The Arkansas Republican Party ultimately reimbursed the state for the $19,029.25 payment via a check dated Sept. 14 – only after Campbell called attention to it.

According to the public records Campbell released, the lectern invoice was also altered after the fact by Sanders’ executive assistant, to add the “To Be Reimbursed” notation.

Henning, Sanders spokesperson, has said the use of a state credit card for the lectern was “an accounting error.”

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    An email surfaced this month by Jay Orsi, a freelance investigative journalist, from an earlier Campbell request, shows a fiscal manager at the Arkansas Department of Transformation and Shared Services describe how Sanders’ executive assistant was instructed to add the “To Be Reimbursed” to the original invoice – but told not to date it. The email does not indicate who told the assistant to change the invoice but not date that change.

    Forgot that part.

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      Is “arkansas department of transformation” a typo? If not what kinda crazy arkansas shit might that be?

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        According to its website, “The Department of Transformation and Shared Services manages internal state services such as employee benefits, information technology, building and personnel management, purchasing, geographic information systems and state surplus!”