The Arkansas POLITICAL PROTECTION RACKET reached its zenith Friday, August 16, 2013.

Various news media reported that the state’s Ethics Commission determined that Jonesboro state senator (D) Paul Bookout had misapplied $50,000 or more of campaign funding. Some examples of his thievery are: depositing $18,200 into his personal bank account; transferring $6,761.47 from his campaign fund in the form of cash withdrawals; spending $5,043.74 on women’s clothing & accessories; spending $8,402 on home theater equipment & installation; and the beat goes on.

Certainly, Senator Bookout, whose family has been wallowing in the Democrat inner circle for decades, is guilty of much more than a violation of ethics. Isn’t thievery a more serious violation than an “ethics” charge?  Why has the Arkansas state police not charged the senator with grand theft and why hasn’t Gov. Mike Beebe and the Ark. Legislature demanded Bookout’s resignation?  How do Bookout’s political donors feel about his misfeasance or is that just part of their political pay-offs?

The fact, at least at the present time, there have been no arrests made or calls for his resignation demonstrate that there is a double standard of law enforcement in relation to taxpaying citizens and the self-serving, parasitic political mob.  Selective law enforcement is the politician’s game. 

The environment for political mob ruler-ship is created by incumbency and the failure is that citizens do not recognize this critical political flaw, e.g. the Beebe’s, Pryor’s, Bookout’s, Hutchinson’s, Boozman’s, ad infinitum. Oh yes, throw in gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross (former U.S. Representative), you do remember he’s the guy who singlehandedly gave our nation the money laundering Obamacare and his district was rewarded a six figure handout for his vote. Observe the state of the state and the nation.

Back to Senator Bookout defending his scurrilous conduct—“I am honored to serve the people of my district in the Arkansas Senate. I look forward to completing my final term in office focused on the issues of our state.”  Notice Bookout was careful to state that he was in his last term, which is a veiled meaning “disregard my thievery and allow me to finish my term”….how very clever.

Now comes State Democrat Party Spokeswoman Candace Martin who opines “that Senator Bookout can put this behind him and continue his service to the people of his community”. Say Candace, do the taxpaying citizens that subsidize him have any say so?  “DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED”???
You see morality and the rule of law mean absolutely nothing to these self-serving political parasites.
 
I again pose the question…where are the Governor, State Legislators and the Arkansas State Police?  At this juncture they are making a mockery of morality and the rule of law. Can the Protection Racket be broken?

Joe McCutchen

P.S.  Are politicians & bureaucrats smugly laughing off this matter?   

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