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LITTLE ROCK — While the legislative session isn’t over yet, Gov. Asa Hutchinson is already focused on what will happen after the 92nd General Assembly dismisses. Appearing on this week’s edition of Talk Business & Politics, Hutchinson is preparing for the implementation of his transformation plan and the campaign for a highway package. He also suggests his time in politics won’t end after his second term as governor. Hutchinson’s effort to streamline state government from 42 to 15 cabinet level reports still must clear the State Senate. Hutchinson thinks his plan will pass that chamber and he’s prepared to put a transition team in place to execute the transition. “There will be a transition team that will be set up to help guide the cabinet secretaries that will be named,” he said. “This sets the pattern for the 15 different agencies, and the first thing you’ve got to do is put the personnel in place, and then you got to have, where can you concentrate on areas of efficiencies, better management of it The transformation doesn’t happen on day one. It is a process.” Hutchinson said that part of that process will be naming new cabinet secretaries, which might not correlate directly to current agency directors.

That news was big enough as is, but it was compounded by the curious timing — Carrico’s announcement came after the deadline for candidates to file for the Republican nomination. Todd Pillion, R-Washington, who had been tipped off by Carrico, had already filed. Ken Heath found out Carrico was leaving just 30 minutes before the filing deadline and that the paperwork to seek the nomination had to be filed in person with the party’s district chairman. It’s a good thing for Heath, who’s from Marion, that he lived so close to the district chairman. This already-Republican district is becoming even more Republican. Bottom line: We have a retiring legislator handing his seat over to his preferred successor without the benefit of a competitive election. The reality is we have relatively few competitive districts in the state. Right now, there are just two state senators who live west of the Roanoke Valley —Carrico and Ben Chafin, R-Russell. Come next year, that’s likely to be Pillion and Chafin. Except maybe for the part about the sword.

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