Video: Interview with Curtis Coleman Possible Candidate for U.S. Senate
This afternoon, Curtis Coleman, a North Little Rock businessman who is thinking seriously about running for the U.S. Senate, spoke to the Central Arkansas Republican Club in Little Rock. Coleman was nice enough to visit with me for a few minutes about his campaign.
Coleman said the main issue he sees facing us is what he perceives as the out of control spending taking place at the Federal level. “We have got to more that just reduce the deficit. The administration is talking about reducing the deficit and that means they are just not borrowing money as fast as they were. We’ve got to reduce the debt. We got to understand that the debt is a matter of national security.”
I asked Coleman to explain the comments he made earlier this week about needing “a visa and a shot” to travel to southeast Arkansas. “First of all, I love the people of southeast Arkansas,” Coleman explained. “I was using that analogy to illustrate how diverse our cultures are in the state … We’ve got northwest Arkansas with the world’s largest retailer and the world’s largest poultry producer. We’ve got southeast Arkansas with its awesome agriculture and aquaculture. We’ve got northeast Arkansas with its fabulous agriculture. We make steel. We make glass. You go to southwest Arkansas where we have forestry. We make concrete. We make tires … Each part of the state has its own unique issues and problems…We have got to understand the needs of the parts of the state.”
“The phrase I used ’shots and a visa’ meant nothing more than I’m leaving the country. I’m going to another country.” Coleman said his first response when he saw the reports was “incredulity,” then he was “heartbroken” that this was interrupted as meaning southeast Arkansas is like a third world country. “Let’s call (the comment) stupid,” Coleman said. “It is a thousand more times more likely that I am stupid than I am racist.” Coleman went on to discuss in detail his south Arkansas roots and connections.
Coleman also discussed his strategy for his campaign. Although he did not want to reveal his entire playbook, he said he is ready to “work like the dickens… from 4:00 AM to midnight” particularly after his formally declares as a candidate.
I also asked Coleman about his green tie which he said was to support the protesters in Iran. “I have been watching the protests in Iran and my heart has been broken.” He told me about a political rally he attended in Bella Vista, Arkansas in the 97 degree heat with four or five hundred people. At the rally, he commented to his friend, “Right now there are people in Iran dying so that they can do what we are doing right now.”
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June 26th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
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June 27th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Curtis Coleman has real business experience, a knowledge of the needs of our state, and is not a Washington insider. (He also happens to be against spending this country into the ground as well.) Sounds like a winner to me! I would encourage everyone to check out what he stands for at CurtisColeman.com. This state needs a change in national representaion, and I think Coleman is the man for the job.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Curtis Coleman also has real experience with other affairs. Why should Republican voters waste a vote on another Tim Hutchinson? That worked out well for us. I’m sure the democrat politicians and liberal media won’t use the Hutchinson, Sanford, Ensign connection against us.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
I understand the concern, but this happened 16 years ago and is already out in the open. Yeah, the guy got divorced (which is worlds away from “other affairs”), but are you going to ignore a viable and skilled candidate because you’re scared someone will say something negative about him? That seems a little short sighted given what’s at stake in my opinion.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
So that’s his selling point? That he is admittedly stupid? Let’s elect a self-avowed dummy to the United States Senate! Then he falls for the CIA-Mossad instigated “Green Revolution” in Iran, just like the “Orange Revolution” in the Ukraine that installed a CIA-trained puppet as President. What a clown this guy is.