JUDGE SUSAN WEAVER FOUND TO HAVE VIOLATED CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS

The Arkansas Ethics Commission has found that Circuit Judge Susan Weaver violated the law by failing to note that her campaign paid for an ad in the Faulkner County Lifestyle magazine in May 2018.

 

However, the Commission declined to sanction Weaver based on good cause. Weaver and Lori Quinn, a co-owner of the magazine, testified that the campaign asked in an email for the magazine to correct the ad before publication to specify who paid for it, but the magazine didn't do so. 

LORI QUINN

 

Quinn, testified that she agreed with the affidavit of Brandy Strain-Dayer, the other co-owner.

"This particular ad was sent to proof and we missed an email they replied it was not correct and we just missed it," Quinn said.

Perhaps a complaint should have been filed against Quinn and her rag for not following the law.

Weaver is a former district judge for Faulkner and Van Buren counties who narrowly defeated Andrea Woods, corporate counsel and executive president of Nabholz Construction, for the Division 1 position in the 20th Judicial Circuit in May 2018. That particular judicial district has a history of being one, if not the most, corrupt district s in the entire state.

Woods filed a citizens complaint against Weaver that led to an investigation by the Commission.

Woods also ran an ad in that issue and it contained the statutory wording.

Three commissioners, Sybil Jordan Hampton, Lori Klein and Ashley Driver Younger, voted to approve a motion to find that Weaver violated state law, but not to sanction her for it. Chairman Tony Juneau of Rogers voted against the motion.

TONY JUNO - ETHICS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN

Under state law, the commission may sanction ethics law violators with a letter of caution, reprimand or warning and/or fines ranging from $50 to $2,000 per violation.

The commission also voted 4-0 to deny Weaver's motion to declare the laws under which the commission operates to be unconstitutional.

We will be keeping a watchful eye on this scofflaw of a judge.

Weaver's attorney, Jeff Rosenzweig, told the commission, "We may wish to appeal on the question of constitutionality and whether a violation was found at all."

JEFF ROSENZWEIG

Under Arkansas Code Annotated 7-6-228, campaign signs, literature and other printed materials must clearly contain the words "Paid for by" followed by the name of the candidate, committee or person who paid for the material.

Good luck with your appeal shyster.

CONWAY ATTORNEY TRIES TO VIOLATE THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION AND STATE LAWS BY DEMANDING THAT BLOGGER THAT EXPOSED ILLEGAL ACTIVITY OF HIS CLIENT REVEAL HIS SOURCES AND NOTES

SHYSTER JAMES L. BARGER AND HIS CRAZY CLIENT APRIL MATHIS

Followers of this blog will remember our numerous posts about April Mathis, a former employee of then Faulkner County Prosecuting Attorney Cody Hiland (now U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas) who used her position to obtain sealed court records of a case involving the current wife of her ex-husband.

You can check out these posts to get all the details:

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2017/08/cody-hiland-is-in-trouble-yet-again.html

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2017/10/more-evidence-surfaces-about-employee.html

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2017/11/ethics-commission-finds-probable-cause.html

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2017/11/former-faulkner-county-employee-april.html

http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2018/02/ethics-commission-issues-final-order-in.html

Last week the publisher of the blog received a subpoena duces tecum and was to appear for a deposition today.

Our publisher filed a motion to quash the subpoena and thus halted the illegal attempt of shyster Barger to get his notes and identify sources of his stories. 

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Arkansas, as backward as it is, has a great shield law for journalists.

While highly unlikely, this case could impact the rights of the free press in the state of Arkansas.

One of the potential witnesses, if this matter proceeds to a hearing, might be David Sachar, the Executive Director of the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission, that cited this blog and recognized it as a state wide media source in a filing regarding the removal of Saline County Circuit Court Judge Bobby McCallister.

Another might be Max Brantley with the Arkansas Times,  who frequently cites the investigative reporting from this and Bad City of Little Rock blog.

Stay tuned for details about this and while you wait, we will give you an update in our continuing coverage of the domestic relations case concerning April Mathis.

A source provided a copy of some pleading in her case that will arouse some public interest:

It should be noted that April Mathis did not deny that she tried to kill herself. All she had to say is no, if she had not, and move on.

Again with the question about a Department of Human Services, Division of Children & Family Services suspected abuse/neglect investigation, she could have simply responded no, if no such investigation has occurred,  and moved on.

Another thing that creates public interest in April's case is the violation of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure in not using full names, not the initial of the first name, in case filings.

Another point of interest is the two other attorneys involved in the case. Betty Hardy, the Plaintiff's lawyer and Charles Hoskyns, a sloppy, not-to-bright fucker, that makes a living as an ad litem.

Those two shysters will be discussed in stories on our  Bad Attorneys in Arkansas blog.

More to come...

LRSD FOURTH GRADE TEACHER REFERS TO HER STUDENTS AS MONKEYS - ONLY 10 WHITE STUDENTS ENROLLED AT THE SCHOOL

Melanie Watson, a fourth grade teacher at Little Rock school district Watson Elementary school took to Facebook to reveal her true feeling about the students at her school returning after a holiday break.

Watson Elementary only has 10 white students enrolled according to information we obtained earlier in the school year from LRSD.

Racist and bigots have long referred to blacks as monkeys. Click here for examples.

Upset parents protested at the school this morning and were questioned on how long they would be holding up signs in front of the school by the principal.

The teacher has deleted her Facebook page and we cannot review it to see if she made other similar racist posts.

We have requested information from the school district and will post an update when the information is made available.

***Update- 01/04/19 12:00 pm***

LRSD reports that they have suspended the teacher that made the racist post.

***Update- 01/11/19 1:45 pm***

 LRSD provided information regarding the racial breadown in Watson's classroom.

As we suspected, Watson has no white kids in her class.

LRSD needs to fire Watson before the end of the day. The State Board of Education gave them the ability to do that when they waived the Fair Teacher Dismissal Act for LRSD at a recent board meeting.