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A state senator from Pine Bluff who attended legislative meetings via videoconference has reimbursed the Senate nearly $3,000 that she improperly received in per diem and travel expense payments for those meetings.
The Arkansas Senate on Monday approved procedures for the chamber to follow as it considers its Ethics Committee's findings and recommended penalties on ethics complaints filed against Sens. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, and Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, by Senate President Pro Tempore Jimmy Hickey, R-Texarkana.
The Arkansas Senate Ethics Committee didn't find state Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, persuasive in his reasoning for his decision to sign the reimbursement sign-in sheet for fellow Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, for a June 3 Boys State committee meeting that Clark didn't attend, the committee said in a report released late Monday afternoon.
Arkansas Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, said he made a mistake in asking Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, to sign Clark's name on a sign-in sheet to be paid reimbursement for a Senate Boys State committee meeting June 3 that Clark didn't attend because he was sick.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders raised $13.18 million in contributions and spent that much in the primary election, including a $4.25 million transfer to her general election account, according to her latest campaign finance report.