Tag Archives: Arkansas

Arkansas Rules Cenk Uygur Ineligible For 2024 Ballot

The Associated Press reports: Arkansas election officials on Monday said online news personality Cenk Uygur, who was born in Turkey, can’t appear on the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot next year. The determination comes weeks after Uygur proclaimed that he had become the first naturalized citizen on a presidential ballot after filing paperwork with the state and the Arkansas Democratic …

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Aunt Lydia Appoints “Death To Gays” Former State Senator/Christian Nationalist To State Library Board

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders has appointed Jason Rapert, a Christian nationalist activist and former state senator to the state library board. Rapert was a zealously anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice lawmaker who ran for lieutenant governor last year but was defeated in the Republican primary. Earlier this month, Rapert tweeted a long angry rant against …

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Operator Of Christian Youth Facility Sued For Child Sex Abuse, Huckabee Arranged His 2019 Pardon By Trump

The Arkansas Times reports: A federal lawsuit filed in Little Rock Monday against Ted Suhl, the former behavioral health services mogul convicted of bribing a state official but later set free by then-President Donald Trump, describes decades of alleged “systematic and widespread” child abuse by staff members at Suhl’s now-defunct Lord’s Ranch. The abuse at the residential facility included “premeditated …

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Aunt Lydia To Endorse Trump At His Miami Rally

NBC News reports: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to endorse Donald Trump’s presidential bid on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. Sanders will make her announcement at Trump’s rally near Miami. Trump is skipping the debate that night — which is being hosted by NBC News — and holding a counter programming event. A Trumpworld …

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Aunt Lydia Bans “Woke Anti-Woman” Words [VIDEO]

Little Rock’s CBS affiliate reports: Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a new executive order eliminating what she refers to as “woke” and “anti-woman” words from state government. Sanders made the announcement Thursday, Oct. 19 surrounded by other women, saying they’ve had “enough trying to erase women and girls” and “denying our biological differences from men.” The governor said that …

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Aunt Lydia To Face GOP Audit Over “Podiumgate”

The Washington Post reports: Arkansas Republicans on Thursday approved an audit of their governor’s purchases after a blogger’s open-records requests unleashed a political storm that has resulted in claims about the state altering public documents. At the center of the controversy: a $19,000 lectern for Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. What started with raised eyebrows over a hefty price tag …

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Aunt Lydia Accused Of Faking Receipt For $19K Podium

The Arkansas Times reports: An anonymous former state employee came forward Friday claiming to have evidence that the Arkansas governor’s office doctored documents and unlawfully withheld financial records that should have been made public under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. Attorney Tom Mars, who is representing the whistleblower, sent a letter today to Sen. Jimmy Hickey (R-Texarkana) …

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Aunt Lydia Under Fire Over Shady Buy Of $19K Podium

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 …

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Hutchinson Fails To Qualify For Second GOP Debate

NBC News reports: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson fell short of qualifying for the second GOP presidential primary debate this week, but the seven other candidates who were there for the first debate in August will be back onstage Wednesday in California. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. Ambassador …

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Aunt Lydia Repeatedly Dodges On Endorsing Trump

“Look, my focus has been on being governor of Arkansas. I’ve only been in office about nine months, and I wanted to really put my head down and focus on the things that were impacting our state. We just got out of our first regular session and special session about a week ago. I think President Trump is going to …

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Aunt Lydia Signs Ban On Vax Mandates In Arkansas

The Huffington Post reports: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) has signed a bill that bans state and local governments from mandating COVID-19 vaccines for workers after a similar ban expired last month. The legislation also prohibits COVID-19 vaccinations from being required as a condition of education, or for obtaining a service or licensure, permit or certificate of some kind. …

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Aunt Lydia Calls Special Session To Gut FOIA Laws

Little Rock’s CBS affiliate reports: Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday announced a special session that will focus on tax cuts for Arkansans, corporations, as well as revisions to the state’s FOIA laws. The governor announced that the special session will begin on Monday and will focus on three things: cutting taxes, “streamlining state government,” and what she called “protections …

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Court Blocks Arkansas Social Media Law For Minors

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the state from becoming the first to impose such a restriction. U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks granted a preliminary injunction that NetChoice — a tech industry trade …

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Arkansas: Turn In All Black History Material For Review

Little Rock’s NPR affiliate reports: Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva wrote to leaders of six Arkansas schools on Monday with the most specific concerns yet about the AP African American Studies course. The letter — sent to the handful of schools that plan to continue offering the pilot course — also asks the schools to submit course materials to the …

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Aunt Lydia: Black History Course Is Leftist Propaganda

“We’ve got to get back to the basics of teaching math, of teaching, reading, writing and American history. And we cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this propaganda leftist agenda, teaching our kids to hate America and hate one another. It’s one of the reasons that we put into law banning things like indoctrination and CRT [critical …

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Arkansas Ends Credit For AP Black History Course

The Arkansas Times reports: Word came Friday from distraught educators that a new Advanced Placement course on African American history was suddenly on the chopping block, just two days before the first bell of the school year was set to ring in Arkansas high schools planning to offer the class. An official from the Arkansas Department of Education reportedly alerted …

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Judge Blocks Arkansas Law On Libraries, Booksellers

The Associated Press reports: Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday. The measure, signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, was set to take effect Aug. 1. A coalition that included the Central Arkansas Library …

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Aunt Lydia Refuses To Remove Cross At Gov’s Mansion

The Christian Post reports: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is standing her ground by refusing to remove a chalk-drawn cross from the entrance to the governor’s mansion after Americans United for the Separation of Church and State demanded its removal, claiming it violates the U.S. Constitution. The uproar began on Monday after Sanders shared a photograph of her three children …

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Arkansas Sued Over Social Media Age Verification Law

The Associated Press reports: A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas on Thursday challenging a new state law that requires parental permission for minors to create social media accounts. NetChoice, a group whose members include Facebook parent Meta, TikTok and Twitter, filed a federal lawsuit over the measure signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in April. The law requires …

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Aunt Lydia Seeks More Socialist Aid After Tornadoes

The Arkansas Advocate reports: Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday asked President Joe Biden to extend the federal government’s coverage of 100% of debris cleanup and disaster mitigation costs stemming from the March 31 tornadoes that hit Arkansas. The estimated total cleanup costs in all three counties is nearly $25 million and nearly $16 million for emergency protective measures, according …

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