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'pork barrel'

Attorney general continues to fight fees for lawyers who won case over illegal pork barreling

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge continues to fight attorney fees for the lawyers who upended the legislature's unconstitutional pork barreling scheme to dole out the so-called General Improvement Fund.
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D-G chronicles more legislative waste of public money. Welcome to the party.

Lisa Hammersly of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today chronicled several more of the ways legislators wasted public money on unaccountable local pork barrel projects through the now-defunct General Improvement Fund. One quibble: Public questions about this spending didn't begin this year.
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Judge Piazza preserves legislative pork barreling ruse

Circuit Judge Chris Piazza delivered a windfall to pork barreling legislators Tuesday by dismissing the lawsuit by Mike Wilson of Jacksonville attacking the money laundering machine legislators set up to get around the constitutional prohibition against spending on local projects.

Mike Wilson again raises alarm over pork spending

Mike Wilson, a Jacksonville lawyer and former legislator who filed a lawsuit that won an Arkansas Supreme Court decision curtailing illegal pork barrel spending by the legislature, is on the warpath again because the legislature is up to its old tricks.
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Hutchinson: Still holding firm on end to pork spending tradition

Gov. Asa Hutchinson is sticking to his guns. He has no plans for spending any state surplus on legislators' pork projects.

The legislature's pork barrel scam pays for park for Mayberry family

Great reporting in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today on how Rep. Andy Mayberry and his wife, Julie, who hopes to succeed him in the legislature, conspired with other Republican legislators from Saline County and nearby to direct spending $120,000 in state money to build a park for handicapped children including the Mayberry's daughter on land currently owned by the Mayberry family.
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