No matter your political bent or your feelings about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the Private Option (Beebecare?), or Medicaid expansion generally, I think we can all agree on one thing: if the state is going to have to pay for software for the expansion, then the process for finding a company to provide that software should be fair.
It's not.
A judge told Sec. of State Mark Martin that he could not hire outside counsel. Martin did anyway. Then he lied about it. Now, we just have to wonder whether voters or the prosecutor will hold him accountable first.
Mark Martin was told that he could not hire outside counsel without approval from the Attorney General and Governor. Either because he doesn't understand the law or he doesn't care, he has started hiring outside counsel again. I'm as unshocked as you, I suppose.
By: Bradley Phillips
As far as my political ideology, I suppose I’m somewhat ambiguous, lying in some sort of moderate/libertarian limbo. I am neither blue, nor a hog, and seeing as there was not a “Purple Wolf Report” anywhere, Mr Campbell’s blog...
I write all of the following as legal counsel for Mr. Chad Watkins. None of the information in this post is privileged, of course. Rather, it is information that needs to be known so that anyone who cares about this matter is fully informed about...
If you are the type of person who follows such things -- or if you have even the most tangential social-media relationship with me -- you've likely already heard about Lt. Gov. Mark Darr's acceptance of the settlement offer proposed by the Arkansas ...
A run-down of the specific violations that the Ethics investigator found probable cause for against Mark Darr. Complete with totals and details and other fun stuff.