This is worse than nepotism!!
This is the craziest thing we’ve ever seen!
As the sitting director of the Fairfield Bay Chamber of Commerce in 2022, Jackie Sikes gave HER OWN non-profit an award for being the “Nonprofit Organization of the Year.” She even used the chamber to give herself a ceremonial “banquet”. She even got then-Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge to send her a letter praising her award to herself!
Attorney General Letter Found
Jackie Sikes controls a non-profit called We Love Van Buren County. Jackie runs it along with her husband, Sean.
In a post on Facebook in June 2022, Sean Sikes even bragged about the “Nonprofit Organization of the Year” award.
What Sean didn’t mention is the fact that Jackie was the director of the Fairfield Bay Chamber of Commerce. She essentially gave herself an award!
If you read closely, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sent a letter to We Love Van Buren County without addressing Jackie Sikes herself. This is likely because Jackie’s connection wasn’t known at the time.
Either way, the fact that Arkansas’ Attorney General was praising Jackie Sikes for giving an award to herself shows how deep the deceit seems to go:
This Is A Pattern
This keeps happening!
Although Jackie publicly denies any wrongdoing in giving her husband KEYS TO THE CITY, she clearly has no problem giving awards to herself.
Jackie continues to act in ways that give her more power and attention while hurting our city. In fact, it was Jackie and Martin Bailey who sent secret emails to the Corps of Engineers to undermine and humiliate city council members and community club members.
Jackie is at war with the Community Club. She is at war with the City Council. She tried to fire the city attorney. She just targeted the treasurer at the last city council meeting by selecting speakers meant to ambush Rose.
Enough is enough. It’s time to end this madness once and for all.
PLEASE NOTE: A movement has launched to recall Mayor Jackie Sikes by a group called “We (the MAJORITY of) the People of Fairfield Bay” to remove Jackie Sikes. Many other scandals and issues can be read about here.