Tag Archives: Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Aunt Lydia Is Selling Anti-Trans “Real Women” Koozies

The Huffington Post reports: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) hawked a new line of beverage coolers to celebrate the “real woman of politics” and critics were convinced the promotional video was a parody. “Real women don’t have to fake it,” the former Trump White House press secretary captioned the 66-second clip released online Sunday. It was an apparent response …

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Aunt Lydia Axes Demand For Praise From Job Seekers

The Arkansas Times reports: Turns out this week’s flap over a Dear Leader-style item on the questionnaire for people hoping to serve on Arkansas boards and commissions can be chalked up to a simple design error. That’s what a spokesperson for Gov. Sarah Sanders told reporter Doug Thompson at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. And sure, the Sanders administration’s explanation about the …

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Aunt Lydia Signs Bill Banning Minors From Social Media

CNN Business reports: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a sweeping bill imposing a minimum age limit for social media usage. But even as Sanders signed the bill into law on Wednesday afternoon, the legislation appeared to contain vast loopholes and exemptions benefiting companies that lobbied on the bill. The Social Media Safety Act is aimed at giving parents …

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State Job Applications Demand Praise For Aunt Lydia

The Arkansas Times reports: Looking to serve your state in some official capacity? First, kiss the ring. The application form you must fill out to be considered for a post on state boards and commissions includes this question: “What is an accomplishment of the Governor’s that you admire the most?” If you’ve got 500 words ready to go about how …

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Aunt Lydia Seeks Socialist FEMA Aid After Tornadoes

From Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders: This evening, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders spoke with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell to discuss the state and federal response to the catastrophic tornadoes that hit Arkansas today.  The Governor described the widespread damage this storm caused to areas across the state, including Little Rock, Jacksonville, Sherwood, and Wynne. The Governor requested direct federal assistance …

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Aunt Lydia Signs Anti-Trans Public School Bathroom Bill

ABC News reports: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom that matches their gender identity, the first of several states expected to enact such bans this year amid a flood of bills nationwide targeting the trans community. The bill signed by the Republican governor makes Arkansas the …

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Aunt Lydia Signs Bill To Install Abortion Monument

Fox News reports: Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a new bill into law allowing a pro-life monument to be installed near the state Capitol to remember the lives lost to abortion. The privately-funded “monument to the unborn” would mark the number of abortions performed in Arkansas before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, a …

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Aunt Lydia Signs Arkansas “Don’t Say Gay” Bill [VIDEO]

Little Rock’s CBS affiliate reports: On Wednesday, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders officially signed the Arkansas LEARNS Act into law. The governor, who considers this bill to be “the boldest, most far-reaching, most conservative education reforms in the country,” wasted no time signing the bill after its advancement from the Senate just yesterday. The Republican-held Senate voted 26-8 to send to …

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Aunt Lydia Signs Bill Gutting Arkansas Child Labor Laws

CBS News reports: Arkansas is rolling back some child labor protections after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a new law to make it easier for children under 16 to get hired. The new law is part of a push by some states to loosen child labor rules at a time the job market remains tight, with the lowest jobless rate …

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Sarah Sanders To Sign Bill Loosening Child Labor Law

The Arkansas Illuminator reports: A proposed Arkansas law that would remove the requirement for children under 16 to prove their age to get a job will head to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ desk for approval.  Employment certificates currently require proof of the child’s age, a description of the work and work schedule and a parent or legal guardian’s written consent. …

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Aunt Lydia Sues To Block EPA Regulations In Arkansas

The Associated Press reports: Arkansas filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to reject its plan to comply with federal rules that are supposed to assure that the state’s coal-fired power plants and industrial sites don’t pollute the air in other states. The state filed a petition with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over the …

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Bannon: Sarah Sanders Is Not “Intellectually Capable”

“If you’re going to give a counter speech, you’ve got to talk about important issues. Don’t get me wrong, the wokeism is very important. But it’s not quite the heart of the matter right now, right? It’s not the heart of the matter. She is not — the reason is she’s just not — she’s not intellectually capable of going …

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Aunt Lydia Rants About “Woke Mob” In SOTU Response

Bloomberg News reports: Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Americans are “under attack in a left-wing culture war” in the Republican response to the State of the Union on Tuesday, drawing on themes pushed by Donald Trump in his third run for the White House. The youngest governor in the country, Sanders, 40, called for a “new generation of Republican …

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Aunt Lydia To Deliver GOP Response To Biden’s SOTU

CBS News reports: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders, who served as White House press secretary in the Trump administration, will deliver the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union address, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a joint announcement Thursday. The selection of the opposite party’s response to a president’s State of the …

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Aunt Lydia Refuses To Endorse Her Former Boss Trump

“I love the president, have a great relationship with him. I know our country would be infinitely better off if he was in office right now instead of Joe Biden. “But right now, my focus isn’t 2024. It’s focusing here in Arkansas and doing what we can to empower the people of this state, and make sure that I’m delivering …

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Aunt Lydia Bans “Indoctrinating Children” In Arkansas

The Arkansas Times reports: No more TikTok on government-owned devices, critical race theory in Arkansas classrooms or the gender-neutral term “Latinx” on official state documents. These are among the first batch of decrees from Governor Sanders, who started signing executive orders before the folding chairs for her inauguration ceremony all got put away. Sanders signed seven(!) first-day executive orders. That’s …

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FL “Don’t Say Gay” Advocate To Lead Arkansas Schools

The Associated Press reports: Incoming Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday named a top Florida schools official as her pick to lead the state’s education agency, the latest signal of the direction of the Republican’s nascent administration. Sanders tapped Jacob Oliva, a senior chancellor at the Florida Department of Education, to serve as secretary of the Arkansas Department of …

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World Famous Liar Elected Governor Of Arkansas

NPR reports: Following an unconventional campaign that routinely broke fundraising records, Arkansas voters have chosen former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as their next governor, according to a race call by The Associated Press. Sanders, 40, becomes the first woman elected to lead the solidly-Republican state and succeeds outgoing term-limited Gov. Asa Hutchinson. She’s due to be inaugurated …

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Huckabee Sanders Reveals Surgery For Thyroid Cancer

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports: Gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday she had surgery to remove her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes after cancer was found in the area. Sanders said in a news release that, during a check-up earlier this month, her doctor ordered a biopsy on an area of concern in her neck and the test revealed she …

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Sanders: “Everything Biden Touches Is Ruined” [VIDEO]

“No offense to anybody, but I wouldn’t want to have lunch with either one of them [Biden and Harris]. “And I think it’s no surprise at all that tensions are high, when every single thing that you are responsible for and working on is falling apart, whether it is record-high crime, whether it’s the crisis at the border, whether it’s …

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