Arkansas Democratic Party officials still have no word about whether there will be some sort of recognition of the late Bill Gwatney during the national convention.

Gwatney, the party’s state chairman, was slain in Democratic headquarters in Little Rock on Aug. 13.

Without knowing what, if anything, convention leaders will do to remember him, Arkansas delegates are wearing special lapel pins commemorating Gwatney. They are the “official” pins of the delegation. His wife, Rebecca, serves in his place as a superdelegate to the convention.

And in the “say it ain’t so” department, two Arkansans said the delegation was discouraged from mentioning Gwatney at Sunday’s reception/party with two other delegations — Hawaii and Delaware — at the hotel the three groups share. Hawaii and Delaware delegations did not want to “dampen the mood,” said one observer who attended.

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