Pat O'Brien is looking even better as a candidate for secretary of state, and he went into the general election looking pretty good to begin with, After all, he was the man who cleaned up that mare's nest he inherited in the Pulaski County clerk's office. (And they said it couldn't be done, at least not as promptly and completely as Mr. O'Brien did it.)
Pulaski County Clerk Pat O’Brien of Jacksonville, a Democrat, faces Republican state Rep. Mark Martin of Prairie Grove in the Nov. 2 election. The winner replaces Secretary of State Charlie Daniels of Bryant, a Democrat who is term-limited from seeking...
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"Pulaski County has set a standard to provide access."
“And how about the county clerk of Pulaski County, Pat O’Brien, who straightened out that unbelievable mess of an office he took over? He’s a real public servant.”
That was our first reaction on hearing that Pat O’Brien, who’s done a bang-up job in only a couple of terms as Pulaski County’s circuit and county clerk, is planning to run for statewide office next year, namely secretary of state. Not that we’d ever criticize anybody for wanting to better himself, but dawgone he’s going to be missed by voters of the state’s largest county.
