Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ convoluted story about her $19,029.25 grift is unraveling by the day
The Associated Press recently received dozens of records under a Freedom of Information Act request related to the very expensive lectern.
While the Arkansas GOP eventually paid for the podium in mid-September, the words “to be reimbursed” were only later added to the original invoice.
Sanders’ office used state funds to buy the lectern. Republican State Senator Jim Hickey requested an audit of the curious purchase, and told the AP the new revelations “further indicate the need for a full blown audit to get all the facts.”Laura Hamilton, executive assistant and office manager for Sanders, added the note about the state needing to be reimbursed.
In an email, Department of Transformation and Shared Services employee Cassie Cantlon said Hamilton was instructed to not date her notice.Why could that possibly be?!“I asked if she wanted to date the note and she stated that she was told not to date it, but to just make the note that the invoice was to be reimbursed,” the email reads.Sanders’ office continues to call #podiumgate “nothing more than a manufactured controversy,” but the gay-gating governor’s actions speak otherwise.
