Gov.-elect Mike Beebe today announced he’d be keeping on three Huckabee agency heads — James Salkeld, director of the Arkansas Department of Labor; Arthur Boutiette, director of the Arkansas Social Security Disability Agency; and Bekki White, State Geologist and Director of the Arkansas Geological Commission.
Boutiette, a long-time Republican contributor and operative dating back to work for Sheffield Nelson against Jim Guy Tucker is also, you may recall, being paid more than $100,000 under a little Huckabee administration sleight of hand. He’s being paid as a “medical consultant” despite lack of experience in the medical field. Boutiette, it so happens, has used Beebe in public service TV ads about Social Security since 2000. As ye sow …
Salkeld will be remembered, at least by Sen. Jimmy Jeffress, for joining a Huckabee phalanx of campaign contributors to a primary opponent, Joyce Dees. Is Beebe bipartisan, or what?
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