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Jim Wallace (Arkansas)
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Jim Wallace (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Arkansas State Senate to represent District 28. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Wallace completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jim Wallace was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. Wallace earned a bachelor's degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1979, a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1982, and a master's degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce in 1984. His career experience includes being the owner of Paradise Pottery, an art professor and university department chair, and an executive hotel steward, among other professions. Wallace has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- Inspiration Point Rural Fire Protection District
- Democratic Party of Arkansas
- Carroll County Democrats
- Veterans and Military Families Caucus of the Democratic Party of Arkansas
- Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas
Elections
2022
See also: Arkansas State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Arkansas State Senate District 28
Bryan King defeated Jim Wallace in the general election for Arkansas State Senate District 28 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bryan King (R) | 76.0 | 21,768 |
 | Jim Wallace (D)  | 24.0 | 6,888 | |
| Total votes: 28,656 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Arkansas State Senate District 28
Bryan King defeated incumbent Bob Ballinger in the Republican primary runoff for Arkansas State Senate District 28 on June 21, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bryan King | 53.8 | 3,655 |
 | Bob Ballinger | 46.2 | 3,137 | |
| Total votes: 6,792 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Jim Wallace advanced from the Democratic primary for Arkansas State Senate District 28.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arkansas State Senate District 28
Bryan King and incumbent Bob Ballinger advanced to a runoff. They defeated Keith Slape, Robert Largent, and Theodore Walker in the Republican primary for Arkansas State Senate District 28 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bryan King | 31.8 | 4,863 |
| ✔ | | Bob Ballinger | 29.2 | 4,465 |
 | Keith Slape | 19.2 | 2,936 | |
 | Robert Largent | 10.3 | 1,578 | |
 | Theodore Walker | 9.5 | 1,461 | |
| Total votes: 15,303 | |||
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2018
- See also: Arkansas State Senate elections, 2018
General election
General election for Arkansas State Senate District 5
Bob Ballinger defeated Jim Wallace and Lee Evans in the general election for Arkansas State Senate District 5 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bob Ballinger (R) | 67.6 | 18,288 |
| Jim Wallace (D) | 29.1 | 7,872 | |
 | Lee Evans (L) | 3.3 | 887 | |
| Total votes: 27,047 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Arkansas State Senate District 5
Jim Wallace advanced from the Democratic primary for Arkansas State Senate District 5 on May 22, 2018.
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arkansas State Senate District 5
Bob Ballinger defeated incumbent Bryan King in the Republican primary for Arkansas State Senate District 5 on May 22, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bob Ballinger | 52.3 | 4,245 |
| Bryan King | 47.7 | 3,871 | |
| Total votes: 8,116 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jim Wallace completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wallace's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Owner of a diverse art design company, Paradise Pottery. Rural volunteer firefighter, EMS responder and swift water rescue. Former university college professor of fine art and department chair, (B.S., B.F.A., M.F.A.). Regional director for Veterans and Military Families Democratic Caucus. Former 2018 state senate candidate. Married, two children and three grandchildren.
- Arkansas has a supermajority in both legislative houses (along with a total state government GOP trifecta). This is politically very unhealthy. While many would like to see three or more major parties in this state we are presently struggling to maintain two.
- I'm not a career politician, nor will I become one. I'm 64 years old and with age I'm comfortable with who I am. I have nothing to prove so my interest in politics is not narcissistically driven. . As a volunteer emergency responder I find joy in helping others reach the light at the end of a tunnel on what might be the worst day of their life.
- FEAR NOT FAIRNESS ! If you can only win by cheating, lying to and stealing from your fellow men or women then get out of politics.
An important lesson from the WTC attack on 9/11 was to get all agencies onto a common platform of communication. However many rural areas are struggling and straggling into the 21st century demands of moving to digital systems. Throughout the network of municipal 911 districts, various county and state level agencies we currently have inabilities and inefficiencies that need central leadership.
Poor education nationally has contributed to persistent racism, misogyny and other unethical selfish behavior that has led to hoarding, degradation of the environment, voter suppression, crumbling national infrastructure, big money in campaigns, inadequate & expensive healthcare, exhausted healthcare workers, inadequate mental healthcare for the traumatized, abused citizens and lack of support for our military veterans and their families.
Poor education nationally has contributed to persistent racism, misogyny and other unethical selfish behavior that has led to hoarding, degradation of the environment, voter suppression, crumbling national infrastructure, big money in campaigns, inadequate & expensive healthcare, exhausted healthcare workers, inadequate mental healthcare for the traumatized, abused citizens and lack of support for our military veterans and their families.
Robert Wilson. First director of the Fermi Laboratory in Batavia, IL. Under his guidance, this was the first and probably still the only federal project to be completed under budget. What is more, is that building in the center of the particle accelerator lab has such a unique architectural design and includes an art gallery. Wilson was a an avid supporter of both the arts and sciences. I had the honor of meeting Wilson in 1992 when exhibiting some sculpture at the facility.
No, but maybe I will write it someday.
Listen and understand the needs of the people before acting.
Honesty, integrity, compassion, fair, inclusive, reliable, pretty good communicator, kind of comical, and just a nicer guy than my opponents.
Honesty, integrity, compassion, clear communication, inclusivity, and accountibility.
Happier, well-adjusted people.
Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was announced to my first-grade class by my teacher right after we came in from playing outside for recess. I recall later, my mother insisting that my siblings and I all sit down and pay attention to the television to watch the funeral procession.
I folded and collated thousands of brochures on over hundred topics related to pediatric medicine, childcare and infectious diseases for handouts to the parents of my father's patients. I was paid one penny for each brochure. I don't recall the years I did this but started not long after my father was successful at administering a polio vaccination program for the entire county of Lancaster in Nebraska.
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. It reminds me that in the last couple of millennia that humans have squandered vast amounts of time and energy on wars, building junk and generally bad behavior and so today we are not advanced enough to travel to other galaxies during our lifetime, defeat cancer and overcome other difficulties. I feel cheated that we won't experience intergalactic travel in our lifetime and so should you.
This question presupposes that I'm not already a fictional character, I find that interesting.
From Electric Light Orchestra, Mr. Blue Sky. This song is an anthem for Democratic parties and candidates.
Not much really, I've been luckier than most and by being elected I hope I can help others with any struggles they have.
These two branches of government need to remain co-equal and so will never be ideal so long as their occupants persist in jockeying for power.
The education of the citizens must be broadened beyond basic skills that include critical thinking, ethical behavior, interpersonal communication skills, respect and love for fellow humans and all lifeforms, understanding of the role of citizens and their governmental institutions, assessing validity of information, personal initiative, money management and basics of economics. If these goals are achieved then the people will be better prepared to meet the ongoing challenges and those as yet to be conceived as they arise.
I grew up in Nebraska and was aware that this was the one state in the union that had a unicameral. I even met Ernie Chambers in 1973, the longest serving Senator in the history of the state (46 years) when he visited my high school. The benefit is clearly the speed of deciding legislation and avoidance of deadlock between two houses, but the potential problem it can be argued is when one party dominates the one house and can quickly ramrod their agenda, however the same can be said for states, like Arkansas, that have one party owning a trifecta on all three branches of the state government.
Doesn't it depend on the kind of experience the individual legislator has? Some legislators are simply placeholders and provide the dominant members the votes they need to pursue their agenda. In better scenario, the experience of understanding the process of legislating which can involve intricate details is clearly helpful if a legislator is to achieve good work for their constituents.
This strikes me as a dumb question because I believe anytime I'm working with others, relationship building is inevitable, essential and usually fun.
I would recommend hiring an outside agency to form a panel that is comprised of members who have been background checked to be sure they have no financial connections to the state that could give rise to bias in their redistricting work. As an additional check, it would be required under penalty of law that any member of the panel be restricted from having any financial connection that could benefit them personally for five years after the completion of their work on the panel. Then following legal guidelines, I would give the panel a calendar of deadlines for proceeding and then get out of the way.
I'm sure there are but none that I'm aware of.
I have some objectives in mind to achieve through passage of bills if elected. Subsequent to that I might like to be a mentor to other rising politicians and then get out of the way.
Many stories about people with serious needs for jobs, housing, food and healthcare. I would rather summarize these, rather than take the time to tell one touching story. Arkansas ranks in the bottom five of the fifty for so many indices for quality of life.
A man is driving his convertible down the highway with ten penguins in the backseat. A cop pulls him over and orders him, "take those penguins to the zoo or I'll have to write you a ticket!". So the man turns the car around and goes to the zoo. The next day the man is driving down the highway again and the same cop sees him. The cop pulls him over and in his angry voice he says, " Hey! I told you to take those penguins to the zoo!". The man smiles and says, "oh, indeed you did officer. And we had such a good time that we thought we should go to the beach today".
The joke exaggerates the abusive nature of the officer's authority to engage the listener, with the unfazed, calm nature of the man.
The joke exaggerates the abusive nature of the officer's authority to engage the listener, with the unfazed, calm nature of the man.
Probably there is a case for that. I would think that this depends on individual detailed conditions, rather than provide a simplistic blanket answer for all situations.
Compromise is a basic tenet of democratic governance. To achieve progress that takes as many of the concerns of all citizens into fair consideration as is possible, then opposing views are to be rectified through civilized discourse.
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2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 24, 2022
Current members of the Arkansas State Senate
Leadership
Majority Leader:Blake Johnson
Minority Leader:Greg Leding
Senators
District 1
Ben Gilmore (R)
District 2
Matt Stone (R)
District 3
Steve Crowell (R)
District 4
Jimmy Hickey (R)
District 5
Terry Rice (R)
District 6
Matt McKee (R)
District 7
Alan Clark (R)
District 8
District 9
Reginald Murdock (D)
District 10
Ronald Caldwell (R)
District 11
Ricky Hill (R)
District 12
Jamie Scott (D)
District 13
Jane English (R)
District 14
Clarke Tucker (D)
District 15
Fredrick Love (D)
District 16
Kim Hammer (R)
District 17
Mark Johnson (R)
District 18
Jonathan Dismang (R)
District 19
Dave Wallace (R)
District 20
Dan Sullivan (R)
District 21
Blake Johnson (R)
District 22
John Payton (R)
District 23
Scott Flippo (R)
District 24
Missy Irvin (R)
District 25
Breanne Davis (R)
District 26
Vacant
District 27
Justin Boyd (R)
District 28
Bryan King (R)
District 29
Jim Petty (R)
District 30
Greg Leding (D)
District 31
Clint Penzo (R)
District 32
Joshua Bryant (R)
District 33
Bart Hester (R)
District 34
Jim Dotson (R)
District 35
Tyler Dees (R)
Republican Party (28)
Democratic Party (6)
Vacancies (1)
