# Heather McKim Treasury staff at the Arkansas Office of the Treasurer of State. Email [email protected]. The wiki documentary record establishes McKim in two role-areas: speaking notes drafting for the Treasurer's Israel Prayer Ceremony events, and FOIA-support work for Interim General Counsel Olan Reeves. ## The 10/4/2024 Israel Prayer Ceremony speaking notes draft McKim drafted speaking notes for Walther's planned Israel Prayer Ceremony delivery. Munson forwarded the draft to Pulley 10/4/2024 4:53 PM. The draft text appears in the Dunlap FOIA production as "COMMENTS: Celebrating Arkansas' Support for Israel," opening: > Good Morning, > > Today, we gather to celebrate the strong and enduring relationship between the State of Arkansas and the Nation of Israel. Our commitment to supporting Israel is exemplified through our significant investments in Israel bonds. The full text is preserved at [[october-2024-treasurer-israel-prayer-ceremony]] and on the [[treasury-foia-r1-7-7-25]] source page. McKim's draft used 2023's $52M total Israel Bonds figure rather than the contemporaneous October 2024 figure. Pulley's 10/7/2024 7:53 AM review response identified the date confusion: "I'm confused this is a press release from 10/27/23. I think you sent me last year's release." The exchange documents McKim as the routine speaking-notes drafter for Treasurer Israel solidarity events, with sufficient familiarity with prior years' framing to draw from 2023's template, but without contemporaneous portfolio-figure currency requiring Pulley's correction. McKim's drafting role parallels Stacy Peterson's role at the Auditor's office (Director of Communications drafting Israel Solidarity Operation speaking notes for Milligan). The structural parallel suggests Christian-Zionist Israel solidarity public communications were a routinized function at both the Auditor's and Treasurer's offices in 2024. ## The 12/11/2024 Israel FOIA support work Pulley emailed McKim 12/11/2024 2:41 PM with the subject "Israel FOIA": > Heather attached you will find any documents relevant to the most recent FOIA request. If you have any questions please let me know. McKim received as attachments: Israel holdings 10-7-24 (1).xlsx (duplicate), Israel rating report.pdf, Moody Rating Action Report - Israel - September 2024.pdf.docx, and Israel Internal Credit overview 10-8-24.docx. McKim's role is therefore documented as the operational repository for FOIA-responsive Israel Bonds documents at Treasury. McKim is cc'd on the subsequent Reeves-Lenow correspondence. McKim received as attachments material that includes the internal credit overview document — the document Jennifer Lenow specifically asked about and Reeves stonewalled on. The wiki's documentary record indicates the Israel Internal Credit overview document was in McKim's hands as of 12/11/2024 14:41 PM. Whether McKim retained the document, whether it was transmitted to Lenow in the 12/12/2024 Reeves response (no indication it was), and whether McKim coordinated the Reeves stonewall on the question of its SBOF presentation is not documented in this batch. ## Role characterization McKim is documented in two distinct functional areas: communications drafting (Walther Israel Prayer Ceremony) and FOIA support (Reeves's correspondence). The combination suggests McKim's role spans communications and administrative compliance work at Treasury. Whether McKim is a Director of Communications, Administrative Assistant, or other specific role title is not in the documentary record. ## Cross-references [[treasury-foia-r1-7-7-25]] source page [[eric-munson]] Chief Deputy Treasurer; routed McKim's draft to Pulley for review [[steve-pulley]] Senior Investment Officer; reviewed McKim's draft and sent her the Israel FOIA response documents [[olan-reeves]] Interim General Counsel; McKim was cc'd on his Lenow FOIA correspondence [[larry-walther]] Treasurer at the time of the October 2024 Israel Prayer Ceremony [[jennifer-lenow]] FOIA requester McKim's FOIA-support work was responsive to [[stacy-peterson]] Director of Communications at the Auditor's office; structural counterpart McKim's drafting role parallels [[october-2024-treasurer-israel-prayer-ceremony]] event McKim drafted speaking notes for [[october-2024-israel-solidarity-operation]] the parallel Auditor's-office Christian-Zionist event whose communications Peterson drafted ## Treasury R2 Sub-batch 3 (Communications binders): the Berman pre-approval pattern on Treasury press communications The Sub-batch 3 alphabetized Communications binders document McKim's drafting workflow for the 10/27/2023 Walther press release on the November 2023 $10M Israel Bonds purchase. Full Sub-batch 3 documentation is at [[treasury-foia-r2-9-23-25]]. (1) **McKim's 10/27/2023 2:55 PM internal email to Pulley + Munson + Stephen Bright** documents that Berman pre-reviewed and approved the press release before McKim circulated to internal Treasury team: > By the way, Larry was good with it too, just wanted me to send it to you all. I will run any changes by him as well. > A-He binder, McKim to Pulley/Munson/Bright, 10/27/2023 2:55 PM The pre-approval pattern documents that DCI (Berman) exercises editorial pre-approval on Arkansas Treasury Israel Bonds public communications. McKim's workflow: draft the release, submit to Berman for review and approval, circulate to internal Treasury team for final review, re-run any changes by Berman. (2) **The 10/27/2023 internal review thread** documented Munson's edit (omit "put our money where our mouth is" sentence), Stephen Bright's clarification request, Pulley's review approval, and Walther's one-sentence change after speaking with Berman. McKim's "I think the main message is the support of Israel, don't think the average person will care or want to know details about the bonds" framing accepted Munson's edit. (3) **McKim's 10/25/2023 11:42 AM email to Walther** sent the day after Pulley's order placement listed nine state Israel Bonds purchase announcements (AL, MS, FL, OH, GA, TX, AZ, PA, plus Bloomberg article on Miami Beach/Miami-Dade) with cover note: "Keep me in the loop if a decision is made to purchase additional bonds and if there's a potential joint press conference to prepare for." McKim was actively pre-positioning the PR campaign. (4) **McKim drafted Walther's October 2024 Israel Prayer Ceremony speaking notes** at Stephen Bright's request on 10/4/2024. McKim used the 10/27/2023 press release content as a template — leading to Pulley's 10/7/2024 7:53 AM date-confusion catch. [[treasury-foia-r2-9-23-25]] source page (Sub-batch 3 section) [[lawrence-berman]] DCI sales lead who pre-reviewed and approved the 10/27/2023 press release [[stephen-bright]] Walther's Chief of Staff with whom McKim coordinated on press communications