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.

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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.

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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.

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