Arkansas Blog

You regularly pulish long releases from Democrats (but not Beebe, he doesn't send them as that would be substantive).

Every day I see a "full release after the jump" link, but funny that you won't do it here.

Seegar smoker, get your own blog and make up your own editorial rules.

Let's look at what Brummett himself said about Mike Beebe and Nick Wilson just a few years ago... Its likely that Beebe was aware of Wilson's scheme, its an irrefutable fact that Beebe's best friend wrote the bill that created Wilson's scheme, and its also a fact that Beebe voted to keep the scheme in force after its authorizing legislation was vetoed.

John Brummett
Sept. 18, 1997

State Sen. Mike Beebe of Searcy golfed Thursday with Bill Clinton out at Chenal. Perhaps the president advised him between mulligans on how to overcome overwhelming political odds and
withstand the innuendo of scandal based on peripheral associations.

Beebe's problems are as simple as one-two-three:
1. Some Democratic legislative insiders cozy with Wilson, the official state rascal, got caught pushing through a measure they then abused to route absurdly lucrative contracts for representing children in chancery court custody cases to a pair of legislators, a lobbyist who formerly was Tucker's top aide and a former legislative staff lawyer. Beebe's best pal, Sen. Morril Harriman of Van Buren, sponsored one of the bills that got abused. Another of his pals, Sen. Steve Bell of Batesville, who formerly handled Tucker's legislation, prepared the incorporation papers for two of the abusing insiders.

2. Huckabee is milking for all it's worth his innocent outsiderism against these greedy maneuvers of Democratic legislators. Huckabee can boast, and ought to boast, that he vetoed an element of the bill setting up this spectacularly abused appropriation. The Democratic Legislature overrode his veto. Beebe voted to override after Wilson urged his Senate colleagues to join him in doing so.

3. Beebe is often described as an insider's insider at the Legislature -- as, in fact, the most accomplished and effective member therein. His command of legislative detail has been extolled in this space and elsewhere, nearly universally. His choices are to plead innocent in the aforementioned shenanigans and appear less the wise, savvy, all-knowing legislator, but one oblivious to this scheme and perhaps others, or to assert his legislative competence and vitality, in which case he would need to explain his acquiescence to such a disgrace.
I can hear the Huckster now in a debate: "Senator Beebe, it says in the paper that you run the Legislature. Lord knows I don't have any influence down there. I'm just trying to get you to own up to your press clippings. And then you might be so kind as to explain to us how you and Senator Wilson and assorted former allies of Jim Guy Tucker managed to feather the nests of pals to the tune of $750,000 by abusing a program designed for kids, for kids, even after I tried to do the right thing by vetoing this outrage."

John Brummett
Sep. 25, 1997

Much of this story is printed in black-and-white in records of the recent legislative session, which show that:

* The budget of the Administrative Office of the Courts was amended by Todd to add $1.5 million each year of the biennium for grants to lawyers to represent children in custody cases in four pilot projects.

* A "Joint Budget amendment," a powerful little rider cleverly credited not to an individual but to a generic group, later mandated in effect that the $3 million would be fully funded ahead of various other constitutional agencies. Sen. Nick Wilson of Pocahontas admits to knowing about the amendment, understanding it and supporting it. He can't recall if he actually was the one who proposed it at a Joint Budget meeting, but he owns up to having explained the rationale to his colleagues.

* Huckabee line-item vetoed the amendment establishing the priority funding for the Administrative Office of the Courts, saying it was bad policy.

* On the day the Legislature reassembled to override vetoes, it overrode with little notice the governor's line-item veto of the priority funding amendment for the administrative office. The effect was to protect priority funding for that $3 million from which the $750,000 flowed to legislative insiders.

Wilson told me Wednesday that without the amendment, the Finance and Administration Department could have funded only the ongoing programs of the court's administrative office and denied the children's legal aid program if money ran short.

"Hey, there was nothing secret about this program," Wilson said. "Todd's been working on it for years, bugging people about it, including me at times. I'm not saying all 135 people knew about it. But, you know, the ones you would expect to know -- they knew."
One would expect state Sen. Morril Harriman of Van Buren to know. He sponsored the revisions in the juvenile code authorizing the new program. He is co-chairman of the special language subcommittee of Joint Budget. He is widely credited with knowing darned near everything that goes on in the Legislature in hip-jointed insiderdom with his best pal, Sen. Mike Beebe of Searcy.

Well, tough to argue with Brummett there. After all, he's a hardcore Beebe-guy, and look what even he had to admit to with Beebe and Wilson:

Beebe knew about Nick Wilson's scheme.

Beebe voted to override a veto that would have stopped Wilson's scheme.

Beebe didn't run in '98 because people still remembered Wilson. He raised money to run, but backed out. He knew people still remembered.

Beebe still cannot escape the Wilson story, nor should he be able to. He's hoping the people of Arkansas have forgotten Wilson, and praying the Dem-Gaz doesn't revisit history.

Hey guys, does anyone know if the losers have endorsed the victors in the LG and AG races yet? Just wondering if they have the class to do the right thing...

Why don't you trools stop reposting stuff from the Wing-Nut Asa Shill Blogs? Just because your sites don't have the readership of the AT Blog doesn't warrant your trying to hijack every thread. Why not just post the links to Arkfam/watch/truth/asa/rpa blogs, then those interested can visit and kick up your counters?

You'd be surprised at the readership of at least one of the more conservative blogs. The AT has listed their hits publicly, and they're 'bout the same.

ARK. BLOG There is a VAST difference between unique visitors and hits. We have never listed "hits" to my knowledge. It's a term with little value. We had 13 million "hits" in May, for example.

Trolls?

Looks like those folks be repeatin' Brummett. How can we argue with him?

Beebe?....there ain't enough mustard in the Frenchie's factory to cover this hotdog. Asa 60% hot dog 40%

Asa better find some more out of state sweetheat boards to join. Hell, we all get to cash in for millions for doing nothing. I bet the so in so won't share and I also bet he will never pay a dime of ARKANSAS income tax on his ill-gotten gain. Hey repubs- you better get him to share with you before November.

Just believe!

I believe in Arkansas. I'll say nothing else, except that I expect your vote.

-Mike Beebe

What can ASA offer the people of Arkansas coming from washington insider republican party! Asa was Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security. Is this the same border with mexico THAT"S still wide open for Osama's people to come across. Now the Bush pigs are sending national guard troops when there not serving in the bogged down iraqi civil war that W created for those socalled saber rattling WMD's.

P.S.
Congressional Democrats Pass GOP in Funds

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/20/D8IC63BO2.html

Asa got a sweetheart deal because of his experience and smarts. Wal-mart execs get millions in stock shares just to get them to come to Wal-Mart - before they ever do anything and they don't have to invest any money.

Wal-Mart is willing to give these sweetheart deals because the execs have smarts and experience and can benefit the company, not because they are corrupt. That sounds like business. You liberals wouldn't understand because you have never had a job in the private sector.

I know your not talking to this Moderate to Conservative Democrat who is also a Veteran!

It's funny have the right trys to say all Democrats are liberals . Could I assume that all republicans are Bush CHICKENHAWK nazis? Hmmmm!

We must keep in mind between now and November every kind of wingnut trick, lie and strategy is going to be pulled on this blog and everyone else until the last day when an all out effort nationwide to steal the vote will occur.

The marbles this November directly effect the 2008 marbles and everything that will happen over the next 2 years. The Republicans are running scare as they should be. They're folks have spent over 5 years filling their pockets while doing the most amazingly bad job in the history of this country.

When you corner a rat and there is no other choice they will bite you. So put on your hip boots and remember every hour from now until election day will be filled with hate, lies, phony predictions, slander, tricks, false leads and the best bullshit invented by man and Rove.

The dipsticks in Congress know the real war is going on in America, not in Iraq. Whoever wins in Iraq gets some oil, a nation of pissed off people and a whole lot of sand, whoever wins in America gets the pot of gold. Expect the worse.....we're going to see it.

Hey DBI:

Do you feel that Brummett is something besides a trick?

I think I agree with Brummett about half the time. I can't think of a time I thought he was tricking someone.

Sarcasm now and then yes, but not out right trickery like I've witnessed from my new crush, David Sanders.