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The Arkansas Times reports:
Arkansas state Sen. Jimmy Hickey (R-Texarkana) is asking for an audit regarding Gov. Sarah Sanders’s controversial purchase of the now infamous $19,000 lectern.
While they’re at it, Hickey wants the bean counters at Legislative Audit to look at the governor’s expenses and other records retroactively pulled from public view thanks to a bill just passed in the recent special legislative session.
The podium in question (which sticklers insist is actually a lectern) was purchased by the governor’s office in June. The Republican Party of Arkansas reimbursed the state for it in September, after Blue Hog blogger Matt Campbell raised a fuss on social media.
Read the full article. The real dirt is below.
EXCLUSIVE PHOTO of Hannah Stone, benefactor of #podiumgate, & organizer of Trump’s Jan 6 rally/insurrection.
Stone seen here in the Capitol w/ the Huckabee fam on Sanders Inauguration Day.
How many AR tax dollars have lined Stone’s pockets? What has she done for us in return? https://t.co/3BPej8sLPk pic.twitter.com/cVllNRsz9P
— On AR Watch (@OnARWatch1) September 26, 2023
Photo of the $19,029.25 lectern purchased by the Sanders administration in June. The expense was reimbursed by the Republican Party of Arkansas, according to records. #arpx #Arkansas #ARNews pic.twitter.com/mERP6QvHHP
— AR Democrat-Gazette (@ArkansasOnline) September 26, 2023
Podiumgate in Arkansas!
AK Gov. Sarah H. Sanders paid $19K of taxpayer $$ for a nonexistent podium. Why? B/c that $19k actually was used to treat her friend Hannah Stone to a trip to Paris instead! Corrupt AF.
Check out Jess Piper’s video! #TikTok https://t.co/oGL32WugZw
— ((MRW))🇺🇸#🟦 (@marcyrw) September 26, 2023
It is clear now that the invoice was inflated to cover travel and trip expenses for @SarahHuckabee good Trump era coworkers Hannah Stone and Virginia Beckett, both implicated in Jan 6, 2020 Trump insurrection. The governor is still allied with Yrump supporters. https://t.co/wwF2ljEchB
— Sara Cain Bartlett (@saraB20452936) September 28, 2023
Sarah Sanders went on an all expense paid girls trip to Paris! Didn’t want it to show up in records, so MADE UP an imaginary $19,000 lecturn to cover cost of trip! THEN panicked, called an emergency session of the #Republican legislature to cover up the fraud!#Podiumgate https://t.co/va0jje9U4D
— Oh you, oh yeah? I support UAW STRIKE (@foolm1ns) September 26, 2023