Snarky Media Report

JOHNNY KYLE SOWELL - ILLEGALLY RAN FOR AND HELD OFFICE OF MAYOR OF SHIRLEY In Part 1 of this series we exposed Sowell as a failed Arkansas State Trooper wannabe and one of, if not the worst,  recruit ever in the history of the Arkansas State Police (the exception being tainted ABC Enforcement Director Boyce Hamlet ).   In this installment, we will expose him as an illegal mayor of Shirley and illegal voter in city elections. Arkansas Code Annotated §14-42-201 requires that candidates must live in the corporate municipal limits at the time they file and when they hold office. The Arkansas Municipal League, an organization that assists Arkansas towns and cities covers this fact in one of their publications. Links to relevant Arkansas Supreme Court case precedents as referenced above: Thomas v Sitton   and Davis v Holt . Sowell's residence has never, repeat never, been in the corporate municipal limits of Shirley and he was not a resident at the time he ran of held the...

GOV. ASA HUTCHINSON - PLAYS FAST & LOOSE WITH PUBLIC FUNDS TO HELP WIN VOTES Gov. Asa Hutchinson is giving $150,000 from an emergency fund to three private historically black religious affiliated colleges to provide grants to assist their students - Arkansas Baptist College and Philander Smith College in Little Rock, and Shorter College in North Little Rock. From the Governor's Emergency Fund, Hutchinson plans to give $80,000 to Arkansas Baptist College; $55,000 to Philander Smith College; and $15,000 to Shorter College to provide Arkansas Future Grants, according to his proclamations. His proposal sailed through the eight-member legislative Governor's Emergency Fund Review Committee last week.   "The reason for the distribution to the three private colleges is that these schools previously benefited from scholarships and grants that were terminated under the ArFuture legislation," Hutchinson said Friday in a written statement in response to a question ab...

IS TAINTED ABC ENFORCEMENT DIRECTOR BOYCE HAMLET THE RIGHT CHOICE TO HEAD ABC ENFORCEMENT? DFA mouthpiece Jake Bleed told reporters that ABC Enforcement will hire six new agents to perform inspections and one lawyer to specialize in medical marijuana issues.  JAKE BLEED - DFA COMMUNICATIONS ADMINISTRATOR The state is also planning to procure a "seed to sale" tracking system to aid law enforcement in keeping medical marijuana from being illegally diverted. ABC Enforcement cannot keep up with who has an active alcoholic beverage permit (see this post) and thinking that they can track medical weed is simply preposterous.  With the additional burden and responsibility tainted ABC Enforcement Director Boyce Hamlet will have with six additional employees, we wonder if he will receive another sizeable increase in salary as he did just three months after being appointed to the position (see this post about the $8k raise he received).  A position that he holds none of the r...

Readers will recall a post made back in October 2016 that detailed apparent misuse and commingling of funds by the 20th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Cody Hiland (and reported to be the next U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas). The information we uncovered led to the U.S. Department of Justice investigating Hiland and his Drug Task Force head Johnny Sowell and later on to an investigation by the FBI agents assigned to public corruption cases. That post resulted in a flood of emails to us to look into Sowell as he was illegally holding the office of Mayor for the City of Shirley and he was doing so other sketchy and possibly illegal things. Here are a few examples.      We did confirm that Sowell had illegally held the office of Mayor (he never has lived within the city limits of Shirley - more on that later on) and we did  little more digging and found some incredible and unbelievable information about Sowell's brief stint as an Arkansas St...