"Whistleblower says governor’s office illegally altered, withheld records related to podium purchase
An anonymous former state employee came forward Friday claiming to have evidence that the #Arkansas governor’s office doctored documents and unlawfully withheld financial records that should have been made public under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA."
There are Primary Elections today in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. Wisconsin also has primaries today along with ballot measures to vote on.
Arkansas and Mississippi voters have runoff elections today to decide a handful of legislative seats that were sent to runoffs after primaries held in March.
Josh Marshall tells you everything you ever wanted to know — and then some — about Arkansas' "Podiumgate" story. Sarah Huckabee Sanders! Money! Secrecy! Circumvention of FOIA requessts! Lies!
And corruption galore! The kind of corruption that can only be conjured up nowadays in a state totally controlled by Republicans, especially bible-belt ones. The kind of corruption the US hasn't seen since the gilded age.
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👉🏼👉🏼A federal judge struck down #Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional Tuesday, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states adopt similar restrictions. #trans#healthcare#legal#LGBTQ
BREAKING: #Arkansas Supreme Court reinstates four voter suppression laws ahead of the 2024 elections, reversing a lower court's ruling that the laws violated the state constitution.
"If you vote for Sanders to run your state, then your punishment could very well become Sanders running your state. Now Arkansas has a governor who’s world-famous not for her keen mind or nuanced policy stances, but for her dedication to being the most prolific bullshit factory in politics."
Under Gov Sarah Huckabee Sanders, nearly 220,000 #Arkansas residents have lost their health insurance coverage. Just since April 1.
Politico’s Megan Messerly:
Arkansas just released its June #Medicaid renewal data — which means we now have data for three of the 6 mos of its unwinding process. Nearly 220K Arkansans have lost coverage since April 1, nearly 150K of them for procedural reasons. #HealthCare#HuckaBS
The word that should stand out for us as we look at states like Arkansas, which are now dominated by one-party Republican rule, is the word corruption.
The corruption we see on full display among Republican leaders in states like Arkansas or Texas now is unparalleled in recent history and points back to the corrupt 1890s.
"If everything you know is passed through word of mouth and from generation to generation—if the land and olive trees are gone, and the places that birthed recipes and stories are gone—stories are all that’s left."
“#Arkansas temporarily blocked from enforcing law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians & booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors…
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to areas not accessible by kids” #legal
A bill #Arkansas lawmakers will take up during a special session next week would hide all information about where Gov. #SarahHuckabeeSanders travels on the state dime and with whom, retroactively to before she took office. The proposal comes the same week a lawsuit was filed over the #ArkansasStatePolice’s ongoing refusal to share the names of the governor’s travel companions and some of her travel expenses.
a lot of #christofascist#evangelical#homeschoolers are starved by their parents until they "earn their keep" with domestic, sometimes farming and trades labor. these are not chores but full domestic jobs.
"A federal lawsuit filed in Little Rock Monday against Ted Suhl, the former behavioral health services mogul convicted of bribing a state official but later set free by then-President Donald Trump, describes decades of alleged 'systematic and widespread' child abuse by staff members at Suhl’s now-defunct Lord’s Ranch."
Marine Glisovic reports that after Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed Jamol Jones to the state Board of Corrections, it was found he had been fired by the Benton, Arkansas, police department for having sex with a 17-year-old girl.
As Austin Bailey reports, Sanders' spokesperson Alexa Henning is defending the appointment because Jones talks about God and family.
As Christa Brown, who has followed the Southern Baptist Convention's evasions of truth and political machinations for years, when it comes to dealing with sexual abuse of vulnerable people, says, we'd never have gotten the truth about Paul Pressler without lawsuits.
Because the SBC was determined to resist at all costs letting the truth be known.
Brown concludes: Let the lawsuits continue and proliferate.
To wit: "Just last week, in Arkansas, clergy sex abuse survivors filed a lawsuit naming not only First Baptist Church of Benton but also the SBC, SBC Executive Committee, Arkansas Baptist State Convention, and Central Baptist Association. It’s a dreadful case involving allegations that scores of boys were sexually victimized over the course of 20 years…."