CONWAY — Bill O’Brien believes the nation’s founding fathers laid out the perfect blueprint for how government should operate, and the Republican from Mont Vernon running for U.S. Senate wants to do his part in Washington to get the country back on that path.
“I want to make sure that we preserve the genius of our founders,” O'Brien said during an hourlong editorial board at the Sun on Wednesday.
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