party, at least the part not represented by Critcher and Johnson, “is not going to be sponsoring any fundraisers for the former state Republican Party chairman. We’re going to defeat the former state Republican Party chairman.”