{"id":1646,"date":"2018-11-08T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2018-11-08T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:52:41","slug":"fort-smith-elections-changed-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Fort Smith elections changed nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What did\/does it mean? <\/strong> \t\t\t\tNovember 8, 2018<\/p>\n<p>In yesterday\u2019s edition of the Times Record, reporter Max Bryan wrote a summation of the political race between incumbent Justin Boyd and Luke Pruitt for the position of State Representative, District 77. <\/p>\n<p>The curiosity was Bryan\u2019s statement mid-article \u201cHe was endorsed by Sebastian Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck and First National Bank President Sam Sicard prior to the election\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>What was\/is the significance of the sentence mentioning the above two individuals?  It is common knowledge that Sicard &#038; Richard Griffin are the co-Dons of the downtown swamper\u2019s cabal, accompanied by a plethora of lieutenants. <\/p>\n<p>The most curious point is why they\u2019re names were posted as endorsers of Rep. Boyd AFTER the election.  <\/p>\n<p>Does it mean that Sicard is making citizens aware that he and Griffen have initiated Rep. Boyd &#038; Sheriff Hollenbeck into their downtown power group?  Hollenbeck, the public schools\u2019 new police czar, seems to put the Fort Smith school district squarely at the feet of Swamp\u2019s two Don\u2019s, making the public school district larger and subject to more funding and corruption, certainly not a boost for academics.<\/p>\n<p>The election changed nothing.  The same enablers and politicians own the game and the economic destiny for Fort Smith which has been beached for decades due to cronyism\u2014a protection racket: Observe.<\/p>\n<p>With the new found school millage, public school spending is poised to run amok, e.g. new police czar Hollenbeck\u2014what are his pay &#038; perks and how many new government sycophants will be employed, and the cost to taxpayers?  There are many more effective means to protect the children from harm.<\/p>\n<p>This is a conditioning process and instills the belief that there must be some sort of uniformed agency in every facet of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Joe McCutchen <\/p>\n<p>Arkansas Freedom dot com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did\/does it mean? November 8, 2018 In yesterday\u2019s edition of the Times Record, reporter Max Bryan wrote a summation of the political race between incumbent Justin Boyd and Luke Pruitt for the position of State Representative, District 77. The curiosity was Bryan\u2019s statement mid-article \u201cHe was endorsed by Sebastian Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck and First &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fort Smith elections changed nothing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-government-offenses","category-city-politics","category-education-morass"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}