Seeing Martha Adcock and A.J. Kelly preen like they’d shown some amount of legal acumen and had personally accomplished something on Tuesday, you would assume that Judge Tim Fox’s ruling, dismissing my AFOIA suit with prejudice, rested on some serious legal analysis. You sure wouldn’t guess that, instead, Augustine had stammered through all of five words and had been the lucky recipient of an unsupportable and tremendously flawed ruling.
Tag: Mark Martin
12/6/13 Gallimaufry: Snow-Day Edition (UPDATED: 12/7/13)
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!
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…
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.
Thoughts & Observations About Campbell v. Martin
As Secretary of State Mark Martin continues to waste tax dollars by appealing yesterday’s disqualification of his hired attorneys, rather than simply letting his in-house attorneys or the Attorney General’s office handle something as straightforward as a FOIA lawsuit, I…
A Funny Thing About Mark Martin's Hiring Of Outside Counsel….
There are any number of reasons that a person might find himself in a lawsuit against the Arkansas Secretary of State. Maybe he wants to have his name on a ballot. Maybe he wants to have an issue placed on…
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…
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…