Legislative Audit: 2019 Findings

Below are excerpts from the 2019 Legislative Audit performed on Faulkner County financial and day-to-day operations, with a cover letter dated March 5, 2020:

“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.”
— Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister

“The public has a right to know what their elected officials are doing because it’s the people’s job to hold those folks politically accountable.”
— Peter Scheer, Executive Director, the First Amendment Coalition

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
— Benjamin Franklin

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
— Frederick Douglass

“The word misinformation literally just means being wrong, and disinformation is lying. That’s all they mean. There’s no extra meaning to them. And so, misinformation is entirely subjective. It’s literally an opinion.”
— Michael Shellenberger

Legislative Audit: 2019 Findings

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