Re-Open Arkansas endorsesWayne LongHouse District 39
Republican voters along Highway 67 from Judsonia through Newport will soon decide a three-way race for State Representative. They have an opportunity to improve from their current state rep, who voted against small businesses and school choice, to a 100% liberty-minded candidate, Wayne Long. Mr. Long supports complete school choice, an elimination of the state income tax, and state sovereignty. He will stand strongly against any future public health mandates. In his work on the Jackson County Quorum Court, he introduced and passed a pro-life resolution, stood against a sales tax increase, and organized a rally against mask mandates. We believe Mr. Long will bring that kind of bold conservative leadership to the Arkansas State Capitol. That’s why Reopen Arkansas endorses Wayne Long for State Representative in district 39.
Long policy positions important to Reopen Arkansas:
3.) This week, Defending the Republic responded to the Biden Administration’s latest attempt to deny military service members their constitutional and statutory rights to refuse the experimental COVID-19 injections.
The case – Bongiovanni v. Austin – involves the violation of our clients’ rights to refuse experimental and unproven injections under the First Amendment and Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The latest motion filed by Defending the Republic argues in support of an injunction to prevent the government from discharging or disciplining these brave military service members, pending the results of litigation.
The relief requested by Defending the Republic is consistent with court decisions across the country, which recognize the ongoing harm to service members’ religious liberties and the systemic discrimination faced by those who have religious objections to these injections.
Unfortunately, the government opposes such reasonable steps to protect the rights of our military’s heroes. The Biden Administration would rather see these patriots – who have sacrificed so much for their country – removed from the military for living consistent with their principles.
Our veterans deserve better, and Defending the Republic will continue to fight for them every step of the way.
1.) Persistent heart abnormalities, teens, new study
A new peer-reviewed study published March 25 in the Journal of Pediatrics showed more than two-thirds of adolescents with COVID vaccine-related myopericarditis had persistent heart abnormalities months after their initial diagnosis — raising concerns for potential long-term effects. Researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital reviewed cases that occurred between April 1, 2021, and Jan. 7, 2022, of patients younger than 18 who presented to the hospital with chest pain and an elevated serum troponin level within one week of receiving a second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine. While 35 patients fit the criteria, 19 were excluded for various reasons. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the remaining 16 patients was performed three to eight months after they were first examined. The MRIs showed 11 had persistent abnormal findings and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), although levels were lower than in previous months. According to the study, “The presence of LGE is an indicator of cardiac injury and fibrosis and has been strongly associated with worse prognosis in patients with classical acute myocarditis.” Pfizer’s COVID vaccine less effective against Omicron for children 12 and older Pfizer’s COVID vaccine showed “reduced effectiveness” against the Omicron variant among children 12 and older, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine. The study, funded by the CDC, involved 1,185 patients, 88% of whom were unvaccinated. During the “Delta-predominant period” (July 1 to Dec. 18, 2021), researchers reported vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization for COVID among adolescents 12 to 18 years old was 93% two to 22 weeks after vaccination. During the “Omicron-predominant period” (Dec. 19, 2021, to Feb. 17), among adolescents in the same age group, vaccine effectiveness fell to 40% against hospitalization for COVID, 79% against critical COVID and 20% against noncritical COVID. This group’s median interval since vaccination was 162 days. The study did not assess effectiveness of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine against the BA.2 Omicron sub-variant, which is now the most dominant strain in the U.S. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/heart-damage-teens-after-second-pfizer-shot/ https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(22)00282-7/fulltext#%20
A half-dozen candidates seek the state senate seat in District 28, which stretches from I-40 to the Missouri border. None are perfect candidates, but one, and only one, has been at the Capitol fighting on the front line against mandates, for individual and medical freedom, and for medical privacy. In fact, had Senator Ballinger’s medical privacy bill become law, thousands of Arkansas workers could have avoided job loss last year. We don’t agree with Senator Ballinger on every issue, and we would appreciate it if he would be a bit more vocal and yell a bit more loudly at times, but on the big issues – what we call voting issues – he will cast his vote correctly. He will take your phone call; he puts his constituents first, often above his own business and family. We’ve never seen a candidate with “boots on the ground” like Senator Ballinger – he truly cares about his constituents across this gigantic, rural district. In Senate District 28, Reopen Arkansas recommends a vote for constitutional liberty and medical freedom for all; we endorse Senator Bob Ballinger.
Ballinger policy positions important to Reopen Arkansas:
On the east and north sides of Conway, Republican primary voters in District 56 are faced with two starkly contrasting candidates. Trent Minner is a RINO swamp-endorsed young lawyer and French Hill operative with limited life experience who uses a lot of slick buzz words to describe his milquetoast conservative views. While Minner is tied to the Arkansas swamp, Kim Slaughter is the people’s candidate. Slaughter owns and operates several small businesses in Conway. She subscribes to a literal reading of the Second Amendment, complete medical freedom, unrestricted school choice, and real tax reform (not a band-aid approach). Unlike her opponent, Slaughter isn’t seeking a political career; she only seeks to represent the people of Arkansas with conservative Christian values in the House. In order to reform state government, we must stop electing RINOs and those endorsed and funded by RINOs. We must elect America and Arkansas-first candidates who represent people, not money. That’s why Reopen Arkansas endorses Kim Slaughter in House District 56.
Slaughter policy positions important to Reopen Arkansas:
