# Andy Babbitt **Per his own April 2025 email signature, Babbitt's documented institutional role is Deputy Director and State Controller at the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA), not the Auditor's office.** The wiki's prior framing of Babbitt as Auditor's-office staff was sourced to the APERS R2 production's visitor-roster minutes which attribute him as "Auditor's Office"; the ASHERS production newly surfaces his self-identified DFA role via his 4/16/2025 introduction email. The institutional-affiliation discrepancy between Babbitt's email signature (DFA) and the APERS minutes attribution (Auditor's Office) is unresolved and is an open follow-up question. Babbitt's full email signature: "Andy Babbitt, MBA, CPA, CFE / Department of Finance and Administration / Deputy Director and State Controller / Office: (501) 682-1515 Cell: (501) 681-9100 / https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/office/budget/revenue-reporting/" — establishing his title (Deputy Director and State Controller), agency (DFA), professional credentials (MBA, CPA, CFE), and direct contact information. Email [email protected] (DFA address, not auditor.ar.gov). Babbitt is documented as a recurring visitor at APERS meetings post-Israel-Bonds-authorization, attending the 6/11/2025 APERS Q2 Board meeting, the 9/10/2025 APERS IFSC meeting, and the 9/10/2025 APERS Q3 Board meeting. He attends in parallel with [[jason-brady]] (who is present in his APERS Board proxy capacity for [[dennis-milligan]]). The APERS minutes attribute his organizational affiliation to "Auditor's Office" at both June and September meetings; whether this reflects a clerical error, a co-affiliation, an inter-agency representation arrangement, or a documented role change is not knowable from these productions alone. ## Evidence > "Mr. Andy Babbitt, Auditor's Office" > Minutes_Q2 Mtg_06.11.25.pdf p.1, 6/11/2025 Visitors section > "Mr. Andy Babbitt, Arkansas Auditor's Office" > Minutes_IFC_09.10.25.pdf p.1, 9/10/2025 IFSC Visitors section > "Mr. Andy Babbitt, Auditor's Office" > Minutes_Q3 Mtg_09.10.25.pdf p.1, 9/10/2025 Q3 Board Visitors section ## Cross-References [[jason-brady]] [[dennis-milligan]] [[melissa-corrigan]] [[wendy-spadoni]] [[stacy-peterson]] [[kristina-duke]] [[auditor-office-org-structure]] [[auditor-as-dci-channel]] [[apers-foia-r2-2-27-26]] source page ## ASHERS production: Babbitt as DFA-side introducer of Berman to ASHERS The ASHERS production at [[ashers-foia-r1-3-27-26]] documents Babbitt's role as the institutional bridge between the 4/15/2025 Capitol tour Hudson-DFA meeting and the ASHERS DCI pitch. Babbitt attended the 4/15 Hudson bilateral with Berman and Young at the Auditor's office Room 230 (per his own description "Secretary Hudson and I met yesterday with Larry and Brad") and the next morning at 9:25 AM CDT initiated the "Virtual Introductions" email from his DFA address to [[robyn-smith]] at ASHERS, cc'ing Berman and Young: > "Robyn, I would like to introduce Larry Berman and Brad Young from Israel Bonds. Secretary Hudson and I met yesterday with Larry and Brad to discuss the potential advantages and opportunities to purchase Israeli bonds." > Babbitt to Smith (cc Berman, Young), RE_ Virtual Introductions.eml, 4/16/2025 9:25 AM CDT Babbitt's substantive framing in the introduction email also includes a DCI-promotional paragraph ("Development Corporation for Israel/Israel Bonds ranks among Israel's most valued economic and strategic resources, with a record of proven success spanning over 70 years... Partnering in Israel's success story through investment in Israel bonds isis global in scope. Worldwide sales have exceeded $50 billion since the first bonds were issued in 1951..."). The promotional framing in Babbitt's own voice tracks the DCI institutional-sales pitch language documented at [[dci-promotional-pipeline]] and is the first documented DCI-style framing originating from a DFA staffer in the wiki. The structural significance: the 4/15/2025 Capitol tour bilateral at the Auditor's office Room 230 produced two distinct subsequent routing outcomes. Hudson and Babbitt as DFA principals attended the bilateral with Berman/Young; the next day Babbitt routed the DCI introduction to a non-Auditor's-office pension system (ASHERS). The DFA channel routing to ASHERS is documented at [[ashers-declined-pitch-control-case]] as the operative variable distinguishing ASHERS's passive non-engagement decline from the ATRS/APERS adoptions through the Auditor's-office channel. Babbitt is the documented DFA-side actor on the ASHERS-routing branch of the multi-channel DCI distribution.