Little Rock senator won't run in 2020; former lawmaker plans bid [View all]

State Sen. Will Bond, a Democrat from Little Rock, announced Monday that he isn't running for re-election next year.

He said the demands of being a state senator and having a full-time law practice can only be balanced for so long and he didn't want to go beyond the four-year mark of juggling these competing demands.

"Serving as a state senator has become a full-time job," he said in an interview.

Former state Rep. Clarke Tucker, D-Little Rock, said later that he plans to formally announce his bid for the Senate seat soon.

Bond, a 49-year-old attorney, has served in the Senate since 2017 and previously was in the House of Representatives from 2003-09 when he resided in Jacksonville. He was chairman of the state Democratic Party from 2011-13 under then-Gov. Mike Beebe.

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