Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Huckster: CFR puppet

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From: “Warren Baldwin” <wb@aeneas.net>
Subject: Fw:  Mike Huckabee is a Council on Foreign Relations puppet
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:41:10 -0600

 

Mike
Huckabee is a Council on Foreign Relations puppet
visit:
Mike Huckabee on Late Edition -12/16/2007 – Part 1
http://youtube.com:80/watch?v=YEEDs35vEYw  

 
In
just one short video you will hear all of this:
 
1)
Mike Huckabee discussing his article for the CFR publication “Foreign
Affairs” .
To read this article visit:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/14335/mike_huckabees_speech_on_foreign_policy.html

 
2)
Mike Huckabee naming Richard Haas (the President of the CFR) as his advisor on
foreign policy. CNN’s WOLF BLITZER asked “Who are your principal foreign
policy advisers, Governor?” Mike Huckabee responded: “Well, I have a
number of people from whom I get policy. I’m talking to Frank Gaffney, I talk
to Richard Haas, I talk to a number of military people, some of whom I can’t
name because they’re active in the military…”
 
3)
Mike Huckabee declaring his support for the CFR controlled Bush administration.

 
4)
Mike Huckabee naming John Bolton as his advisor on foreign policy.  John
Bolton has been involved with Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf
(CPSG), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Federalist Society, National Policy
Forum, National Advisory Board, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New
Atlantic Initiative, Project on Transitional Democracies, and U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID).
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee calling for scholarships and in-state tuition for
illegal aliens.
 
Here
is the video of Mike Huckabee Calling for Scholarships and In-State Tuition for
Illegal Aliens:  
 
http://arkjournal.com/2007/11/following-is-from-one-of-my-favorite.html
  
 
(Ron
Paul says: “When we subsidize something we get more of it”)
 
Can Mike Huckabee serve the cause of liberty
if he is already playing ball with the CFR?
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s record for raising taxes:
 
Huckabee-
tax hike mike
http://www.taxhikemike.com:80/
Who’s biggest tax raiser?
http://www.arkansasleader.com/2007/11/editorialswhos-biggest-tax-raiser.html

 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s the betrayal of home schooling.
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s pardon of the man who raped and killed another
woman.
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s lying when he claimed that he was the only
candidate with a theology degree. 
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s participation with the band, Capitol Offense,
which sings off color songs inconsistent, with his image as a pastor. 
 
At
a meeting of the Republican Governors Association, Huckabee pretended to
receive a phone call from God, on his cell phone. In the style of Bob Newhart,
Huckabee made God into a Straight Man in a comedy routine.
 
Huckabee’s
Phone Call From God:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yj_okz7ZwI 

On the phone for me? How did he get my number? . . . . Yes, God? Yes, sir, I’m
right in the middle of the president’s coming. . . . . You see, you say you
want–you need an autograph. Oh, for Samson. . . . And, you know, God, this is a
pretty big event. We’ve got a lot of people and I’ve only got a very short time
here. Oh, you’ve got all the time in the world. I understand. . . . Yes, sir,
we know you don’t take sides in the election. But, if you did, we kind of think
you’d hang in there with us, lord, we really do. . . .
 
The
candidates will all try to sound like Ron Paul if he scares them enough, but do
not forget what they really are. 
 
Eight
out of twelve of them are CFR members.
As we now see, Mike Huckabee is very closely tied to the CFR.
Tom Tancredo dropped out.
That only leaves only Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter, who are not CFR stooges.
 
Watch
this:
http://www.ronpaulnation.com/tv.html#cfr  

visit:
http://www.ronpaulnation.com/tv.html#nwo_is_here

 
Ron
Paul at CNN Republican Debate 11-28-07
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-DdsRh_v-s

 
Watch
the faces of the nervous CFR members, while Ron Paul speaks!
Ron Paul TV videos on CFR, NAU,
 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#cfr_nau_canidates_2008

 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#lou_dobbs_nau

 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#lou_dobbs_nau_11_29_06

 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#lou_dobbs_nau_laws

 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#challenging_the_whole_system

 
Ron
Paul answers question if he is a member of the CFR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV_AML16tC8

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Huckabee beats out Scooter Libby on top 10 criminals!!!

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Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt
Politicians” for 2007

Washington, DC –Judicial Watch, the public interest
group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released
its 2007 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.”  The
list, in alphabetical order, includes:

1.  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
(D-NY):  In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary
Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 – and rightly so – for blocking the release
her official White House records.  Many suspect these records contain a
treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious
Clinton-era scandals.  Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an
ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure
forms with the U.S. Senate (again).  And Hillary’s top campaign
contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in
2007.  Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for defrauding
investors as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

2.  Rep. John Conyers (D-MI):  Conyers
reportedly repeatedly violated the law and House ethics rules, forcing his
staff to serve as his personal servants, babysitters, valets and campaign
workers while on the government payroll.  While the House Ethics Committee
investigated these allegations in 2006, and substantiated a number of the
accusations against Conyers, the committee blamed the staff and required
additional administrative record-keeping and employee training.  Judicial
Watch obtained documentation in 2007 from a former Conyers staffer that sheds
new light on the activities and conduct on the part of the Michigan
congressman, which appear to be at a minimum inappropriate and likely
unlawful.  Judicial Watch called on the Attorney General in 2007 to
investigate the matter.

3.  Senator Larry Craig (R-ID):  In one of
the most shocking scandals of 2007, Senator Craig was caught by police
attempting to solicit sex in a Minneapolis International Airport men’s bathroom
during the summer.  Senator Craig reportedly “sent signals” to a police
officer in an adjacent stall that he wanted to engage in sexual activity. 
When the police officer showed Craig his police identification under the
bathroom stall divider and pointed toward the exit, the senator reportedly
exclaimed ‘No!’”  When asked to produce identification, Craig presented police
his U.S. Senate business card and said, “What do you think of that?”  The
power play didn’t work.  Craig was arrested, charged and entered a guilty
plea.  Despite enormous pressure from his Republican colleagues to resign
from the Senate, Craig refused.

4.  Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA):  As a
member of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on military
construction, Feinstein reviewed military construction government contracts,
some of which were ultimately awarded to URS Corporation and Perini, companies
then owned by Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum. While the Pentagon ultimately
awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The
Senate’s subcommittee on Military Construction’s approval carries weight. Sen.
Feinstein, therefore, likely had influence over the decision making
process.  Senator Feinstein also attempted to undermine ethics reform in
2007, arguing in favor of a perk that allows members of Congress to book
multiple airline flights and then cancel them without financial penalty. 
Judicial Watch’s investigation into this matter is ongoing. 

5.  Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani
(R-NY):  Giuliani came under fire in late 2007 after it was discovered the
former New York mayor’s office “billed obscure city agencies for tens of
thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was
beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the
Hamptons…”  ABC News also reported that Giuliani provided Nathan with a
police vehicle and a city driver at taxpayer expense.  All of this news
came on the heels of the federal indictment on corruption charges of Giuliani’s
former Police Chief and business partner Bernard Kerik, who pleaded guilty in
2006 to accepting a $165,000 bribe in the form of renovations to his Bronx apartment
from a construction company attempting to land city contracts.

6.  Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR): 
Governor Huckabee enjoyed a meteoric rise in the polls in December 2007, which
prompted a more thorough review of his ethics record.  According to The
Associated Press:  “[Huckabee’s] career has also been colored by 14 ethics
complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his
management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize
his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the
governor’s office.”  And what was Governor Huckabee’s response to these
ethics allegations?  Rather than cooperating with investigators, Huckabee
sued the state ethics commission twice and attempted to shut the ethics process
down.

7.  I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby:  Libby,
former Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was sentenced to 30 months
in prison and fined $250,000 for lying and obstructing the Valerie Plame CIA
leak investigation.  Libby was found guilty of four felonies — two counts
of perjury, one count of making false statements to the FBI and one count of
obstructing justice – all serious crimes.  Unfortunately, Libby was
largely let off the hook.  In an appalling lack of judgment, President
Bush issued “Executive Clemency” to Libby and commuted the sentence.

8.  Senator Barack Obama (D-IL):  A
“Dishonorable Mention” last year, Senator Obama moves onto the “ten most
wanted” list in 2007.  In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was involved
in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, Antoin
“Tony” Rezko.  In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and suspicious
business and political connections  It was reported that just two months
after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in
speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign
contributors.  One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefited
from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000
of the company’s shares.  Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign
business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law.

9.  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA):  House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who promised a new era of ethics enforcement in the House
of Representatives, snuck a $25 million gift to her husband, Paul Pelosi, in a
$15 billion Water Resources Development Act recently passed by Congress. 
The pet project involved renovating ports in Speaker Pelosi’s home base of San
Francisco.  Pelosi just happens to own apartment buildings near the areas
targeted for improvement, and will almost certainly experience a significant
boost in property value as a result of Pelosi’s earmark.  Earlier in the
year, Pelosi found herself in hot water for demanding access to a luxury Air
Force jet to ferry the Speaker and her entourage back and forth from San
Francisco non-stop, in unprecedented request which was wisely rejected by the
Pentagon.  And under Pelosi’s leadership, the House ethics process remains
essentially shut down – which protects members in both parties from
accountability.

10.  Senator Harry Reid (D-NV):  Over the
last few years, Reid has been embroiled in a series of scandals that cast
serious doubt on his credibility as a self-professed champion of government
ethics, and 2007 was no different.  According to The Los Angeles Times,
over the last four years, Reid has used his influence in Washington to help a
developer, Havey Whittemore, clear obstacles for a profitable real estate
deal.  As the project advanced, the Times reported, “Reid received tens of
thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Whittemore.” 
Whittemore also hired one of Reid’s sons (Leif) as his personal lawyer and then
promptly handed the junior Reid the responsibility of negotiating the real
estate deal with federal officials.  Leif Reid even called his father’s
office to talk about how to obtain the proper EPA permits, a clear conflict of
interest.

Judicial Watch is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization.  Judicial Watch neither supports nor opposes candidates for
public office.  For more information, visit www.judicialwatch.org.

 

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

HUCK THE SCHMUCK

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HUCK THE SCHMUCK


by Alan Stang
December 27, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

I had thought that by now we knew
everything about Mike Huckabee: the love of more and higher taxes, the
betrayal of home schooling, the parole of the man who then raped and killed
another woman, the attempt to bring as many illegal aliens to Arkansas as possible,
et cetera and so on. Of course, I was horribly wrong.

Now come revelations that penetrate
to the heart of the man, which he says is the fact that he is a preacher of
Christ, except of course that his own staff now admits he was lying when he
kept boasting he was the only candidate on the stage with a “theology
degree.” Remember his smart aleck offer to
help Ghouliani when the moderator asked the Ghoul about his spiritual beliefs
in the debates?

Because I have lived so long and
seen so much, I am not easy to shock. But Huckabee has done so. As you know,
one of the main differences between him and the other man from Hope, Arkansas
–
I can’t recall his name; he is the husband
of Hillaroid – is the musical instrument they
play. The other man plays the sexaphone (sic); Huck plays the guitar. Indeed,
Huck plays guitar in a group called Capitol Offense. One of the numbers they
do is “Honky Tonk Women.”
Here are some of the lyrics:

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen
in Memphis,
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
’Cause
I just can’t seem to drink you off my mind.

I laid a divorcee in New York City,
I had to put up some kind of a fight.
The lady then she covered me with roses,
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.

So, what do we have here? We have a
man drinking to excess in a Memphis whore house to get a woman off his mind.
We have an alcoholic whore trying to turn a trick. Because he is mourning the
loss of the first woman, the whore has to drag him upstairs to a bedroom for
the purpose. Presumably, she could do so only because Friar Huck had already
lost those famous hundred pounds in preparation for his presidential race. No
normal woman, and certainly not a gin-soaked whore, could lift a thing the
size of Huckabee before.

The narrator thankfully survives the
night of abandon. The next stanza finds him in New York. He is still
lamenting the loss of the unnamed lady in Memphis, because in New York
another lady, a divorcee, has to struggle to bring Huck the Schmuck to her
bed. The lady blows his nose, which sounds disgusting and then blows his
mind. I shall say no more here because the verb “blows”
comes dangerously close to the area patented by the other man from Hope, the
one whose name I can’t remember.

Of course, “Honky
Tonk Women” is a Mick Jagger/Rolling Stones
song. To do it justice, Huckabee’s Capitol Offense presumably had to
practice, singing these words over and over again. Excuse me? Remember we are
not talking here about some difference in doctrine. We’re
not talking about different interpretations of Original Sin. We’re
talking about the personal behavior of a preacher, a minister of Christ. Will
Huck the Schmuck be performing “Honky Tonk Women”
in the Huckabee White House?

Capitol Offense appears to have a
penchant for professional hookers. Another number they do is “Devil
With the Blue Dress On.” Here are some of the lyrics: “She
walks real cool, catches everybody’s eye/She’s got such good lovin’ that they
can’t say goodbye.” There is also the immortal:

Good golly, Miss Molly
You sure like to ball
While you’re rockin’ and rollin’
Can’t you hear your mama call
From the early, early mornin’ ’til the early, early nights
See Miss Molly rockin’ at the House of Blue Lights

Notice that unlike every other
minister of Jesus I have heard of, Huck the Schmuck does not lament the fact
that these women are prostitutes and try to reform them. On the contrary,
Capitol Offense celebrates and applauds their prostitution. Huckabee apparently
will do anything to look “cool.”

Needless to say, the Prostitute
National Press has not said a word about this. Instead, they have tried
(unsuccessfully) to make something of the fact that Tucker Carlson booby
trapped Dr. Ron Paul into accepting a donation from a man he didn’t
know who runs a brothel in Nevada. By the way, Dr. No plays no instrument and
can’t carry a tune.


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But now here comes something even
worse. What? Worse? Yes! In 2004, at a dinner meeting of the Republican
Governors Association, Huckabee mounted the rostrum to deliver the opening
prayer. You would ask the only man present with a “theology
degree” to do that. As the schmuck got
started, the mobile phone in his pocket rang. And an “embarrassed”
Governor Huckabee took the call. Guess who it was.

It was God

That’s right; God took
time out from His manifold activities to call Friar Huck as he began his
remarks. Either that, or Huck was doing an impression of Bob Newhart, in
which case his impression was masterful; but I saw the video and can assure
you that was not what he was doing. He was using the “theology
degree” he now is lying about to drive home
the “fact” that, despite
the hymns to prostitution of Capitol Offense, he was the only governor the
Creator would call.

As brilliant as he was, Friar Huck
did miss one trick. He should have had God call collect. Then Huck could
magnanimously have accepted the charges. On the other hand, the charges from
Heaven to here are probably prohibitive, and everyone knows God has unlimited
funds insured by FDIC, so He probably would pay for such a call Himself. Here
are the main things the other governors – rotten, no-good sinners who
therefore don’t get calls from God –
heard Friar Huck say:

On the phone for me? How did he get
my number? . . . . Yes, God? Yes, sir, I’m right in the middle of the
president’s coming. . . . . You see, you say
you want–you need an autograph. Oh, for
Samson. . . . And, you know, God, this is a pretty big event. We’ve
got a lot of people and I’ve only got a very short time here.
Oh, you’ve got all the time in the world. I
understand. . . . Yes, sir, we know you don’t take sides in
the election. But, if you did, we kind of think you’d
hang in there with us, lord, we really do. . . .

The transcript says there was much
delighted laughter during all of this. At the end there was (CHEERING AND
APPLAUSE). When I heard about it, I gasped. When I saw the video I marveled.
Notice that Huckabee revoltingly trivializes God. He patronizes God, reducing
Him to a Straight Man in a comedy act. This is not the God I know, not the
Creator of everything that is, not the God who spoke the world into
existence. Am I wrong? Am I making more of this than it deserves? I don’t
think so, but please let me know.

More proof that Huck the Schmuck
thinks Christianity is a joke came after the people of Arizona enacted a law
(Proposition 200) that denies benefits to illegal aliens. The courts upheld
Prop 200 and a couple of Republican Senators in Arkansas proposed a similar
law there. The Arkansas law would have required proof of citizenship to vote.

But Huck denounced the proposal as
“race-baiting and demagoguery.” He said the bill “inflames
those who are racist and bigots and makes them think there’s a real problem.
But there’s not.” So, in Arkansas, Huck says illegal
aliens are not a problem, even when they vote. Now, running for President, he
says the reverse.

But here comes the kicker. Fellow
Republican Senator Jim Holt, one of the bill’s sponsors, is
also a Christian. Singling him out, Governor Schmuck said as follows: “I
drink a different kind of Jesus juice.” Again we see that, in Huckabee’s
lexicon, Jesus is a joke, a Straight Man in a comedy act, a dummy sitting on
Huckabee’s knee. The Schmuck will do or say
anything in his lust to be “cool.” But English
speakers will remember that “cool” means “not
so hot.”

When I saw the Huck and his Straight
Man go through his act, I wondered. Are there really any Americans dumb
enough to fall for this malarkey, dumb enough to give credence to a man who
makes Elmer Gantry look like John the Baptist? The answer is, yes, there are
millions of them. Many of those millions belong to what they call the
Religious Right.

This time around, despite everything
we now know, Friar Huck is their choice. So I have only one question for you.
Are you out of your minds? Dr. Ron Paul exemplifies to the max everything you
say you believe. Mike Huckabee makes Dr. No look like a glorified combination
of Washington, Jefferson and Henry. But you have rejected Dr. Paul in favor
of a blatant scumbag.

Over and over again, you have
betrayed yourselves. You did it with Bush. He ridicules you as suckers in
private; in public he says he is “born again.”
Apparently that is all a man need say to win your devotion. Because he is a
fraud, your country now is falling apart, soon to be merged out of existence
with Mexico and Canada. Your freedoms are gone.

Your
preachers are not preachers. They are motivational speakers, lusting for fame
and the buck. They are cowards, not Christians, not the Black Regiment that
led the War for Independence. If they tell you to vote for the rear end of a
horse, you will flock from the meeting halls to the polling places and do so,
like characters in George A. Romero’s classic, “Night
of the Living Dead.” Now you are getting ready to do it
again. And you will deserve everything you get when reality hits you in the
face.

© 2007 – Alan Stang – All Rights
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Huckabee illegal Consulate

Arkansas Citizen To Sue Mike Huckabee Over His Involvment With Establishing Mexican Consulate in Little Rock

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IN
THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PULASKI COUNTY, ARKANSAS SIXTH DIVISION


 

JIM PARSONS

PLAINTIFF

VS.

CV-07-9346

 

MIKE HUCKABEE, in his individual capacity
only; MIKE BEEBE, in his official capacity only; INDEPENDENCE
COUNTY; CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS; the MEXICAN CONSULATE OF
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS; FRANKLIN COUNTY, ARKANSAS;

DEFENDANT

 

 

PLAINTIFF’S
THIRD AMENDED COMPLAINT INCLUDING
A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT CLAIM1
(Expedited
hearing sought pursuant to A.C.A. § 25-19-107)

Comes now Jim Parsons,
Plaintiff, by and through his attorney Oscar Stilley, and for his third
amended complaint states:

 

 

GENERAL
ALLEGATIONS

1.
Plaintiff represents those classes of taxpayers who have been, continue to
be, and may in the future be adversely affected by the actions and
omissions which are the subject of this complaint.  Defendant has acted or failed to
act in a manner which is generally applicable to all of those who are
represented, and the claims of the representative party is typical of the
claims of the class. The class is so numerous that joinder of all members
of the class is impracticable.

1

See Page 11 for the Freedom
of Information Act claim.

There
are questions of law and fact common to the class, and the representative
plaintiff herein will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the
entire class.  The relief
sought is common and beneficial to the class.

 

2. This taxpayers lawsuit, to
prevent an illegal exaction and to recover funds illegally paid, is in its
nature a class action.

 

3. Plaintiff is and was at
all times relevant to this cause a citizen and resident of the State of
Arkansas.  Plaintiff has paid
and will continue to pay taxes to the State of Arkansas.

 

4. Defendant Mike Huckabee is
a resident of Pulaski County, Arkansas.

 

5. The acts and omissions
complained of herein occurred in large part in Pulaski County, Arkansas.

 

6. This lawsuit in addition
to taxpayer claims also includes a claim under the Arkansas Freedom of
Information Act, A.C.A. § 25-19-101.

 

7. Defendant Mike Huckabee
was until the end of 2006 governor of the State of Arkansas.

 

8. Defendants Independence
and Franklin Counties are both counties that received money from the
governor’s emergency fund. 
The Plaintiff seeks a refund from these counties of the money
received from the governor’s emergency fund as outlined herein.

 

9. Defendants Independence
and Franklin Counties are both counties that received money from the
governor’s emergency fund. 
The Plaintiff seeks a refund from these counties of the money
received from the governor’s emergency fund as outlined herein.

 

10.
The City of Little Rock is a municipal corporation organized under the law
of the state of Arkansas, and received money from the governor’s emergency
fund.  The Plaintiff seeks a
refund from the City of Little Rock of the money received from the
governor’s emergency fund as

outlined herein.

11. The Mexican Consulate of
Little Rock, Arkansas, is believed to be a corporate or other entity
subject to suing and being sued. 
The Plaintiff seeks a refund from the Mexican Consulate of the City
of Little Rock of the money received from the governor’s emergency fund as
outlined herein, by and through the City of Little Rock.  This claim is made jointly and
severally against the City of Little Rock and the aforementioned Mexican
Consulate. 

 

COUNT
1 – USING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR PURPOSES NOT AUTHORIZED BY LAW – DECLARATORY
JUDGMENT – DISQUALIFICATION TO HOLD OFFICE

 

12. Plaintiff restates and
realleges all other parts of the complaint to the extent not prohibited by
law or ethical rule.

 

13. Ark. Const. Article 16 §
3 provides:

 

Making
profit out of or misusing public funds – Penalty.

The making of profit out of
public moneys, or using the same for any purpose not authorized by law, by
any officer of the State or member or officer of the General Assembly,
shall be punishable as may be provided by law; but part of such punishment
shall be disqualification to hold office in this State for a period of
five years.

 

14. This complaint sets forth
reasons and facts demonstrating that Mike Huckabee used certain public
moneys for purposes not authorized by law or contrary to law, and thus
constituting illegal exactions.

 

15. Plaintiff requests that
as part of the relief Mike Huckabee be enjoined, prohibited, and forbidden
from holding any office in this state for a period of five years.

 

16. The expenditures
complained of herein arise from certain appropriation acts including Act
131 of 2005 and Act 221 of 2003. 
By way of example Act 131 of 2005 is reproduced herein

 

as
follows:

State
of Arkansas 85th General Assembly Regular Session, 2005 SENATE BILL 242

By:
Joint Budget Committee

For
An Act To Be Entitled

  AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION OF
FUNDS TO ALLEVIATE

  CONDITIONS ARISING IN PUBLIC
EMERGENCIES FOR THE
BIENNIAL

  PERIOD ENDING JUNE 30, 2007; AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Subtitle

  AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE
GOVERNOR – EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2005-2007
BIENNIUM.

  BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF
ARKANSAS:

  SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION –
GOVERNOR’S EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION. There is hereby appropriated, to the
Office of the Governor, to be payable from the Miscellaneous Revolving
Fund, for the purpose provided for by Arkansas Code 19-2-404 for the
biennial period ending June 30, 2007, the following:

ITEM  FISCAL YEARS NO.  2005-2006 2006-2007

(01)
GOVERNOR’S EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION 
$500,000 $500,000

  SECTION 2. COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER
LAWS. Disbursement of funds authorized by this act shall be limited to the
appropriation for such agency and funds made available by law for the
support of such appropriations; and the restrictions of the State
Procurement Law, the General Accounting and Budgetary Procedures Law, the
Revenue Stabilization Law, the Regular Salary Procedures and Restrictions
Act, or their successors, and other fiscal control laws of this State,
where applicable, and regulations promulgated by the Department of Finance
and Administration, as authorized by law, shall be strictly complied with
in disbursement of said
funds.

  SECTION 3. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. It
is the intent of the General Assembly that any funds disbursed under the
authority of the appropriations contained in this act shall be in
compliance with the stated reasons for which this act was adopted, as
evidenced by the Agency Requests, Executive Recommendations and
Legislative Recommendations contained in the budget manuals prepared by
the Department of Finance and

Administration, letters, or
summarized oral testimony in the official minutes of the Arkansas
Legislative Council or Joint Budget Committee which relate to its passage
and adoption.

  SECTION 4. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. It is
found and determined by the General Assembly, that the Constitution of the
State of Arkansas prohibits the appropriation of funds for more than a two
(2) year period; that the effectiveness of this Act on July 1, 2005 is
essential to the operation of the agency for which the appropriations in
this Act are provided, and that in the event of an extension of the
Regular Session, the delay in the effective date of this Act beyond July
1, 2005 could work irreparable harm upon the proper administration and
provision of essential governmental programs. Therefore, an emergency is
hereby declared to exist and this Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety shall be in full force
and effect from and after July 1, 2005.

 

17. The expenditures are set
forth on a sheet which gives a brief description of the claims, the
identifier code which sets forth the year and the request number, the
date, the amount requested, the amount which would remain if the request
were approved, and the number of legislators signing off on the
request.  For example, EM07-1
is the first request for the fiscal year 2007, which sought and obtained
$15,000 to subsidize equipment for the Independence County Sheriff’s
department.  This document is
attached hereto as Exhibit “1″ and incorporated as if set forth herein
word for word.

 

18. Plaintiff claims
entitlement to a declaratory judgment stating that all the expenditures
complained of herein are in fact unlawful and improper. 

 

19. Plaintiff claims
entitlement upon  the facts
shown to a declaratory judgment that these expenditures of state tax
dollars constitute illegal exactions, and Mike Huckabee should be and
furthermore is by such order prohibited from holding any office in this
state for a period of 5 years from the date of the order.

 

COUNT
2 – USING PUBLIC FUNDS WITHOUT AN EMERGENCY AND WITHOUT

THE
APPROVAL OF A MAJORITY OF THE PROPER LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS

 

FOR
EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENTS

 

20. Plaintiff restates and
realleges all other parts of the complaint to the extent not prohibited by
law or ethical rule.

 

21. Arkansas Code Annotated
Section  19-2-404 provides in
pertinent part:

 

 19-2-404. Emergency
expenditures.

  (a)(1) In the event of riots or
threatened riots; sabotage, public insurrection, or threatened
insurrection; storm, flood, famine, or other public calamity which
jeopardizes the public peace, health, and safety of citizens of Arkansas
that calls for immediate action, the Governor is delegated and authorized
by the General Assembly to declare an emergency to exist and to issue a
proclamation declaring an emergency to
exist.

                       
 Other requests for utilization of
this appropriation shall be submitted for prior review by the Governor to
a Governor’s Emergency Fund Review Committee, meeting in committee,
composed of the chairmen and vice chairmen of the Legislative Joint
Auditing Committee and Legislative Council.

                       
 A proclamation or request, as
approved by the Governor or the Governor’s Emergency Fund Review
Committee, shall include:

                       
The nature and location of
the emergency;

                       
 The name of the department or
agency which, in the Governor’s opinion, is best able to alleviate or
obviate the conditions which have arisen or are about to arise because of
the emergency; and

                       
 The amount of funds required for
the emergency, such amount or so much thereof as shall have been set forth
in each proclamation to be extended upon vouchers drawn by the disbursing
agent of the department or agency named in the proclamation.

 

 

22. Governor Mike Huckabee
spent the money however he chose without regard to whether the Governor’s
Emergency Fund Review Committee approved the expenditure or not.

 

23. The requirement of review
should be construed and ruled to require at least a majority approval by
those lawmakers charged with making the review.

 

24. The following
expenditures received less than a majority vote the Governor’s Emergency

 

Fund Review Committee:
EM07-6, EM07-9, EM07-16, EM07-17, EM07-18, EM07-19, EM07-20, EM07-21,
EM04-1, EM04-2, EM04-7, EM04-8, EM04-10, EM04-11, EM04-12, EM04-14, and
EM04-15.

 

25. Those proposals not
receiving a majority vote are and should be deemed illegal exactions, and
Mike Huckabee should be ordered to repay same out of his own estate.  The recipients of said funds
should likewise be held jointly and severally liable for the repayment of
the illegally paid out funds.

 

26. The following
expenditures were not such as could rationally be deemed an emergency:
EM07-1, EM07-2, EM07-3, EM07-5, EM07-6, EM07-8, EM07-9, EM07-11, EM07-12,
EM07-13, EM07-14, EM07-15, EM07-16, EM07-17, EM07-18, EM07-19, EM07-20,
EM07-21, EM06-1, EM06-2, EM06-3, EM06-4, EM06-5, EM06-6, EM06-7, EM06-8,
EM06-9, EM06-10, EM06-11, EM06-12, EM06-13, EM06-14, EM06-15, EM06-16,
EM06-17, EM06-18, EM05-1, EM05-2, EM05-3, EM05-4, EM05-5, EM05-6, EM05-7,
EM05-8, EM05-9, EM05-10, EM05-11, EM05-12, EM05-14, EM05-15, EM05-16,
EM05-17, 2004, EM04-1, EM04-2, EM04-3, EM04-4, EM04-5, EM04-6, EM04-7,
EM04-8, EM04-9, EM04-10, EM04-11, EM04-12, EM04-13, EM04-14, EM04-15,
EM04-16, EM04-17, EM04-18.

 

27. For the facts shown,
these expenditures of state tax dollars constitute illegal exactions, and
Mike Huckabee should be ordered to repay same out of his own estate, and
prohibited from holding any office in this state for a period of 5 years.

 


 

 

COUNT
3 – USING PUBLIC FUNDS CONTRARY TO THE TERMS OF THE APPROPRIATION, WITHOUT
A SPECIFIC APPROPRIATION, AND WITHOUT A DISTINCTLY STATED PURPOSE

 

 

28. Plaintiff restates and
realleges all other parts of the complaint to the extent not prohibited

 

by law or ethical rule.

 

29.       Arkansas
Constitution Article 5 Section 29
states:

 

 Appropriations.

  No money shall be drawn from the
treasury except in pursuance of specific appropriation made by law, the
purpose of which shall be distinctly stated in the bill, and the maximum
amount which may be drawn shall be specified in dollars and cents; and no
appropriations shall be for a longer period than two years.

30.
     
Arkansas Constitution Article 5 Section 30
states:

 30. General and special
appropriations.

  The general appropriation bill
shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expense of the
executive, legislative and judicial departments of the State; all other
appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one
subject.

 

31.       Article 16,
§ 12 of the Arkansas Constitution provides as follows: § 12. Disbursement
of funds – Appropriation required.

 

  No money shall be paid out of the
treasury until the same shall have been appropriated by law, and then only
in accordance with said appropriation.

 

32. Defendant Mike Huckabee
treated the emergency appropriations not as an appropriation for
emergencies, or for expenditures in conformity with the appropriation and
applicable laws, but rather as a “slush fund” of sorts, which he could use
upon his whims for political purposes with our without the agreement of
those delegated to review and approve expenditures from the fund.

 

33.
Plaintiff states and alleges that all the expenditures challenged in
paragraph 16 as not constituting a bona fide emergency are also violative
of the provisions set forth in this count, and

thus illegal exactions.

34. Mike Huckabee is shown to
have generally waited until the appropriation was about to expire to spend
most of the money. 
Furthermore, just before he left office he spent all the money on
pet projects.  This
demonstrates that the fund was not a true emergency fund, but rather one
used to evade the constitutional and statutory restrictions on profligate
and wasteful spending. This furthermore demonstrates that the actual
purpose of much of the spending was for the political gain of Mike
Huckabee. 

 

35. For the facts shown,
these expenditures of state tax dollars constitute illegal exactions, and
Mike Huckabee should be ordered to repay same out of his own estate, and
prohibited from holding any office in this state for a period of 5 years.

 


 

 

COUNT
4 – USING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR LOCAL AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

 

36. Plaintiff restates and
realleges all other parts of the complaint to the extent not prohibited by
law or ethical rule.

 

37. Amendment 14 to the
Arkansas Constitution provides as
follows:

 

 AMENDMENT 14. LOCAL ACTS  Local or special acts prohibited –
Rights to repeal acts by legislature.  The General Assembly shall not
pass any local or special act. This amendment shall not

prohibit the repeal of local
or special acts.

 

38.
The following expenditures were for matters that could not reasonably or
logically be called state business, but rather amount to local or special
projects, which the state is forbidden to fund from state tax dollars:
EM07-1, EM07-2, EM07-5, EM07-6, EM07-8, EM07-9, EM07-10, EM07-11, EM07-12,
EM07-13, EM07-14, EM07-15, EM07-16, EM07-17, EM07-18, EM07-19,

EM07-20,
EM06-1, EM06-2, EM06-3, EM06-4, EM06-5, EM06-6, EM06-7, EM06-8, EM06-9,
EM06-10, EM06-11, EM06-12, EM06-13, EM06-14, EM06-15, EM06-16, EM06-17,
EM05-1, EM05-2, EM05-3, EM05-4, EM05-5, EM05-6, EM05-7, EM05-8, EM05-9,
EM05-10, EM05-12, EM05-14, EM05-16, EM05-17, 2004, EM04-1, EM04-2,
EM04-3,  EM04-8, EM04-9,
EM04-10, EM04-13, EM04-18.

39. The challenged
appropriation is a plain and unmistakable attempt to do indirectly that
which the legislature is prohibited from doing directly.

 

40. For the facts shown,
these expenditures of state tax dollars constitute illegal exactions, and
Mike Huckabee should be ordered to repay same out of his own estate, and
prohibited from holding any office in this state for a period of 5
years. 

 


 

 

COUNT
5 – USING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENTS

 

41. Plaintiff restates and
realleges all other parts of the complaint to the extent not prohibited by
law or ethical rule.

 

42. Amendment 70 provides in
pertinent part as follows:

 

 AMENDMENT 70. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY SALARIES – RESTRICTIONS ON EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENTS

§ 1.
Executive Department and General Assembly – Salaries – Restrictions on
reimbursements.

  (a) No official of the Executive
Department shall be reimbursed by the State of Arkansas for any expenses
except those reasonably connected to their official duties and only if
such reimbursement is made for documented expenses actually incurred
and
from the regular budget appropriated for the official’s
office.
Such restrictions on expense reimbursement are of a general application
and also
are intended specifically to prohibit the appropriation and use of public
relations funds. …
(Emphases added)

 

 

43. Plaintiff would allege
and state that the following items constitute expenses of the

 

Executive Department, not
appropriated in the regular budget of the office as required by law, and
thus constituting illegal exactions: 
EM07-9, EM07-21, EM06-18.

 

44. Defendant used the moneys
represented by EM07-9, EM07-21, EM06-18 for purposes not authorized by
appropriation, and thus prohibited by the letter and spirit of Amendment
70. The form of the payments is irrelevant. 

 

45. For the facts shown,
these expenditures of state tax dollars constitute illegal exactions, and
Mike Huckabee should be ordered to repay same out of his own estate, and
prohibited from holding any office in this state for a period of 5 years.

 

COUNT
6 – VIOLATION OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT – REQUEST FOR ORDER COMPELLING
DEFENDANT MIKE HUCKABEE TO RETURN TO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN ALL PUBLIC RECORDS
TAKEN FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, AND FOR GOVERNOR BEEBE TO REVIEW AND DELIVER
TO PLAINTIFF ALL RECORDS DETERMINED NOT TO BE EXEMPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE
WORK PAPERS EXCEPTION TO THE ARKANSAS FOIA LAW.

 

46. Plaintiff restates and
realleges all other parts of the complaint to the extent not prohibited by
law or ethical rule.

 

47. Mike Huckabee, near the
end of his final term in office, ordered the destruction of more than
$10,000 worth of computer hard drives belonging to the state of Arkansas.

 

48. Mike Huckabee claims to
have made a tape backup of the material on these hard drives.

 

49. Plaintiff, by and through
counsel, has made lawful and formal request of the governor’s

 

office
and of Defendant Mike Huckabee for a copy of all non-privileged material
on the tape

backup
of the hard drives. As an example see Exhibit 2, a copy of a letter sent
to Mike Huckabee on September 5, 2007, a true and correct copy of which is
attached hereto and incorporated as if set forth word for word.  

50.
Plaintiff in oral conversations made it clear that he would be reasonable
with respect to the division of material between privileged and
non-privileged status. 
Plaintiff made it clear that the request was for information on the
hard drives which was not protected by A.C.A. § 25-19-105(b)(7), which
excludes from public scrutiny the following categories of public records:

(7) Unpublished memoranda,
working papers, and correspondence of the Governor, members of the General
Assembly, Supreme Court Justices, Court of Appeals Judges, and the
Attorney General;

 

51. Those persons acting as
representatives of the governor’s office, Mike Beebe sitting, informed
Plaintiff’s counsel that the records were not in the possession of the
governor’s office.

 

52. Plaintiff, by and through
counsel, inquired of representatives of Mike Huckabee and other persons,
who said that the public records sought were on a tape drive, in the
possession of some other person, believed to be Brenda Turner, holding
said public records at the direction and under the control of Mike
Huckabee.

 

53. Plaintiff requested that
the non-privileged records be copied and given to the Plaintiff by and
through his counsel.  In the
alternative, Plaintiff sought the return of the records to the governor’s
office, so that the sitting governor could review the records, determine
which records in the opinion of the sitting governor fell under the
protection of  A.C.A. §
25-19-105(b)(7), and supply a copy of all non privileged records to the
Plaintiff.

 

54.
Plaintiff at all times and to all parties offered to pay the lawful and
customary cost of

reproduction,
and to do all other things as might be required by the law or suggested by
considerations of courtesy and cooperation, in order to obtain the records
sought.

55. Plaintiff, despite many
attempts to obtain the records sought, has obtained nothing.

 

56. Plaintiff is likewise
aggrieved by the loss of public records from the public domain.

 

57. Mike Huckabee should be
ordered to return the records to the office of the governor, now held by
Mike Beebe.  Plaintiff
requests such an order.

 

58. Mike Beebe should be
ordered to cause the records to be reviewed within a reasonable time, and
to effectuate a determination of which records the governor’s office deems
to fall outside the protections of 
A.C.A. § 25-19-105(b)(7).

 

59. Mike Beebe should be
ordered to supply to the Plaintiff, within a reasonable time, all records
determined to fall outside the scope of A.C.A. § 25-19-105(b)(7).  These records should be ordered
supplied in the same format in which the records are now maintained,
unless there is some good reason to supply the records in a different
format.   

 

60. Plaintiff also seeks an
order commanding Mike Beebe, in his official capacity, to maintain those
records protected by A.C.A. § 25-19-105(b)(7), and in the opinion of the
office of Mike Beebe necessary and proper for the maintenance of the
records of the governor’s office.

 

61. Plaintiff should be
awarded his reasonable attorney’s fees and costs in obtaining the order,
pursuant to the provisions of the Arkansas Freedom of Information
Act. 

 

62. Plaintiff requests an
expedited hearing pursuant to A.C.A. § 25-19-107.

 

COUNT
7 – DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR
PERSONAL BENEFIT

 

 

63. Plaintiff restates and
realleges all other parts of the complaint to the extent not prohibited by
law or ethical rule.

 

64. Defendant Mike Huckabee
ordered the destruction of about 93 hard drives at a cost of over $10,000,
paid for from the emergency fund referenced herein.

 

65.       Arkansas
Code Annotated §5-41-202 provides in its entirety: §5-41-202 Unlawful act
regarding a computer.

 

(a) A person commits an
unlawful act regarding a computer if the person knowingly and without
authorization:

 

(1) Modifies, damages,
destroys, discloses, uses, transfers, conceals, takes, retains possession
of, copies, obtains or attempts to obtain access to, permits access to or
causes to be accessed, or enters data or a program that exists inside or
outside a computer, system, or network;

 

(2) Modifies, destroys, uses,
takes, damages, transfers, conceals, copies, retains possession of,
obtains or attempts to obtain access to, permits access to or causes to be
accessed, equipment or supplies that are used or intended to be used in a
computer, system, or network;

 

(3) Destroys, damages, takes,
alters, transfers, discloses, conceals, copies, uses, retains possession
of, obtains or attempts to obtain access to, permits access to or causes
to be accessed, a computer, system, or network;

 

(4) Obtains and discloses,
publishes, transfers, or uses a device used to access a computer, system,
network, or data; or

 

(5) Introduces, causes to be
introduced, or attempts to introduce a computer contaminant into a
computer, system, or network.

 

(b) An unlawful act regarding
a computer is a:

 

(1) Class A misdemeanor; or

 

(2) Class C felony if the
act:

 

(A)
Was committed to devise or execute a scheme to defraud or illegally obtain
property;

(
Caused damage in excess of five hundred dollars ($500); or

(C) Caused an interruption or
impairment of a public service, including, without limitation, a:

 

(i) Governmental operation;

 

(ii) System of public
communication or transportation; or

 

(iii) Supply of water, gas,
or electricity.

 

66. Defendant Mike Huckabee
ordered and caused the destruction of approximately 93 computer hard
drives, all of which worked properly at the time of their destruction.

 

67. Defendant Mike Huckabee
thus caused damage in excess of five hundred dollars and committed an
offense against the people of the state of Arkansas.

 

68. Defendant Mike Huckabee
impaired various public services by placing public records out of the
reach of the governor’s office and its personnel, and also out of reach of
the people of Arkansas, thus preventing the use of those records by either
group of people.

 

69.       Arkansas
Code Annotated §5-41-104 provides in its entirety: § 5-41-104. Computer
trespass

 

(a) A person commits computer
trespass if the person intentionally and without authorization accesses,
alters, deletes, damages, destroys, or disrupts any computer, computer
system, computer network, computer program, or data.

 

(b) Computer trespass is a:

 

(1) Class C misdemeanor if it
is a first violation that does not cause any loss or damage;

 

(2) Class B misdemeanor if it
is a:

 

(A)
Second or subsequent violation that does not cause any loss or damage; or

(
Violation that causes loss or damage of less than five hundred dollars
($500);

(3) Class A misdemeanor if it
is a violation that causes loss or damage of five hundred dollars ($500)
or more, but less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500); and

 

(4) Class D felony if it is a
violation that causes loss or damage of two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500) or more.

 

70. Defendant Mike Huckabee
was not authorized to destroy 93 operable hard drives, by law or other
person or body having the power to grant such authorization.

 

71. By ordering the
destruction of working computer hard drives Defendant Mike Huckabee
violated the Arkansas statutes herein as well as other laws of
Arkansas. 

 

72. Defendant Mike Huckabee
denied the Plaintiff and the citizens of Arkansas access to state
government work product, and prevented anyone from viewing, copying, or
archiving documents prepared for government business, whether as a citizen
or in an official capacity as an employee of the governor’s office.

 

73. Defendant Mike Huckabee
should be ordered to repay both the costs of the destruction of the hard
drives, and the cost of replacement hard drives, out of his own estate.

 

74. Defendant Mike Huckabee
should be disqualified from holding office in this State for a period of
five years, pursuant to Ark. Const. Art. 16, § 3.

 

WHEREFORE, the plaintiff
prays for the following relief: For an order commanding Mike Huckabee to
deliver to the governor’s office all tape backups of any material copied
from any hard drive in the governor’s office, from hard drives later
destroyed within 6 months of the end

of Mike Huckabee’s last term;
For an order requiring Mike Beebe to inspect said records and deliver a
copy of all non-privileged records to Plaintiff; For an order requiring
Mike Huckabee to return to the State Treasury all moneys misappropriated
from the governor’s emergency fund, whether or not related to the
destruction of the hard drives, out of his own estate; for judgment
declaring Mike Huckabee ineligible to hold any office of profit or trust
within the State of Arkansas, paid for wholly or in part by public funds,
or to receive any remuneration or emolument whatever for past or present
public service, for the next 5 years from the date of court order; for
orders and judgments against those named parties who have unlawfully
received funds, as set forth by designations in the body of the complaint,
and in the exhibits hereto; and for all other or further or alternative
relief as the Court may find necessary and proper to restore the parties
hereto, including the taxpayers at large, to their rightful positions; for
costs of the action; for reasonable attorney’s fees from any common fund;
and for such other and further relief as may be necessary or proper. 

By:                                                
Oscar Stilley, Attorney at Law 701 South 21st Street Fort Smith, AR 72901
479-573-0726 479-573-0647 fax oscar@oscarstilley.com

 

CERTIFICATE
OF SERVICE

I,
Oscar Stilley, by my signature above certify that a copy of the foregoing
has been sent this December 12, 2007 to each of the following via email,
and supplemental US mail, postage prepaid, if requested, to:

Kevin
A. Crass FRIDAY ELDREDGE & CLARK, LLP 400 West Capitol Avenue, Ste
2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

 

(501) 376-2011

 

(501) 376-2147 fax crass@fec.net

 

Joe Cordi Assistant Arkansas
Attorney General 323 Center Street, Suite 1100 Little Rock, AR  72201

 

(501) 682-1317

 

(501) 682-8084 fax joe.cordi@ag.state.ar.us
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Rasmussen: ‘The Huckaboom
may have crested’
Pollster’s new results show
candidate tied in Iowa after double-digit lead



Posted:
December 20, 2007
12:07 p.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

With his support
receding in Iowa and South Carolina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s surge
to the top of the race for the Republican presidential nomination appears to
have hit its high point, pollster Scott Rasmussen told WND.

“The Huckaboom
may have crested,” said Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports.

Yesterday, Rasmussen
released the results of a survey showing Huckabee falling back into a tie with Romney
in Iowa and South Carolina.

In Iowa, Huckabee had
a double-digit lead at the beginning of December. The Rasmussen poll yesterday
showed him at 28 percent, with Romney at 27 percent and McCain in third at 14
percent.

Rasmussen cautioned
that the cresting of the Huckaboom should be seen in context.

“If a month and
a half ago I had told you that Huckabee was tied for the lead in Iowa and South
Carolina, that would have been seen as great news for the then-long-shot Huckabee
campaign,” he said.

What happened?

“Huckabee built
some support in Iowa, and then there was a huge round of enthusiasm as he built
a double-digit lead in Iowa and a significant lead in South Carolina,”
Rasmussen explained.

“But as Huckabee
surged, the other candidates began to take Huckabee seriously,” he
continued. “Then Huckabee began receiving a significant amount of negative
campaigning in Iowa and South Carolina, and the negative campaigning is now
having an impact.”

Does the endorsement by Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the
Minuteman Project help or hurt Huckabee?

“I think it will
help,” he answered cautiously. “But I don’t think it’s
definitive.”

“What’s
happening right now is Mike Huckabee is going through a vetting process that
other candidates went through earlier in the year,” he explained.
“There is no one piece of information that is going to be
definitive.”

Rasmussen said a
defining demographic for Huckabee was his strong support among evangelical
Christians.

“Huckabee went
from 48 percent support among evangelicals in late November, which was huge, up
to 62 percent a couple of weeks later, which was unbelievable,” he said.
“Now it’s back to 49 percent.”

Rasmussen said
Huckabee “resonates with certain constituencies and important parts of the
population in Iowa, but there was another tier that was a little bit softer and
they are re-evaluating.”

The pollster said
Huckabee’s Christmas ad would have helped him nationally if not for the
controversy that arose when critics accused his campaign of using subliminal
messaging by making a bookcase in the background appear as a cross.

Rasmussen admitted
his polling does not have direct data on the ad. He suspects that while it may
have helped Huckabee strengthen his Iowa support, it is clearly having a
negative impact outside the state.

“The Huckaboom
has retreated from its peak,” Rasmussen said. “I live by the beach,
so I tend to think in terms of tides. The Huckabee tide has pulled back from
its high point, but we don’t know yet who is going to win Iowa.”

To put Huckabee’s
rise in perspective, Rasmussen compared it to how Fred Thompson entered the
race.

“Earlier this
year, Fred Thompson looked good to outsiders,” he said. “As Thompson
entered the campaign, his numbers went down dramatically.”

Rasmussen told WND
the phenomena of Huckabee and Thompson show there is a serious level of
searching for an alternative among Republican primary voters.

“The conditions
remain right for a candidate to rise up and grab a section of the
constituency,” he concluded, “because none of the Republican primary
contenders has done so as yet.”

 

Huckabee shameful record

Son’s deeds bite Huckabee

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/78241

Pulaski County Sheriff-AP

Dogged: An incident involving his son David could hurt
Huckabee

CAMPAIGN 2008

A Son’s Past Deeds Come Back To Bite Huckabee

By Michael Isikoff and Holly
Bailey | NEWSWEEK

Dec 24, 2007 Issue | Updated: 2:51  p.m. ET
Dec 15, 2007

 

 

 

As Mike Huckabee
gains in the polls, the former Arkansas governor is finding that
his record in office is getting more scrutiny. One issue likely to get
attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of
his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a
counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. It also
prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by
a national animal-rights group—to
write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether
David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state
police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed. But John Bailey, then the director of
Arkansas’s state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee’s chief of staff
and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the
local prosecutor’s request. Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed
chief by Huckabee’s Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer’s
intervention as improper and terminated the conversation. Seven months later,
he was called into Huckabee’s office and fired. “I’ve lost confidence in
your ability to do your job,” Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason
Huckabee cited was “I couldn’t get you to help me with my son when I had
that problem,” according to Bailey. “Without question, [Huckabee] was
making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his
son,” says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little
Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a
“courageous” and “very solid” professional.

Huckabee called Bailey’s account “totally untrue”
and described him as a “bitter” exemployee. “I asked him to resign
because he had so alienated the entire state police,” he said. “It
had nothing to do with my son.” Brenda Turner, Huckabee’s then chief of
staff, and Kevin Crass, the Huckabee family lawyer, also disputed Bailey’s
account, although both acknowledged talking to him about the dog killing.
“I asked him, ‘Is it normal for the state police to … investigate
something that happened at a Boy Scout camp?’ ” Turner says. “We
wanted the same treatment that anybody else would get.” (Animal cruelty in
Arkansas is a misdemeanor, not a felony.)

The details of the incident remain murky. The Animal Legal
Defense Fund got an anonymous fax that summer alleging that David Huckabee and
another youth had been involved in the hanging of a stray dog at the camp on
July 11. A local animal-rights activist, Joyce Hillard, later contacted the
camp director. Notes of Hillard’s report to the defense fund read, “Boys
confessed & were fired. Dir. is making excuses, saying dog was sic &
boys were putting him out of his misery.” (The director told NEWSWEEK only
that a stray dog was “put down” and that the counselors were fired
for violating the Scout credo to be “kind.”) The father of the other
counselor was quoted by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in August 1998 as saying
that his son found the dog “hung over a limb and choking.” David
Huckabee did not respond to requests for comment. (In April of this year, he
was arrested—and paid a fine—when he forgot to remove a loaded gun from his
carry-on luggage at Little Rock airport.) His
father told NEWSWEEK that his son did not engage in “intentional
torture.” “There was a dog that apparently had mange and was
absolutely, I guess, emaciated.” A campaign official says David
“regrets” the incident and notes that he later made Eagle Scout.






Huckabee lies on scholarships for illegals, Huckabee shameful record

Huckabee’s Fact Twisting

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Huckabee’s
fact-twisting



Posted: December 19, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

In the Nov. 28 YouTube debate on
CNN, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee misrepresented the
historical record when asked if he had supported as Arkansas governor a program
for granting in-state college tuition scholarships for illegal aliens.

A YouTube viewer asked Huckabee a question that began,
“Governor Huckabee, while governor of Arkansas, you gave illegal aliens a
discount for college in Arkansas by allowing them to pay lower in-state tuition
rates.”

In Huckabee’s answer, I have
identified five specific, easily documented misrepresentations of historical
facts.

Huckabee began his response by
telling the questioner, “Ashley, first of all, let me just express that
you are a little misinformed. We never passed a bill that gave special
privileges to the children of illegals to go to college.”

In the next paragraph, Huckabee
misrepresented the program the first time, identified here by italics.

First, he claimed he supported a
bill “that would’ve allowed those children who had been in our schools
their entire school life the opportunity to have the same scholarship that
their peers had, who had also gone to high school with them and sat in the same
classrooms.”

The bill in question was the Access to Postsecondary Education Act of 2005,
also known as HB 1525.

Section 1(b) of HB1525 offered
state-supported tuition scholarships to illegal immigrants who attended only
three years of high school in Arkansas, provided they graduated from an
Arkansas high school or received a General Education Development diploma in the
state, and were admitted at an Arkansas institution of higher education.

None of the provisions of the bill
require the illegal immigrants to have attended Arkansas elementary or high
schools for “their entire life,” as Huckabee represented in the
debate.

The next paragraph of Huckabee’s
YouTube debate answer contained the second misrepresentation of facts, once
again emphasized here with italics.

“They couldn’t just move in
during their senior year and go to college,” Huckabee continued. “It
wasn’t about out-of-state tuition. It was an academic meritorious
scholarship called the Academic Challenge Scholarship.”

The Arkansas Challenge Program,
codified at Ark. Code Ann. Section 6-82-1001-1006 (Supp. 1991), is a totally
separate law from HB 1525.

The Arkansas Challenge Program was
enacted in 1991, becoming law more than four years before Huckabee began his
first term as Arkansas governor in 1996.

Huckabee had nothing to do with the
passage of the Arkansas Challenge Program, a law based on being an Arkansas
resident that makes no mention of illegal immigrants.

Evidently, Huckabee sought to
deflect attention about HB 1525 by referring to the Challenge Program, an act
that was meritorious in nature.

HB 1525 made no special exemptions
for illegal aliens who merited tuition preferences because of their exemplary
academic performance.

In the next paragraph of his CNN
debate answer, Huckabee tells the truth, noting that HB 1525 passed the
Arkansas House, but failed to become law after the bill failed to pass the
Arkansas Senate.

Huckabee, however, neglected to
reference his State of the State Address, also archived
on YouTube, in which he endorsed HB 1525, again on the false
premises that the bill applied to illegal immigrants who had attended Arkansas
schools for “their entire career as a student.”

If we skip a paragraph of Huckabee’s
response in the debate, we come to Huckabee’s third misrepresentation, in which
he identified a set of qualifications not mentioned in HB1525 that Huckabee
claimed an illegal immigrant would have to meet under the bill to qualify for
in-state college tuition scholarships.

The paragraph also contains the
fourth misrepresentation, where Huckabee specified to be eligible an illegal
alien would have to apply for citizenship.

Huckabee told the CNN debate
audience, “I said that if you’d sat in our schools from the time you’re
5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student, you’d completed the
curriculum, you were an exceptional student, and you also had to be drug and
alcohol-free – and the other provision, you had to be applying for
citizenship.”

Obviously, Huckabee realized these
invented qualifications would make his support of in-state college tuition
scholarships for illegal immigrants appear to be more politically acceptable to
opponents of illegal immigration.

The problem is none of these
qualifications were specified in HB 1525, the only relevant bill here that
Huckabee actually supported.

HB 1525 was not a merit bill.

Section 1(d) of HB 1525 merely
required an illegal alien, to be eligible for an in-state college tuition
scholarship, had to file an affidavit with the state-sponsored institution of
higher education stating that the student had intent to legalize his or her
immigration status.

Contrary to what Huckabee said,
HB1525 required no proof a student had obtained legal status or even had
applied to obtain legal status.

HB 1525 did not require proof of
legal status.

Huckabee’s fifth misrepresentation
came when he told the CNN debate audience, “We wanted people to be taxpayers,
not tax-takers. And that’s what that provision did.”

HB 1525 had no work requirement
provisions specifying an illegal immigrant who qualified for an in-state
college tuition scholarship had to work in Arkansas, or anywhere else, while he
or she was a college student or afterwards.

HB 1525 had no work requirements
specified.

What this analysis suggests is
Huckabee appears to have a facility to re-invent the past when questioned
closely about a past action or statement, here his support of HB 1525.

Huckabee answers by shifting ground,
mixing HB 1525 with a merit law passed before Huckabee was governor that was
never designed for illegal immigrants.

Moreover, Huckabee mischaracterizes
the true conditions of HB 1525 with a series of invented requirements, none of
which had any factual basis in the actual language of the bill.

Huckabee’s point appears to be to
engage misdirection by falsehoods designed to elicit our sympathies.

The candidate’s convenient rewriting
of history sets the stage for him to argue before a national television
audience, “This bill would’ve said that if you came here, not because you
made the choice, but because your parents did, that we’re not going to punish a
child because the parent committed a crime.”

Unfortunately, we have come to
expect our politicians to lie.

Still, when re-inventing the past
becomes a ready facility of a candidate never before scrutinized at the
presidential level, the charge becomes particularly important.

How can we allow a man who
represents himself to Christian conservatives as a Baptist preacher to run for
president on a self-styled myth of his political history?

If Huckabee feels no personal
responsibility to recall his political history accurately, we as an electorate
must be doubly vigilant, determined to make sure no Huckabee slip goes by
unnoticed.

This is especially critical when we
realize the YouTube questioner had not asked Huckabee to justify his position
supporting preferential in-state tuition colleges for illegal immigrants as
such, but to explain why Huckabee had neglected to argue the provisions of HB
1525 should apply to the children of U.S. military as well.

Huckabee got to this, but only at
the end, when he claimed, “And that’s why I proposed a veterans bill of
rights that, if anything, would give our veterans the most exceptional
privileges of all, because they are the ones who have earned all of our freedom
– every single one of them.”

Remarkably, even though Huckabee
exceeded his allotted time, he still failed to answer the question, never
explaining why he supported HB 1525 for illegal immigrants only, and not for
the children of U.S. military as well.

Note: The question and answer exchange
during the YouTube/CNN debate can
be seen online.

 

Huckabee’s
fact-twisting



Posted: December 19, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

In the Nov. 28 YouTube debate on
CNN, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee misrepresented the
historical record when asked if he had supported as Arkansas governor a program
for granting in-state college tuition scholarships for illegal aliens.

A YouTube viewer asked Huckabee a question that began,
“Governor Huckabee, while governor of Arkansas, you gave illegal aliens a
discount for college in Arkansas by allowing them to pay lower in-state tuition
rates.”

In Huckabee’s answer, I have
identified five specific, easily documented misrepresentations of historical
facts.

Huckabee began his response by
telling the questioner, “Ashley, first of all, let me just express that
you are a little misinformed. We never passed a bill that gave special
privileges to the children of illegals to go to college.”

In the next paragraph, Huckabee
misrepresented the program the first time, identified here by italics.

First, he claimed he supported a
bill “that would’ve allowed those children who had been in our schools
their entire school life the opportunity to have the same scholarship that
their peers had, who had also gone to high school with them and sat in the same
classrooms.”

The bill in question was the Access to Postsecondary Education Act of 2005,
also known as HB 1525.

Section 1(b) of HB1525 offered
state-supported tuition scholarships to illegal immigrants who attended only
three years of high school in Arkansas, provided they graduated from an
Arkansas high school or received a General Education Development diploma in the
state, and were admitted at an Arkansas institution of higher education.

None of the provisions of the bill
require the illegal immigrants to have attended Arkansas elementary or high
schools for “their entire life,” as Huckabee represented in the
debate.

The next paragraph of Huckabee’s
YouTube debate answer contained the second misrepresentation of facts, once
again emphasized here with italics.

“They couldn’t just move in
during their senior year and go to college,” Huckabee continued. “It
wasn’t about out-of-state tuition. It was an academic meritorious
scholarship called the Academic Challenge Scholarship.”

The Arkansas Challenge Program,
codified at Ark. Code Ann. Section 6-82-1001-1006 (Supp. 1991), is a totally
separate law from HB 1525.

The Arkansas Challenge Program was
enacted in 1991, becoming law more than four years before Huckabee began his
first term as Arkansas governor in 1996.

Huckabee had nothing to do with the
passage of the Arkansas Challenge Program, a law based on being an Arkansas
resident that makes no mention of illegal immigrants.

Evidently, Huckabee sought to
deflect attention about HB 1525 by referring to the Challenge Program, an act
that was meritorious in nature.

HB 1525 made no special exemptions
for illegal aliens who merited tuition preferences because of their exemplary
academic performance.

In the next paragraph of his CNN
debate answer, Huckabee tells the truth, noting that HB 1525 passed the
Arkansas House, but failed to become law after the bill failed to pass the
Arkansas Senate.

Huckabee, however, neglected to
reference his State of the State Address, also archived
on YouTube, in which he endorsed HB 1525, again on the false
premises that the bill applied to illegal immigrants who had attended Arkansas
schools for “their entire career as a student.”

If we skip a paragraph of Huckabee’s
response in the debate, we come to Huckabee’s third misrepresentation, in which
he identified a set of qualifications not mentioned in HB1525 that Huckabee
claimed an illegal immigrant would have to meet under the bill to qualify for
in-state college tuition scholarships.

The paragraph also contains the
fourth misrepresentation, where Huckabee specified to be eligible an illegal
alien would have to apply for citizenship.

Huckabee told the CNN debate
audience, “I said that if you’d sat in our schools from the time you’re
5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student, you’d completed the
curriculum, you were an exceptional student, and you also had to be drug and
alcohol-free – and the other provision, you had to be applying for
citizenship.”

Obviously, Huckabee realized these
invented qualifications would make his support of in-state college tuition
scholarships for illegal immigrants appear to be more politically acceptable to
opponents of illegal immigration.

The problem is none of these
qualifications were specified in HB 1525, the only relevant bill here that
Huckabee actually supported.

HB 1525 was not a merit bill.

Section 1(d) of HB 1525 merely
required an illegal alien, to be eligible for an in-state college tuition
scholarship, had to file an affidavit with the state-sponsored institution of
higher education stating that the student had intent to legalize his or her
immigration status.

Contrary to what Huckabee said,
HB1525 required no proof a student had obtained legal status or even had
applied to obtain legal status.

HB 1525 did not require proof of
legal status.

Huckabee’s fifth misrepresentation
came when he told the CNN debate audience, “We wanted people to be taxpayers,
not tax-takers. And that’s what that provision did.”

HB 1525 had no work requirement
provisions specifying an illegal immigrant who qualified for an in-state
college tuition scholarship had to work in Arkansas, or anywhere else, while he
or she was a college student or afterwards.

HB 1525 had no work requirements
specified.

What this analysis suggests is
Huckabee appears to have a facility to re-invent the past when questioned
closely about a past action or statement, here his support of HB 1525.

Huckabee answers by shifting ground,
mixing HB 1525 with a merit law passed before Huckabee was governor that was
never designed for illegal immigrants.

Moreover, Huckabee mischaracterizes
the true conditions of HB 1525 with a series of invented requirements, none of
which had any factual basis in the actual language of the bill.

Huckabee’s point appears to be to
engage misdirection by falsehoods designed to elicit our sympathies.

The candidate’s convenient rewriting
of history sets the stage for him to argue before a national television
audience, “This bill would’ve said that if you came here, not because you
made the choice, but because your parents did, that we’re not going to punish a
child because the parent committed a crime.”

Unfortunately, we have come to
expect our politicians to lie.

Still, when re-inventing the past
becomes a ready facility of a candidate never before scrutinized at the
presidential level, the charge becomes particularly important.

How can we allow a man who
represents himself to Christian conservatives as a Baptist preacher to run for
president on a self-styled myth of his political history?

If Huckabee feels no personal
responsibility to recall his political history accurately, we as an electorate
must be doubly vigilant, determined to make sure no Huckabee slip goes by
unnoticed.

This is especially critical when we
realize the YouTube questioner had not asked Huckabee to justify his position
supporting preferential in-state tuition colleges for illegal immigrants as
such, but to explain why Huckabee had neglected to argue the provisions of HB
1525 should apply to the children of U.S. military as well.

Huckabee got to this, but only at
the end, when he claimed, “And that’s why I proposed a veterans bill of
rights that, if anything, would give our veterans the most exceptional
privileges of all, because they are the ones who have earned all of our freedom
– every single one of them.”

Remarkably, even though Huckabee
exceeded his allotted time, he still failed to answer the question, never
explaining why he supported HB 1525 for illegal immigrants only, and not for
the children of U.S. military as well.

Note: The question and answer exchange
during the YouTube/CNN debate can
be seen online.

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is a staff reporter for WND. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard
University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and
articles, including his latest best-seller, “The Late Great USA.”
Corsi co-authored with John O’Neill the No. 1 New York Times
best-seller, “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against
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Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates, Ron Paul

Huckabee/Globalist greed vs. Ron Paul/Constitutionalist/individualist

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http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin420.htm

WHO ARE THESE KOOKS?

 

 

By
Pastor Chuck Baldwin

December
18, 2007

NewsWithViews.com

According to the Associated Press,
“Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s supporters raised over $6
million Sunday to boost the 10-term congressman’s campaign for the White
House.”

The AP report also said,
“The [Paul] campaign’s previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million.”

According to the Paul campaign
website, “In a 24-hour period on December 16, the campaign raised $6.026
million dollars, surpassing the one-day record of $5.7 million held by John
Kerry.

“During the day, over
58,000 people contributed to Dr. Paul’s campaign, including 24,940 first-time
donors. Over 118,000 Americans have donated to the campaign in the fourth
quarter.

“The $6 million one-day
total means the campaign has raised over $18 million this quarter, far
exceeding its goal of $12 million.”

Now, if one listens to most of
the political pundits in the major media, Ron Paul is some kind of
“kook,” and his supporters are also a bunch of “kooks.” So,
the question must be asked, Just who are these kooks that are supporting him,
and where did they get all this money?

First, let’s take a look at this
“kook” who is receiving all this money. Ron Paul was born the third
son of Howard and Margaret Paul, and was brought up with a work ethic in which
one worked six days a week and went to church on Sunday. His first job was at
age 5 helping his uncle wash bottles. He worked all the way through his youth
mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, working in a drug store, delivering
furniture and laundry, etc.

In high school, Ron was a track
star, winning state as a junior in the 220-yard dash and running 2nd in the
440. His time in the 100-yard dash was 9.8. That’s pretty good. I was never
able to break 10-flat in the 100. Although, I bet I could have beaten him in
the 50-yard dash. He also wrestled in high school. Coincidentally, so did I.
But here Ron leaves me: he was president of the student council and an honor
student. I never accomplished that. I was just glad to get promoted to the next
grade. Even as a senior statesman, Ron Paul keeps himself in terrific shape.
Have you seen him lately? He still maintains a rigorous exercise regimen.

Ron’s two brothers are both
ministers, and he became a medical doctor. He graduated from Duke University
School of Medicine. When the Cuban Missile Crisis arose, Ron became a flight
surgeon in the U.S. Air Force. He also served in the Air National Guard.

As an OB/GYN physician, Dr. Paul
has delivered more than 4,000 babies, and he and his wife, Carol, have been
married for more than 50 years. They have 5 children, 18 grandchildren and 1
great-grandchild. Ron Paul is currently in his 10th term as a Congressman from
Texas.

As a congressman, Ron Paul has
never taken a government-paid junket. He is not accepting a government pension.
He returns a portion of his office budget every year to the taxpayers. As a
member of Congress, he has never voted a raise for himself. Do you know any
other member of Congress that can make such a claim? Of course you don’t,
because Ron Paul is truly one-of-a-kind.

Former President Ronald Reagan
said this about Ron Paul, “Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders
fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he
knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We
need to keep him fighting for our country.”

Perhaps this helps explain why
many of the “kooks” supporting Ron Paul are active-duty military
personnel. In fact, Ron Paul has received more campaign contributions from
active-duty military personnel than any other Presidential candidate from
either party.

But who are the other
“kooks” supporting Ron Paul? What kind of people give more than $18
million in a quarter-year to a Presidential candidate that is almost
universally ignored by the mainstream press? What kind of people give record
contributions to a Presidential candidate that is lampooned by his fellow
Republican presidential contenders?

For example, Mike Huckabee
recently said he could support any of the other Republican Presidential
contenders (including Rudy Giuliani), except Ron Paul. That means, Mike
Huckabee would rather support a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control
liberal such as Giuliani than support the pro-life, pro-traditional marriage,
pro-Second Amendment candidacy of Ron Paul. Why is that?

Furthermore, why are the entire
major media and establishment Republican machine either ignoring or lampooning
a distinguished Air Force veteran, medical doctor, and ten-term Congressman?
What is it about Ron Paul that the elite are so afraid of?
Advertisement

Here is something else: while
Ron Paul’s contributions have exploded, Mike Huckabee is all but broke! How can
that be? How can a political “front-runner” be out of money, while a
man who “doesn’t have a chance” is breaking fundraising records?

So, who are these
“kooks” who are sending Ron Paul so much money? And just why are they
sending him so much money? I will tell you who they are, because I am one of
them. They are rank-and-file, tax-paying citizens who are sick and tired of
out-of-control federal spending and deficits. They have had it with an arrogant
federal government that runs roughshod over both the Constitution and the
liberties of the American people. They are people who have had enough of the
IRS, the BATFE, and a thousand other federal agencies that have “erected a
multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our
people, and eat out their substance.” (Declaration of Independence)

They are people who see through
the phony, disingenuous federal politicians who only want to fleece the
American citizenry for the purpose of building their own personal fortunes.
They have had it with the Military-Industrial complex that desires to build
international empires at the expense of the blood and sacrifice of the American
people. They have had it with David Rockefeller and his Council on Foreign
Relations. They have had it with the arrogance of George W. Bush and Nancy
Pelosi.

They are sick and tired of
paying outlandish taxes for a public education system that produces high school
graduates who cannot read and write. They are sick and tired of working for 30
years to pay off a mortgage, only then to be forced to pay extortion money
(a.k.a. property taxes) for the rest of their lives to the feudal state. They
are sick and tired of the government telling them what they can and cannot do
with their own property. They are sick and tired of watching people with food
stamps buy T-bone steaks and expensive Nike tennis shoes while they are forced
to buy fatty hamburger and cheap sneakers.

They are sick and tired of
watching their manufacturing jobs go to China and India. They have had it with
money-hungry businessmen who hire illegal Mexicans at slave labor wages. They
have had it with labor unions promoting politicians who support NAFTA, CAFTA,
and the FTAA. They are sick and tired of being bled dry at the gas pump.

They have had it with this phony
“war on terrorism” that sends trillions of dollars to nations
throughout the Middle East, but refuses to close our own borders to illegal
immigration. They have had it with the “war on drugs” and the
“war on terror” being used as excuses to trample people’s freedoms.
They have it with Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon. They have had it with Bush’s
North American Union. They have had it with Joel Osteen and Rick Warren. In
short, they have just had it!

They also know that a vote for
any other Presidential candidate is a vote for more of the same. Democrat or
Republican: it is more of the same. Ron Paul, and Ron Paul alone, will bring a
revolution of freedom and independence to America. Believe me, the Ron Paul
revolution is bigger than Ron Paul. This is the beginning of a movement.

No matter what ultimately
happens to Ron Paul’s candidacy, the fight to return America to its roots of
freedom and independence has started. The fire is lit. There is no putting it
out. There will be other Ron Pauls, other campaigns, other spokesmen, other
fundraising. The people supporting Ron Paul will not be silenced; they will not
be ignored; they will not be intimidated. In truth, Ron Paul’s campaign may
just be the beginning of the end of the elitist, globalist, stranglehold over
America.

As one who is also fed up with
the globalist goons that dominate the two major parties, I join the Ron Paul
revolution and vow to fight for the rest of my life for the freedom and
independence of these United States. This means I will never again support a
business-as-usual, millionaires-club, globalist toady from either party ever
again! I will only support candidates who are fully committed to restoring
constitutional government. If that makes me a kook, so be it.

© 2007 Chuck Baldwin – All
Rights Reserved

 

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Hucksters theology degree? Now says ain’t necessarily so

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59222
 
Huckabee’s
theology degree? Now says ain’t necessarily so
Campaign admits candidate doesn’t have claimed religious credential


Posted: December 14, 2007
7:20 p.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
Republican
presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told the Christian Broadcasting Network he
had a theology
degree, he told voters in Iowa he had a theology degree, he repeated the claim
in last month’s CNN YouTube debate … but, his campaign now says, it was not
true.
Huckabee’s claim began unraveling following his offhanded comment about
Mormonism in a New York Times interview last weekend.
Reporter Zev Chafets wrote: “I asked Huckabee, who describes himself as
the only Republican candidate with a degree in theology, if he considered
Mormonism a cult or a religion. ‘I think it’s a religion,’ he said. ‘I really
don’t know much about it.’
“I was about to jot down this piece of boilerplate when Huckabee surprised
me with a question of his own: ‘Don’t Mormons,’ he asked in an innocent voice,
‘believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?'”
In the interview, Huckabee’s account of his education made no mention of his
having earned a theology degree.
Chafets wrote: “If young Mike Huckabee was ever rebellious or difficult,
there’s no record of it. He preached his first sermon as a teenager, married
his high-school sweetheart and went off to Ouachita
Baptist University in Arkadelphia. There he majored in speech and
communications, worked at a radio station and earned his B.A. in a little more
than two years. He spent a year at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth, Tex., before dropping out to work for the televangelist James
Robison, who bought him his first decent wardrobe and showed him how to use
television.”
While Huckabee apologized personally to fellow candidate and Mormon Mitt Romney
for his remarks, Chafets’ characterization of the former Arkansas governor and
ordained Baptist pastor as a seminary dropout who did not seem well-versed in
comparative religion, drew the attention of political bloggers.
National
Review’s Jim Geraghty cited Huckabee’s claimed theology degree
when criticizing the candidate for telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he had been
trying to avoid talking about the subject with Chafets but the reporter was
“comparably well-schooled on comparative religions.”
“I’m going to call horsepuckey on Huckabee’s claim that a New York Times
reporter knew more about comparative religions than [a] guy with a theology
degree,” Geraghty wrote.
That prompted Joe Carter, Huckabee’s research director, to respond
to Geraghty by e-mail.

Jim,

Governor Huckabee doesn’t have a
theology degree. He only spent a year in seminary.

Also, it’s not surprising that he
doesn’t know much about the specific beliefs of the LDS church. There aren’t a
lot of LDS members in Arkansas; they comprise just .007 percent [sic] of the
population (about 20,000 out of 2,810,872 people). Most Southern evangelicals
don’t have much exposure to that particular religion. Even in seminary you’re
not likely to study the LDS faith unless you take a class on apologetics.

Joe

Carter
made a math error – 0.7 percent of Arkansas’ residents are members of the
Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints.
Today, following a news conference announcing that former Reagan confidante, Ed
Rollins, has become Huckabee’s national campaign manager, the candidate was
asked about a PowerlineBlog
story that he did not have the theology degree he had claimed.
“I have a Bachelor
of Arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate
work,” Huckabee answered. “And then I have 46 hours on a master’s
degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological
degree is at the college
level and then 46 hours toward a masters – three years of study
of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in seminary was
theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion.”
Speaking in Iowa in October, Huckabee
told a sympathetic crowd, “Anytime you have been a person who was
identified as a pastor and you’ve got a seminary education
and theology degree, people tend to worry about you.”
In November, while appearing on the Christian
Broadcasting Network, Huckabee said, “People look at my record and say
that I’m as strong on immigration, strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think
I’m stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war
that we are in with Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It’s
a theocratic war. And I don’t know if anybody fully understands that. I’m the
only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really
well. And know the threat of it is absolutely overwhelming to us.”
Last month, during the CNN
YouTube debate, Huckabee responded to a question to the candidates about
their belief in the Bible: “Sure. I believe the Bible is exactly what it
is. It’s the word of revelation to us from God himself. … And as the only
person here on the stage with a theology degree, there are parts of it I don’t
fully comprehend and understand, because the Bible is a revelation of an
infinite god, and no finite person is ever going to fully understand it. If
they do, their god is too small.”

God Bless Am er ic a!





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Huckabee Tries to Gloss Over Ark. Record

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Nov
28, 3:12 AM (ET)

By
ANDREW DeMILLO

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Mike Huckabee’s presidential rivals are
pointing to chinks in his record as Arkansas’ governor – from ethics complaints
to tax increases to illegal immigration and his support for releasing a rapist
who was later convicted of killing a Missouri woman.

The Republican presidential candidate has plenty to champion from
his 10 1/2 years as governor – including school improvements and health
insurance for the children of the working poor. But his record has rough edges,
and Huckabee has a habit of playing fast and loose with it.

Other campaigns for the GOP nomination, watching Huckabee’s rise
in polls in Iowa, are starting to mine his past for political fodder. Take
ethics, for example.

“People are starting to contact us and they’re saying we want
everything on Mike Huckabee,” says Graham Sloan, director of the state’s
Ethics Commission.

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What they’ll find is 436 pages of documents chronicling Huckabee’s
various tangles with a commission he’s derided as a political tool of Democrats.
It’s a panel that has held proceedings 20 times on the former governor and
lieutenant governor.

But the Ethics Commission files don’t cover everything, and this
year – anticipating criticism – Huckabee’s campaign set up a “truth
squad” to push his side of various stories. It often offers, at best, an
incomplete account of his record.

On major issues:

_The truth squad says the only finding by the Arkansas Ethics
Commission that Huckabee accepted a gift improperly was tossed out by a state
court. In fact, the panel investigated 16 complaints against Huckabee and found
five violations. Only one, for accepting a $500 canoe from Coca-Cola, was
tossed out.

Two of the complaints against Huckabee pertain to unreported gifts
– the canoe and a $200 stadium blanket received by his wife, Janet. Two stem
from cash the governor or his wife received but did not initially report. The
panel also ruled in 2003 that Huckabee’s campaign violated state law when it
used its funds to pay for an event during the summer of 2002 called Gospel Fest

During his tenure, Huckabee accepted 314 gifts valued overall at
more than $150,000, according to documents filed with the Arkansas secretary of
state’s office. (He accepted 187 gifts in his first three years as governor but
was not required to report their value.)

_Huckabee has consistently understated his role in the parole of
rapist Wayne DuMond, who had been convicted in the 1984 rape of a distant
cousin of former President Clinton.

Two months after taking office, Huckabee stunned the state by
saying he questioned DuMond’s guilt and that it was his intention to free the
rapist, who had been castrated by masked men while awaiting trial. Huckabee
said then he had “serious questions as to the legitimacy of his
guilt” and acknowledged later that he had met with DuMond’s wife about the
case while he was lieutenant governor. Two months after ascending to the
governor’s office, Huckabee met with the woman again.

The ex-governor now blames his predecessor for making DuMond
parole eligible – Jim Guy Tucker commuted a life-plus-20 years sentence to 39
1/2 years – but distances himself from his role in DuMond’s release. Huckabee
met privately with the state parole board, and two members have said he
pressured them for a vote.

“He made it obvious that he thought DuMond had gotten a raw
deal and wanted us to take another look at it,” former board member
Charles Chastain said in 2001. “Some board members who were usually very
tough about letting people out … (later) voted in favor of him, and seemed
eager to.”

On his campaign Web site, Huckabee says the parole board was made
up entirely of Democrats appointed by Clinton and Tucker. It doesn’t mention
that Huckabee reappointed board member Railey Steele days before he voted with
three other members to set DuMond free. DuMond was later convicted of killing a
woman in Missouri and died in 2005.

_Huckabee likes to say he was tough on taxes in Arkansas, noting a
$100 million tax cut in 1997 that until this year was Arkansas’ largest. When
asked about a fuel tax increase he backed in 1999, Huckabee says incorrectly
that he joined 80 percent of Arkansas voters in approving it.

Huckabee in 1999 supported a $1 billion highway bond program,
including costs for interest and lawyers’ fees, but the question on the ballot
was only whether the state could take on the debt, not how Arkansas would pay
for it. Huckabee had signed the fuel tax increase two months earlier.

Shortly after taking office, Huckabee took a four-day trip by bass
boat along the Arkansas River to tout a 1/8th-cent sales tax increase for
outdoor programs. (Two nature centers now carry the names of Huckabee and his
wife.) Taxes went up $40 million in the months before the $100 million tax cut
Huckabee touts.

Other taxes went up as Arkansas changed its property tax system
and made improvements to its school system.

_Huckabee’s recent strong stand on immigration, including an
intolerance toward companies that employ illegal immigrants, runs counter to
the image he crafted in his final years in office. He was battling
conservatives within his own party who were pushing for stricter state-level
immigration measures.

Huckabee opposed a Republican lawmaker’s efforts in 2005 to
require proof of legal status when applying for state services that aren’t
federally mandated and proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Huckabee
derided the bill as un-American and un-Christian and said the bill’s sponsor
drank a different “Jesus juice.”

That same year, Huckabee failed in his effort to make children of
illegal immigrants eligible for state-funded scholarships and in-state tuition
to Arkansas colleges. At the time, Huckabee said he didn’t understand the
opposition to it.

“It hurts me on a personal as well as a policy level to think
that we are still debating issues that I kind of hoped we had put aside in the
1960s, maybe at the latest the ’70s, and yet I understand people have deep
passions about things usually they don’t fully understand,” Huckabee said.




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