Comments on: Arkansas House Democrats Oppose, Then Support Rules Amendments

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:18:46 +0000

Truth – Words on the street is that someone (Pst – it’s me) has already FOIed these records.

By: The Truth Wills Set You Free

The Truth Wills Set You Free — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:05:33 +0000

I can’t believe Robbie fell into the Republican trap. I challenge all the Tea Party Patriots to pull the travel reports of every Dem member in the legislature. (I wonder how fast Robbie’s staff will). You will find that multiple members spent thousands of dollars traveling to “policy” meetings where they all took separate cars and stopped at different cities along the way, just to get a large reimbursement check. Ouch Robbie, that mail piece will be hard to explain to “Mr. Average Joe” in your district. “Hello, I am Robbie Wills, while you have lost your job this year, I allowed my members to spend thousands of your tax dollars to have a great time, because I don’t care about rules that govern how we spend your hard earned (opps, you don’t have a job)money when we travel.”
He could have stopped this, but no, he didn’t think a rule like this was necessary.

By: JS

JS — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:06:28 +0000

I will personally be contributing time and money to defeating Robbie Wills when he inevitably runs for state senate.

By: JS

JS — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:16:51 +0000

Remember: Only Speaker Wills tells the truth! Everyone else is a liar!

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:57:30 +0000

Speaking of “slant and edits”, Speaker Wills refers to his rule passage as his “rule to ban fundraising during a fiscal session”. While it is true that his rule does include that provision, what it actually does is reduce the fundraising restrictions around the fiscal session while maintaining the current ban on fundraising during the session. Nice spin there Speaker.

From reading his blog you would almost think that streaming the video online was his idea.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:36:49 +0000

Ironically, the above comment is from Speaker Robbie Wills who refers to my blog post as edited and having a slanted bias. This is ironic as his most recent post on Rep. Greenberg and Rep. Clemmer contains quite a sizable portion of slanted bias and editing itself.

Thanks for the link though, Robbie. I am glad to see the house adopt three rules changes pushed by two Republican legislators and a right wing blogger. I don’t care so much about credit as much as getting good legislation passed. So thanks.

By: Robbie Wills – Busy Day in the House

Robbie Wills – Busy Day in the House — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:59:59 +0000

[...] the proposed rule changes? (That is, without the editing and slanted bias you’ll find here) More on that in a [...]

By: Jim McCool

Jim McCool — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:39:04 +0000

Just goes to show that Washington does not have the market cornered on it’s disdain for the voting public.

By: ddubb

ddubb — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:23:57 +0000

Something needing to be pointed out- several house members who were actual co – sponsors of Clemmer’s travel reimbursement bill voted against it today. Maloch, Betts, Carroll, Hawkins, Tyler, Webb, Williams