Month: March 2023

1.) Yesterday, the House State Agencies Committee passed Rep. Mary Bentley’s Secret Meetings Bill, HB1610. The next chance is stop this bad bill, which allows 1/3 of a city council, quorum court, or school board to meet in secret is TODAY. The full House may pass HB1610 this afternoon. You can TEXT your state representative or call the IN-SESSION number and ask that a message be hand carried to him to vote AGAINST HB1610.

Individual contact info: https://reopenarkansas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-legislators-all-by-name-PDF.pdf

2.) Because of the public outrage and incredible testimony from patriots across the state, HB1726 (the FOIA killer bill), FAILED in committee. Watch for it to re-appear, but for now, this was a rare win for the people.

Representatives who voted FOR the bill: (tell them you disapprove of their vote)

Beck, Bentley, Berry, Carr, Underwood

Representatives who voted AGAINST the bill: (thank them for standing for the people)

McElroy, Clowney, Crawford, Jean, Moore, Richmond, Scott, Womack, Gonzales

Two bills have been filed that wreck Arkansas’s strong FOIA / open meetings laws and will result in public business being conducted behind closed doors and in secret. Both bills will be heard Wednesday, March 29th, around 2:30 PM in House State Agencies. Please contact committee members PRIOR to the hearing. (See list below.)

HB1726 by Representative David Ray and Senator Breanne Davis would require citizens to double pay for FOIA requests. We already pay once through our tax dollars. We would then be charged AGAIN for labor to compile requests and print-outs, even when the information is delivered electronically. This is essentially double-taxation, which will result in individuals not being able to afford to find out what their own government is doing.

HB1610 by Representative Mary Bentley and Senator Payton allows less than 1/3 of a quorum court, city council, or school board to meet in secret. This will undoubtedly result in secret meetings in which deals are cut behind closed doors. It is relatively easy to have a go-between among four groups of members. On a 13 member quorum court, four influential members could legally meet and would almost certainly make decisions for the full body.

Our republic dies in darkness. These are possibly the worst bills filed this session. While we appreciate the good work from all of these legislators in the past, we must strongly oppose these two bills.

BACKGROUND:

Senator Alan Clark has filed a number of election integrity bills that deserve your support. These will be heard THIS WEEK.

SB429: prevents candidates and third-parties from having access to up to the minute voting data during an election, which is often used for nefarious purposes

SB430: allows 10 voters to request a recount, which will be performed by hand

SB431: limits handling of absentee ballots and makes ballot harvesting a felony

SB435: allows any voter to request a paper ballot

ACTION:

Contact your (1) state senator; (2) your state representative; and (3) any Republican members of both chambers you’re willing to contact. Ask them to stand tall for election integrity by SUPPORTING SB429, SB430, SB431, and SB435.

BACKGROUND:

Senate Bill 71 would end state sponsored discrimination and aligns perfectly with the ‘Needs Based’ & ‘Merit Based’ principles. Before the spring recess, RINO State Rep. Jeff Wardlaw attempted to kill this conservative bill in the House State Agencies committee. In the video below, watch the coach give the steal sign to another member! Fortunately, two days later Rep Gonzales made the motion to move SB71 back to the deferred list with the support to the Committee.

MORE ON SB71:

Arkansas Does Not Need “Affirmative Action Laws” and “Women Do Not Want a Hand-Up”

ACTION:

Tell the members of the House State Agencies committee to end government-sanctioned discrimination – PASS SB71!

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How to remove the Graphene being transmitted from the COVID Vaccinated to the Unvaccinated from your body

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https://doctorgrouf.substack.com/p/grouf-bird-flu-h5n1-gof-prophylaxis

TELL YOUR LEGISLATORS, ESPECIALLY REP. WAYNE LONG AND SEN. KIM HAMMER, TO PASS A “CLEANUP” BILL THAT DOES NOT PENALIZE COUNTIES THAT MIGHT CHOOSE PAPER BALLOTS.

BACKGROUND:

The Association of Arkansas Counties takes one percent of each county’s income, essentially as dues, to fund their operations.  AAC is, for lack of a better term, a taxpayer-funded lobbyist for county elected officials.  They are behind SB250, and Lindsey Bailey French (one of their lawyers) made that clear in an email we obtained dated February 14th.  She lied in testimony before the Senate committee on February 27th, when she said AAC has no position on SB250 (they clearly supported – and pushed – it). 

See the February 14th email here: https://8468304.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8468304/LBF%20214%20email.jpeg

And the AAC public testimony here, which contradicts the private email: https://8468304.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8468304/AAS%20(LBF)%20no%20position.mov

ACTION:

Let your legislators know that they were hoodwinked on SB250. Insist that they immediately pass a clean-up bill, which both (a) removes the penalty from counties choosing paper ballots and (b) does not require electronic counting.

Rep. Wayne Long: 501-290-0091; wayne.long@arkansashouse.org

Sen. Kim Hammer: 501-840-3841; kim.hammer@senate.ar.gov

Senate committee: https://reopenarkansas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-Senate-state-agencies-PDF.pdf

House committee: https://reopenarkansas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-House-state-agencies.pdf

It appears that we live in a reality where doctors are censored and early treatments such as ivermectin are banned, apparently to ensure public confidence in the government’s vaccine rollout is not undermined.

AHPRA and National Boards threatened doctors with regulatory action on March 9, 2021 if they made any statements that ‘undermined public confidence in the vaccination rollout’. The TGA also banned ivermectin’s use for the prevention or treatment of Covid in September 2021 because, according to the TGA, if people had access to it they may not get vaccinated. Are we seeing a trend?

https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/did-the-ivermectin-ban-cost-lives/

UPDATE: The bill failed in the House committee on Wednesday. It could be brought up again, though.

We love Representative Mary Bentley; she has been a great state rep and was our first endorsement of the 2022 cycle. This bill, however, is a bad bill and is not in the public interest.

https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail?id=hb1610&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R&Search=

By requiring a quorum before a meeting is subject to FOIA / Open Records laws, school boards, city councils, and quorum courts will meet in secret, whether by email, text, or in person. It’s very easy for a 13 member board to put 6 members in one room, 6 in another, and have one go between. Government operates best in sunlight, and while well-meaning, Representative Bentley’s bill will result in government operating in darkness behind closed doors.

We strongly urge you to OPPOSE HB1610.

Committee members who will consider this bill are listed below: