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struggle4progress

(118,530 posts) Sat Apr 13, 2024, 11:50 AM Apr 13

Audit on $19000 lectern to be released [View all]

BY ANDREW DEMILLO
Updated 6:01 PM EDT, April 9, 2024

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The co-chairman of a legislative committee that ordered the audit of a $19,000 lectern bought for Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday [9 April] he expects the report on the purchase to be released to the public within the next 10 days.

Republican Rep. Jimmy Gazaway said he and Republican Sen. David Wallace, who co-chairs the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee, received the report from auditors on Friday afternoon [5 April] and are reviewing it. Gazaway said he wasn’t sure yet whether the report would be released to the committee beforehand, or if the panel would hold a hearing on it ...

https://apnews.com/article/lectern-audit-arkansas-huckabee-sanders-68e3a8d1fc9e0f74907f183ba58c9ae7

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Audit on $19000 lectern to be released [View all] struggle4progress Apr 13 OP

Karnac Predicts...... getagrip_already Apr 13 #1

After all. It's a VERY nice lectern lame54 Apr 13 #16

Am I the only one that can think of no other reason for paying $19,000 louis-t Apr 13 #2

I'd estimate over a hundred million other folk share your suspicion struggle4progress Apr 13 #4

Grifters on Parade. barbaraann Apr 13 #3

pics Celerity Apr 13 #5

Intensively ugly. nilram Apr 13 #6

Not $19,000 worth of craft though PatSeg Apr 13 #7

I'm thinking for like $1,900 assuming there is a flat touch screen inside it and maybe some madinmaryland Apr 13 #8

It's got to fly, too. Kid Berwyn Apr 13 #12

Ha, ha! Maybe then. PatSeg Apr 13 #13

Yeah. Take out the video stuff and it would be worth $190.. madinmaryland Apr 13 #19

It comes with a deluxe shipping case Brother Buzz Apr 13 #20

I've made stuff like that before. bluesbassman Apr 13 #14

Interesting. Looked metal to me nilram Apr 13 #17

That Was 19 Grand? ProfessorGAC Apr 13 #10

The text is blurry in that picture. I think it reads "Chief Grifter of the State of Arkansas" FSogol Apr 13 #11

nothing will happen gopiscrap Apr 13 #9

Was it like this? Sneederbunk Apr 13 #15

Does the hot tub attachment offer rotating sprays and large seats for plump politicians? Ping Tung Apr 13 #18