Some rampant speculation and rumormongering for a post-holiday Friday afternoon. Who is (and might be) running for certain offices in 2014?
Category: Arkansas
Freedom (of Information) Isn't Free: How Mark Martin's Office Is Willingly Violating the FOIA
A funny thing happened when I asked Alex Reed for electronic copies of certain documents. And, by “funny,” I mean “predictably unethical.”
Help Wanted: Be A Part Of The BHR Experience
So, it’s apparently been nearly three weeks since I wrote something new here. That’s my bad. Lack of hustle on my part, for sure. But it does provide a nice segue into this… I’m looking to bring on an additional…
The Ongoing, Steadily Rising Cost Of Electing Utter Incompetence
Alt-title: “What Is Mark Martin Spending Money On THIS Time?” Earlier today, Arkansas Blog quoted a reader, who noted the double-barreled ridiculousness of Secretary of State Mark Martin asking the Attorney General’s office for an Official Opinion on the effective date…
Friday Gallimaufry
Odds and ends to end an odd week. Maybe “Natural State Compact”? You might have heard about a dispute between Arkansas State University and the Bill Halter campaign over the use of the phrase “Arkansas Promise.” Long story short, as…
Maybe Jason Rapert Needs Some (IRS) Probing Of His Own
Imagine that you are a proselytizing, woman hating, obliquely racist, Bob Wills-wannabe of a state Senator. In your prior campaign, you used a P.O. Box associated with your home in Bigelow. Now you are running for reelection and, because a large…
Marky's On A Vacation Far Away . . . .
Let’s do a little quick recap of some laws. Per the Arkansas Constitution, Article 6, section 21, one of the duties of the Secretary of State is to “keep a full and accurate record of all the official acts and…
Dumbo
The picture to the left is a screenshot from Pat Lynch’s Facebook page on May 17. In response to Pat’s Democrat-Gazette column from May 16, entitled “Arrows Are Flying,” the commenter “Grizz Lee Bear” wrote: Pat, I was very disappointed…
The FEC-kless Doug Matayo
So, the Secretary of State’s Office’s official explanation for the car stuff is, basically, that there are rules in place, and everyone, including Mark Martin and Doug Matayo, follows the rules to the letter? You may recall that Matayo ran…
Alice In Blunderland
There was a lot of stuff to unpack in Thursday’s D-G article about the Secretary of State’s use of state cars. The biggest thing, however, was the misleading (at best) nature of Alice Stewart’s comments and explanations. So, with the…