Secretary of State Mark Martin has added another Republican Party activist to his public payroll. Mark Myers, a Van Buren ad man who handled Martin’s campaign radio advertising, has been hired as a “project coordinator” for $58,711. What types of projects will he coordinate? Will he continue to live in Van Buren and “coordinate” from there? These are questions Martin’s press person, Alice Stewart, has so far declined to answer.

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