State Rep. Mary Bentley threatens Game and Fish funding in encounter with wildlife officer

State Rep. Mary Bentley of Perryville made a veiled threat about Game and Fish Commission funding to a wildlife officer who accompanied a Forest Service officer talking to Bentley's husband, Ted, about violations of rules on baiting wildlife and ATV use in the Ouachita National Forest.

Game and Fish Officer Robert Stout accompanied forest service Officer Hugh Davis to the Bentleys home. According to his report, Rep. Bentley said to them, "...we (officer Davis and I) need to be real careful, that times were tough and money was tight and that they (House) are looking for places to get money for funding and the Game and Fish Commission would be a good place to look."

The report said a summons was given to Ted Bentley related to ATV and baiting regulations.

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Bentley is a first-term representative. She unseated an incumbent, Democrat John Catlett, in 2014, running heavily on her opposition to abortion. Moral issues are important to her. She earned attention in 2015 by a speech in favor of a bill to prevent cities from passing civil rights ordinances to protect LGBT people. She carefully enunciated in the speech what the acronym LGBT stood for, as if each was a dirty word.

A Democrat, Lesa Wolfe Crowell of Dardanelle, will oppose Bentley this year.

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