05/13/2013
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"My sense is, in talking to people in Pine Bluff and that area--they have kind of a regional chamber of commerce--is that they are not real happy with the efforts that OEA has made."
"It is important to pretty much every Senator in the Senate because we all have some rural areas and some challenges out in those rural areas."
"I would just encourage you to continue on that track and even put more resources there if that is what you need to do."
"As that thing closes down and that goes away and we lose all of that, it is going to have about a $100 million impact to the community annually."