John Brummett's recent column about Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel’s questionable and self-serving use of legal settlement funds lays out the start of a good case that McDaniel is abusing his office for political gain. Brummett asked McDaniel under what authority the attorney general had to spend settlement money, which he supposedly holds in trust for the people of Arkansas, to fund a new branch of his own office that would investigate computer sex crimes. McDaniel replied … [Read more...]