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The Rutledge Report, Part II: Her record, including her ties to Donald Trump January 24, 20219:58 am Attorney General Leslie Rutledge continues to add chapters to the book of her public record, generally lamentable particularly in her devotion to Donald Trump. Advertisement The latest chapter, as I mentioned earlier, is an outlay of what likely will exceed a quarter of a million dollars in public money on partisan assistance in redistricting that could have been done at no additional cost by her existing staff. The event prompts me to share something I’d been holding in reserve. Advertisem...

January 24, 20219:20 am Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s use of public money to provide plump featherbeds for Republican insiders. As we’d reported previously, former GOP Party Chair Doyle Webb got the biggest public teat — $150,000 a year as “staff director” of Rutledge’s one-third share of the board that oversees legislative apportionment. Former Republican legislators Andy Davis and Doug House are suckling on the state nozzle at $6,666 a month to work on the same project. Advertisement Wickline’s article provided some useful history. Ten years ago, when the board of appo...

LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has announced her new redistricting team. Former state senator, Doyle Webb, joins Rutledge’s senior staff as the redistricting director. Webb will lead the redistricting team made up of former state representatives Andy Davis and Col. Douglas House, U.S. Army, retired, who have been contracted as consultants. “I am ecstatic to welcome Doyle Webb, Doug House and Andy Davis to my team to help with this important task of redrawing state legislative districts,” said Attorney General Rutledge. “They will bring with them more than 50...

Where there's a cash dole, there's Doyle Webb.

January 14, 20214:28 pm In a brief order today, the Arkansas Supreme Court granted the state of Arkansas’s petition to prevent Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen from hearing a capital case. The Supreme Court ordered Griffen off capital cases in 2017 following his participation in a demonstration outside the Governor’s Mansion. But he was assigned a murder case last fall under a new court case distribution plan and refused the prosecutor’s request to have the case reassigned. The prosecutor said he didn’t object to Griffen hearing capital cases but was bound to request the transfer by the ...