http://arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?lID=84&sID=85&ms=86&cID=Z&aID=107439.60246.119565LITTLE ROCK (AP) _ The widow of slain state Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney will fill his spot at the Democratic National Convention in Denver next week, Gov. Mike Beebe said.
Rebecca Gwatney agreed to fill the vacancy left in the state's delegation when her husband was killed at party headquarters last week, Beebe said Thursday. Party spokeswoman Darinda Sharp said delegates voted by conference call Wednesday night to ask Gwatney's widow to fill the spot after a motion was made by the governor.
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Bill Gwatney, who would have turned 49 during the convention, was a superdelegate who had supported Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid after Arkansas' primary but switched his support to Sen. Barack Obama when Clinton left the race.
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"I suspect there will be a pall that hangs over the Arkansas delegation because of the very fact of the kind of a meeting it is and who should have been leading and who would have been leading it versus the fact that there will be an empty chair," Beebe said.
Under party rules, the party's vice chairman must call a meeting of the party's state committee within 60 days of the vacancy. Beebe has said choosing a replacement would likely take several weeks and doesn't plan to recommend one before the convention begins in Denver.
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