Aaron Jon Schock (born May 28, 1981) is a former American politician who was Republican U.S. Representative for Illinois's 18th congressional district from 2009 until 2015. The district is based in Peoria and includes part of Springfield. He was the first member of the U.S. Congress born in the 1980s; when he took his seat in 2009 he was the youngest member of Congress. Previously, Schock had served two terms in the Illinois House of Representatives, also as its youngest member.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders really doesn’t want anyone to know she blew $20K on THIS…
attempted to overhaul Arkansas’ public records laws to shield her activity.Now we may know one of the reasons why, and it’s beyond embarrassing.State records show Arkansas purchased a nearly $20,000 podium ($19,029.25, to be exact) just in time for Sanders’ taxpayer-funded trip to Europe this summer.
Yes, you read that correctly, folx. The gay-hating governor spent what many people spend on a car on a custom-made podium with it’s very own traveling case.
That’s almost $15,000 more than gay anti-LGBTQ+ former congressman Aaron Schock spent on a custom-made podium during his own spending scandal a few years back.A political blogger named Matt Campbell reported the grift on Twitter X.In response, Sanders’ spokeswoman says the Republican Party of Arkansas used private inaugural funds to reimburse the state, but that seems shady.
The state wasn’t reimbursed until mid-September, even though the podium was purchased in June. “They sent emails to have the credit line increased so that they could buy it, and they specifically asked how it should be coded for state accounting,” said Campbell, via Arkansas Today. “They did not even mark the receipt as something to be reimbursed until they were sending it to me, which is likely why this wasn’t reimbursed until mid-September, despite being purchased in June.”The spokeswoman, Alexa Henning, decried “keyboard warriors,” and said the state simply made an error.So an "accounting error" is what led to Sarah Sanders' $19K lectern being purchased with state funds.
