Rep. Marion Berry will announce his retirement today. This creates a vacancy in the first congressional district for the first time since 1997. A Democrat has held this seat since 1891. Lewis P. Featherstone held the seat as a Labor Party member from 1889 – 1891.
Thoughts and reactions from David Kinkade of The Arkansas Project, Lance Turner of Arkansas Business, Max Brantley of Arkansas Times, Jason Tolbert of The Tolbert Report and Andrew DeMillo of AP.
The list of potential candidates is growing. The names I keep hearing are state Sen. Robert Thompson, Chris Thyer, Chad Causey and Benny Petrus on the Democratic side. For the GOP, Rick Crawford has already announced, and there was a lot of noise on Twitter for state Rep. Davy Carter of Cabot.
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