More Malfeasance & Misfeasance at the “Big House on the Fayetteville Hill” accompanied by a comment from one of the legislature’s court jesters.

Where else but in a government operation could an employee ( Mike Choate, U of A)  in the course of his position responsibilities end with a $3.1 million shortage (no not shortfall), and placed in another job retaining his salary in the tidy sum of $348,175 per year, plus perks.  Not funny Magee, make that not funny Chancellor Gearhart…another example of political protectionism.

Mike Choate the manager for the Advancement Division, the Big House’s fundraising arm, let his budget officer Joy Sharp take the fall with a salary reduction and transference to some nebulous position.

Gearhart’s featherbedding operation, laced with all sorts of malfeasance & misfeasance, rolls on without any retaliation by the Governor and state legislature. Gearhart struts around like a golden peacock, but why shouldn’t he, e.g. he violated U.S. immigration law 8 USC, Section 1324a, 1325, in full public view with the approval of Gov. Mike Beebe, the Ark. State Legislature (except one, Rep. Jon Hubbard) all law enforcement agencies and no government agency laid a glove on him.  Selective law enforcement, which now appears to be rampant.

Correction please: One lonely cry from a state legislator. The cry comes from one of the famed Jeffress brothers, Senator Jeffress, renowned for his extensive travel at taxpayer expense but not quite the magnitude of U.S. Senator John “the travellin Man” Boozman.

Back to the point, Senator Jeffress made an excellent observation on Chancellor Gearhart’s conduct on the one hand, accompanied by an ironic blunder on the other.

The Senator stated, with reference to “Big House” Chancellor Gearhart and his two underlings Choate & Sharp–“Out in the real world this kind of activity would get you fired”.  Of course, but  Jeffress’ is one of the last folks around who would be acquainted with a “real world” experience, e.g. Jeffress has been on the taxpayers’ teat for decades—school teacher, Justice of the Peace, Ark. House of Representatives and the state Senate.  Wonder how much taxpayer largesse he totes home each month?  The Jeffress brothers have argued that government positions are equal to the private sector in generating taxes, not understanding that the private sector’s earnings underwrite all government, and this guy was a school teacher!

   Big House Chancellor Gearhart should be fired along with the other two miscreants, for this and other operations in which he has instigated and indulged.
Spending other peoples’ money is the easiest job in the world and we have an inordinate supply of taxpayer money blood suckers at all levels…bureaucratic & political.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net