Before the above is addressed the following questions have not been answered by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe, the House, or the Senate.
1.    What are the constitutionality, the legality, and/or the authority that gives rise to forming an Arkansas State University campus in Queretaro, Mexico?
2.    What is the purpose?
3.    Who are the beneficiaries?
4.    Who are the titans behind the scenes that are stealing Arkansas taxpaying citizens’ property and moving portions to Mexico by using any number of Arkansas State entities, while citizens in the main are in the blind?

Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe, Director of Higher Education and politically appointed Shane Broadway, U.S. Congressman Rick Crawford, A-State Board of Trustees, along with Chancellor Tim Hudson & President Charles Welch, and a host of others have deep tentacle attachments to A-State. What is their game?

Involvements in this proposed grand scheme borders on criminality, if not in fact criminal, and members of the Arkansas State Legislature sit on their self-serving duffs and not a whimper! Is it out of fear, ignorance, stupidity, or self-service? The menagerie surrounding the Arkansas State University inbreeding is the poster child for corruption and financial mismanagement.

February 1, 2014 I wrote a piece entitled “Legislative gifts…do they pass the smell test”.

Of particular interest was Senate President Pro Tempore Michael Lamoureux, (R-Russellville)first reported he attended a meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland sponsored by the outfit known as the National Conference on State Legislatures’ Forum at a cost of $1990.  The question was then posed who & what is the make-up of the aforementioned organization followed by the question of how do you travel round-trip to Edinburgh for $1990?

In today’s Ark. Dem-Gaz reportage, the Arkansas State Senate dropped in another $2808 toward Lamoureaux’s Scottish extravaganza, a grand theft of $4,798.  The question was asked of Lamoureaux, what benefit was it to Arkansas citizens for his travel to Scotland…the question was answered in today’s paper “I am not sure there was any direct benefit to Arkansas, he said”.  Lamoureaux went on to say he met with Scottish law makers, talked about their issues and how they operate, the history of Scotland and the United States and famous Scottish figures in Scottish history.

Senator, it would be interesting to see just what you learned about Scots.  Did you learn that Scots-Irish who migrated from Scotland to the northern Irish county of Ulster and in the year 1715 began what turned out to be 4 migrations ending in 1775 to the U.S.? Did you learn that these Scots-Irish were primary framers of American culture, that Scots-Irish are the voice of independence, individual responsibility, have no love for ensconced politicians and bureaucrats which is why they partially remain tribal today and have always made up the bulk of America’s fighting forces.  The Scots-Irish shaped America. If you are not aware of that fact you are not aware of history.

Ole Hickory, Andy Jackson, a Scots-Irish of course, and I paraphrase…”Equality of talent, of education, or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions”. Ole Hickory understood early on & unfortunately forgotten by real Americans, “that aristocracies are built up through the instrumentality of the state”, exactly what is happening right now in the state of Arkansas and in the USA.

Today’s Dem-Gaz stated that Lamoureaux’s travel expenses for last year were $48,124.  Unfortunately said paper left out his trips to Palm Beach, Seattle, Madrid, and Sonoma.

Stated in the piece written Feb. 4 titled “What yardstick does Gov. Beebe use to define education”.  It was reported in that piece that A-State spent $311,108.24 for travel in the randomly selected month of October, 2013.  This figure factors out to be costing each ASU student $22.42 per month for ASU elitists’ travel. The question still remains what part of $311,108.24 was spent on and for the proposed criminal Mexico operation?

Another out of control vulgar number, U of A Fayetteville, in the same month spent $1,704,269.76 for travel, factoring out to be a student cost of $69.46 per month. UALR clocked-in in the same month at $192,880.87.

Governor Beebe has announced education will be his number one spending priority in the upcoming legislative session.  In view of the thieving behavior that goes on in Ark. State Government, particularly in the alleged institutions of Higher Learning but not limited to, is a hard punch in every struggling, taxpaying Arkansans’ face.  The arrogance and the heavy handedness of Beebe’s administration I.D.’s Arkansas government as nothing more than exercises in brute force, manipulation, and subterfuge.

Citizens, have you ever wondered if your legislators are the progenitors of all the hundreds of bills submitted for passage? Of course the answer is no, therefore where do they come from? Senator Johnny Key (R-Mountain Home) traveled to Chicago at the behest of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s meeting in August, no friend of the middleclass. Key was the mule who picked up the bundles of pre-written, proposed legislation crafted in DC by government/corporate entities.  None of the bills are friendly and none are directed for the benefit of Arkansas citizens.  Incidentally, Key won the Senate contest for the most money awarded for travel last year…$55,841.  Key then will distribute the proposed legislation to insiders, e.g. Eddie Joe Williams, Michael Lamoureaux, Joyce Elliot, David Sanders, etc. 

Back to ASU, it’s being floated that ASU’s former president Les Wyatt’s office on the Jonesboro campus is never occupied and is phoneless. It is further estimated that Wyatt’s salary is at least 6 figures with a teaching load of 2 online courses that are being taught from Little Rock. It is being said that he also may have a contractual online teaching deal with ASU. Are all the Wyatt’s employed at ASU part of Les Wyatt’s family?

There has been an employee identity breach at ASU. The CFO is ultimately accountable. This has happened twice since CFO Len Frey was appointed.

Note on other posts dealing with numerous irregularities and lavish out of control spending occurring at ASU, Frey is the recipient of $232,469 per year!

So Governor Beebe, you want more money for education?  Do you define education as vote buying from government employees, elected officials, and low-information citizens?

So far no eagles, just a collection of sparrows.

Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith

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