In Arkansas, a $19,000 Lectern for the Governor Draws Scrutiny

by throwaway5272

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  1. Considering how hard she’s going to fuck that state 19k is probably pretty cheap

  2. I wish Sarah Huckabee Sanders would get out of politics and start acting again. She was great as Edgar in Men in Black.

  3. She learned the art of the cover up well while she was in DC.

  4. She needs something to distract from her f’d up face.

  5. Is that the motorized type of lectern? I remember they had that in the White House when Sean Spicer was press secretary

  6. For anyone who is scratching their heads about this (as I was last week or so when reading about it), this isn’t *really* about a lectern.

    It is theorized that Sanders funneled taxpayer money spent on a state issued credit card to help a friend (a friend who also attended J6) go to Paris with her on an “official trade” trip or something like that.

    The expense report *says* the payment was for a lectern and travel case…but $19k is *way* too expensive and not comparable to other such products…

    And Sanders office *said* it was paid for with private funds…but receipts show that was paid for with a state issued credit card. Moves to pay it back with private money werent made until after a reporter started digging into it…

    …cause as we all know, it’s not embezzlement if you put the money *back* when you’re discovered 😬 🤜 💰

    …and [this supposedly “new” lectern](https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/09/26/image0_4_t800.jpeg?90232451fbcadccc64a17de7521d859a8f88077d) ordered this summer looks *a whole dang lot like* [the one from her inauguration](https://mhobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sarah-Sanders-Inauguration-Podium-Speech-Flagd-3-1024×682.jpg), which was in January 🤔

    ..and Sanders 😉 *coincidentally* 😉 wanted to restrict the public’s ability to use Freedom of Information Act requests to see how the governor is using taxpayer money for travel…

    …at about the time reporters were trying to use FOIA requests to see how **she** is spending taxpayer money for travel…

    In short, she tried to pull a Trump and get taxpayers to cough up for her vacation plans with her friend…and has been inept at covering it up.

  7. The only good thing that could come of this is more people learning the difference between a lectern and a podium.

  8. If she is smart, she will get her brother to kill the story.

  9. Thank goodness for Matt Campbell and the other dogged reporters daring to challenge Her Majesty.

  10. Don’t wonder why suddenly she wanted to keep inquiring people away,..

  11. But God probably told her it was necessary to prove her faith.

  12. “I need the lectern to hold my jaw up from all these fucking mumps!”

  13. I feel like I double vision when I look at her. What am I missing.

  14. So I guess this *isn’t* something she can stand behind….

  15. The 19,000 isnt the issue, it’s the altered documents and cover up

  16. God, VEEP was just years ahead of their time with every episode. How much did Selina’s titanium crate cost? Not even as much as this lectern, I think.

  17. It’s like in “Independence Day” when they talk about $20000 toilet seats.

  18. Every time I see her I can’t help but say, “give me sugar…in water!”

  19. Didn’t this POS also just dismantle the Medicare program for over 600,000 people – leaving them with our insurance?

  20. This is Republican political ideology in action. Away from the rhetoric. This is also right wing conservatism worldwide. Essentially at the core a criminal conspiracy.

    Always was, always will be.

  21. I can’t think of a way she could be less likeable

  22. Her next one will be made by American factory child labor. With their bones too if she can get away with it.

  23. Grimace was funny when he wore a wig and colored himself white.

  24. Republicans are fiscally responsible only when the other party is in office

  25. It’s not $19,000 lectern.

    It’s a $750 lectern and $19K of grift and contempt for her constituents.

  26. This is just what they found *so far*. There will be more.

  27. She’s a grifter like her Dad, like the rest of the party. I doubt she even thinks twice about it. Just as much as she felt her job as press secretary was to lie to the American people, she feels the governorship means she’s owed whatever funds she can take from the taxpayers.

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