Who Owns Arkansas?

It is election season. “Vote for Me” signs line the roadways. Stacks of circulars clutter the mail.

There is one “quality” claimed by a few of the candidates. They brag on how many generations have lived in Arkansas.

Being from the lineage of those who displaced the native Americans seems to be a badge of honor.

Attorney William Z. White of Heber Springs brags on his website that “Zac is a sixth-generation Arkansan”.

Judge Susan Weaver’s family goes way back in the state also.

I am a transplant to Arkansas. I am a native Californian and understand why people who already live in an area would want to put up a wall.

But on the same advertisements for political office, the candidates claim to want to stimulate the economy and attract businesses. There is an upside to population growth.

My experience is that I moved to Arkansas with enough assets to retire modestly. Always hoping to contribute, I helped renovate a community building at a cost to me of $45,000 and I fixed up an empty house in Saline County. Yet, seven years after moving to Arkansas, I am close to broke.

A big percentage of my losses were COVID related. But the remainder of losses are due to a corrupt Arkansas judge.

I am the beneficiary of a trust that held a property worth somewhere between $199,000 and $350,000. I planned to sell that property and split the sales price 50/50 with my former partner. Judge Weaver transferred title of that property to my former partner, one of William Zac White’s clients, with a huge chunk of it going to attorney fees, of course.

Judge Weaver would not allow me to testify about how my former partner defrauded me and allegedly stole money from me, swore under penalty of perjury he would reimburse me for the hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital he took from me, and convinced me to put title of the property into a trust rather than my own name.

Judge Weaver said that speaking the truth about the situation would be the unauthorized practice of law. I was a co-defendant in the lawsuit filed by William White, but he said he intended to dismiss me, and Judge Weaver used that as an excuse to muzzle me.

Who owns Arkansas? Not the newcomer.

Do not bring your life savings to Arkansas with the intent to retire. The clans that have been here for generations will make protecting your assets a full-time job or drain your bank accounts through attorney fees. It’s a stinking shame.