Candidates for Little Rock City Board can begin the filing process tomorrow and activity is expected.

Thursday morning, Greg Henderson announced on Facebook that he’ll run in November for the Ward 1 seat on the Little Rock Board of Directors now held by Erma Hendrix, who’s indicated she intends to run again.

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Still more action developed later in the day.

Earlier announcements in the Ward 1 race had come from Danny Lewis, a Baptist preacher and realtor, and Bryan Frazier, an artist and musician. The ward covers downtown and East Little Rock.

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Henderson, who says the board needs “new vision,” is the publisher of Rock City Life and Rock City Eats, among other publications.

Later, a group of candidates announced a joint plan to get filing packets, including yet another Ward 1 candidate. An invitation for press coverage, with incumbent names inserted by me:

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Educator Dr. Valerie Tatum (Ward 2, Ken Richardson incumbent), Blogger Russ Racop (Ward 6, Doris Wright incumbent), Law Enforcement Specialist Curtis Johnson ( Ward 1), Former College Professor, Author, & Business Owner Edmond Davis (Ward 7, B.J. Wyrick incumbent) and others pre-candidates for LR City Director have agreed to collectively pick up their LR BOD Application Packets together at 10am in City Hall tomorrow. This showing of unity and solidarity is a sign of things to come and we invite you to attend. Covering this event will let the citizens, voters and business community of Little Rock and beyond know who their prospective new leaders will be with regard to the LR City Board of Directors in 2019. This historic endeavor is unprecedented and is once in a lifetime opportunity as its never been done before in Little Rock political history. We are community investors and we respectfully request that you invest in us. See you at 10am at City Hall.

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