Arkansas lawmakers are delving into the unusual controversy over the purchase a $19,000 lectern for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
October 12, 2023 at 4:12 pm EDTFILE - The $19,029.25 lectern purchased by the Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders administration in June 2023 sits in a corner in the Governor's Conference Room at the state Capitol, Sept. 26, 2023, in Little Rock, Ark. Arkansas lawmakers on Thursday, Oct.
Documents released by the state this week have deepened questions about the purchase, including whether the original plan was for the state GOP to repay the state for it. Tom Mars, an attorney, told Hickey in a letter this month that he has a client with firsthand knowledge that the governor's office interfered with Freedom of Information Act requests. An email released this week showed an employee of the governor added an undated note to the original June invoice for the lectern that read “to be reimbursed” after the GOP paid the state in September.
Sanders signed the travel and security exemptions after she and lawmakers scaled back the original proposal, which faced a backlash from media groups, transparency advocates and some conservatives. The new law covers records going back to June 1, 2022.
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