Last night in Faulkner County, Deputy Secretary of State Alice Stewart spoke to a local Tea Party group about the just-completed legislative session and about her view of the rise of the Tea Party. The Log Cabin Democrat has the story, and I am ...
Yesterday, someone who I thought understood the reimbursement issue fairly well said to me, in attempting to sum up the entire series of posts, "The issue is the hypocrisy, not just the bogus reimbursements." I was taken aback by the sheer absurdity ...
Princella Smith has worn many hats over the last year. First she tried (and failed) to win the GOP nomination in AR-1, despite getting an endorsement from the Newt Who Would Be King President. More recently, she has been the Director of Education i...
The reaction to my reporting on Reimbursementgate --- which, yes, has now been given a proper name, ending in "-gate," in keeping with the rule that requires all political scandals to end that way - has made a few things abundantly clear. First, peo...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled exposing of the absurdity of "reimbursements" to bring you a bit of positive news.
Following last Wednesday's first post on statutory expense payments, I requested updated records from both the House and Senate...
More fun with invoices coming later today, but, first, three tangentially related thoughts on reimbursements under the statute:
1. The most common response I've heard since starting these posts is that some legislators simply cannot afford to do t...
Pobre, pobre Ed Garner. He tried so hard, yes he did. But, evidently, he just couldn't cry enough tears for the rich to get the abhorrent and downright unconstitutional HB 1002 passed. You see, fair reader, the Arkansas Senate and...
Yesterday afternoon, House Republicans prevented the passage of House Bill 1193, the appropriations bill for the Arkansas School for the Deaf, because the bill contained a spending increase.
Of $6,389.
For the ENTIRE YEAR.
Oh, sure, $532...
When first-district voters went to the polls last November, they knew many things about Rick Crawford: owner/operator of AgWatch Network (which was like a farm-centric Little Orphan Annie to all the farm-centric Ralphie Parkers in Arkansas), friend o...