... these little political offices available for the taking. Charlie Daniels was an ol' boy labor Democrat hanging around Nick Wilson when he noticed that land commissioner was available, then secretary of state, which he now holds but for which he ...

... state GOP, with Baker as its chairman, helped pay for ads seeking to link Beebe with former Democratic state Sen. Nick Wilson, who served time in federal prison on tax evasion and corruption convictions. Baker said later he regretted funding ...

... with his entry into the state Senate in 1985. Instead, he was aligned with a faction in the Senate led by then Sen. Nick Wilson, who was later convicted on federal bribery and racketeering charges That changed during a 1988 special session on ...

... raise money for a group that ran ads in the 2006 governor's race trying to link Beebe to disgraced former state Sen. Nick Wilson, Gwatney noted. Gwatney suggested that Critcher may have preferred that Asa Hutchinson, whom Beebe defeated, reside ...

... government moving. But, on the other hand, Beebe, the legislative "fixer," had nothing to do with state Sen. Nick Wilson or his illegal schemes that ultimately landed him in the federal penitentiary. The two men only shared indignation ...

... run everything at the Legislature during their heyday; yet, on the other hand, I made no mention of their allowing Nick Wilson to steal the state nearly blind right under their noses. I've been down this road before. But it's not a bad thing ...

... physical, thank you very much. Ask Steve Clark. Ask Clinton after his ill-fated first gubernatorial term. Ask Nick Wilson. And, it turns out, you can ask the latest Arkansan to have achieved great laud and praise for political talent out ...

... think maybe she said joke. There was the time in the 1990s when I was having lunch with the subsequently disgraced Nick Wilson, then a state senator, and others. Nick was laughing that the only thing Mike Huckabee seemed to care about during ...

... than Asa." Beebe, Gwatney, Harriman, Lu Hardin and a few others were known in their state Senate days by the name Nick Wilson had heaped on them out of envy and with scorn. They were the reform-minded young golfers. Indeed they were all moderately ...

... independent groups that spent the money on attack ads on Beebe calling him, absurdly, a co-conspirator with the criminal Nick Wilson. Conway residents got a mailer the other day that attacked Baker for having steered all his share of the Brotherhood ...