Arkansas Greens lack candidate to take on disgraced ex-legislator

The AP reports the Green Party of Arkansas “can’t find a candidate to run against a former legislator trying to regain the House seat he left almost three years ago to settle a felony sexual assault charge.” A Green challenge “was one of the few options left in efforts to block” the return of Democrat Dwayne Dobbins to the state legislature. In 2005, Dobbins resigned “and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment in a plea bargain reached after he was arrested on a felony sexual assault charge. According to prosecutors, Dobbins fondled a 17-year-old girl at his home.” Earlier this year, Dobbins “unexpectedly filed to run for his seat and faces no opponents in either party.” Green Party of Arkansas official Mark Jenkins “says he hasn’t found anyone who will volunteer to be nominated at the party’s convention Saturday” to take on Dobbins in November.