The voters are watching

WAi radio personality Pat Lynch has been looking at Montgomery's misspending and says at his blog that a few years ago Attorney General Steve Clark was convicted of the allegation,

http://lynchlarge.blogspot.com/2005/11/faulkner-county-follies.html

Despite a seemingly ineffective special prosecutor investigation by Stephen Tabor of Fort Smith, state auditors have unearthed significant amounts of money owed the county. Unfortunately, the usually diligent Log Cabin Democrat fails to outline the improprieties with the same detail as the Democrat-Gazette report. These are numbers well over 30k. Many county employees, including the sheriff Marty Montgomery, are named in the earlier report.

A few years ago, Arkansas Attorney General Steve Clark was run out of office, criminally prosecuted, subjected to a fine, and deprived of his law license because of similar allegations.

I looked up Former AG Clark's offense and found in January 1990 Clark aborted a campaign for Governor after an Arkansas Gazette report that his office had spent $115,000 in travel and meals, sometimes with false documentation and was later charged with felony theft. In November that same year Clark was convicted of wrongfully charging less than $2,500 for personal use. He resigned as attorney general.

In Special Prosecutor Tabor's letter to Judge Clawson he says, among other things, There were a number of other charges in which the Sheriff charged clearly personal expenditure on the Department Credit card and then made reimbursements for those expenses.

But Montgomery faces no charges of wrong doing even though that very practice is against constitutional law. The worse part about this is that Montgomery readily admits that he has done these very things throughout his nine years in office. Who knows how much money was really misspent. The people of Faulkner County need a full ASP investigation, anything less is an insult to the people of this county.

I'd say that the District Judges, Prosecuting Attorneys, County Judge, and Quorum Court members of this county need to be advised, the voters are watching. . .