We sure hope that that $19,000 lectern was worth it.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is probably really regretting that it cost over $1,000 because $1,000 is usually the cutoff line between felony and misdemeanor misuse of state funds. Sarah Huck spent almost 20,000. She is going to go through some things.

And here is what she spent that dough on…here is that lectern, which is why this controversy is aptly named “LecternGate”. Do lecterns cost almost $20 grand? Maybe, but it certainly doesn’t look like this one does. This lectern looks like Huckabee Sanders bought it on Temu.

First of all, here is Sarah’s very very odd reaction to buying the $19,000 lectern and then having the money questioned (If it went toward a lectern). Had she gone over $20,000, it would’ve required a special state expenditure review and that little fact may play a role in what is to come and why she “spent” $19,000 in the first place.)

My thoughts on the podium… pic.twitter.com/d57R1aw7r8

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) April 15, 2024

“Come and take it”? Pay me $19,000, and I’ll come take it off your hands. Did you see the lightning special effects she put around it?

Alright, alright, if a lectern could produce lightning, it might be worth $19,000 but maybe not in Arkansas, where the lightning is free. The only other lectern worth $19,000 is one that speaks FOR Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

But the committee that looked into this mess has referred the matter to the prosecutor. According to Newsweek:

After a months-long audit of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ $19,000 lectern purchase from a friend last year, legislative auditors have produced a report documenting seven “areas of potential noncompliance with state law” by the governor’s office and referred those findings to Pulaski County Prosecutor Will Jones to determine whether any criminal charges should be filed.

Right.

Sarah would likely be better off if the matter were sent to the state Attorney General, who probably wants to be governor someday and might take a soft approach to the MAGA girl. But I’m willing to bet that Pulaski County D.A. Will Jones sees prosecuting Sarah as his ticket to the Governor’s mansion.

Someone needs to find out why Sarah thought that putting $19,000 on a state credit card to buy a lectern while in France with friends was a good idea. It sounds criminally stupid. But Sarah isn’t stupid enough to make that mistake again. That seems to be why she is trying to whittle away at how the public finds out about her travel:

A second, related audit request to look into information withdrawn from the public purview in 2023 is still in the “early stages” and will be handled separately from the lectern report, head auditor Roger Norman said Monday. In September, Sanders convened the state Legislature in part to whittle away at the state Freedom of Information Act by hiding records about her travel and security from the public. Hickey asked auditors to look into “all matters involving the governor or the governor’s office” made confidential by recent changes to state law.

Wow. It is just almost like she has something to hide?

I wonder where someone gets that kind of entitlement? Oh, wait – her dad was governor and she worked for Donald Trump, who specialized in profiting off being in office.

Yes, entitlement comes with the territory. This is just felony entitlement… also like Trump.

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Jason Miciak is Executive Editor of Political Flare and an Editor at Large for Occupy Democrats. He can be reached at [email protected]