State Senator Paul Bookout of Jonesboro Resigns

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published August 21, 2013 at 8:17 AM CDT

Democratic State Senator Paul Bookout has resigned his Senate seat that he has held since 2006 after a state ethics panel says he spent thousands of dollars from his campaign on personal items. KASU's Johnathan Reaves has this report.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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