LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The candidates
running for the open 4th District seat in Congress have starkly
different backgrounds and views.
Republican Tom Cotton and
Democrat Gene Jeffress are running to fill the seat left open by the
state's only Democratic member of the House, U.S. Rep. Mike Ross.
Cotton is a 35-year-old
Republican political newcomer who's managed to raise more money than the
state's other GOP House members. Jeffress, a state senator, is a
64-year-old veteran of the state Legislature who's spent much of his
campaign money on gas for the truck he travels around the sprawling
district.
Cotton, an Army veteran and
former management consultant, calls Jeffress a "big government
liberal." Jeffress, who is a former schoolteacher, bluntly calls Cotton
an "outsider" to the district.
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