Several national Republican figures will be visiting the state over the next week. Today, former presidential nominee Mitt Romney makes an appearance in Jonesboro to headline a fundraiser for Republican gubernatorial nominee Asa Hutchinson. That event takes place at Arkansas State University’s Fowler Center at 2:30. Hutchinson faces Democratic nominee and fellow ex-congressman Mike Ross. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will campaign with 2nd Congressional District candidate French Hill in Little Rock today, and will also appear with 4th Congressional District candidate Bruce Westerman. Hill faces Democrat Pat Hays and Westerman faces Democrat James Lee Witt. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will campaign with Asa Hutchinson next week in Arkansas.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.