You know that clear rule about campaigns not being allowed to donate directly to another campaign unless it’s for a “ticketed event” or some other shady loophole?
Yeah…Jason Rapert doesn’t care about such things. He donates how he wants to donate, because ‘Merica! Freedom! Librul bias!
Category: Ethics
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.”
Joint Address & Removing Martha Shoffner From Office
The indictment pie served to Martha Shoffner over the past few days, and the impeachment talk that has followed, brings up an interesting wrinkle of Arkansas constitutional law: the two procedures for removal of a sitting constitutional officer. Under Arkansas…
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…
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…
"The United States has a system of taxation by confession." –Hugo Black
[Author’s note: The post kind of piggybacks Alison Slider’s article in the D-G today. One slight correction to that article, however; it was a current employee who tipped me off about the improper car use, not a former employee.] In…
Justin Harris (R-Disingenuous)
I love the word “logomachy,” primarily because it sounds cool when you say it, but, also, because it amuses me to think that there’s a word for a battle over words. (I am similarly entertained by “lethologica,” which is a…