It comes to pass that a 27 year old Arkansas State Representative (R) named John Burris, apparently employed part-time and receiving some sort of Arkansas healthcare welfare, who from all accounts is the architect of the upcoming additional One Quarter of a Million person healthcare “giveaway”.  It is said that Burris has been working on this scheme about ½ a day, every day for months to implement the 250,000 “giveaway”/plunder.

What sustains a 27 yr old State Rep. with no fulltime job and who is able to supersede seasoned legislators in an issue of this magnitude?

Giving Rep. Burris cover is House Majority leader Davy Carter (R).  It is said that Carter resigned a position from a lending institution to devote fulltime to Arkansas government.  Carter, a family man, poses the question what sustains him & his family economically?   Clearly he has higher political ambitions to spend his life ensconced in the taxpayers’ trough, as does Burris. More severe Term Limit legislation is desperately needed.

Rep. Carter glides in and out of both sides of the isle as if he were on a sheet of ice.
As you may recall, he’s the fellow who blindsided Rep. Terry Rice, the heir-apparent to the Speaker of the House.  That may be just politics to some, but to me it is self-serving, unethical behavior.

Then there is the matter of government employees removing themselves from their place of public employment for 5-6 months to function in the capacity of a legislator. This is arrogance and corrupt government. Two examples come to mind:  Representative Stephanie Malone who is employed by Ft. Chafee Redevelopment Authority and then there is State Rep. Bill Gossage, Assistant Superintendent of the Ozark Public Schools.  These are horrible examples of self-service and conflicts of interest and taxpaying citizens are being fleeced. There are numerous other examples.  At the very least they are guilty of ethical violations. It should be noted that Rep. Malone is fanning the flames for the extension of Term Limits.  FOIA’s revealed one pleasant fact, their bosses say they are not paying them while they languish in Little Rock for 5-6 months.

There is absolutely no justification for them to remain employed by government while they are serving in a legislative capacity. If they are not needed for 5-6 months at a time, they are not needed and should resign one or the other positions.  Apparently they are shills for government expansion.
Then comes the matter of Senator Joyce Elliott’s (D) bi-yearly promotion of in-state tuition for illegals & children of illegals. 

Two more of the plethora of big government mouthpieces (cheap labor, open borders) came to her aid in the failed Senate Bill endeavor.  Charles Welch, President of Ark. State Univ. opined on a number of occasions regarding the “investments” made in the illegals and children of illegals.  Bureaucrats and politicians love the word “investment”, i.e. spending taxpayer dollars and expanding their individual government entities.

Welch openly flouts U.S. law 8 USC, Sections 1325, 1324a, etc., as have other chancellors & presidents in Arkansas schools.

Following Welch was a fellow named Rich Nagle, the Executive Director of the Ark. Educational Assoc. Now that’s a collection of self-servers.  Nagle huffed & puffed & bloviated that Arkansans have a moral imperative to pass Elliott’s legislation, claiming Arkansas citizens need to remedy and fix a real injustice. (the injustice is to the taxpayers who foot the bills). Just what is the moral imperative?

Nagle was hired by the AEA to lobby for exactly these kinds of legislations to increase their funding, size, and political clout, all at taxpayer expense. The Government School System in Arkansas is a woefully failed endeavor (by design) and Ark. educational leaders & teachers are propagandizing and indoctrinating the minds of our young Arkansas citizens with their collectivist goals.

Welch & Nagle will be better served if they stay at home, mind their business & increase their proficiency in Constitutional teachings, and keep out of the affairs of beleaguered, over-burdened taxpayers.

It should be noted here Education Committee Chairman Representative Johnny Key (R) co-sponsored Elliott’s bill and instituted a below the belt move by demanding a voice vote which passed…one honest soul (congratulations) demanded a roll-call vote.  Elliott’s bill then failed.  Interestingly on the roll call vote, Key did not vote and the Con Con Chairman, Senator Jason Rappert (R) hid in the wings.

And finally, former Senator Gilbert Baker who is employed at UCA, typically with an inflated salary, apparently spends more time at the Capitol than a locust does on an oak tree, lobbying/influence peddling for Higher Education.

This is merely a microcosm of the self-serving collection of legislative whiz-kids working to pick our pockets.

NOT ONE OUT OF THIS COLLECTION HAS THE GUTS TO SAY NO TO OBAMA—SEBELLIUS—BEEBE—ROSS FOR THE PROPOSED MEDICAL/ECONOMIC RAPE OF ARKANSAS CITIZENS.

Joe McCutchen
Cc: citizens
arkansasfreedom.net