{"id":59,"date":"2013-09-12T18:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T18:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j85.01e.mytemp.website\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-09-12T18:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T18:55:04","slug":"marshalls-museum-boondogle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Marshall&#8217;s Museum boondogle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=black><br \/>\nA little bit of humor and a whole bunch of sorrow compliments of the Times Record and the F.S. City Government. <\/p>\n<p>Lead headline in todays\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 TR edition: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Directors cut down wish list\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sounds good until you get to the 2nd page of the article and what jumps out is a $20 MILLION &amp; counting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enhancement for the Riverfront Drive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not much cut down.<\/p>\n<p>The smell test followed: &nbsp;Marshall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Museum, Richard Griffin, Sam Sicard, &amp; Bennie Westphal.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the aforementioned 3 individuals, along with a host of political enablers, billed the Marshall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Museum as a private endeavor.&nbsp; The proposed endeavor turns out to be a citizen taxpayer subsidized \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6ultimately a boondoggle. <\/p>\n<p>An FOIA revealed that at this juncture citizens have coughed up, without their permission, $3,605,071 hard-earned dollars. What is the authority for the Ark. Parks &amp; Tourism, city of Ft. Smith, &amp; Sebastian county to bequeath monies to a private endeavor?&nbsp; Gold &amp; Silver to follow. <\/p>\n<p>The Walton family dumped in $2 million in the last couple of weeks, what do the Walton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s know that F.S. citizens don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know?&nbsp; The Walton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bet on the come.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Marshall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Museum has more tentacles than Obamacare. <\/p>\n<p>This endeavor is to form the foundation for for-profit endeavors along the riverfront while citizens subsidize.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately if the behemoth reaches fruition who will ultimately be at the leadership helm and where does the revenue come from to keep it afloat.&nbsp; The 3 named individuals know the answer to that conundrum.<\/p>\n<p>By the way Mayor &amp; City Directors, where is the $20 MILLION &amp; counting coming from?<\/p>\n<p>Joe McCutchen<\/p>\n<p>Cc: citizens<br \/>\n<span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit of humor and a whole bunch of sorrow compliments of the Times Record and the F.S. City Government. Lead headline in todays\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 TR edition: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Directors cut down wish list\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sounds good until you get to the 2nd page of the article and what jumps out is a $20 MILLION &amp; counting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enhancement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=59\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marshall&#8217;s Museum boondogle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-government-offenses","category-city-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}