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Max,

On first pass, I read the article to say that Critcher had spent $17,000 on one conference. However, I belive it is just a poorly written sentence. Note that if he, in fact, spent $17,000 on one trip, he must not have claimed per diem or milage any other timeof the year. My shock was with the western roaming retiree.

ARK. BLOG: You may be right, but that's what the sentence said. It should not detract from $50,000 in expenses and per diem, an ungodly amount however he compiled it.

23% of a school's students can't meet literacy standards. The same school takes $90,000 out of the teacher's salary pool and pays the coach, a coach who has absolutely NO class room responsibility. What wonderful stewards of our taxes.

NO tax money...ZERO..should be spent on any sports program in the schools. If the tax payers of a school district wants a sports program it should be voluntary just like the Boy's Club or YWCA.
This whole sham is a disgrace. These "coaches" should get a real job and not a position of a high paid ass chewer to children! They all think they are the coach of the NY Giants ! What ever tax money is spent on sports should be returned to the real estate owners who pay for this waste. The payback should be paid back based on the ones who paid the most gets the most back.

Yes these are good revelations and well timed and well needed. Barrett I think we've found some common ground with your rant on high school athletics. Good post.

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Max, the hyper link to ADG NWA edition is not valid, takes you to the pay-only site.

Here are the copy-paste links:

Coaches salaries: http://www.nwarktimes.com/adg/national/218420/

Legislative expenses: http://www.nwarktimes.com/adg/national/218420/

Severance tax: http://www.nwarktimes.com/adg/national/218421/

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How about the two legislators that drove to Boston at a cost of $1400+ each, one because she doesn't fly and no reason for not flying for the other. The story says airfare was $400+ & $700+ for those that flew so we paid them at the minimum twice the rate and the maximum of 3 1/2 times the air rate. If you don't want to fly don't go. I also liked the one that collected per diem for his long meandering trip out west that was 1700 miles longer than the most direct route, but he got paid for it.

How many Jesus Jim Holts are in the Ark Legislature? The state Senate and House seats held by Jesus Jim was the best job he ever had. Since his days as an enlisted man in the military the state jobs were the only ones he has held. He bilked the state treasury for every cent he could get while preaching about the evils of gubbermint spending and taxation. This is the ilk who may be running for mayor of Springdale.

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eLwood, doesn't Jim Holt sell real estate? I know Jim Bob Duggar does (imagine my surprise to be talking to him one day on the phone as I house-hunted in Springdale), so maybe I'm confusing them. (As if they weren't confused enough already.)

Not to my knowledge John. He doesn't hold a Real Estate license. Last I heard his tabernacle would find things for him to do so he could feed his family of eleven. Maybe Duggar tosses him some scraps from the TV deal the Duggars cut which was allegedly lucrative.

Holt accomplished absolutely notta for Chickenopolis during his tenures in the legislature. He introduced several things but withdrew most of them, maybe, all of them. He did manage to cost the City of Springdale over a million dollars a year by siding with the liquor interests and denying Sam's Wholesale a liquor permit. That stunt cost the city plenty and the baseball-stadium crew just sat on their asses when the biggest sales tax remitter in the city was losing and they knew it would move. When the RW ADG says you [Holt] are one the 10 Worst Legislators in the state it means you are really low.
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The print issue of the DG also says $17,000 for one conference in VA for Critcher. Surely that's a misprint. If not, I'd like to see the breakdown of those costs. I have attended lots and lots of conferences, workshops, etc, and never have I heard of one costing that much for one person.
Critcher turned out to be rotten to the core, and now his wife wants the job. She won't get my vote.

Lamont Cornwell was already facing a strong challenger in his race for reelection. Bilking the taxpayers for a two-week vacation with his wife and racking up an extra 1,400 on the excursion under the guise of attending a three-day conference on "energy" will not set well with voters. Even the eloquent Ray Kidd couldn't explain that away, and paying back the money after getting caught will hardly make it right.

State Legislators don't care how much of your hard earned dollars they spend. I bet none of those guys and gals stayed in a Motel 6 while they were on thier state paid trips. That guy, that drove out west should be ashamed. But we tax payers, had to anti up 100,000K for the sports hall of fame. Which 95% of the folks in Arkansas will never see. We also had to pay a 50K donation to the Arkasnas Prostate Cancer Fund last year thanks to a legislator. Our hard earned tax dollars went to a donation for a private foundation. Why are legislators spending our money to make donations. Why we can't decide where we want make donations with our own money. The Prostate Cancer fund is a good cause, but we should have the right to choose where we want our donations to go. That guy that tried to get 100K for the girls and boys clubs in south Arkansas was just doing business as usual. The LEDGE LIVES! Long live Nick Wilson! He waltzed out of the State Capital at his own leisure. Beebe, Gwatney, Jimmy Lou, Jason, will probably have a statue built in his honor and placed in the Rotunda!

Ya'll are sure complaining seeing that most of the names of the high dollar spenders of the public trust are dems. I thought they did no wrong in here? Where's DBI? These are Dems we're talking about driving like a madman across two-thirds of our country to go one state over for a weekend golf-booze-free eats fest. Sheesh.