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Arkansas senator suspended over filing frivolous complaint

Steve ScottSeptember 28, 2022
Arkansas Legislature Ethics
FILE - Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, speaks during a news conference at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 10, 2015. On Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, the majority-Republican Arkansas Senate approved its ethics committee's recommendation to suspend Clark for the rest of the 93rd General Assembly, which ends on Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

(AP) — An Arkansas state senator has been suspended after an ethics panel ruled that he had filed a frivolous complaint against a fellow lawmaker. 

The majority GOP Senate on Tuesday voted 26-4 to suspend Republican Sen. Alan Clark after upholding its ethics committee’s finding that Clark violated Senate ethics rules. 

The panel said Clark filed an ethics complaint against a Democratic lawmaker over per diem payments as retaliation after Clark was stripped of his leadership posts because of ethics violations.

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