Garry Brewer, a long-time Social Security administrative law judge, died Saturday at 67. On the jump, I pass along an obituary written by Ernest Dumas. It recalls Brewer’s prominence as a Bumpers and then Clinton appointee who took on the special interests — the trucking industry — he regulated as a Transportation commissioner. Imagine that.

Read on for a slice of Arkansas political history.

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