Democrats Try To Re-write History On Shoffner

It was an amusing day on Twitter as Democratic Party of Arkansas spokesperson Candace Martin attempted to re-write history on an award given to Martha Shoffner in 2010 as their “Elected Official of the Year.”

After being arrested for accepting kickbacks of cash hidden in pie boxes and forced to resign from the Treasurer’s office under the threat of impeachment, Shoffner is not really who the DPA now wants to lift up as their role model.  However, the fact is they did so only three years ago.

The Twitter exchange started when Republican Party of Arkansas spokesman David Ray pointed out their predicament.

But Martin would have no part of this and chimed in attempting to refute Ray’s claim.

Ray responded that Shoffner made this claim on her website – which has now been taken down, but is archived here. The page states “Most recently, Martha was named as 2010 Arkansas Politician of the Year by the Arkansas Democratic Party.”

Martin shot back insisting that they don’t give out this award.

But when I informed Martin that the DPA sent out an email touting Shoffner as the “Elected Official of the Year” her story changed once again saying that Ray used the term “politician” (from Shoffner’s webpage) not “elected official.” She also now claimed that the award was only for Jackson County and not statewide.

And again, after I pointed out that it was in fact a statewide award, she finally admitted the truth that the award was in fact a statewide award from the Arkansas Federation of Democratic Women and was in the 2010 newsletter from the DPA.  So she then moved into some pie humor.

I wonder if she will ever apologize for calling Ray a liar when it turns out he basically had it right in the first place.

Extra credit – here is video of Shoffner’s speech at the Democratic Party of Arkansas’s JJ Dinner in 2010.