Arkansas Blog

"We got a tip that Attorney
General Dustin McDaniel was
looking into items Mike
Huckabee took with him "

McDaniel pretty much gave that tip himself the other night on Unconventional Wisdom. He didn't seem concerned about some of Huckabee's doings, but when he took Beebe's furniture, Beebe turned around and "borrowed" the furniture in McDaniel's office. That got the AG's attention!

"I doubt many people, even Huckabee's detractors, have a great hunger for a Kenneth Starr-style probe"

Wrongo! I think it would be just ducky to let loose a Democratic Ken Starr on the Republicans from sea to shining sea. Americans were in no danger of being swindled by Whitewater or blown by Monica when Starr began his investigation into a land deal that lost the Clinton's money and uncovered sex between a middle aged man and a young girl

Today we have an ex-Governor who cost us nearly half a million for new computers, cost us half a million to a million by disbursing the Emergency fund down to the very last penny. Showed up poor and left rich and has now carelessly slaughtered the largest newspaper in the state to cover his lying ass.

Nationally, we have corruption in Congress that is paralyzing. We have madmen in the White House destroying our Constitution while enriching their friends over the dead bodies of our troops and 700 thousand innocent Iraqis.

We are without habeas corpus for the first time since Abe Lincoln. We shiver in our homes so Bush's buddies can get 212 million dollar retirement gifts. And despite the election losses last November the Bush bullets are still tearing us to shreds.

So bring on that giant Ken Starr type investigation. I can take it! I can dig it! It might save us in the nick of time. It will only cost a fraction of what the next old oil man will get in his golden parachute.

What happend to the stuff in the governor's office, the stuff Clinton and Tucker used? It was there until Huckabee ruined the historic quartersaw oak paneling by slathering paint over it and made what was a dignified office look like a whorehouse. Did he take the stuff to the lake house? is it in the North Little Rock McHuckabee mansion? Curious minds want to know.

When Tucker left he took everything him, didn't even leave a paper clip. Now if McDaniel wants to start a witch hunt, I would suggest he starts with his buddy jason willett. I am sure he could find a conflict of interest between willett getting cash for liquor permits in craighead county while his brother in-law langley is the head of the ABC.

"I doubt many people, even Huckabee's detractors, have a great hunger for a Kenneth Starr-style probe"

I'm with DBI...bring it on! If we made it through the Starr/Clinton nonsense, having real shenanigans investigated will be a real treat. I'm sick, however, of the same tired reason being given by politicos when they whitewash crimes by other politicos. The 'for the good of the country' excuse should have been permanently buried with Ford/Nixon. Everyone getting the same treatment under the law is what we need.

When they replaced Frist, a Republican, with Starr, an unscrupulous zealot, the entire investigation lost any hope of credibility. (At least Paula got an expensive makeover... though the rest of her remained unchanged.)

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""I doubt many people, even Huckabee's detractors, have a great hunger for a Kenneth Starr-style probe"

I rarely find reason to disagree with you but sensing the feelings of thousands of Arkansans I cannot sit by and allow such a travesty to transpire without registering protest

Investigate the bastard until the cows come home. Make an art of it.
See how far-reaching it can go.
It's not payback, it's justice, for one and all.
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"No title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States; And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."
U.S. Constitution, Article I.

If the issue truly is angst over loss of public records and the public's right to know, where has the angst been for the last half dozen years or so, on a biennial basis when about a third of the legislature has turned over? Why hasn't there been a hue and cry regarding the information stored on the computers that the outgoing legislators were using? They had material stored on their hard drives that was deleted, scrubbed, and rendered unavailable to the supposedly rightful viewing by the public. Where is the angst to see the information on the machines that have been replaced due to old age, etc. in the legislature or legislative staffers when they left office. Do you really think that information wasn't deleted posthaste? Whre is the angst to see the information on the drives from when Jimmie Lou and her crew left, or Beebe left the AG's office, or Gus left the Treasurer's office? Yes, let's make sure private information isn't available. But surely we can all have some angst over the hundreds of documents and drives and computers scrubbed, denying the very public who pays for it, access to this valuable public information. Or, is it just you are ater Huckabee so much you are blinded to the exact same thing going on elsewhere in state government on a very regular basis? Maybe crushing the drives went too far, maybe not. But the information from the legisalature or Beebe or Gus or Daniels or Jimmie Lou or other constitutionals or legislative staffers is just as gone and just as unavailable as that from the governor's office. Let's make sure we do everything on an equal basis or admit it is just when Huckabee does something that it is wrong. If it is wrong to delete the information, scrub the drives, or deprive the public from purusing it, then it is equally wrong for all to be doing it, not just one.

ARK. BLOG: I won't quarrel with that and I haven't concluded that a hard-drive scrub was "wrong," though I lean strongly to feeling that crushing the hard drives was a bad idea. And that Huckabee played fast and loose with other hard goods that similarly should be covered by clearer rules. Some of this is belated thoughts about the new age. We equip public officials with cell phones, blackberries, etc. What becomes of them when people leave office? What about the records of their use? I'm not sure any of this has been adequately considered at any level of government. And that's my point. This could be a catalyst for discussion and progress, even without a negative verdict on the governor. His actions speak loudly enough from my point of view.

No matter whether one plans on purusing it or perusing it. Gotta get new glasses or run spell checker

Al Al Al! It's about the money! I don't care what info was lost, though it might have been juicy in places. I'm upset because of the money spent to crush the hard drives and the money spent to replace the missing hard drives and the money spent to buy new computers to the tune of 4 or 5 times what they cost on the open market.

I will gladly go away and never be heard from again if you will pay me 4000 bucks a piece for 27 desktop computers and 22 laptop computers. I'll take that fantastic profit and live like a king for the rest of my life. My needs are small, I can buy them all at a 5 and 10 cent store.....

I would hope Governor Beebe will conduct himself in such a way that at the end of his time in office no hard drives will have to be crushed. Time will tell. But Al.....it's that god-awful waste of taxpayer money that I've got my panties in a wad about.