When I wrote that Gov. Mike Beebe had decided not to staff an office in Washington as Mike Huckabee had done, reader Al Fornaut posed some fair questions about the size and cost of the Beebe administration relative to the Huckabee administration.

I put them to Beebe spokesman Matt DeCample, who got back to me today. It’s too lengthy to go through every jot and tittle and to attempt to go into all the dollar differences on funds appropriated by the legislature versus funds actually spent.

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But find a summary on the jump. In short, the spending is comparable.

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