Trey "BoDirt" Bohannan represents our political situation here in Arkansas. Yes, he was wiped out in the March GOP primary by state Sen. Ron Caldwell, a salt-of-the-earth Arkansan from Wynne with a distinguished record. But it was BoDirt who was endorsed by Gov. Sarah Sanders, Attorney General Tim Griffin, and several other Republican elected officials.

BoDirt is a business partner with a man who pleaded guilty to Internet stalking of girls in 2017. That didn't seem to bother Sanders, Griffin and others who believed Caldwell hadn't sufficiently supported their MAGA agenda. TikTok videos by Bohannan praised the stalker for his work at a company known as TreyBoDirt Media LLC.

Griffin, whose office sends out news releases each time it plays a role in the arrest of a pedophile, said of BoDirt: "His new energy and leadership would be an asset to the state Senate."

Sanders recruited BoDirt after at least one Republican House member declined to take on Caldwell, who has served in the Senate since 2013. She even convinced MAGA favorite Kid Rock to endorse BoDirt.

Kid Rock--the guy to whose house the Trump administration sends Army helicopters for salutes--said Sanders "reached out to me about helping her friend Trey 'BoDirt' Bohannan get across the finish line and win the state Senate in Arkansas. I am throwing my support and my endorsement behind Trey 'BoDirt' Bohannan for the state Senate in the great state of Arkansas."

I felt sorry for veteran state Capitol correspondent Michael Wickline when he wrote a profile of BoDirt for the Feb. 9 edition of this newspaper. I doubt that Wickline had ever dealt with such a vulgar character running for office. Quoting him in a family newspaper wasn't easy. BoDirt found it almost impossible to utter a sentence that wasn't filled with profanity.

"If he's chair of the ag committee and we're in this big-ass crisis, I haven't seen him do anything in the trenches," BoDirt said of Caldwell. "He don't do s***. Quote me on that."

BoDirt said: "I'm going to get in there and get s*** done, and I'm not going to be nice to everybody." That seems to be just the type of person Sanders wants as she transforms Arkansas into a MAGA colony. It's why I'll now refer to this........

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