I see. So, what you’re saying is that even though you are an almost-paralyzed, multiphobic personality who is in a constant state of panic, your wife did not leave you; you left her because she … didn’t get to this…
Tag: Campaigning
AR-Land Comm: Thurston Gets It
Credit where it’s due: as promised by his campaign earlier today, John Thurston replied to my email. I just spoke with the Ethics Commission. You are absolutely right according to law a PAC must have a registered resident agent. Although,…
AR-Sec. State: Mo' Money, Mo' Problems
It’s a funny thing, being really obsessive about fact-checking and following leads. For example, most people who were reviewing a list of donors to a campaign would not take the time to verify that those PACs were properly formed. I…
AR-Sec. State: A lie has speed, but truth has endurance
Two days ago, when writing about Representative Mark Martin’s assertion that he had his district office (for which he is reimbursed by the state) at 9310 Wagon Wheel Rd. in Springdale, which is where he also claimed that his company,…
AR-Sec. State: Tangled Up In Blue Hog Report
Alt-title: Oh, what a tangled world-wide web we weave… Last night, when I scheduled today’s 9 a.m. post about Rep. Mark Martin’s apparent abuse of state reimbursements and possible ethics violations, I was pretty sure that one post would not…
AR-Sec. State: Oh, Look, There's More
For background, read this post first. In it, I wrote Nor is a little confusion about overlapping address use the only issue here. Consider, too, Martin’s phone. The above invoice lists M3‘s phone number as (479) 466-7386, and the company’s…
AR-Sec. State: Martin Does His Best Gordon Gekko Impression
A week ago, Secretary of State candidate Pat O’Brien released a statement pointing out that “for just the year 2009[,] [Representative Mark] Martin had charged taxpayers $56,290.00 for reimbursements in addition to his legislative salary.” O’Brien further “charged that Rep.…
AR-Sec. State: A Brief Lesson In Grammar, Punctuation, & Syntax For Rep. Mark Martin
After Pat O’Brien suggested that Mark Martin owed the public a full accounting of the expenses and mileage for which Martin was reimbursed, especially with respect to Martin being reimbursed for attending meetings that were apparently optional (i.e. Martin was…
AR-02: New Motto For The Dem-Gaz Opinion Page — "Like Fox News, Only With A Much Smaller Audience"
I finally got around to reading the pro-Timmy! Griffin op-ed that appeared in the “Democrat”-Gazette a few days ago. Even by that paper’s standards, the column was disgusting. Let’s get right to dissecting this thing. LITTLE ROCK — WITH THE…
AR-02: Social Media Usage and Analysis
While we looked at the candidates’ social-media presence fairly often during the primary, we haven’t done much with it since. To that end, I am going to review the online presence of each candidate (not counting independents or write-ins) in…