Political Animals Club of Northwest Arkansas
Posted on August 4th, 2009
Due to busy schedules and uncertain availability the Political Animals Club of NWA has had to make a short notice announcement for the next meeting in which Lottery Commission Executive Director Ernie Passailaigue (pronounced pass-a-lay) of Little Rock. The only date available was next Monday, August 10. The organizers have apologized about the short notice and a meeting on a Monday (typically meetings are not held on Monday), but it was either that or wait several months.
The meeting will be held from 7:00 – 8:00 a.m., Monday, August 10, 2009 at the Clarion Inn in Fayetteville.
Mr. Passailaigue is a native South Carolinian, born in Charleston. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina in 1969 and received a Master’s in Business Administration from The Citadel in 1974. He is a CPA, a former professor, former owner of professional baseball teams, served in the South Carolina Senate for thirteen years, and was Executive Director of the South Carolina Educational Lottery. He is currently chairman of the multi-state Powerball Group.
Remember, there are no PACNWA dues; but there is a $9.00 charge when you attend a meeting, which includes a complete breakfast buffet.
This is not a meeting where you can just “show up.” RESERVATIONS ARE IMPORTANT! Make your reservation no later than noon on Friday, August 7. Send an e-mail to: rhudson@uark.edu or Fax a note to Richard Hudson at 479-575-7575, or Call Qiana Wilson at 479-575-7964 in Fayetteville
Let me encourage all of you political junkies out there to attend. It’s only natural.
Wherever animals must pool their talents and numbers into cohesive social groups, scientists said, the better to protect against predators, defend or enlarge choice real estate or acquire mates, the stage will be set for the appearance of political skills — the ability to please and placate, manipulate and intimidate, trade favors and scratch backs or, better yet, pluck those backs free of botflies and ticks.
Over time, the demands of a social animal’s social life may come to swamp all other selective pressures in the environment, possibly serving as the dominant spur for the evolution of ever-bigger vote-tracking brains. And though we humans may vaguely disapprove of our political impulses and harbor “Fountainhead” fantasies of pulling free in full glory from the nattering tribe, in fact for us and other highly social species there is no turning back. A lone wolf is a weak wolf, a failure, with no chance it will thrive.
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