Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ stealth campaign for Arkansas governor continues with out-of-state fund-raising appearances and meetings in-state on occasion with carefully selected audiences, generally campaign contributors.
She also has been announcing committees that will be working on Arkansas issues — still undefined. They are interesting as to who’s on board the Sanders train, a number of them undoubtedly hoping for jobs/appointments/favors when the day arrives.
Take the Law Enforcement for Sarah Coalition, announced late last week.
Members include current state employees, such as Cody Hiland, legal counsel for the Department of Public Safety and apparently a wannabe State Police boss; several current or former state troopers; former trooper and state Rep. Dwight Tosh; Parole Board members Benny Magness and Brett Morgan, and some sheriffs and others.
Yes, state employees can campaign for candidates. On their own time. Who’s to say when that is?
She’d earlier announced a similar education group. No AEA representative, of course. There are people from the Walton-financed charter school/school voucher lobby, such as Gary Newton of Arkansas Learns and Scott Smith of the Arkansas Public School Resource Center; Jeff Wood, the Republican and regular outlier vote on the Little Rock School Board; Republican Rep. Sonia Barker of Smackover, and, among others, her aunt, Pat Harris, a retired teacher from Bryant.