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The Mystical Marshal’s Museum Maze

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Do the numbers and verbiage espoused by the Marshal’s Museum, INC & The Times Record comport, confuse, and are they truthful or untruthful? January 26, 2019

The promoters of the Marshal’s Museum, Inc. from day one, have billed it as a “private enterprise”, i.e. “not one cent of taxpayer money will be spent on this enterprise”. The first public announcement was published in the Times Record.

“It’s only a 9 month penny”, the promoters are urging the taxpayers to approve a temporary (?) 1 cent sales tax that is diametrically in opposition to the above.

A temporary Act to generate $17 million, if passed, will in all likelihood be transferred to the FSM Dept. of Parks & Tourism, then on to the CBID ( Sam Sicard, Richard Griffin & Bennie Westphal), onward to the U.S. Marshal’s Museum, Inc., and finally to the newly created “Public Facility Board” (who appointed?), to purchase the Marshal’s Museum’s building and grounds from the U.S. Marshal’s Museum, Inc. via the One Cent sales tax. (Huh??) Apparently Sam Sicard, Richard Griffin, and Bennie Westphal will be in charge of the internal assets. Now more convolution and contradictions. Neither the new members/owners of the “Facility Board” nor FSM would be responsible for any future operating costs of the museum???. Remember, the “Facility Board” just finished purchasing the Museum and grounds. Therefore, if the tax passes how can this be—owning a building and grounds and not being responsible?

If the Bill is passed, the $16 million would go to complete the Museum’s exhibits & “experiences”—what experiences? It was noted in various publications that the “Facilities Board” would own physical assets, i.e. building and grounds. Which is it? Facility Board owns building & grounds or exhibits & “experiences”?

The Fort Smith city government was complicit by providing the foundation for a special vote to raise $17 million or more tax dollars for a Marshal’s Museum. The procedure creating this Act may be illegal.

Note that former S.B 635 sponsored by former Senator Jake Files for $25 million which was specifically for the MM was changed to Act 679 on March 24, 2011. Why? Section II of the Act is special language and I quote, “Grants eligibility: to be eligible for a grant under this Act, an entity must establish that it is a non-profit, non-governmental 501c3 organization with a mission to form a national center of heritage and legacy within the state.” On completion has a deal been cut to turn the facility & contents over to the City, State or Federal Government?

Act 679 provided $25 million taxpayer dollars to the 3 listed participants. Availability of how the money was spent has been redacted from a FOIA.

Again, recall that the media release pertaining to the creation of the U.S. MM was to be a Private Endeavor, i.e. no citizen tax dollars.

Noted also is AR SB 244, July 1, 2015, an Act for the Dept. of Parks & Tourism re appropriation funneled $3, 250,000 to the U.S. MM. Extracted from the Bill states monies from this Bill must be dedicated for all state-owned real property & facilities.

Other largesse emanates from the Federal Government, e.g. Commemorative Medallions, perhaps gold-plated, no announced value placed on, nor numbers sold, cost requiring designing, securing material, minting, promoting, transportation, distribution and sales. Value? What politicians/bureaucrats engineered this event?

Fort Smith in 2009 was FOIA’d for names & amounts of private contributors and pledges which were redacted in my presence by the MM attorney, but later was determined the city initially gave the U.S. MM $100,000 , the county $12,000, and then State Senator Files $2, 200,000 dedicated to this convoluted project.

The “Public Facilities Board” would purchase, as stated, the building & grounds (for unknown reasons) from the US MM, Inc. for the amount received from the 9 month tax if passed. Does this not establish the state of Arkansas as a bank providing funding for a for-Profit institution or will it revert quickly to a government agency? While on the subject, why is the $17 million not borrowed by Sicard, Griffin, & Westphal from one of Sicard’s First National Banks? Have one of these 3 or all of the 3 spent one dime of their own fortunes to create & secure the MM project?

There is no doubt the 3 used and abused New Market Tax Credits—tax credit funds available for blighted areas. Is a river bank defined as a blighted area? No established value available to the public re the Tax Credits.

“The US MM, Inc. (Another contradiction.) (Using U.S. in the Museum name is of concern) will operate the Museum and Fort Smith would/will have no control over the museum operation.” Who then? The FS city government, in addition to revenue previously distributed, has awarded even more tax payer dollars and the use of city equipment and personnel. Again no established value.

January 15, 2019 Ward 3 Director Mike Lorenz said at a December Board meeting that “Fort Smith will get 100% of the benefits (?) and pay about 50% of the tax”. (?)

More illegal abuse, in this case, former Governor Beebe in 2007 gave $2 million, the Ark. State Legislature $200,000, 2013 the Governor gave another $1 million, Parks & Tourism to the MM $90,000 and the AEDC in 2017-18 gave $2,500,000 from the “Rainy Day Fund”. The above 4 came from the General Improvement Fund—GIF. Added to the cash donations by government are the unpublished values of Commemoration Coins, New Market Tax Credits, etc.

FRAUD—(Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition)…Deceit; Trickery; Cheating; Law– Intentional deception to cause a person to give up property or some lawful right.

Has anyone worked their way through this murky maze of taxpayer dollars taken by Fraud? If so, please advise.

$25,000,000
$ 3,250,000
$ 100,000
$ 12,000
$ 2,200,000 PLUS dollar values of unnamed assets & cash raised, and pledges

$ 2,000,000
$ 200,000
$ 1,000,000
$ 90,000
$ 2,500,000

$36,352,000 TOTAL, which is $4, 352,000 more taxpayer dollars than the MM, inc. claim they have raised which is $32 million. Also the MM,inc claims to have land on the Arkansas River valued at $3.4 million.

Due to time & space I did not name all the government agencies and public/private manipulations involved in obtaining the total of $36,352,000 and perhaps much more.

Joe McCutchen

Arkansas Freedom dot com

city government offenses, City Politics, Corruption, County Offenses

Incompetence or Malfeasance? Sports Complex

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Incompetence or malfeasance prevails. Transparency please. October 13, 2018

The River Valley Sports Complex, back on front-page center stage. This time to appeal the verdict against the city on said RVSC and in all likelihood file further criminal charges against RVSC participants.

What is absent in the Times Record Article 10/10/18 are at least 3 questions which remain unanswered and nobody except yours truly seems to want to ask or know.

There are at least 4 members and perhaps more of the Fort Smith City Board that may have been around when this curiously concocted plan was hatched. Possible suspects are Directors Settle, Good, Hutchings & Catsavis. Hutchings was on a couple of administrations back.

Question number 1. Who authorized this notorious scheme of former Senator Jake Files (R) & Democrat Election Commissioner Lee Webb? And why?

The 2nd question & most obvious one, why didn’t the then and current Park’s Director exercise extreme daily oversight of the project, and more particularly of both politicians?

Partner Jake Files is now residing in a federal prison in El Reno, OK with the strong possibility of more charges filed against him: therefore the final question being why is Lee Webb not being held legally accountable for his participation in the RVSC fiasco? The T.R. stated specifically that Lee Webb, Jr. stated he was a “principal partner of RVSC”, which I believe demands investigation & litigation.

The absence of answers to the stated questions leaves no doubt that the RVSC deal was and is corrupt to the core. What is the position of the Federal Prosecutor?

Joe McCutchen
Arkansas Freedom dot com

city government offenses, County Offenses, Federal Government, State government offenses, U.S. Government offenses

The Government Machine!

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It’s Not the People, It’s the Machine
By Michael Gaddy

October 5, 2009

“Government is an agency of force which can and must be employed against every deviationist. And this is only to say again that the government must oppose the individual. Therefore the “good” man in government is like a priest with a machine gun. The mechanism does the harm. The man who operates it merely pulls the trigger.” ~Robert LeFevre, The Nature of Man

Every two years in this country there exists a mania we call elections where those involved in the electoral process work endless hours and spends billions of dollars in an effort to put “good” men/women into elected offices. This, each person believes, will improve/change the government apparatus and everyone will be better served. This is analogous to believing that if one could place the right person on my Harley it would perform the tasks of a dump truck. The machine (government) can only accomplish that which it was designed to do: all governments, in their evolutionary process, eventually turn on their progenitors; the machine eventually rules the individual, no matter what “safeguards” have been put in place.

Nowhere is that more evident than where we are today in this country. No matter who is elected to operate the machine, the machine continues in its quest to destroy all it considers adversarial to the goal of total control and domination.

The writings of LeFevre tell us that man has long been fascinated by the phenomenon of the government apparatus and seeks to rationalize the continued corruption with one of two explanations. Either the people elected to run the machine were/are evil, or if the proper “safeguards” had been installed, “they would have escaped the evil their government was busily engaged in inflicting upon them.” I believe this perfectly describes our present dilemma, for those who voted for Obama wonder at how the campaign promises he made have been forgotten or the changes made were not what they expected. The opposition believes Obama to be an evil person. No matter how evil a person might be, as an individual they are unable to visit such tremendous evil on the world, without the power government provides. In turn, electing “good” people to run a gangster device will never deliver the hoped for product. LeFevre asks the question: “…then how does it happen that so many administrations of good men have been able to do so many evil and harmful things to their subjects?” As a country, we widely differ on exactly what administration has been good or bad. There are millions who believed George W. Bush to have been a “good” president, while millions believe Obama to be accomplishing “good” things, yet both have visited tremendous evil on the world, including their own supporters.

Individuals in this world have less freedom, are more and more controlled and coerced by government and continue to be robbed of the fruits of their labor, yet all this has occurred under the administrations of the “best” our country has to offer each election cycle, from both sides of the political spectrum. Isabel Patterson in her book, The God of the Machine, provides what she believes to be the answer. “…What good does it do to have a saint of every conceivable virtue operating a guillotine? Personally, the man may be above reproach. He may have the highest of morals and ethics. He may be imbued with a passion for doing good. But the mechanism he is hired to operate cuts off heads. He may dislike to cut off heads. He may weep with true sorrow whenever a head falls into the basket. But he was hired to pull the rope that lets the knife drop. And when it comes down, off comes the head. That is the way the tool works.”

This methodology is, in part, accomplished with government’s admonishment there is a higher purpose in life than being an individual. Ironically, this rebuke always comes around to serving the machine. John F. Kennedy said to “ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” It was not the country we were being asked to put foremost in our lives, but the machine. The government and its willing shills in the media and academia have been able to cloud the difference between the country and the government so that in the minds of many, they are inseparable. That is why, in today’s world, all who oppose the machine have been deemed “domestic terrorists.” The spirit of individuality, or just wanting to be left alone, cannot be allowed to flourish, but must always be seen as the enemy and therefore destroyed.

People create government to control that which they fear. The machine enjoys its continued growth and strength to the spirit of fear among the people. Different people fear different things; in a great number of instances that fear is of people who think or act differently or ideas with which they disagree. The machine therefore evolves into a mechanism that seeks control over everyone and everything. Limited government is an illusion. Safeguards put in place to limit the scope and range of government are gradually eliminated as more fearful entities appear, or are created, requiring continued growth of the machine. Franklin was correct; trading freedom for security leaves the people with neither. The constant meddling in the affairs of other countries produces enemies of the machine and are converted into objects of fear for the people. Here we have the vicious cycle; more enemies require a larger and more powerful machine, which produces more and more enemies to fear.

Individualism and the wish to just be left alone by those who do not wish to control others is the mortal enemy of the machine. If the individual can exist without this desire to control others or seek power over them, the need for the machine no longer exists. The government machine’s survival depends on convincing the people that the anointed among them, selected during the electoral process, can indeed take the government back to a less intrusive and more friendly status. Throughout our history, this has never happened.

People decide to become involved in government for basically two reasons. They either want the power and control over others and the wealth that brings, or they believe by becoming involved in government they can limit the power of the machine. These folks, no matter how well intentioned, become the “priest with a machine gun.” The machine continues to control and destroy the lives of others, while the “good” person in government pulls the trigger.

The machine will continue to create items of fear for the people. The fear of an economy going bad brings on illegal bailouts and controls of the economy that have the opposite effect intended and provide untold riches to supporters of the machine. This creates more fear among the people and enlarges the machine. The fear of being unable to pay for needed medical care creates fear that could give the government vast control over the people and their remaining money. The fear of the dreaded Communist, Muslim or person of different skin pigmentation, creates fear in the people and grows the machine’s arm of oppression: the military, law enforcement and the new scourge of private contractors. The fear of a pandemic in the form of some new exotic disease (created in a laboratory) brings the ability to control the masses with unneeded and potentially harmful forced vaccinations. When the machine seeks unparalleled growth, it creates false flag events to terrorize the population, bringing on new and more terrible laws and regulations, again to eliminate its greatest threat, the individual.

The machine has legions of faithful followers who willingly steal, intimidate and even kill for their paychecks, monies stolen by the machine from the production of their victims through intimidation and threat. These people are nothing but whores who care not for any oath they might have taken, but instead enjoy their unlimited, unrestrained power over their fellow citizens. These people will come after your guns, violate your rights, force you to be inoculated with harmful vaccines, steal your money and private property and place you in a detention facility if you dare resist, and be proud of the accomplishment. These people are not elected, but will always remain the real force of the government machine. Those elected to public office become the easily replaceable figurehead. It is accomplished every election cycle.

History teaches the machine always collapses under its own weight and corruption. Its loyal supporters are rewarded for their service with executions. The question is: how many freedom loving, liberty-seeking individuals must give up their freedom and/or their lives before this happens?

The Best of Michael Gaddy

Agenda 21, City Politics, County Offenses, Cultural Marxism destroying United States

Local Agenda 21 & some of its offspring

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CURIOUS & ALARMED! July 18, 2016

Urban Planning, Diversity, and Agenda 21’s (2030) Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, etc.—what do they mean? Ivy knows, do you? (Ivy Owen, CEO Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority.)

Exactly who & exactly what are the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE)? Kyle Parker, Fort Smith businessman is the CEO.
Information found on the internet states that one of Mr. Parker’s areas of expertise is “urban planning”—planners know what is good for you. Urban planning is a product of Metro Planning Organizations (MPO’s) e.g. RITA & Frontier MPO in Fort Smith; Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) and their directives emanate from the epicenter of government control—which is Metro 1313 located at 1313 E 60th St. in Chicago and holds absolute control over every state, city & county government employee, e.g. 1313 is the home of 23 organizations that control city, state, & county governments. In Fort Smith for example, the National Association of Counties controls all Sebastian County decisions made by County Judge (only a title) David Hudson & the JP’s. Just one example of how the poisonous planners have taken over Fort Smith. Due to sleepy-eyed citizens re political inactivity, Regionalism is becoming the accepted method of unelected governance, thereby relinquishing citizen ownership of city, county & state government.

The terms urban planning, diversity, sustainability & smart growth should send chills up one’s spine, if one only knew what the terminal intentions are and who is promulgating these activities. Fort Smith, like every other city in America with a population of 50,000 or more is engulfed by federal law in the destruction of individual self-interest, freedom of movement, property rights, mineral rights, housing decision rights, energy & healthcare rationing & so on.

Your lives are being “planned”! By whom, you say? The “planners” of course and the results are suffocating citizens. Western Arkansas Planning & Development District is another in the long line of destructive planners & planning. Question: Do the employees of the various organizations really understand their long term goals?

The genesis of the new Osteopathic College appears to be intimately related with the ACHE, no specifics available, and tentacles radiating to & from. Curiously, former F.S. public school superintendent Benny Gooden has already been hired by Mr. Parker to work with all Arkansas public schools to create an alleged educational program dealing with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). On whose authority to invade public schools & why aren’t these subjects already taught by the failed public school systems—C, C-, D.? Recall famously made statement a number of years ago, by then Superintendent Gooden, “we will take all we can get”, referring to illegal Mestizos & OTM’s. (Follow the funding)

What is the real reason CEO Parker is pushing for a duplicitous program to be instituted in Arkansas public schools K-12? Parker then alludes that there are no Osteopathic Medical Colleges in Arkansas & it would be a NON-PROFIT institution & NOT OFTEN dependent on public funds from the state. Funding in the main for Agenda 21 organizations flows from globalist foundations, i.e. Carnegie, Rosenwald, Sears, Rockefeller, & Ford Foundations.

The ACHE Board of Trustees, aside from 1 MD & 2-3 DO’s, does not appear to be academically imbued in healthcare, particularly in producing osteopathic physicians. Information lacking in specifics does not conclude this nascent medical college will actually graduate doctors of osteopathic, commonly known as DO’s. Coupled to the above it would appear improbable that their stated goal of 600 students could be functional in the present building when consideration is given to offices, lecture rooms, laboratories, cafeteria, library, etc. etc. Therefore, the question arises; will it graduate DO’s or train ancillary healthcare personnel?
For a brand new Osteopathic College that is yet to open & quickly hiring a former retired/retired Superintendent based on what– merit, buddy/buddy, or politics (?)–another curiosity. Why would this nascent school embark on such a huge duplicitous endeavor to minister to K-12 Arkansas students allegedly to teach them STEM? Obviously this would necessitate creating a huge new bureaucracy for continuing governmental indoctrination by way of the standards set by Agenda 21 now called 2030.

The real conundrum, which is CEO Kyle Parker’s planning for what he calls a TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY…nothing traditional in his description. Parker’s remarks in the Sunday edition 7/10/16 are mind boggling. Parker & associates are using one of Agenda 21’s designations labeling his proposed village as a WALKABLE COMMUNITY, aka “HUMAN SETTLEMENT”, the specific blueprint for Agenda 21, now called 2030 & Metro 1313…ultimately assaulting all our personal individual liberties, orchestrated by the United Nations, the national government, Foundations, etc. & channeled down locally through some of the previously named organizations. Their goals, some previously mentioned, are to “stack & pack”, i.e. dense encapsulated centralized housing, more government land theft, compact living quarters, forced removal of private property rights & natural resources, alter and/or remove traditional modes of transportation, destinations, complete streets, trails, vertical agriculture & so on. Control is their agenda. The anticipated results are full-blown cultural & economic Marxism.

Here are some of CEO Parker’s notable descriptions of WALKABLE COMMUNITIES (should be Walkable Communes): “The houses are built very close to each other to have front porches so that the neighbors get to know who the neighbors are, that the front porch is very close to sidewalks so that when somebody goes by the sidewalk, they get to say Hello…how are you today?” Parker goes on to say “We (?) want neighbors to know neighbors, it is better (?) when WE (?) know one another, where WE (?) have care & compassion for one another” (who are WE?)…and his diatribe continues. Spoken like a true Cultural Marxist/Globalist. Planners are like roaches, they are everywhere and if you love freedom you want no part of this gibberish, i.e. government Planners.

The battlefield for “Sustainable Development” has become locally, ignorantly, implemented by City Directors, County Judges & JP’s, Water Boards, School Boards, & Fire Boards. All these entities have symbiotic relationships with one another—corruption & self-gain.
What is the proper role of a Medical School? One would reasonably think it would be dedicated & devote all its resources to educating, training, & graduating the finest, most skilled physicians possible.

Why then would the new Osteopathic Medical College be involved in such massive issues as a “WALKABLE COMMUNITY”, i.e. planning & building housing, trails, & accompanied by an INVASION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS? And this is prior to the acceptance of the first student?

Something is definitely rotten in Denmark! Makes no sense at all unless the goals are much different than producing excellent physicians. There is no doubt a larger insidious goal and can be found in Agenda 21 research. Google Agenda 21, NGO’s, MPO’s, Sustainable Development, etc. as well as the website below.

Let things evolve spontaneously, no planning, no commissar, no commissioners, no consultants, no central planning, let free enterprise shine—that is evolution in Liberty.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

Agenda 21, city government offenses, City Politics, County Offenses, Forced redistribution

More incompetence/misfeasance by city & county??

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INCOMPETENCE, MALFEASANCE, MISFEASANCE, OR A COVER-UP? November 11, 2014

A 4% “shortfall” in city revenues does not explain why there are no specific reserve funds.

City Director Mike Lorenz, “I think the key thing we’ve got to look at is the General Fund.” You have that correct Director Lorenz—the General Fund serves as a universal dipping pool for politicians and bureaucrats accompanied by no citizen accountability, simply a slush fund.

The General Fund, in this case, supports Fire, Police, and Parks. Why isn’t there a specific funding mechanism earmarked for each of the above, along with safeguards, i.e. a reserve fund?

Then the matter of the shortage in the Fire & Police pension funds. Do they too come out of the General Fund? If so, this goes far beyond incompetence! The $7 million anticipated “shortfall” in Fire & Police Pensions is said to arrive in 4 years. Why wasn’t corrective action instituted years ago?

City government solution for the above: City Mgr, Gosack & the Directors want to tap into the street/sewer tax, i.e. diverting revenue and raising taxes—always government’s answer for mismanagement.

A 3 decade major sewer problem and the EPA threatening litigation and city management wants to divert 20% of the street/sewer tax in order to cover deficiencies in Police & Fire Pensions, in yet another government expanding program by inaugurating more U.N. Agenda 21 projects—bikeways, trailways, wayfinding signs, etc.

Coming under the above umbrella is a to be 9,500 city employee pay raise, a classic example of government spending money they don’t have. It must be said here, city government employees make on average 20%+ more than comparable private sector employees, along with many more government benefits.

Lest you are unaware—let’s talk lies & taxes.

Taxes first. With insulting arrogance and without citizens’ discussion or permission, city government sticks their corrupt hands deep into citizens’ pockets as it proposes to enact some or all of the following to satisfy budget “shortfalls”:

1. 25% increase in utility fees
2. 4% increase on water & sewer rates
3. Raise franchise fees 25% for telephone service, electric. Gas, and cable TV ¼%
4. Institution of a business license
5. More tax increases to upgrade the sewer system—wasn’t that what a portion of the 1% city street/sewer tax was to accomplish??

There were no cuts in the Mayor’s $250,000 yearly expense check (why?) Or doing away with the Downtown RR Car & Ferris Wheel. Ahh yes, the long vacant Mitsubishi building & property.

Now to the immoral, unethical, and grand theft orchestrated the by city & county government, i.e. the Marshal’s Museum was and is billed as a private enterprise by Richard Griffin, Sam Sicard, Westphal heirs, and others—and is anything but a “private” enterprise.
In 2007 the state (Arkansas taxpayers) plowed in $2.2 Million to the embryonic Marshal’s Museum and supplemented by $430,000 from Sebastian County. Fort Smith dumped in another $300,000+ the following fiscal year.
The $2.2 million state contribution can be traced to State Senator Jake Files. Was the Senator’s payoff for his $2.2 million legislative success the awarding of ownership of the nascent 8 field softball complex to him & his Democrat crony Lee Webb, along with 1 $million+ subsidy?
Now factor in the cost of the Marshal Museum Commemorative coin, also subsidized by taxpayers

July 23, 2010 Marshal Museum Director Jim Dunn requested and received $100,000 in cash from the city of Fort Smith for MM travel.
What is the stated constitutional, moral, and ethical authority for both city & county governments subsidizing a questionable activity billed as a “private” endeavor?

Who presently owns the fledgling Marshal’s Museum’s assets and what are the plans for the ultimate takeover by one or more government entities?

I wrote on 11/11/11 “Quickly, call the police, the speeding (numbers of entertainment venues) is heading into a financial boomerang, e.g.—the proposed 50,000 sq. ft. $50 million goliath known as the Marshal’s Museum.”

IT IS NOTED IN TODAY’S TIMES RECORD THE CITY HAS BEEN REGULARLY SUBSIDIZING THE MARSHAL’S MUSEUM”! HOW MUCH FUNDING, WHAT FORMS, FOR HOW LONG, TO WHOM AND ON WHOSE AUTHORITY?

Incompetence, malfeasance, misfeasance, or cover-up?

Don’t forget, the easiest job in the whole world is spending someone else’s money.

For more information regarding the city’s conduct on financial matters as just described log on to arkansasfreedom.net

Joe McCutchen

County Offenses, Forced redistribution

Tax Collecting/County Misfeasance?

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Voter Ignorance & Political Corruption du jour: May 21, 2014

It was disappointing once again to see ignorance and corruption on display, i.e. those Sebastian County voters who chose to reelect Judith Miller as the County Assessor/Collector—misfeasance brought to us by the county judge and quorum court?

Her glaring lack of an academic background, coupled with duplicitous procedures, along with other deficiencies, and most particularly when voters had an excellent choice of a candidate with an impressive academic background, the ability to delegate and business experiences in the private sector.

There is a more egregious factor, a lack of fiscal responsibility, apparently orchestrated by Sebastian County Judge David Hudson and members of the quorum court. The benefactor was and is Collector Judith Miller’s salary/perks. Public servant Judith Miller is knocking down $82,500 per year, and perks e.g. health insurance, retirement, and who knows what else? How many folks with only a high school education in the private sector do you know who are in charge of multi-millions of dollars & being paid that kind of money? Examples of taxpayer abuse run amok. Question: who is the progenitor of the $82,500 salary?

Her salary is obscene and no doubt built on insider political scheming. Miller’s position at best should pay no more than $45-50,000 taxpayer bucks per year, plus perks.

It will be interesting to learn what financials the rest of our county luminaries enjoy. It is said that Quorum Court members are provided with high priced dental insurance—if true, more taxpayer abuse.

The above……A classic example of the political form of welfare.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

County Offenses, Forced redistribution

Protection Racket Health Insurance

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More of the Protection Racket                    November 22, 2013

County Judge David Hudson and the 13 members of the Quorum Court–the Sebastian County Protection Racket in full bloom.

We take care of our own.  It’s not our money.

November 19, 2013 the County Judge and Quorum Court stated their intentions of giving county employees a 2% cost of living increase, while in the same breath proposing to award themselves a pay increase. Recall members of the private sector have no such protection i.e. public sector unions. How long has it been since private sector employees that subsidize these so-called “public servants” have had any sort of raises and certainly have no job security?

Now comes the revelation that the J.P.’s have awarded themselves health insurance not only for themselves but their entire families, replete with dental insurance.  It is reported in various publications that J.P.’s have an annual compensation of $6, 679.00 but never the additional $7,401.00 that each J.P. receives for his/hers personal insurance coupled with their entire family and the package contains dental insurance.

Recently, Mike Rainwater, Counsel for the Association of Arkansas Counties Risk Management Fund—no doubt another element in the protection racket for county employees was called on to offer a legal opinion.  Attorney Rainwater opined that “counties may provide medical insurance coverage for members of the Quorum Court, but there is no duty of a county or an insurance company to provide health insurance to a Quorum Court member.

Rainwater’s legal analysis was backed up by Prosecuting Attorney Dan Shue.  What was left out of the Attorney’s summation was the fact that the 13 Quorum Court members were recipients of a full health insurance package—health & dental.  Furthermore; and sadly I may add, there was no mention by the 2 attorneys pertaining to the unconstitutional practices of the Quorum Court.  The attorneys did not see fit to address in an emphatic tone the Court’s illegal practice of awarding Gold standard health insurance benefits to the family members of the J.P.s, including dental.

The counties participation in the health insurance scam is likened to the U.S. Congress’ and their staffs receiving special insurance coverage thereby escaping Obamacare.

Sadly to say, this is another example of government corruption (legally & constitutionally) and is it possible 3 votes on the subject the Judge and the J.P.’s are still not aware of their egregious conduct?

A copy of this missive is being sent to A.G. Dustin McDaniel.

Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith
arkansasfreedom.net 

Cc: citizens & Attorney General