The Mike Lindell Show with Col. Conrad Reynolds - 10.31.25
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Ever see this guy with the pillows on fox?
My pillow guy, Mike Lindell.
He is the greatest to my pillow guy.
Mike Lindell.
And he's been with us right from the beginning.
Well, welcome to the Mike Lindell Show.
I'm Colonel Conrad Reynolds.
Thanks for being in for Mike as a guest host.
Today is Friday, October 31st.
Happy Halloween to everybody.
We've got a great show.
I've got Will Huff here along with me, and we've got a lot to discuss today, particularly Arkansas.
We want everybody to know that even red states can have lawfare, even red states can have corruption, and they can have people, even though they say they're Republican, are not doing what the Republican Party is asking them to do.
And those of you who know me know that I've been pushing very, very hard for paper ballots.
I've been pushing hard for paper ballots for several years now because I realize the vulnerabilities that we have with these voting computers.
These machines have got to go and we've got to go to a secure handmark paper ballot that is hand counted.
There are ways to do it.
We're not 40 years.
It's not like it was 40 years ago.
We've proven that here in Arkansas, in the little county of Searcy County, Arkansas, where they got 100% accuracy on their hand count.
So it can be done.
You just got to have the will and you've got to have a desire to have open and fair elections that are completely transparent.
But apparently there are people who don't want that.
There are people who are in elected offices here in Arkansas who are fighting tooth and nail.
They're doing everything they can to destroy the paper ballot movement in Arkansas.
And we're going to spend the rest of this hour discussing that.
And I think that it will be very interesting for you to see how the people who proclaim to be conservatives, Republicans, are far from it when you actually see what they're doing in their actions.
It is sad.
It hurts me.
It's just one of those things that we have to deal with.
It is the truth.
And I have a show called The Colonel of Truth that I do every Monday here on a local radio station, 101.1 The Answer.
And what we try to do is bring information to the voters that they wouldn't get any other way.
And we've seen that here in Arkansas where there is a reluctance by the regular news media, the local newspaper, the Democrat Gazette, and many others who simply don't report on some of the key issues, particularly as it pertains to fair elections and the paper ballot initiative that we've been working.
And so let's talk about some of these people.
And I would like to name them out, and then we're going to talk about some of the things that they've done.
But one is a guy by the name of Senator Kim Hammer, who has been in the House and Senate for over 16 years here.
He's termed out, and believe it or not, he's running for Secretary of State for the state of Arkansas.
And it's amazing because this guy has gone in and done a plethora of things that all of you probably would be shocked.
On the Senate floor, he disparaged me.
He did everything he could back when we first started this effort, which is at the latter end of 2022, to destroy our movement and to make it look like we were liars that didn't know what we were doing.
He did everything possible.
When we got some of the counties to consider voting to go to their quorum court to go to paper ballots, Kim Hammer quickly introduced legislation that would punish those counties if they went to paper ballot.
Can you believe that?
I mean, the Republicans in our state legislature, this is the senior senator, is pushing legislation to do one thing, and that is punish counties that go, we can't afford these machines.
We don't trust these machines.
We want to go to paper ballots because we think that it is cheaper and better.
Well, they passed legislation, and you know who signed that legislation?
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
She signed the legislation that punished counties who wanted to go to paper ballots.
And several of the counties that wanted to go to paper ballots because of the cost that they thought that they were going to incur, and also because of the pressure they were getting from Little Rock through back channels through other organizations like the Association of Arkansas Counties, they backed off and they decided not to go to paper ballot.
This is how people put pressure.
This is how the establishment, okay, the in-crowd, if you will, the elite put pressure on these little counties so that they will back off, even though it would save them money.
But the people were scared to move forward.
Only one county went forward, and that was the county of Searcy County, who actually said, you know what, we're going to do it anyway.
And they got all kinds of threats that they were going to lose their grant money.
They weren't going to get any help from the AA, this Association of Arkansas Counties to write any grants for bridges and roads.
And guess what?
They said, you know what?
Why is it that you care in Little Rock and how this little county in North Arkansas votes?
And they've realized that something must be wrong here.
And they decided they would go ahead and get paper ballots and they would do away with the machines.
And that's exactly what they did.
And ever since then, they've been a target.
They've been a target by Kim Hammer.
Kim Hammer has targeted them relentlessly.
He's also targeted other counties.
There was a county in Baxter County up in northwest Arkansas, Northeast Arkansas.
Great county.
And the people there wanted paper ballots.
The Republican committee voted overwhelmingly.
I think it was something like 99% of they wanted paper ballots and one of the machines gone.
And they wanted to try to do a hand count.
Well, they were set up.
They were said, oh, you want to do a hand count?
You could come count the local scoreboard race.
And then they go, okay, we'll do that.
They really had no training.
They had no idea what they were doing, but they were energetic.
And all the county clerk did was take a big sack of ballots and say, here you go, and dropped it off with no guidance, no instruction, nothing.
Of course, you can tell, you know, that it took them a while to figure it all out, finally get through it.
And then Kim Hammer, of course, brought some of those people down to what I call the, I don't know.
It was just a kind of an oversight committee.
It looks like they were an inquisition, and they brought them in and kind of terrorized them and interrogated them on how poorly they did and why we counting hand ballots would never work in the state.
That's what they did.
They did it to have an example to show that Hanne County would never work.
And they tried to humiliate the people who are actually doing it.
And the county clerk came up and just, you know, kind of very gleeful that they had taken so long that they were disorganized and explained to Kim Hammer and the entire committee of the Joint Performance Review Committee there in Little Rock how horrible it was.
They were just trying to set up the stage.
This is what they were doing to try to kill the effort to keep counties from wanting to go to paper ballots.
In fact, there was all type of innuendo and rumors about how expensive it would be and how they would never ever be able to afford it because hand-counting ballots would bankrupt their county.
And they better not do that.
They better not go forward with that.
And that was the mantra.
It was all the same talking points and propaganda that you would expect.
We've heard of them in other states, by the way.
It's not just Arkansas.
It's the same ones because they want desperately to hold on to these machines.
We've seen it time and time again.
The other thing that Kim Hammer did, again, he went around to different counties explaining how hand count paper ballots were inaccurate and the machines were 100% accurate and they had done these audits that proved it.
He was just a puppet, a puppet for the voting machine companies.
That's all he is.
And when he gets into the Senate, he's going to do that.
If he gets in to be the Secretary of State, he's going to do the same thing.
But Kim Hammer is just one half of the dynamic duo who is responsible for this onslaught of attacks on anybody who wants paper ballots.
The other half of the team is a guy by the name of Representative David Ray.
And we've got a lot to talk about on Mr. David Ray.
He's a representative here in Arkansas.
He is a transplant from another state from Tennessee.
He moved here, I think, around 2010, 11, 12, somewhere in there.
And he has worked for the AG Attorney General Tim Griffin.
We like to say Tim Letissa James Griffin.
I'll explain about that in a minute.
David Ray and Tim Griffin are kind of locked at the hip.
They do everything together.
And he's also locked up the hit with Kim Hammer.
So this team, these three people, are all associated with trying to destroy, okay, the paper ballot movement.
That's all they've been about ever since we started this effort.
The other one is Tim Griffin.
Talk a little bit about Tim Griffin.
Tim Griffin is our AG.
He's our attorney general.
I've known Tim for a long time.
He worked under the Bush White House.
He had several positions.
He had eight years, actually, four years as a congressman for the 2nd District, a U.S. Congressman.
And then he went for eight years as the lieutenant governor.
He always thought he was going to run for governor until Sarah Huckabee came along.
She was too popular, and there was no way he was going to be able to beat her, I guess, in the minds of the people who control Arkansas.
So anyway, all of a sudden, out of the blue, he decides he's going to run for lieutenant general.
And the lieutenant general at the time, her name was Leslie Rutledge, was termed out.
She was running for governor, and she miraculously dropped out of the race, too.
And she decided to run for lieutenant governor.
So they just simply, Tim Griffin and Leslie Rutledge, you know, switched positions.
And Sarah Huckabee came in as the governor.
Now, why is that important?
It's important because we try to do a statewide referendum.
As most of you are probably aware of, you could do a statewide referendum to change your Constitution.
You got to get so many signatures.
And in Arkansas, it was something around 93 or 94,000 signatures that we were going to have to get to try to put a constitutional amendment that basically said we're going to get rid of machines and we're going to do all elections in Arkansas with secure handmarked paper ballots that are hand-counted.
We could never get the bill that we were trying to get through to be able to be approved by the Attorney General so that we could try to go get signatures.
Every time we turned around, he would simply say null and void.
He would not approve our petition.
He didn't approve the language.
He didn't approve the ballot title.
And so they delayed, delayed, and delayed.
And all they have to do is delay for a few months.
And then it knocks you out of the ability to actually get the number of signatures that are required.
But I gave Tim Griffin the benefit of the doubt.
And I gave him the benefit of the doubt because he also is a colonel in the Army National Guard in the JAG Corps.
And as one officer to another, I said, well, his integrity, I believe, I have to give him the benefit of the doubt because as an officer in the military, you should have integrity above all else.
Integrity should never be for sale for any price.
And so I gave them the benefit of the doubt at that time.
So we went on to find other ways to try to get paper ballots in the state of Arkansas.
And one of the ways was county by county petitions, not a statewide petition, just county by county.
And we can do that under our state laws.
So we researched that.
We had our attorney research it.
And then he said, yes, you can do it this way.
He said, you can get people in.
You can get paper ballots.
You can get signatures.
This is what you have to do.
And we did all that.
We followed our legal advice to the T.
And we went out and got about nine counties and got all the signatures in nine counties.
And all we did was help and augment the counties that wanted to do it.
We didn't go in and say, okay, we're doing this.
No, we said, if any county would like the help of my organization, AVII, the American Voter Integrity Initiative, if you would like our help and assistance, we'd be glad to help you.
But you've got to do most of the work yourself.
But we will try to help and we'll try to help bring people in that will help you get the signatures.
And that's what we did in nine, I think it was nine counties total.
Immediately, lawfair started.
They tried to stop us at every term.
They were able to get all but one judge.
One judge, the very first judge, ruled in our favor.
And the other judges ruled against us.
And basically, all counties failed with the exception of two counties.
They said the signatures that we gathered were not legal, the people getting them, because it's a long story, but the actual form, the people who got the signatures had put the wrong address.
They should have put the address of the hotel they were living at.
And they didn't.
They redacted that and that particular address and put in a new address.
And so they tried to kick all of those out, which those were legal.
They never challenged one signature.
Every signature was a legitimate legal signature from a voter from that county.
But they didn't care about that.
They were trying to find a way to destroy the process so that they could keep that question, that ordinance off the ballot.
The idea of the countywide petition was to get an ordinance that could be voted on by the people of that county, right?
That's what we were trying to do.
And the only one that actually got it on was Independence County.
But what they did, what Kim Hammer and David Ray did, I think is unforgivable, really.
What they did was they brought in, they tried to make it look like there was some type of nefarious activity or crime and that the people who did these these got these signatures and got enough signatures in order to be able to have this question on the ballot.
They brought a lot of the people in and they acted like they were criminals.
Even the senior ladies that were so kind that were notaries who notarized all of these, they brought them in and acted like they were some type of criminal for notifying them.
Again, they used the full force of government, this committee called the Joint Performance Review Committee, chaired by Senator Hammer.
And David Ray was the big, played the big part.
He was number two in that, trying to come out after everybody, calling this potential infamous crimes is what he said.
Now, why is that important?
Because the word infamous crimes implies that if you're convicted of that, even a misdemeanor, infamous crime, you can never run for public office again.
That's what they were trying to do, use the force of government.
And what you're going to find out later in this program, when I bring Will Huff in, you're going to find out why David Ray is such a problem here and why David Ray is doing some of the things that he's doing.
And we're going to call him out.
I don't care if he calls himself a Republican or not.
We're going to call him out.
And we're also calling out Tim Griffin.
We're going to call out Kim Hammer because these people have shown that they are not on the side of the people.
They are doing things that are not right.
And we are going to expose that in this program.
I'll go back to the whole point of Independence County and also the petition.
Overall, we got one county that got enough signatures that they couldn't challenge because it was pretty much organic.
Everybody who got signatures were people who lived in that particular county.
They didn't need much help from us.
The guy that led that effort was a guy by the name of Brian Norris, a retired military guy, first sergeant, wonderful guy, combat veteran who retired out of the military with 21 years.
And he is running for Secretary of State.
He's one of the most honest people I've ever met.
But he ran that, and he did great.
He got all the signatures that were needed.
And guess what?
On Election Day, on November 5th last year, it passed overwhelmingly with 63%, which is exactly the same number that Ras Musin polling told us it probably would be when they did a poll.
So we knew that 60, 63% of the people in America, in Arkansas, would vote for a paper ballot initiative.
We also know that 73% of Republicans want a paper ballot and they don't trust the machines.
So overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly, there is a thirst, a desire from the people and the citizens of the state to get rid of these machines.
But let me ask you a question.
How many representatives, let's put it this way, do you think, how many do you think won't, how many representatives or state senator or anybody in elected office won't paper ballots?
Any guess?
If it's 63% of the people who want it total, you would think that at least 63% of the state legislature would want it, right?
No.
The answer is zero, not one, not one.
In fact, I've talked to several of them offline.
They've called me and said, hey, Colonel, I will deny we ever had this conversation, but you need to understand the pushback that we're getting.
And we're told if we even think about voting for paper ballots or bringing it up, even discussing it, we won't get a committee.
We'll get primary by some other candidate.
We'll lose our big donors.
And guess what?
If we have a business, you can kind of forget they'll punish you if you do that.
So they're all scared.
They've all backed off.
Not one of them even have, they want to even ask the question.
They have no interest at all in learning of the things that we know, the things that we've been studying for the last three years.
You know, I brought in Dr. Andrew Appell from Princeton University, one of the top computer scientists in the country to come talk to anybody who wanted to talk to him about why we have to need, why we need paper ballots and why it's important and why we need to get rid of these computers.
And we invited every one of the state legislatures to come, every one of them to come.
Our elected representatives, either House, Senate, all the other county officials.
You know, not one came.
Not one.
Not one showed an interest in coming and finding out the truth.
They would rather just bury the truth because their political, their political career, apparently, rests on the fact that they need to stay quiet.
This is in a red state, ladies and gentlemen.
It's unbelievable.
And I personally am going to continue to fight it.
And as you probably already know, based on the program that we did the other day, yours truly, me, I'm the target.
I'm the number one target, apparently.
And they've come after me and they've said I am the problem because I did an exit poll, an exit poll that we were told is absolutely legal.
They're saying, nope, you can't even be in this area, 100-foot exclusion area.
And therefore, a year later, they decided to try to charge me with basically loitering that I was in the area and I shouldn't be.
So that's what they've charged me with.
And if I were convicted, it's a one year in jail sentence, $2,500 fine, and I could never run for office in the state of Arkansas again for loitering.
That is insane.
And so we'll talk a little bit about why that's more insane when we talk about Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders doing the very same thing, but nobody said anything about her.
It's only me.
It's selective prosecution without question.
And that's what they're doing.
But before we go any further, I want to bring in Will Huff because Will Huff is a guy who has been following this and following the scheme that apparently exists and this ethics violation that's been reported.
Tell us a little bit more about that, Will.
Yeah.
So let's first break down the relationship between a lot of these key players in this cabal.
We have the AG Tim Griffin.
A.G. Tim Griffin is paying a campaign consultant, according to these reports, $10,000 a month.
Who is the pain campaign?
Who is the consultant?
That consultant is Representative David Ray, who is on the JPRC, that Joint Performance Review Committee, that has used its power to squash the paper ballot movements.
And according to these reports, like you can see here, David Ray gets paid $130,000 a year by Letitia James while he is making laws, voting on laws that affect the AG's office.
Now, just so you know, ladies and gentlemen, we say Letitia James, what we really mean is Tim Griffin.
You know, he's getting paid by Tim Griffin, and we've given him the nickname, as you can see on Will's shirt, Letitia James, because he is doing things just like Letitia James did, as bringing out these ridiculous laws and trying to use them as lawfare against people they don't like or in this case, yours truly.
And that's why we are calling him Letitia James.
But anyway, he was on the payroll, you say, Will.
So he's getting $10,000 a month while in session, while making laws that affect the AG's office, police the AG's office, give the AG's office this new election integrity crime unit, which they're using to go after you.
So the AG is paying David Ray while he's also getting taxpayer money and passing laws that affect the AG.
And I. Let me ask one thing.
Okay, real quickly.
So David Ray, who is a state legislator, writes laws and he uses his connections with Kim Hammer in the Senate to pass laws that help the Attorney General, Tim Griffin, who is now, who is paying David Ray $10,000 a month, correct?
That's the way it looks through all of these filings in the ethics complaint that has been put up.
I don't know the legality of that.
It seems like getting paid by the AG while you are a state representative and for it could look like you're getting paid for writing these laws that the AG wants.
And that's where the appearance of it looks bad.
And what's it they say in the military?
Just the appearance of it means a lot.
Yeah, you need to be very mindful, particularly, you know, as an officer, what it appears to be.
And so you have to make sure that you conduct yourself in a way that is above approach.
In other words, you have to be someone that everybody can trust and you do things that don't draw some type of scrutiny or, you know, what do I want to say?
Scrutiny or distrust in your judgment that you're making decisions that are not right and for other reasons other than an honest, truthful reason.
And so if you're getting paid $10,000 by someone, it would be expected that you would do what that person is wanting you to do as a legislator.
And so this is explosive because a lot of people didn't know that Tim Griffin, Arkansas's Letitia James, was paying a state legislator as a campaign consultant and manager.
So is it legal or illegal?
I don't know the answer to that question, but it doesn't look right.
It looks bad, and we should not be allowing that to happen in our state politics.
Yeah, the perception alone should have been enough reason for them not to do it.
And as a military officer, I'm shocked that Tim Griffin would allow himself to be in that position.
But I've been really shocked about some of the things that Tim Griffin has done over the last, I will say, a few weeks.
I'm really, really dumbfounded by the actions that he's taken because it's clear that it is he's being controlled or he's doing things that I think that really do question his integrity.
I question his integrity.
And I would not have said that that many weeks ago, but right now I certainly do because what he's doing is wrong.
And what he's doing wrong is wrong on me and what he's doing wrong here with this particular financial transaction.
Can you explain the finances and what the complaint is, Will?
Yeah, and I'm going to read something from an article on Arkansas-ledge Bill Tracker.
And one of the headlines in the middle of it, it says, who needs a lobbyist when you have a sitting legislator on the payroll?
This is in the article, the AG's $500,000 man.
And it says, I'm just going to read this so I get it exactly how it's put.
In Arkansas-led Bill Tracker's previous investigative series, looking into the relationship between the Gilmore brothers, Deloitte, and the AG, we noted how some lobbyists also moonlight as campaign consultants.
And this is the article I'm reading from.
It's down about halfway down.
And it says, creating a closed loop of cash and influence.
Here, the AG did one better.
He cut out the middleman, meaning you didn't have to go through PACs.
He hired a lawmaker directly.
Why have a lobbyist influence legislation when you can pay the legislator to write it himself?
Griffin was elected AG in 2022 and isn't up for reelection until 2026.
So why is his campaign paid, why has his campaign paid David Rico Ray more than, okay, I added that part, Rico Ray, paid Ray more than $500,000 between 2021 and 2025.
So in the last four years, they're saying they have it tracked that the AG has paid $500,000 to David Ray.
David, it says Ray is not just a consultant.
He was Griffin's chief of staff when Griffin was lieutenant governor, then went straight into the legislature in 2021.
While serving as a lawmaker, he's also listed on financial reports as Griffin's only paid campaign worker.
Ray's financial disclosures indicate Griffin is Ray's only client.
What Griffin got in return?
While he was getting paid $10,000 a month, Ray delivered a legislative agenda that massively benefited Griffin's power, shielded his office from scrutiny, and loosened the rules for campaign money for more power for the AG.
Act 194 gave Griffin exclusive control over ballot titles.
And that's what we were talking about when we were trying to do the statewide initiative.
So the AG was able to just say, nope, I am the judge of what gets approved or not.
And so they gave him that exclusive power in 2023.
Then we have Acts 153 and 154, restricted citizen initiatives and gave Griffin new ways to block them.
And so that's what we were, we didn't really get into that part, but they were putting more and more stringent rules on what you can do to get the signatures.
You can explain.
Well, first it's the 50 counties and all that.
Yeah, go ahead.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I want people to understand that not only did they make laws back in January and February, March of 2023 to punish counties to go to paper that went to paper ballots, then what they did was when they saw that the county initiatives would work, when they saw that Independence County was able to vote and they voted overwhelmingly for paper ballots last November.
Well, what happened in January, February this year?
Cam Hammer, David Ray, introduced new bills to restrict the ability of people in the counties now to do a county initiative.
And they've made the restrictions so hard that there's no way you're going to be able to ever do what Independence County did.
You're not going to be able to do it.
And you wouldn't believe the draconian ways that they said, like, for example, you have to get the ID of the person who's going to sign.
Okay.
And so, and then you're going to have to read them the whole ballot.
Then you're going to have to tell them if they do anything wrong or illegal, they could be punished or criminally prosecuted for breaking the law.
I mean, it is unbelievable.
And then you can only use people from your county, registered people from your county.
So if you've got family members that live across the state, the county line in another town, they can't come over and help you get signatures.
And the way they've designed it, it's almost impossible to get because they can always challenge every signature that you got that somehow you did not get it correctly, even though it's a correct signature.
It is draconian.
It is a way where they're making sure that no other county can do this.
They're taking our white rights away.
And all of those bills, I hate to say, were all signed by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
She signed all those laws that take away the rights of the citizens to determine how they're going to be governed in their county.
Go ahead.
And in Arkansas, the state motto is the people rule.
But David Ray, Kim Hammer, and Tim Griffin have used all of the power that they can to make sure the people actually don't have a voice and they don't know what their government is doing.
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Well, welcome back to the Mike Lindell show.
I'm Colonel Conrad Reynolds sitting in for Mike, along with Will Huff, who's here as well.
And the first half hour, we were really talking about Arkansas-centric.
We're talking about a red state that most of us would think that, hey, everything is running good there.
We've got Governor Sanders, and everything should be running on all eight cylinders, all in a very conservative way.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's far from the truth.
And if you saw the first part of our show, you would see that there's a lot of corruption.
You got people who are drunk on power, who do things that they shouldn't be doing.
And we get very, very little national attention on the things that are going on in Arkansas.
And so everybody thinks everything is hunky-dory, but it's not.
The people in Arkansas know it's not.
And so thanks to Mike Lindell for giving us this opportunity to talk about this cabal that has been exposed in Arkansas that is taking away the rights of the people here.
And so that the few that are in power are consolidating power and making sure that the people don't have a voice.
That's not the way it should be, not in America and not in the state of Arkansas.
And so we've been fighting against that.
And we've been trying to expose some of the people, some of the personalities involved, and exactly what are they doing to undermine our rights.
And Will Huff here has been looking at a lot of the things, particularly this recent ethics violation that has been filed that kind of outlines some of the money transactions that have been going on between our Attorney General, his PAC, and a legislator who's been on his payroll now for many years.
And also there's a state senator who is also part of this equation.
So Will, why don't you go ahead and talk a little bit more about how the money that they're being accused of somehow influencing laws that benefit the Attorney General?
Yeah, so we'll get back to what legislation David Ray was a part of while getting the $10,000 a month from Attorney General Tim Griffin that's alleged in this article.
So we talked about just now to squash the paper ballot movement, they went and put a lot of harder laws and rules on the petition process and getting signatures.
One other thing they did is they put new earned wage access financial products under Griffin's protection.
So it gave him power to go after different commercial products and things of that sort.
They've been using that recently to go after the CBD and things of that sort.
And then next, David Ray has been known for the last couple years because he has been trying to gut the Freedom of Information Act.
He's been trying to remove transparency from the government when the people can ask for, hey, what have you guys been talking about?
What do your private communications look like on these bills?
Who have you been talking to?
Arkansas has had the gold standard for Freedom of Information Act since the 1960s.
They have tried to gut it and have been successful in many aspects since the Republicans took power and Sarah Sanders became governor.
But HB 1726 from 2023 was Ray's first major attempt to gut the Freedom of Information Act, shielding drafts, deliberations, and attorney client records, as well as police reports.
And then after that failed, Griffin, that's our AG Griffin, who is paying David Ray $10,000 a month, while David Ray is a state legislator, according to these reports.
Griffin appointed Ray to his short-lived FOIA work group.
It was never heard from again.
Then came the 2023 special session where Ray pushed a new slate of FOIA rollback bills, even more aggressive.
So the AG was trying to use David Ray, it looks like, to loosen the Freedom of Information Act so we can't track our governor or our elected officials.
Then they worked on looser campaign finance rules, doubled PAC contribution limits.
This is important for what we're going to talk about in just a little bit.
That was Act 455.
Act 270 ties Arkansas's maximum campaign contribution limits to the percentage set by the FEC.
By removing them from state rulemaking, the law also eliminated Administrative Procedures Act, safeguards of notice, public comment and review.
Contribution caps now rise automatically without Arkansas voters or legislators even weighing in.
So now Arkansas has no say in how much a PAC can donate to a candidate.
So they fast-tracked all that to get around all the rules so that they could donate more.
What was the limit?
It was originally $5,000, right?
I think so for a campaign whole session, for a whole campaign session.
I think it's nice.
They doubled it to 10,000, I think.
And so that's one.
And then another one, HB 1596 allows candidates to use campaign funds for personal food, travel and lodging, no questions asked.
We'll explore how that has benefited Griffin in part two.
Then HB 1597 would have allowed surplus campaign funds to flow into PACs and nonprofits that lobby.
HB 1598 would have allowed candidates to donate directly to each other, legalizing cash swaps between politicians.
So, and now it says, this is wrapping up this article.
It says there's a tax roll, payroll tax problem.
There's the math.
Griffin's reports show Ray being paid $10,000 a month, but only about $780 a month going to the U.S. Treasury for payroll taxes.
That's the tax withholding you'd expect if Ray made half that salary.
So they're claiming he's not doing all of his taxes properly.
And he says it raises questions whether Griffin's campaign underpaid taxes or misclassified Ray's pay or misreported it altogether.
So bottom line, Ray went from, this is Representative David Ray went from AG Tim Griffin's chief of staff to sitting legislator to Griffin's half million dollar man.
While on Griffin's payroll, he carried Griffin's bills, fronted his FOIA rollback agenda, and pushed to loosen the very campaign finance laws that govern their arrangement.
But Ray's half million dollar paycheck is only the beginning of the story.
Griffin's campaign account didn't just bankroll his favorite legislator.
It also covered meals, travel, and reimbursement for AG's office state staff, plus nearly $100,000 in direct reimbursements to Tim Griffin himself.
So this money is looking like they're trying to bypass all the safeguards of election finance law and paying a state legislator to do your dirty work for you.
It doesn't pass the muster of being in the up and up.
It just doesn't have a good look to it.
No, and the other thing is about Tim Griffin now, you got to fast forward and look at what has happened with the actual transfer of money.
Can you talk about that, Will?
Yeah, so let's go to the packing the court article that they that they have showed here.
Um, now, this is really important, though.
I want the listeners to listen to this because, you know, one of the things that Tim Griffin has always wanted to do is always be governor.
He thinks that his time is going to be after Sarah Huckabee leaves.
His time will be governor then.
That's what he's looking at.
So he wants to make sure that he gets people on the Supreme Court that are indebted to him, him and Ray.
That's what he wants.
So now go ahead.
Yeah, so bring up that graphic here.
So Tim Griffin, according to these reports, these ethics complaints, he has a PAT called the Jobs and Growth Pact, which is JAG.
I think that's a play on his military, right, Conrad?
I would think so, the JAG course, what he's in.
So this Griffin's job and growth pack has one guy in charge of who gets to distribute the money.
Who's that?
Who is that one person?
That is David Rico Ray, the Harvard State Representative, who's also getting paid $10,000 a month, according to these reports, by the AG.
So he's managing this PAC.
This PAC is sending out, giving donations to two Supreme Court justices.
These both have been appointed by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, by the way.
So Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed both of these justices to the Supreme Court.
Now they're running for different seats.
And so the Griffin PAC, which is run by David Ray, he does the distributions and chooses the recipients according to this article.
He is giving Supreme Court candidate Nick Brownie giving them money, which is, I think the total is $3,500 that you can give.
That's the max.
And then Griffin's job pack gave candidate Cody Highland more money.
So they reached the contribution limits with Griffin's PAC.
So what did they do?
David Ray gave his own PAC money.
So he sent money from Griffin to his own PAC.
So where all the money from his PAC comes from Griffin's PAC.
It went to David Ray's PAC.
What did he do?
He gave money to both Nick Brownie and Cody Highland.
So now we have Tim Griffin's money from the original PAC going twice to these Supreme Court justices, according to the paper trail.
And then because they're maxed out there, David Ray gave money to Senator Ben Gilmore's base point pack.
So when Senator Gilmore's base point pack got an influx of cash from Tim Griffin, it immediately went out to who?
Supreme Court Justice Nick Broney and Supreme Court Justice Cody Highland.
So to bypass the limits that you can give to a candidate, the PACs are moving the money around and shuffling it and then giving out distributions immediately after they get the money from the JAG PAC.
So it all can be traced back to one PAC.
Yeah.
And that PAC is run by David Ray.
And so David Ray is the one ultimately responsible for the distribution of funds and how they go.
So he was in his PAC, the Ray PAC, most of their money comes from the JAG PAC.
So it's just a pass-through from according to this article and the way the paperwork looks.
Well, they'll have to answer for that.
And that's probably going to be hopefully an in-depth investigation unless they're able to make sure that it doesn't and that they have a way to sidestep that.
I will tell you that we were up in Van Buren County just a few days ago.
And lo and behold, this one gentleman who's running for the Supreme Court open, one of the open seats or one of the seats he's running for, Who was helping him along?
Who was driving the car for him and introducing him?
David Ray.
David Ray was bringing him around.
So it's obvious that they're in the business of making sure that they get their guy into the Supreme Court of the state of Arkansas.
That can be a problem because it appears to be a problem because anytime David Ray is against some subject like paper ballots, he's intimately involved with the very people that are going to decide whether you can do a paper ballot initiative or not, or whether you can say something is illegal.
This is a problem, folks.
This is happening right here in the state of Arkansas.
Will, is there anything else you want to talk about that on?
Well, the only thing I really want to say is all of these people in this connection have been fighting the paper ballot movement and they've been fighting for the touchscreen voting machines that we have here in Arkansas.
So Kim Hammer and David Ray have used their JPRC to not only ruin reputations of people, but to intimidate people and to make bad press about the whole issue of the petition process, the paper ballots, and use that as excuses to give AG Tim Griffin more power in terms of the petition process and self-governance in the state of Arkansas.
And it doesn't pass the spell test because David Ray is getting paid by the AG according to these reports.
So you have to question why are they doing it and who is advising this effort to fight the paper ballot movement?
And Conrad, I'm going to let you talk about this is just the other day, Sarah Huckabee Sanders shared that Arkansas is number one in election integrity.
And she's touting that so she doesn't have to make a change away from the touchscreen.
But talk about those rankings.
Yeah, well, that was from the Heritage Foundation.
And I do want to talk about that.
But what you need to understand is the Republican Party at the national level has on their platform paper ballots, handmarked paper ballots in Henn County.
They got that.
They don't want machines.
Our state party's platform, Republican State Party platform says paper ballots, hand marked, no machines.
But everybody in Arkansas and the elected class don't want paper ballots.
They want machines.
Every one of them are in lockstep.
Something is wrong there.
And so what they try to do is they try to use propaganda to try to influence people, to let them think that everything is hunky-dory.
You're going to find out pretty soon exactly how these machines work.
That's coming out.
And then all these people are going to have egg on their face because they constantly come out and say that these machines are excellent.
They're great.
Over and over and over again.
And they use the Heritage Foundation scorecard as cover and a shield to deflect any criticism of the current system.
Let me give you an example.
The Heritage Foundation back in June, early June, said that Arkansas was number one out of all 50 states for election integrity and security.
Really?
Now, I think the Heritage Foundation has got a lot of good things that they've done.
And I respect that organization for a lot of things that they've done over the last 20, 30 years.
However, the elections scorecard that they just came up with back in 2020 is not one of the things that I respect.
In 2021 was the first year that the scorecard came out.
And the scorecard really consists of about 40 different questions.
And as an example, do you require ID in your state in order to vote?
Well, if the answer is yes, well, you get three points.
And then they'll ask other questions.
Do you have voter registration or something else?
This is the thing that they ask questions on.
It has nothing to do with the security of these machines.
Absolutely zero, nothing.
But that's what they come out with.
And I've got a question for you.
In 2021, the first year they came out, you know what the number one state was then?
Number one state.
Got a guess?
Georgia.
Georgia.
And we know all the problems with Georgia from their machines to the state farm center and the ballots that were taken out from underneath the table, all of the malfeasance that went on in Germany.
And even several of the professors, Dr. Halderman said these machines have all of these problems in their software, patches that have never been put out.
It is a big mess in Georgia, but they still got number one for election integrity.
And I think they're in the top five still with all their problems.
And Louisiana is in the top seven, and they don't have any paper trail.
It's just a touchscreen system.
You touch a machine, nothing ever comes out of it, and you're done.
It's called a direct recording device.
I think they ought to abolish that scorecard completely because it appears, it appears to be cover for the red states that are fighting to keep machines.
But the fact that Georgia was number one after 2020 immediately, that tells you how much it's worth.
But I'm going to have you bring up a document or a graphic right now on how elections should be run.
And what we're hearing from D.C. is this is what they're going to want to have for safe, secure elections.
And this is what I'm hoping we see the president announce sometime soon that this is the official position of the administration, how we should have safe and secure elections.
And I think you're going to see that.
If I were predicting anything, I would say by the end of the month, most of these things will be a reality.
I hope that they are.
I pray that they are.
We only have a very short window within which to get these things put into law and get them moving.
Because guess what?
In Arkansas, our primary is on the 3rd of March.
So we don't have a lot of time.
In fact, filing for offices in our state start on the 3rd, which is Monday, and goes to the 11th of November.
And if you're going to run for office in Arkansas, that's when you have to register.
Well, let's go over these eight points.
And then you could tell me, Colonel, if you agree with them all.
You should because we wrote them together.
I think we will.
I agree all.
Number one is must use government issued photo ID.
Why is that?
And I will just tell you, one of the things that I have a problem with is a lot of these states, particularly even in Arkansas, if you have a college ID that serves the purpose.
Well, you could be a foreign student and have a college ID.
So just because you have an ID doesn't mean that it is legitimate and easy to fabricate.
So we want a government ID.
Go ahead.
Number two, only U.S. citizens should be allowed to register to vote.
That's a no-brainer, don't you think?
I mean, come on.
And number three is our big one.
Only pre-printed, handmarked paper ballots are authorized.
No machines.
That means no ballot on demand machines.
The ballots are on location and ready to go.
And we can do that.
We know it's possible.
It can be done.
People don't want to do it.
Election workers don't want to do it because it's hard for them.
But it has to be done in order for us to have secure, transparent elections that we can trust across our nation.
Go ahead.
And then we have ballots must be hand counted at the precinct level, no machine counting.
We can go to precinct level and they've gotten these voting centers that they've gone to.
There's a lot of reasons that we don't like them.
There's a lot of reasons they're good.
They sound good.
A lot of people like them because they can go to one place.
But we think that the precinct level is by far superior.
And there's a lot of reasons why, but that's why we want to go back to it.
But smaller batches are easier to count in quick time.
That's right.
And all right.
And number five, only paper poll books will be used during elections.
No e-poll books.
Yeah, the e-poll books, even here in Arkansas, the people who control our e-poll books is the company that runs our elections.
And we have a problem with that because the person that controls the electronic poll book knows exactly when you're there.
They know exactly how you voted in the past.
It's very easy to manipulate the vote that you will put on a machine later on if they choose to do that, in our opinion.
And therefore, we don't want that.
So we want paper poll books.
And, you know, yeah, they can activate, deactivate, and you never know what happened.
Number six is no mass mail-in ballots.
And by mail-out, mail-in ballots, we're not talking about the military or people who need it for an absentee.
These are states like Arizona, Oregon, California that just mail ballots to everybody and just mail them out.
And so you have millions of ballots out there.
So no mass mailout ballots at all.
Well, and they do this a lot of times without cleaning their voter rows.
So they have no idea if this person really exists or still alive.
And they'll send it to, you know, out to the last known address, which may be an address where people are picking up a bunch of blank ballots, filling them out, and send them back in.
So that's why we cannot have that.
The mailout ballot is a real problem.
And I think President Trump will address that.
But go ahead.
And number seven, voting locations will consist of small local precincts, 1,500 to 2,000 registered voters, no vote centers.
So that puts people voting back in their neighborhood with their neighbors.
And if you're hand counting, you're going to have your neighbors counting your ballots.
You know, it's interesting, and I'll just bring this up, and this is probably Arkansas-centric, but our biggest county is Pulaski County, where Little Rock is.
And on election day, they go back to their local precincts.
It's the largest county in our state.
And they have no problems going back to their precinct level voting on Election Day.
So they shouldn't have any problem with it at all in the future.
And those local precincts in Pulaski County, that's the only time paper ballots get to be used.
Right.
Well, except for Independence County now, they're going to get to get it.
And Cersei.
But in Pulaski County, it's touch screens for two weeks, then one day of handmarked paper ballots in the local precincts.
Okay, the last one.
And then number eight is eliminate early voting.
Go to one-day elections only per the law.
Yeah, I think early voting has proven to be problematic in a lot of places.
There's some things I don't really mind one or two days, but the longer you have an early voting, if there is malfeasance, the longer you have early voting, the more time the other side who's going to manipulate that vote has to figure out their game plan.
And we don't want that.
We think that we can make it happen.
But the President Trump, I know, and the people around him who are on that in his administration are trying their best to fix these problems.
But unfortunately, we get a lot of pushback in our own state.
And this is really disheartening because we're a solid red state.
We shouldn't be this way.
We should be 100%.
We could be the leader of all 50 states by going to handmarked paper ballots ahead of everybody.
We tried to make that happen.
But again, the pushback that we have has been absolutely unbelievable.
And basically, you know, it doesn't matter what your history, what your reputation is.
They will try to destroy you, as we saw with the three people who are commissioners in Searcy County for even daring going to paper ballots.
And in this case, now going after me for even daring to try to get a county to do that.
It's really unbelievable.
We only got two minutes left, Will.
I'm going to let you, if there's anything you want to add to this.
I just want to highlight how upset I am with our Republican Party of Arkansas.
We should not be doing what we just watched the Biden administration do for four years against Republicans.
And we're having our own leadership go through and kick people out of the party, use lawfare against them, use the weight of the government against them.
We have our own Letitia James and our AG Tim Griffin who's twisting laws that nobody's ever been charged with before to try to punish someone.
And if you're going to vote this year in the Republican primary, I suggest you do because that's the most important election in red states is the Republican primary.
Choose a Republican ballot.
And I say vote against anyone who currently has a title because nobody has been standing up for you.
We've had a couple people like Senator Brian King standing up for Franklin County, pushing for representation.
Wayne Long has voiced his support for Cearce County and the wrong that was, and he showed up to voice his opinions, the wrongs that were happening against them.
So we have to make sure we hold the Republican Party's feet to the fire.
They're our people, but we shouldn't let absolute power corrupt absolutely.
Yeah, the people need to grow a spine.
They need to stand up and fight for what's right.
I admire Donald Trump, President Trump for his fight, fight, fight, his ability to take care of the problems in this country.
He's going to take care of this election problem, folks.
I really think so.
I'm absolutely 100% sure that he's going to do that.
We enjoy doing this program.
Thank you, Mike Lindell, for giving us the opportunity to speak to all the viewers here.
Again, I'm Colonel Conrad Reynolds.
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