Legislative Audit’s Report on Mark Darr, Mark Martin’s FOIA hearing, Mark Darr’s Ethics hearing, and Chad Niell’s huge waste of money. Good times!
Category: Law
11/12/13 Gallimaufry
If this blog were a goldfish, it would have died from neglect days ago. That’s poor hustle on my part. But enough about that — let’s pretend like we haven’t missed a beat and go straight to the odds and…
Kelly's Zeroes: Staying Busy At Taxpayer Expense
Prior to Mark Martin’s (regrettably) taking office in 2011, Augustine John Kelly–known to most as AJ–worked in part as the city attorney for Fairfield Bay, Arkansas, earning $48, 746.00 from the resort town in 2010 alone. In 2011, he took…
Let's Broaden Our Circle – Worst Speech at the Value Voters Summit of 2013
Before you go believing Mark Levin and talking about an Article V convention, there’s something you should know: the math doesn’t work. Like, not even a little bit. That might not matter to the guy selling books, but it might matter to the people who want to know whether he makes any sense. (He doesn’t.)
An Open Letter Regarding Tort Reform In Arkansas
At its most basic, “tort reform” is nothing more than a direct assault on Arkansas Constitution and on the principles behind Bill of Rights. When you remove or limit the right of a citizen to have a trial by jury and have the community of his peers decide what his injuries are worth, you subvert Article 2, section 7, of the Arkansas Constitution and you imply that you think the Framers of the Constitution were off base when they included the Seventh Amendment.
Not So Puzzling: A Predictable, Ongoing Failure to Follow the AFOIA
Let’s play a game. It works like this: I’ll share part of an email that I received earlier today from a reader named Brian, but I’ll remove the office that he’s referring to, and we’ll see how many of you…
A Highly Ironic Email, Courtesy of Mark Martin's Office
The Secretary of State’s Office accidentally released an email that shows an employee engaging in political activity from his state computer on state time.
I know! The irony is fantastic! But the whole thing gets even better when you dig a little, as these things often do.
SD-21: Chad Neill Fined $21K For Doing Business Without License
The Arkansas Securities Department, apparently unpersuaded by the inane and meritless arguments of supporters of Chad Niell, has fined the State Senate candidate $21,000.00 for engaging in money-transfer services for three years without a license. Here is the consent order.…
SD-21: Chad Niell Makes A Statement, Says Nothing
Chad Niell’s campaign manager said the previous post was full of errors. Spoiler: It wasn’t. But Niell’s statement about it was.
SD-21: Chad Niell & The Paper(work) Tiger
One of the Republican candidates for the seat vacated by Paul Bookout, Chad Niell, is the President of Tiger Commissary Services, Inc., d/b/a Tiger Correctional Services. Since the late 1990s, Tiger has provided an increasingly broad range of services to the…