The Blytheville Courier provides the baldest admission of the essential corruption of Arkansas legislative pork barreling spending that I've seen. It came in a report on a civic club speech by Democratic Rep. Monte Hodges of Blytheville, who said he hoped the unfolding scandal about kickbacks paid to at least one legislator from pork barrel money won't stop the distribution of surplus money through the so-called General Improvement Fund.
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