Arkansas Blog

Again, I'm sensing..........PETITION...............time.

That's what it took to get the Chambers of Commence Nothing
to hold hands with pastor Huckabuck and raise the minimum wage in this lowly state. The threat of a petition. They fear PETITIONS in Ark, they being the entrenched special interests who expect exemption from any tax they see as not applying to them, from any rule that may diminish their rule.

Powers that be are truly frightened of PETITIONS from the people. Just ask old scared Mike Beebe when his nemesis in the gas bidness threatened to hike the state extraction tax on gas via statewide PETITION DRIVE to put it on the ballot. Surely every one of can recall it. Beebe SEEN THE LIGHT. Praise be to god and the possibility of the people speaking to leaders in no uncertain terms.

Beebe got all roused that WE THE PEOPLE would be given a choice in how things are done.

Let's face it Porker Nation. That's how things get done in SawMill Arkansas. The lege, bless their hearts, are so busy answering the calls of those what sent them there's little time to look out for the people's bidness.

Lt Gov Halter plus Mr and Mrs Bailey understood how things get done in Porker Nation.

Want to improve educational funding and raise us from 49th.

PETITION.

Want to clean up our legislative ethics and commissioner ethics? All together now:

.........................PETITION !...............................................................

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Ethics-smthics.....these crooked bastards aren't going to police themselves. How many decades have we been talking about ethics reform? We can't elect enough honest people to the legislature or Congress to ever get enough to do something about ethics reform before they become pod people too.

This isn't hard and it isn't hard to figure out when time after time you see these clowns spend a session battering us while letting themselves off every hook. We need to figure out another way to solve this problem. But who do you turn to when your government is corrupt? I doubt we're going to have a revolution in Arkansas over free dinners and golfing trips. Even I can't get that radical.

God's been no help. The Feds aren't going to dip their pinky toe into each state's cesspool and they're all as crooked as Arkansas when it comes to the anti-reform legislatures reforming themselves. Maybe technology will fix things in the future. Put a 24-7 webcam on them and let the voters watch at home....hell, I'll take the first shift on Dimmy Altes.

While we at it, whoop some webcams on the Farm Bureau and every Chamber of Commerce in the state. If you got a cell phone and you spot one of them chunking TVs in the trunk of their car.....snap a few pictures and spread them around. I swear...it's like we're all parole officers watching 135 ex-cons. What did old numbnuts used to say"

Crooked legislators to the right of me,
Crooked legislators to the left of me,
Crooked legislators in front of me
Volleyed and thunder'd;
Storming towards dinners and freebies,
Boldly they stole and well,
Into the jaws of big oil & gas,
Into the mouth of the Farm Bureau & Wal-Mart,
Rode the one hundred thirty five.