Arkansas Times retired senior editor Max Brantley (radical leftist/keyboard warrior emeritus) follows Little Rock news, Arkansas news and Arkansas politics.
Dozens more allege sexual abuse at youth facility owned by Arkansas businessman freed by Trump thanks to the intervention of his pal Mike Huckabee. via
@arktimes
.
@SarahHuckabee
has spoken to federal officials regarding last night’s storms in northern Arkansas: “The Governor thanked Administrator Criswell for the ongoing coordination of FEMA, local officials, and the Sanders’ administration and their commitment to aid Arkansans.”
What hokum. The issue is an overpriced bill for something Sarah's political pals aren't in the business of selling and then attempt to cover up when exposed by Blue Hog. Reimbursing a robbed bank doesn't make it OK.
Opinion Editor at
@nytimes
just walked out. That’s right, he quit over the excellent Op-Ed penned by our great Senator
@TomCottonAR
. TRANSPARENCY! The State of Arkansas is very proud of Tom. The New York Times is Fake News!!!
This video has the entire
#lecterngate
story. Share with legislative auditors and others who would benefit, such as the eerily silent D-G editorial page and other ‘press’ voices reluctant to cross HRH Sarah (to the point of endorsing her secrecy law.)
Rex Nelson continues his criticism of the administration of the daughter of his former boss. Great line: ‘The thing that strikes me most about this governor's office is the lack of joy.’ Yes. Sarah governs with a snarl and joy only at her foes’ misfortunes.
U.S. debt reaches record amount (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
A very bad omen. $34 Trillion Dollars in
#NationalDebt
- will Americans ever start demanding better management of the federal budget?
@SpeakerJohnson
@LeaderMcConnell
#Congress
A reader asks: Isn't it time for Tom Cotton, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Sanders and others to demand a federal judge give the maximum prison sentence to their erstwhile pal Josh Duggar on child porn charges?
Surprise! (Not) Sarah’s voucher law has begun a multi-million-dollar transfer of public money to unaccountable (mostly religious) private schools. In year three it will multiply exponentially with tens of thousands of benefits for rich folks like Sarah.
If
@AsaHutchinson
and
@SenTomCotton
are really worried about the plight of friendly Afghans isn’t it time to open Fort Chaffee as a resettlement center for them?
This is breathtakingly dishonest. The judge is no leftist. He did none of these things. He merely said the legislature must follow the Constitution in adopting emergency clauses. The awful law can still take effect — a little later than she desires.
After we passed the best education reform in the country, a far left judge wants to throw it out and silence parents, allow CRT and indoctrination, slash teacher pay, and trap kids in failing schools. We will NOT let that happen.
As billions flow into Arkansas for Internet and other job, economy and life-enhancing work, remember the Arkansas Republicans who voted no and Sarah’s incessant slamming of Joe Biden. She is touting Internet windfall today, w/no credit for Joe.
What could go wrong?
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the following appointments
State Library Board
Jason Rapert, Conway, to the State Library Board. Term Expires October 18, 2029. Replaces Joan O’Neal.
Governor and extremist book banning homophobes repudiated. Sheila Franklin and Trey Geier apparently won their races for Conway School Board, ousting wing nut incumbents endorsed by Gov. Sarah Sanders.
This is concerning. This isn’t brain surgery. It is an order for an overpriced lectern. I hope the former Huckabee lawyer on audit staff as legal counsel won’t find wiggle room for the Family or kill the probe by delay. (A favorite Trump tactic.)
The head of Arkansas Legislative Audit said the probe into
#lecterngate
likely won't be done this year and projecting an end date would be “very speculative.”
"We’re going to take whatever time it takes to make sure we do a thorough job," he said.
#arpx
This is the kind of dishonesty voters rejected across country. Republicans control Arizona and flipped a congressional seat. Mail votes take time to count. Take some Ivermectin and shut up, Bro. Rapert.
This is fishy.
It is not hard to win when you keep finding votes and counting till you reach the magic number. America is better than this.
#election
integrity matters.
Veteran teacher Erika Askeland announces challenge of book-banning radical Sen. Dan Sullivan. She supports libraries. He doesn’t. She labored for a vote on the voucher bill he supported. There’s more. But not being the bully Dan Sullivan is enough.
Inaugural funds used to reimburse governor's office for purchase of $19,000 podium, records indicate. A coverup. Now what about the Eurodisney costs and $160k in other ‘reimbursements’
For the record, courtesy of my FOI requests following news of return of Bobby Petrino. There is a UA Board policy preventing rehire of somebody fired for cause, as Petrino was.
Mena Star, you are up. Ask to see the lectern, including the serial number. Ask how many cops she took to Europe and who paid for Eurodisney tickets. Ask about private school subsidies and why there are tougher rules for public school students.
Gov.
@SarahHuckabee
announces Mena will serve as Arkansas' state capital this Friday - the first "Capital for a Day.”
The Gov, Cabinet, and staff will travel there to meet with local counterparts and work together to serve Arkansans.
Looks like recreational weed is going down. The good news is that ballot killer Issue 2 is going down too. So maybe a better reefer proposal will make ballot in 2024, if retrograde legislature doesn’t intervene.
As ‘Podiumgate’ roils Arkansas, governor’s office accused of criminal cover-up. Excellent recitation — stuffed with facts the state’s only surviving daily newspaper hasn’t seen fit to print. And on which its editorial silence is deafening.
Don’t forget — Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act” raised taxes and sent 87,000 IRS agents after the middle class.
And the only thing it reduced is your paycheck.
Censorship: Bigelow high school physically cuts out pages of yearbook before distributing. Reason: accurate recitation of years top news events, including Police killings. Yearbook advisor quits. via
@splc
Pulaski Prosecutor Will Jones now must decide if has the guts to pursue law violations suggested in audit of
#lecterngate
, plus use subpoenas to elicit details missing because of refusal by Sarah and pals to cooperate. But maybe feds are looking too.
Quote from Facebook: “There’s reporting that Ranger Tom Cotton read a newspaper as a video showed a riot in which a police officer died defending him. If this is true, he’s a sorrier piece of shit than I had imagined, and that’s saying something.”
It appears the now-Attorney General of Arkansas lied in 2014 when she said she resigned from DHS. Judge said today records show Leslie Rutledge applied for unemployment benefits. Denied because fired for ‘gross misconduct.’ Uh oh.
Voted with caucus to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Pushed to reinstate expensive insulin. Backed more tax cuts for millionaires like yourself. What else?
@ArkansasBlog
Lemme get this straight. The sitting Arkansas Governor gave 19K to one of the companies that planned Jan 6th? Is that correct? Am I understanding this correctly?
God help us. Says former aide to her father: ‘For now, Arkansans have to live with the fact that a majority of voters in November 2022 chose a shallow, overly ambitious, paranoid political operative who cares more about getting on Fox News than she does about governing Arkansas.’
Before too long, Sarah’s voucher bill will be spending more public money to send well-off kids to private church kindergartens than state spending on pre-K for kids who really need it. Wait for Year 3 when bonanza for wealthy kicks in.
The NRA has been a constant advocate for Second Amendment rights. If New York does not want the NRA, then the NRA should move south, where people respect and value the Second Amendment. Arkansas would be a natural home.
In rural Bono, Arkansas, tranquility is disrupted by a deafening mechanical buzz from a Bitcoin mine. David
@Pogue
delves into the mysterious world of Bitcoin mining, its ownership, and the solutions for concerned residents.
Judge Griffen strikes down four new Arkansas voting laws as unconstitutional. Need for barriers to voting based on 'conjecture and speculation' about election irregularities, not evidence. via
@arktimes
It will shock you to learn that Sarah’s dept. of public school privatization — with 24 hours notice — plans to turn over Marvell-Elaine schools to a charter school chain.
Good news. Announcement of initiative to mitigate the worst part of the voucher law and protect public education. Equal treatment of public and private schools? Sarah and the Billionaires will howl.
Would UA Fayetteville rehire a business school chair who was fired for screwing a subordinate and lying about it if he said he was sorry? In a state that worships football and votes for Trump sounds like we know the answer.*
*If he, emphasis on HE, is a football coach.
No mention of referral to prosecutor? Of multiple potential law violations? Of non-cooperation by Sarah or her pals who sold it? This takes bothsidesing ‘objective journalism’ to a new low.
Legislative auditors have released their findings for the months-long investigation into the purchase by Gov. Sanders' office of a $19,000 lectern
#arpx
#arnews
#lecterngate
short form
Sarah ordered a fancy lectern from a pal, priced to put $ in pals’ pockets.
Blue Hog caught it.
Lies, coverups and potential law violations ensued.
Independent audit confirmed, er, problems.
Sarah claimed exoneration. Lying again
The governor is ALWAYS invited to speak at Boys State. She is not on schedule this year. Conflict with Fox News appearances? Fear of the Q&A session? What’s the story Alexa?
Greg Abbott and his billionaire mega-donors know private school vouchers are unpopular in Texas.
So they’ve paid for a bunch of poll-tested slogans to sell their scam.
Here’s how to debunk each slogan in 1 minute…
#txlege
Gov.
@SarahHuckabee
live on
@foxandfriends
discussing
@arkansasguard
mission to the Southern border to assist Texas law enforcement because the federal government is failing to secure our borders.
Arkansas governor asks Biden administration to rescind Pentagon abortion policy after colonel's resignation. (Note: He took the job AFTER the policy was in place.)
Embarrassing. A lineup of white Republicans who oppose affirmative action and diversity efforts and effectively endorse school segregation and racial gerrymanders commandeer civil rights spotlight. Get real.
Today was a proud day to be an Arkansan as we unveiled a statue of one of our finest, Daisy Lee Gatson Bates, in the sacred halls of the U.S. Capitol. May this statue always symbolize the justice that Mrs. Bates sought.
Is anybody in the Arkansas Press Association brave enough to report HRH Sarah’s spending habits unearthed by Blue Hog FOI requests likely killed in future by legislation the ‘press’ lobby lauded? State cops at Eurodisney?
In Arkansas interrupting a state address is considered rude behavior. Heckling President Biden while he is talking about the death of his son, a veteran, is beyond the pale. The
@ARGOP
is keeping some strange friends these days. Arkansas deserves to expect better than this.
As of this morning, roughly 43% of baby formula across the nation is out of stock - a 29% jump from Nov 2021. Stores have begun rationing formula, leaving parents unable to get what they need to keep their children fed. We need effective leadership to combat this crisis.
In Podiumgate the Trump
Defense emerges. Traveling Trumpette justifies scandalous conduct by saying state purchasing law doesn’t apply to governor. Just like FOI, Constitution and simple decency.
#etatcestsarah
More questions for
@alexahenning
Is it correct that the governor declined to speak to both Boys State and Girls State? Is this another example of her refusal to appear in uncontrolled forums where hard questions might be asked?
You left out the part about how segregationist Southern democrats became Republicans and rose to power on the ‘Southern strategy’ of preserving discrimination
The Civil War started because the American people elected an anti-slavery Republican as president and Democrats revolted rather than accept minor restrictions on the expansion of slavery to the western territories.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and First Gentleman Bryan Sanders paid for their family's commercial flight, their hotel and their tickets to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas earlier this month, a spokeswoman for Sanders said on Wednesday.