State Senate 1
1. Abortion: Arkansas’ current law that prohibits abortion except to save the life of the mother in a medical emergency.
2. Abortion: Establishing a permanent funding stream to provide state-funded grants to charities that provide women with alternatives to abortion.
3. Education: The Arkansas LEARNS Act Educational Freedom Accounts that lets families use public dollars to pay for an education at a private school or homeschool.
Missy Wardlaw (Republican)
Undecided
This is a tricky question. I support school choice but there needs to be more oversight and accountability for how it is now.
This is a tricky question. I support school choice but there needs to be more oversight and accountability for how it is now.
Harrell Wilson (Republican)
Support
I support LEARNS and all options that give our children every opportunity to receive the best education possible. Ensuring the best education possible has been my goal as school board president and will continue as state senator.
I support LEARNS and all options that give our children every opportunity to receive the best education possible. Ensuring the best education possible has been my goal as school board president and will continue as state senator.
4. Drugs: Legalizing recreational marijuana in Arkansas.
5. Tech: Requiring major social media websites to verify all users’ ages in order to protect children on their platforms.
6. Gambling: Letting casinos in Arkansas conduct gambling online.
7. Elections: Current ballot initiative efforts to change the Arkansas Constitution to make it easier for private individuals or entities to place measures on the ballot for a statewide vote.
8. Guns: Confiscation of firearms from citizens that the government deem a danger to themselves or others, otherwise known as red flag laws.
9. Marriage: The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage.