Politics
When Greenberg ran for the state legislature in 2006, he was endorsed by the incumbent in the seat, Jeremy Hutchinson, who was prohibited by term limits for running for reelection. Greenberg and Hutchinson had run against each other for the seat in 1999 as primary opponents, an election that Hutchinson won. In May and June 2006, Greenberg placed first in the district's hotly contested primary and runoff and was elected to succeed Jeremy Hutchinson in the legislative seat for which the two had once competed.
When he was first elected in June 2006, at the age of forty, he had already served most of two terms as a county legislator on Pulaski County's Quorum Court.
Greenberg served on the Public Transportation and State Agencies committees. He is the vice-chairman of the State Agencies subcommittee on Constitutional Issues.
Greenberg made national news when he proposed the "Edifice Complex Prevention Act" barring naming public facilities after living people. "In the old days we had a tradition of waiting to judge a person's whole life before we named a building after them," said Greenberg.
After being elected two terms as Arkansas State Representative, Greenberg ran for the District 21 seat in the Arkansas State Senate. He lost to Jeremy Hutchinson in the 2010 Republican primary, thus continuing the Greenberg-Hutchinson saga.
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