Arkansas Blog

Oh what tangled webs we mortals weave.

Looks to me that Asa was hung up with Saflink, like 2 dogs in the back yard way too early for this to smell good. What I can't understand.....if Asa is making himself rich in DC off his brief unproductive time at Homeland Security, why the dual desire to become Governor of Arkansas?

He's boning and being boned quit successfully in DC, must he come bone us too? Pick a side of the fence Asa and stay on it! Such a bad dog!

It looks to me like this is Beebe's attempt to change the subject away from his "gay problem"

If only he could find another issue than Asa's tenure at homeland security. How many times do they have to anwer the same question. Asa got a waiver.

That may not be good enough for the dems or the people of Arkansas, but that's the answer.

Now either run a commercial about it or shut up, but don't keep sending out press releases rehashing the same thing.

Homeland Security

Did the job it was designed to do, there have been no more terrorist attacks since 9-11 in the USA. Which tells me
ASA got the job done.
What has Bebee done, beside lose the Lakeview rehash case, which any normal person that respect the people of thier state, would not have done.

"That may not be good enough for the dems or the people of Arkansas, but that's the answer."

Fair enough, so Asa won't be upset if the dems and the people of Arkansas decides not to vote for him. Send us a Christmas card from DC Asa! Bye bye! Don't forget to write! So long! Bye bye!

I find it quite funny that the Party's coordinated campaign has cut Jason Willett completely out of the loop.

The above statement should have quoted a party's chairman. But Wilett probably has no credibilty anymore. So they quoted Mr. Hale instead.

Not quoting Jason Willett, the so-called leader of the Democratic Party, speaking is a huge slap to Willett's face.

And, I would hasten to add, a smart move by Beebe's people to keep that town-drunk quiet and out of the news. They're smarter than I thought they were.

It looks to me like this is Beebe's attempt to change the subject away from his "gay problem"

If only he could find another issue than Asa's tenure at homeland security. How many times do they have to anwer the same question. Asa got a waiver.

Come on now, that dog ain't gonna hunt. I'm sure Congress Waxman isn't helping Beebe "change the subject".

"How many times do they have to anwer the same question. Asa got a waiver."

Really, well it appears by this story that the congressional investigators have as of yet not seen this "waiver". If they'd of seen it then I imagine to poor misunderstood Asa would not have been mentioned in this report.

Questions of ethical misconduct in a political race? Stop the presses! Stop the presses!

Then go shoot yourself.

Did the job it was designed to do, there have been no more terrorist attacks since 9-11 in the USA. Which tells me
ASA got the job done.

Sure did, billions of dollars to his fellow brethern and couple of pennies for himself. Heck of a Job

Heck of a job, Asa!

I have a new Arkansas political blog that I just started today if anyone is interested.

www.arkstar.blogspot.com

Funny, I haven't had a rash or any cockroaches since 9-11. Can we credit Asa with that too? Heck of a job!

"The state Democratic Party's coordinated campaign"

Of which the Arkansas Times is apparently a part of.

And again you wonder why you aren't on the "press" list?

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I agree with your thoughts on Wilett. This is a statement he would have spooged all over himself to make.

Speaking of waivers.....anybody seen a copy of it...or got a link to where it might be found?.....get a clue? Frank? Anybody?

Also, speaking of 9-11 how many times does it have to be said, repeated from the 9-11 Commission report that 9-11 was what 6 years in the planning? Bout time for another one maybe? ASA?

Not yet, but I'll bet he'll "produce" one, courtesy of Darth Cheney when needed.

And that's another thing - if he's been say on and on and on he's got a waiver - where the hell is it?

Every time Beebe gets in any trouble they trot this same old worn out attack. At what pooint does it stop being news?

Sorry "curious", Beebe didn't send this report out - the congressional oversigt committee did - call Congressman Waxman.

It stops being news when you boy produces the waiver and then the question will be - what is the WH doing giving waivers to future X appointees for? To garner a little nest egg before they vacate? Now IMHO, that's "santorum". The next question will be - if Hutchinson got a "waiver", how many more Bush appointees got one? To glean favorable contracts and board appointments, when they were still on the Goverment tit? My guess is that the WH doesn't want to open that can of whip ass.

To all the Democrat talking about Asa and ethics I have to words for you.

Drew Pritt.

To all the Democrat talking about Asa and ethics I have to words for you.

Drew Pritt.

Tim Hutchinson
Tom Delay
Newt Gingrich
Jack Ambramoff
Scooter Libby
Dick Cheney
..................................................................................................................................................................to tired to type the rest of the usual suspects

Bill Clinton
Hilary Clinton
Jessie Jackson
Sandy Berger
Robert Byrd
James Traficant
Drew Pritt
Nick Wilson
Dan Harmon

Off of the top of my head...to name a few of the usual suspects.

A new Congressional investigation into wasteful contracts and abuse of taxpayer money for Department of Homeland Security contracts on the watch of former DHS Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson raises new suspicious about the awarding of contracts to the Saflink company and Hutchinson?s nine-day ascension to the company board of directors after his departure from DHS.

Who is writing their press releases--a chimpanzee on crack?

Come to think of it, that's an uncalled for comment. A chimpanzee on crack writes better than this.

Next thing you know, they'll put out a release misspelling Hillary Clinton's name.

Oh, right, they already did that...

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Date:2006 May 03:
PAPER TRAILS
TAKE THE L TRAIN:
A press release from Bart Haynie, communications director of the Democratic Party of Arkansas, announcing New York Sen. Hillary Clinton ' s forthcoming July visit to the Arkansas Federation of Democratic Women ' s state convention as guest speaker had one problem. Clinton ' s first name was misspelled (with only one l ) throughout. Oops!

town drunk nailed it...for anyone paying attention...

"The above statement should have quoted a party's chairman. But Wilett probably has no credibilty anymore. So they quoted Mr. Hale instead."

Willett should be "nicer"...maybe then he'd be in the loop...

Nothing issued by Willett is taken seriously so they had to distance themselves. Another example of how far in the toilet Marion Berry has sunk the Democratic Party.

Knowledgable sources tell me that Mike Beebe and other major candidates have told Chairman Willett to shut up and stay out of the way when it comes to the real work of electing Dems.

Jason Willett has been emasculated by the Democratic establishment.

What little power he had has been taken away. The coordinated campaign will be the real power this fall.

What a sad ending for Willett. Biggest election in 20 years and he's been told to sit on the sidelines.

Willett is a pathetic drunken joke. He learned well from Berry. Now if only he can figure out how to get farm welfare.

I'm sick of Jason Willett, too.

He makes me want to scream.

Mr. Beebe, your only chance now is that enough of us whom you've alienated may come back to you if these odious Asa supporters keep this up. Just the thought of them holding a victory party this November may be enough for you to win my vote, but I'd be sure to vomit afterwards.

Anon 5:12,
OOps! George W. Bush was left off the list. Hummm, where is his that 666 anyway?

Mr. Beebe, your only chance now is that enough of us whom you've alienated may come back to you if these odious Asa supporters keep this up. Just the thought of them holding a victory party this November may be enough for you to win my vote, but I'd be sure to vomit afterwards.

I second that emotion.

Funny that Greg Hale is talking about ethics. Greg has money because his father, Larry, stole $7-8 million from the Bank of Lockesburg.

Larry Hale got a slap on the wrist from the feds and did not have to repay that money while many people who did business with Hale were force to file bankruptcy.

Greg Hale should explain how his sister was flown to her music lessons at the expense of people who trusted his father and lost their farms.

Greg Hale's family has no ethics and his pointing fingers as Asa is a joke.

I feel a lot better knowing that Asa's gambit was approved by Homeland Security's "ethics department."

"... approved by the Department of Homeland Security's ethics department"

Nothing to worry about here, folks, just keep moving along.

Read the press release.

Where's the Beef?

So cough up the waiver. What's the problem with that? If you got it as you say, pull the evidence out. Hutchinson at one time was an attorney - he'd be the first to reccommend to his client, if you got the evidence to prove your point - produce it.

PRODUCE IT. I'ts that simple.

This is boring. Let's get back to Beebes gay problem!!!!

I love it - just keep talking about Beebe dissing the "gays". You yell loud enough and long enough - even Bubba will think that Beebe is anti-gay - hell, that's your issue - hate the gays. And Bubba and the other 32% of the total f***ing morans (TFM) thinks that gays are a threat to everything including the exsistance of the master race. Keep on spreading the word - because with the TFM the truth has nothing to with reality and your just helping Beebe with the TFM. Good work.

Oh and ya, where's the beef?

Why is that when ever Asa's ethics come up one of you TFM must bring up Drew Pritt who was never a serious contender, a decent fellow, but no cigar, no endorsement?

"The state Democratic Party's coordinated campaign"

Of which the Arkansas Times is apparently a part of.

And again you wonder why you aren't on the "press" list?

Seems AT had no problem getting a "press release" from A$a's campaign, pretty damn quick too.

This isn't the only thing about Asa? that's going to come out.

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Asa has given the press copies of the waiver. Do you have any other requests?

"Give me a break" if the waiver and supporting documents are so readily available how about posting them here for us all to see.......or at the very least post a link where they can be seen...........you do have that information don't you?

This isn't the only thing about Asa? that's going to come out.

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Ok, What's her name?

I am sorry, I am not a member of the press, so I do not have a copy, nor would I even know how to attach a document to a blog. Besides, since you are the one making the wild accusations, why don't you bring some evidence instead of accusing people of stuff (saflink and now woman problems) and then making other people prove otherwise. Thank God you aren't a lawyer

Get -

Even members of the press do not have the "document". If they did, this issue would have been moot and copies of the "waiver" would of been floating all over the net. And it's politics - Hutchinson can quite this storm by simpy producing the waiver.

This waiver sounds a lot like Bush's service records.

Roland - what service records? What DUI records? What abortion records?

Warrants? We don't need no stinking warrants!

I SEE A CONSPIRACY - ASA must be the most powerful man in the world. You libs really need to get a clue and regain your perspective. You have gone off the deep end in your hatred for Asa.

Again, where is the documentations that allowed Hutchinson to troll for dollars, contracts and juicy (profitable) board appointments while he was still drawing a government paycheck? Easily answered if you got the documentation.

You want to quite the conspiracy rants, produce the goods.

Here's the kind of "honest" stock this Hale guy comes from. His dad screwed my family out of our livliehood in Lockesburg.

Here's the news account of what Hale did to the bank our money and assets were in:

Rumors preceded bank shutdown; FDIC changes locks on front door

LOCKESBURG (AP) _ Some people didn't believe the Bank of Lockesburg would close even when rumors of its trouble persisted. There were still skeptics after federal officials moved in and changed the locks on the front door.

Milton Daniels said he found it difficult to believe the bank would close, although the rumors that it would had persisted for weeks. " A bank closing is all anybody talks about in a town this size,' Daniels, manager of a convenience store across U. S. Highway 71 from the Sevier County bank, said Friday after the bank was closed.

New bank to open Monday

State Bank Commissioner Marlin Jackson closed the state-chartered Bank of Lockesburg at 3 p.m. Friday. A new bank will open Monday in the same building. It was created Friday afternoon when the Department issued an emergency charter to a new holding company, De Witt First Bancshares, Inc., which was formed by First National Bank of De Witt, Jackson said. The new institution also will be called the Bank of Lockesburg.

Jackson said the Bank of Lockesburg had suffered loan losses of about $ 3 million because of "highly irregular and imprudent decisions' by former management.

" All we've heard is street talk,' said a waitress in the Tip Top restaurant, a hangout for bank employes across the highway from the bank. " I don't believe none of it until it's proven.'

Scene in bank frenetic

The scene inside the bank was frenetic. Employes of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation wore official-looking badges. Bank employes had hand-lettered nametags.

A locksmith was called to change the locks, and Sevier County sheriff's deputies stood guard.

" No one else has got the keys?' FDIC employe Maurice Houlihan Jr. asked the locksmith, who nodded. " You sure?'

Most of the 45 FDIC employes going over the assets of the bank arrived from Jackson, Miss., Friday afternoon.

" We're in the process of reviewing the bank's files,' said Ken Gorham, the closing manager for the FDIC regional office in Dallas. " We are continuing a thorough investigation of the reason or reasons the bank failed, and performing miscellaneous functions that go along with starting an office.'

" Uncollateralled loans'

Gorham said investigators are trying to see "why so many uncollateralled loans were made.'

The bank's former president, Larry Hale, made several loans to himself, some of which are under investigation by state and federal authorities, Jackson said. He said Hale resigned several weeks ago rather than be removed by the state Bank Department.
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Investor calls term too lenient
LOCKESBURG (AP)

Leonard Hampson, 55, the major stockholder of the defunct Bank of Lockesburg, says the prison sentence of the former president of the bank was too lenient.

Hampson made the statement in a recent interview. He owned more than a third of the stock in the bank when it closed May 31, 1985. Larry W. Hale, 41, of De Queen, former president of the bank, was indicted on 29 bank fraud charges in August. Hale pleaded guilty to six charges under a plea bargain agreement

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation estimated that failure of the Bank of Lockesburg cost the taxpayers about $7 million.

Hampson, in a victim-impact statement submitted to the United States Probation Department, said his residual feelings for Hale include resentment, betrayal, humiliation and distrust.

"What Larry Hale had done to his many friends who trusted him and relied on his judgment and integrity, to his family, to my family, to everyone associated with the former Bank of Lockesburg, to the supervisory authorities, the town, the county and the general area is beyond my comprehension," the statement said.

This isn't the only thing about Asa? that's going to come out.

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Ok, What's her name?

Posted by: Theresa

No, Theresa, its What's HIS name?
Wonder why he bashes gays so much. A little internalized oppression, that's why.

Ok, What's her name?

Her name is Theresa and she lives in Washington. This is not a huge secret. It's only a matter of time.

There are other things as well...

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As much as we know that politics is a nasty business. And as much as many of us feel that Beebe is the more qualified man for the Governor's seat. Let's keep the "personal rumors" down until if and when Anon's ticking bomb is presumedly set off.

Afterall, we are the better party and if any of these rumors are true - I'd much prefer to see the evidence before personal attacks come flying from our camp.

No supporter of Beebe's should talk about Women. Beebe has a string of them that would make Wilt Chamberlain be jealous. I don't believe the rumor about Asa is true, but I know that Mike Beebe does not want this campaign to head in that direction.

Alright, if you wanna talk 'stock,' how about Asa's philandering brother who had an affair with his staffer and divorced his wife for her? How about Asa's son, who had two DWI's in one year?

No one's family is perfect. You know what the bible says about casting stones.

There's more to Asa? than just philandering....

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OK anon, cough it up!!!

Asa isn't talking about Beebe's "problems". It is you liberals on this blog spreading vicious and baseless rumors.

You people are the meanest most vicious people I have ever encountered. It's no wonder nobody likes you, and you lose every election.

Go take one, and don't come back. And I'll have no sympathy for you when you weep crocodile tears on Nov. 7th.

"You people" got a lot nerve. After what you did to Bill Clinton? This is called payback, giving back with what you gave and Hutchinson as well, as he so gleefully and dutifully facilitated the unspeakable and unChristian attacks on him and his family. Jesus, have you no shame.

Whine all you want, you get what you earn and payback is hell in the poltical world.

Beebe doesn't want you talking about women. Get your talking points straight. Beebe's "travel aid" is getting divorced - wonder why?

Does that mean that Asa is getting Divorced - because brother Tim was an adulter and got a divorce? Please - attempt some credible logic.

The travel aid is a young woman. Does that help clear things up 5:25

There's a distinction? "wonder why"?

You imply that because she's a women and an aid to Beebe the divorce is Beebe's fault. How moranic and scarry and "Christian" is that thought process. Whoops - used the word thought - says it all.