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…
Tag: State-Car Controversy
"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…
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
Wednesday night, as I was writing the two posts that went up yesterday, I sort of assumed that the gap between the first post and the second post would be filled with a deafening silence from the Secretary of State’s…
"Habit rules the unreflecting herd." –Wm. Wordsworth
I’m not exactly breaking new sociological ground when I say that we humans are creatures of habit. We do the same things, at roughly the same time, on a roughly regular basis. You might not be able to set your…
Dude, Where's My (State-Owned) Car?
The rumor, according to a current employee of the Secretary of State’s Office (who, for obvious reasons, wishes to remain anonymous), was that the office had purchased the 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid due to its above average gas mileage, which…
AR-Sec. State: A Pay Cut For Mark Martin?
While looking into the state car issue and trying to figure out the impact of the new Republican constitutional officers’ refusal of state cars, I realized that there is a bit of a silver lining to Arkansans electing someone wholly…
AR-Land Comm: Bryant's New Ad
Democrat candidate for Land Commissioner L.J. Bryant offers up a new commercial. As I mentioned yesterday, Bryant’s promise not to take a state car extends to not accepting an allowance in lieu of a state car.
AR-Land Comm: Bryant Will Refuse State Car, Car Allowance
I almost forgot to mention this. Democrat candidate for Land Commissioner, L.J. Bryant, released a statement Monday stating that, if elected, he would not accept a state-owned vehicle. The full release is after the jump. In pertinent part, it reads:…
In The Blogs: Tolbert Tackles Auto Issue
I was going to chime in a with few thoughts on the StateVehicleGate thing, but I see that Jason Tolbert absolutely nailed it. So I will just link to his post, blockquote some of it, and note that this is…