Well, he is the lowest paid state A.G. in the country, right?  It must be hard to make ends meet on that salary.  And as a public servant we’re sure General McDaniel doesn’t take advantage of Arkansas’s liberal expense account regulations for office holders – that would be beyond the pale for such an earnest, and honest, public servant.  From NWAnews.com:

The smiling faces in framed photographs on the walls at the Arkansas attorney general’s office serve as both inspiration and admonition to the current officeholder, Dustin McDaniel.

Among his predecessors, there are governors, a U. S. senator, a president. And there are two convicted felons.

McDaniel said he takes note of the lofty accomplishments as well as the political disasters. He points out that attorneys general from other states have gotten in a lot of very public trouble recently — two have left office amid scandal since December. Another recent attorney general, New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer, resigned in disgrace this spring.

“You somehow or another get it in your head that the rules don’t apply to you. Somehow or another, you get this hubris and bravado that you can do whatever you want,” McDaniel said. “It’s destroyed many people and ruined a lot of lives and a lot of families.” McDaniel acknowledges an ego and ambition of his own — without which few would run for public office — but said he tries to keep it in perspective for his 7-year-old daughter.

“I just don’t ever want her, when she’s old enough to Google daddy, to find anything that would ever embarrass her,” he said.

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