article_snippet.sent: The 180 earned him the mocking of the White House, which described him as a 'previously defiant governor' who changed him position after a 'bipartisan and even nonpolitical outcry.'
article_snippet.sent: Hutchinson on Wednesday had requested the legislative changes, saying Hutchinson could not sign The altered bill until they were made. '
article_snippet.sent: Hutchinson said during a press conference outside the state Capitol. '
article_snippet.sent: Conservative lawmakers said Conservative lawmakers didn't appreciate the slap in the face from Hutchinson, who had said numerous times in the past that he would approve the legislation in its current form when its reached he desk, but Conservative lawmakers worked to make the necessary adjustments just the same. '
article_snippet.sent: I don't feel it was right for the governor to say the governor was going to sign something that the governor watched all the way through and didn't sign,' state senator Terry Rice told Arkansas Online. '
article_snippet.sent: I'm very puzzled at this point to see why the bill would need to be amended at this late date, considering everybody in the chamber has had a chance to see the chamber,' Jerry Cox, the group's leader, said. '
article_snippet.sent: Hutchinson, who took office just two months ago, undoubtedly wanted to avoid an uprising of equal intensity in his own state.