--- title: Republican Convention: Arkansas Speakers Bash the Clintons description: Two speakers from Arkansas took digs at Hillary Clinton during the Republican convention Tuesday. canonical: https://time.com/4413914/republican-convention-arkansas-hillary-clinton/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-20T00:53:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:55.094Z article:section: Politics og:title: Republican Speakers Use Arkansas Ties to Bash the Clintons og:description: Both hold Bill Clinton's old jobs. og:url: https://time.com/4413914/republican-convention-arkansas-hillary-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc6bccec305e8c17/69889ca7a988ca5bb66b8af5/leslie-rutledge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge delivers a speach on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Republican Speakers Use Arkansas Ties to Bash the Clintons twitter:description: Both hold Bill Clinton's old jobs. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc6bccec305e8c17/69889ca7a988ca5bb66b8af5/leslie-rutledge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Republican Speakers Use Arkansas Ties to Bash the Clintons by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 20, 2016 12:53 AM UTC  Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge delivers a speach on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge delivers a speach on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.Win McNamee—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 20, 2016 12:53 AM UTC Two speakers from Arkansas took digs at Hillary Clinton during the Republican convention Tuesday. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson argued that the presumptive Democratic nominee would be a continuation of President Obama’s tenure. “If you liked the last eight years, then Hillary would give you double for your trouble,” he said. Hutchinson has crossed paths with the Clintons before. In the 1980s, he [sent Bill Clinton’s half-brother](http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/03/us/public-lives-an-enforcer-who-sees-the-human-side-of-drug-battles.html), Roger, to jail on cocaine charges. After only a year in Congress, he [served as an impeachment manager](http://www.politico.com/story/2008/12/where-are-the-impeachment-managers-today-016628) against Bill Clinton. Early in the Republican primary, however, he [said the scandal had no place](http://time.com/4178009/arkansas-governor-asa-hutchinson-bill-clinton/) in the 2016 election. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge also spoke Tuesday. She began by noting that she serves in the same office that launched Bill Clinton’s career, arguing the couple is corrupt. “Hillary is a lawyer, but she acts like the law doesn’t apply to her,” she told the convention. U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, [a rising star out of Arkansas](http://time.com/4411613/republican-convention-tom-cotton-speech/?xid=time%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter), spoke on Monday night, though he [did not take the opportunity to discuss the Clintons](http://time.com/4412018/republican-convention-tom-cotton-speech-transcript/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4413914/republican-convention-arkansas-hillary-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4413914/republican-convention-arkansas-hillary-clinton/"},"headline":"Republican Speakers Use Arkansas Ties to Bash the Clintons","datePublished":"2016-07-20T00:53:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:55.094Z","description":"Two speakers from Arkansas took digs at Hillary Clinton during the Republican convention Tuesday.","url":"https://time.com/4413914/republican-convention-arkansas-hillary-clinton/","keywords":["Republican National Convention","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Bill Clinton","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc6bccec305e8c17/69889ca7a988ca5bb66b8af5/leslie-rutledge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc6bccec305e8c17/69889ca7a988ca5bb66b8af5/leslie-rutledge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge delivers a speach on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.","caption":"Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge delivers a speach on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.","creditText":"Win McNamee—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/republican-national-convention/","name":"Republican National Convention"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4413914/republican-convention-arkansas-hillary-clinton/","name":"Republican Speakers Use Arkansas Ties to Bash the Clintons"}}]}] ```