
Patricia Nation and Drew County resident Levi Davis at a Southeast Arkansas TEA Party meeting where Nation talked about her candidacy for Arkansas Attorney General.
One might wonder how a little girl who grew up Dumas, Arkansas in “abject poverty”, as Patricia Nation puts it, comes to the point that she wants to be elected to the office of Arkansas Attorney General.
Nation, a managing member of the Nation Law Firm in Little Rock, explained her reasons for doing just that.
At the April 14 meeting of the Southeast Arkansas TEA Party, Nation said she has always loved watching presidential debates on television and always “lined up” with the conservative candidates.
Laughing, she tells the story of how she was once punished for being a Republican. “I grew up in a family of Democrats, but one day I told my mother, ‘Mama, I think I am a Republican.’ She spanked me and sent me to my room, but I have to say that today my mother is my biggest supporter out on the campaign trail.”
Nation went on to graduate with honors from Dumas High School, did her undergraduate studies at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and received her law degree from the University of Arkansas Law School. She is also a graduate of Agape Bible College, where she has served as a board member of the college as the head of the Education Committee.
Nation believes she is the most qualified candidate for the office of Arkansas Attorney General. She has been a trial and civil rights lawyer for over 18 years and a member of the Trial Lawyers’ Association and the Arkansas Bar Association. She is licensed to practice law in the Supreme Court of Arkansas and in U. S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Divisions. The Nation Law Firm, of which she is a managing member, is a federal law firm which emphasizes Constitutional Law and Appellate Advocacy. Nation has practiced in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Eighth District Court of Appeals in Saint Louis, Missouri; the District Court of Texas and the Federal Circuit Court in Washington, D.C. Her state law practice focuses mainly on criminal defense and real estate.
Showing her sense of humor while describing herself, Nation said on a good day she is Rush Limbaugh in a skirt, and on a not-so-good day she is Mark Levin yelling at all the things the media is getting away with. “I am an Arkansas girl with Arkansas values,” she said. “My values are Constitutional values of faith, family and freedom. These are the values I grew up with and that formed me. Those values pulled me out of the abject poverty I grew up in, and those values in practice can pull our state into success.”
“When I started out as a Republican in Central Arkansas, we were a small group; and it was not very popular to be a Republican,” Patricia said. “But, I had the opportunity in 2008 to work for the McCain-Palin ticket in Arkansas and Missouri as an attorney and poll watcher. I was privileged to work for Romney and Ryan in 2012, and was selected to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention. At the convention, I watched the National Debt Clock just running and running; and I thought that with all we have in America and with our Constitution, this should not be happening. I believe that the Constitution is the best and greatest legal document in history. It has kept us safe, and as long as we stick to it our country will prosper. I want to uphold the Constitution and defend it. Our liberties and freedoms are wrapped up in it. I have been fighting for the rights of Arkansans for 20 years, and it has been a privilege to have the Constitution as a tool.”
Nation described some of the problems she sees in the nation and in Arkansas: “Our country and state can do better in taking care of our veterans. I know about that because my husband is a veteran, and I take care of him every day. It is shameful that we don’t do a better job for our veterans,” she said. “I also want to see the Affordable Care Act repealed. I am for affordable and available health care, but I believe the Supreme Court violated the basic principle of free enterprise when they ruled the Affordable Care Act to be constitutional. If we lower the prices of health care in America, it would be affordable.”
Nation believes the Private Option in Arkansas should be defunded.
“When our Arkansas Legislators passed the Private Option, they did not consider things like mental health, dental care among other things,” Nation said. “What is going to happen when the bill for these things I have mentioned comes in and it does not fit into the mold of the Private Option? It was not well thought out before it was passed. It was voted on over and over again until it passed because some in the State Legislature had an agenda to get it passed, and they had not thought it through. It is like the Affordable Care Act. It is still being written, and nobody knows what the final outcome of such a law will be. We are a great nation, a superpower, and we can do better than this to help people who are truly mentally ill or disabled. We can solve the health care problem, but we need Attorneys General in this nation who understand the Constitution. Some do, but when a group of Attorneys General went to Washington, D.C. to show they were against the Affordable Care Act, Arkansas was silent.”
Nation said she is very much in favor of local school districts having control over the programs such as Common Core Curriculum. The Common Core, like Obamacare and the Private Option, was not researched before it was implemented. It is only now being seen as a big government intrusion into our local school districts. The standards were not tested before they were used. We are the test case now; and by the time we see the flaws in the program, the education of many children may have been harmed. “My plan is to push for Arkansas to opt out of the Common Core State Standards program,” she said. “Many parents are now speaking out against the standards, and with that kind of groundswell we can help give our legislators the ability to help Arkansas opt out. Our children are most important; and now that this program is in the light, we can’t give up. If we work together from the heart we can do this. We need a chance for our children to go to public schools and not have to go to private schools to escape these government programs.”
Concluding, Nation said she wants to serve the people of Arkansas. “The people of Arkansas are good people,” she said. “I love God and my country, and I want the chance to serve the people of Arkansas. I love the law and our Constitution, and those could be our last line of defense in saving our country. With constitutional principles, we can take our country back to greatness.”
I don’t believe Ms. Nation would have had anything to do with the Tea Party if she had known what some of us have known for years about their real agenda.
I’m sure by now you’ve heard that Cliven Bundy, the Tea Party’s “heart and soul,” “Hero,” leader, and their idea of a “true American patriot,” blew the lid off the Tea Party’s dirty little secret yesterday. A secret I have been trying to tell for the past 5-years. I’m surprised it didn’t happened sooner. And this time they can’t deny this is their hero or that he is speaking pure Tea Party dogma, because it was all caught on tape.
Go to YouTube and watch the video, see what the face of evil looks like; see what the face of a Tea Party Hero looks like. They’ve been like this since day one, only now we’ve got the hate and racism coming right out of the Tea Party Hero’s mouth on tape.
They will try to lie their way out of this, and believe it or not, some people will believe them over their own eyes and ears. Why do people let themselves be used and made fools of by people like this?
Anyone hateful enough to have anything to do with people like that probably deserve them…they deserve each other.
Cliven Bundy, Tea Party Hero and Leader. Look him up on YouTube.
And now, the most powerful Tea Party owner on the West Coast has been caught spewing vile hate and racism. His name is Donald Sterling, former basketball team owner, who was denounced as inhuman by every decent person in America after his right wing racist rants were caught on tape.
That’s two Tea Party leaders in two days. First Cliven Bundy, and now Donald Sterling. This is another well-documented example of the way those people really are. Right wing fundamentalists so consumed with hate that they can’t help but spew it all over the place in front of company.
The reaction from around the world to dumping Sterling was unanimous…hate is not a family value.
Ms. Nation, I wish you would re-think your association with this group of racists who have shamelessly and publically sworn their bitter hatred of the government of the United States of America and President Obama. Their hate is not based on the phony tax protest party the Kochs bought and paid for to destroy the Obama Administration, it’s based on racism. How you missed this is a mystery to me.
We are still at war, Ms. Nation, and anyone supporting the weakening of our country and the obstruction of our president in the execution of his duties, is guilty of sedition, treason, and giving aid and comfort to our enemy, al Qaeda. Look it up. The video evidence is there. Why would you want to be a part of something like that?
Ms. Nation, if you read this, please contact me; I would like to talk to you. These people are misrepresenting themselves and their intentions. They are lying to you. You are being used.
Please, do some research on these people and their motives. Pay close attention to their heavily-armed compounds in NW Arkansas where their violent wing of “tax protesting” operatives are holed up. How can you possibly not know who these people are? How?
I only wish you would listen to both sides. Unfortunately the church has its mental hooks deep in your psyche, and apparently has since you were a child, before you were able to form independent thought. One of the saddest things I’ve seen in many years. Please contact me.
This is what happens when you mix politics with religion. Expect the Tea Party to parade Ms. Nation around the state, and around the country if possible, showing everyone how diverse and tolerant they are. And she’s letting them do it.
She is being used as a tool in one of the most shameless public relations gimmicks I’ve seen in a long time. They will stop at nothing to use anyone they can in any way they can as long as it furthers their goal of turning the United States into an Aryan church state. And she claims to be familiar with the nuances of our Constitution…but she isn’t and I can’t believe she’s claiming she is. But remember what I told you how the Tea Party operates; and she confirms it, here.
Something’s bad wrong here. One of the worst cases of self-loathing I’ve seen since houseboy Clarence Thomas groveled at the feet of his racist Republican massa for a chance to vote how they tell him to no matter how transparent or racist it is.
The image of Ms. Nation standing next to that Cliven clone in overalls is surreal. Especially in light of the recent exposure of two of their national leaders as hateful, virulent racists. There has to be more to this story than what we are seeing.
Stay tuned.