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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law Thursday restricting release of her travel and security records after the Legislature wrapped up a special session marked by a fight to more broadly scale back the state Freedom of Information Act.

The law, which took effect immediately, allows the state to wall off details about the security provided the GOP governor and other constitutional officers, including who travels on the State Police airplane and the cost of individual trips. Proposed changes to the 1967 law protecting the public’s access to government records were among several items Sanders had placed on the agenda for a session that met this week.

Sanders has argued the restrictions are needed to protect her and her family, citing threats she’s faced since taking office and going back to her time as White House press secretary for former President Donald Trump.

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[-] Syldon@feddit.uk 128 points 2 years ago

I can understand restrictions on upcoming events, but there is nothing wrong with releasing them after they have been used. It is not like someone is going to go back in time to commit an offence.

[-] matchphoenix@feddit.uk 129 points 2 years ago

Seems like she doesn’t want the press that DeSantis keeps getting for flying on rich donors’ planes. This is basically a sign on her office saying, “open for corruption”.

[-] Syldon@feddit.uk 32 points 2 years ago

A honest politician is usually the more open one. You would think that getting threats would be an indicator she is doing something upsets people, and she wants to double down on the crazy.

[-] Unaware7013@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Bold of you to assume that she (a Republican) isn't intentionally trying to upset people.

[-] Syldon@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago

Are you suggesting that politicians create issues to hide other more heinous issues? That would just be dead catting.

[-] azn03@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Hah! She's a step ahead of you. She's thinking of when there's a time machine! (/s if that wasn't clear)

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It is not like someone is going to go back in time to commit an offence.

They might if somebody else has already gone back and killed baby Hitler.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Well, they haven't gonna yet, but some day they may yet did.

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If they had, you wouldn't know his name to say that.

[-] ATQ@lemm.ee 73 points 2 years ago

Sanders was getting appropriately shit on for abusing the resources of her office for personal gain. This law allows her to abuse her office “more secretly”.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Arkansas: a state with everything to hide and nothing good to show!

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 54 points 2 years ago

Isn't there a federal law that explicitly says the opposite regarding these and other types of records?

They want to become kkkings of their state and rule for life.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 53 points 2 years ago

THAT FUCKING GOOBER IS A GOVERNOR?!

[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

"Goober" is a more whimsical descriptor than she deserves, but I'm with you.

[-] OctopusKurwa@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Not too surprising seeing as Arkansas elected this goobers goober dad too.

[-] bluestribute@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

So instead of electing a black rocket scientist, Republicans elected someone who's blatantly stealing their money and calling it legal?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To be fair, being a good scientist doesn't guarantee that you're going to be a good governor. They're very different skillsets.

To be even MORE fair though, being a former Trump appointee who hasn't rebuked him by now DOES guarantee that you're a liar and would steal from children with cancer (like Jr and Eric did) if it could benefit you. The lying part goes triple for press secretaries and other spokespeople, of course.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

You're at least starting from a position of being evidence based. As opposed to being known for lying for money.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

True. My second paragraph was supposed to say exactly that, amongst other things 😁

[-] jcrabapple@artemis.camp 46 points 2 years ago

This fucking bridge troll...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

"I have done nothing wrong and you can't prove I did because I won't let you."

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years ago

I want to hear her say the sentence, "We need to keep the cost of the trips a secret to protect my family."

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

What is it with Arkansas and electing fat Huckabees?

[-] ares35@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

they aren't in the bottom 20 percent (approx) in public school funding for nothing.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Fat really isn't a pejorative on the same level as Huckabee. It's not doing any work in that sentence.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago

And just like in Florida, this will be used to hide her activities & vacations with donors.

[-] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Not that hard to track her plane flights, hotels, restaurants. From there, you can pretty much figure out the cost.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I dont think so. Any "reasonable estimate" we can make is going to be soo much smaller than the real figures. Can you manage a 100k USD dinner bill? They probably could pretty easily.

[-] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I don't know many US politicians but I'll always remember Sanders because of the Bad Lipreading video.

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