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Huckabee enemy of home schooling

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An Open Letter To Homeschoolers

 

 

 

As a
father of three children, who my wife and I homeschool, I am deeply
disappointed with the recent endorsement for President of former Arkansas
Governor Mike Huckabee, by an organization which has helped a lot of us over
the years. The Home School Legal Defense Association has come out in favor of a
candidate who has touted his Christian beliefs and support of homeschoolers,
but whose record belies that support.
Like me, you
probably view any government involvement in your children’s education with a
jaundiced eye. We’ve seen the literacy and graduation rates plummet year after
year in our nation’s public schools while special interest groups constantly
pass blame for this onto parents, taxpayers and a lack of enough centralized
control.
HSDLA has for
over two decades been a great help to homeschoolers and has advocated against
those who have stood in opposition to our goals. Their staff members advised my
family when local Child Protective Services personnel wanted to investigate a
mother who we’d taken in. Their advice was invaluable and saved us from a
potentially perilous situation. But the advice they are providing with regard
to the Presidential election is a poor example of scholarly research and
appears to run counter to the ideals they’ve promoted for so many years.
As a
homeschooling parent, I hold that the state has no authority to dictate what my
children should learn or the methods by which my wife and I teach them. In
short, the state does not own my children. Mike Huckabee, whom the HSLDA has
endorsed, does not feel this way in spite of statements he has uttered
supporting that view. As Governor of Arkansas, Huckabee showed a poor
understanding of this fundamental truth and advocated that parents be forced to
submit their curriculum choices to the state for approval while claiming that
the law in question was an increase in freedoms for homeschooling parents.
HSLDA has typically advocated that families shouldn’t be required to get
permission from the state to homeschool their children.
Huckabee’s record
is at odds with their general principles. He has played politics with the issue
and tried to please both unions and homeschoolers in his state. In order to
keep homeschoolers’ objections at bay, he appointed leading homeschooling
advocates to the state board of education. Like Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee is
a very slick politician. Maybe we need less slickness and more uncompromising
principle on the matter of schooling.
If Mike Huckabee
is such a strong advocate for homeschoolers as some suggest, how could the
organization which said the following
(pdf) about homeschooling have justified their endorsement
of his candidacy?

The
National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on
parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education
experience. When home schooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state
curricular requirements, including the taking and passing of assessments to
ensure adequate academic progress. Home schooling should be limited to the
children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents/guardians.
Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state
education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department
of education should be used.
The Association
also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any
extracurricular activities in the public schools. The Association further
believes that local public school systems should have the authority to
determine grade placement and/or credits earned toward graduation for students
entering or re-entering the public school setting from a home school setting.
(1988, 2006) pp. 45 B-75

That
is taken directly from the NEA’s charter. The NEA is one of the largest
anti-homeschooling organizations in the U.S., yet its New Hampshire
organization has endorsed Mike Huckabee. Does something seem wrong with this
picture? Before you imagine that this was somewhat random, Huckabee in fact
actively sought the
endorsement.
Just how is it
that Huckabee can be perceived as a homeschooling advocate? The actual record
isn’t as pretty as the flowery words he uses to describe it.

  • During his term as Governor, Huckabee signed into law
    increases in mandatory vaccination schedules and expanding coverage from public
    schools to private
    daycares    .
  • During the Univision debate, held in Florida, Huckabee
    reiterated his strong support of the federal Department of Education, an
    agency which has no legitimate authority dictating curriculum to the
    states, much less existing.
  • He has advocated that federal funds be distributed
    to pay for arts and music studies in state schools as a “reform”
    to the No Child Left Behind act, a position – a big hit with the teachers
    unions.
  • In 1999, Mike Huckabee signed into law a bill which
    added major restrictions on homeschooling parents and which was opposed
    by the HSLDA.

There
are also other areas where Huckabee shows poor judgment, specifically, US
foreign and monetary policy. Over the past 60 years, the United States
government has not only encroached on our personal lives, but also the lives of
citizens in other countries. Our military has been used to intimidate and bully
other nations.  Speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations he has
called for continued U.S. intervention abroad because it is in our “national interests” to do
so.
Unfortunately,
these national interests do not include you and me. Because of this belligerent
meddling, there are fewer countries where we can safely take our families to
visit. When I first imagined the prospect of homeschooling my own children, I
was excited to think that I could travel around the world with my children,
giving them a rich experience which would enhance their knowledge and increase
their imaginations.
This is becoming
less and less likely for my family. Central and South America have been
destabilized by a foreign policy which has installed brutal dictators, only to
see them finally ousted by violent revolutions; resulting in leaders as bad or
worse than the U.S. installed puppet regimes. The Middle East, with its
fantastic sights and holy places, is now an unwelcome region for anyone
carrying a US passport. It was not always this way. Europe is financially out
of reach for a middle class family due to our federal government’s horrendous
monetary policies.
The main reason
I write this letter is because there is a candidate on the Republican ticket
who has been a champion of policies which would enhance the lives of any
homeschooling family as well as those families who chose to send their children
to public schools. That Candidate is Ron
Paul. Ron Paul, unlike Mike Huckabee, will probably never receive an
endorsement from the NEA. That is because Ron Paul has never pandered in his
entire political career.
As a
Congressman, Ron Paul has been a consistent champion of educational choice.

  • Introduced the Family
    Education Freedom Act     which would provide parents a $3000 tax credit
    to spend on private tuition or homeschooling curriculum.
  • Opposed The
    No Child Left Behind Act.
  • Has encouraged
    homeschooling in speeches and statements during his 10 terms in Congress.
  • Sponsored legislation which would abolish
    the federal Department of Education.

In addition, Ron Paul bases his positions upon basic
founding principles of this country. His consistent and dogged defense of those
principles has continued in spite of the ridicule heaped upon him by detractors
who fundamentally disagree with those principles. That consistency has produced
a groundswell of support unsurpassed in history. So powerful are the ideas that
he’s promoted over the course of his career that enthusiasm for their
possibilities has spread beyond our borders to other countries.
I can’t tell you
how to vote, nor would I engage in such presumption. But for all the reasons
I’ve laid out here and more too numerous to include in this letter, I believe
that Ron Paul has a far superior record compared to anyone who might claim they
support homeschooling. Won’t you please investigate for yourself why so many in
this country have shed their apathy and cynicism to support him?
Sincerely,
Rick Fisk
P.S.: If you can
afford it and do chose to travel abroad with your family, I suspect that you
could find yourself in status as a minor celebrity were you to tour your
destination wearing an item of clothing with Ron Paul’s name on it. Ron Paul’s
positions on foreign policy and military interventionism have inspired
thousands upon thousands outside our borders. An excellent homeschool project would
be the production of a YouTube video documenting foreign public reactions to
Ron Paul’s stated positions on U.S. Foreign Policy.

December 15, 2007

Rick Fisk [send him
mail] is a 45-year-old software developer and entrepreneur. He is married,
has three children and resides in Austin, TX.

Copyright © 2007
LewRockwell.com

 

 

Huckabee shameful record

Huckabee’s Panderfest to illegals

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First
off, although conspicuously absent, Rep. Tom Tancredo was the unsung hero of
the presidential debate that was sponsored
by the Spanish-language television network, Univision.

 

Based in the United States,
Univision is not based on English. The candidates were spoken at in
Spanish, which is why Rep. Tancredo declined to participate. One of the
moderators was a Mexican citizen and a strident advocate for Hispanics. The
politics of special interests was yet another reason to turn-down the
invitation; Tancredo declined to dignify a debate in which one of the topics
was whether English ought to be America’s official language.

 

Rep. Tancredo made the right choice.
Faces furrowed in an effort to comprehend the language, the seven dwarfs looked
decidedly un-presidential during the Univision debate.

 

Mainstream media were agreed that
for the occasion, says VDARE.com’s Allan
Wall, all the presidential panderers “toned down, tempered, cooled, [and
only] gingerly defended” their professed positions.

 

Especially conspicuous in his sappy
sentimentality, syrupy sweet talk—in education he was going to “unleash weapons
of mass instruction”—and statist solutions, was Mike Huckabee. I can see why
media, women especially, love Big Daddy; whether he’s sermonizing about diet or
the deity, Huckabee is the Oprah of the Evangelicals. 

 

Here’s Huckabee’s
Heads-Up-for-Illegal-Aliens Plan, articulated at the Univision “panderfest”:

 

“When people come to this country,
they shouldn’t fear. They shouldn’t live in hiding. They ought to have their
heads up, because the one thing about being an American is, we believe every
person ought to have his or her head up and proud, and nobody should have to be
in hiding because they’re illegal when our government ought to make it so that
people can reasonably come here in a legal fashion.” [Emphasis added.]

 

Let’s unpack Huckabee’s hucksterism:
Illegal aliens in the US are hanging their heads when they ought to be holding
them high. The reason for these imaginary drooping crests is illegality brought
on by harsh immigration policies. The way to raise heads high is to make
illegality a thing of the past.

 

During the nationwide illegal-alien
rallies, heads were held hubristically high. Since Huckabee, it would seem,
missed those halcyon days, he would like to ensure illegals are hallmark happy
by removing the reason for the slumping noggins. Translated from Huckabese,
that means aiming to overturn, or leave unenforced, existing immigration laws,
and thus disrespecting the rights of Americans and the country’s social and
economic fabric.  

 

What Huckabee fails to get into his
head is that illegal infiltrators are demanding what they most certainly are
not entitled to. All men are imbued with natural—but not necessarily political—rights.
The laws of this country ought to respect the natural rights of all people,
legal and illegal. Not so their demands for political and welfare privileges,
which is what Huckabee would like to continue honoring.

 

Illegal aliens on the march for
undeserved political rights—that was not the only specter to have passed
Huckabee by. As any on the liberal left, the Governor is also ignorant of how
pedagogic pop psychology has helped lighten the cerebral load in the craniums
of American schoolchildren.

 

Huckabee’s antidote for the bumper
crops of ignoramuses being produced in public schools follows the progressive
Pleasure Principle: Please the little darlings; pleasure them, Huck prated at
the Republican Presidential Debate in Iowa,
for they are “bored to death.” We must “make sure we build the curriculum
around their interests.” [Emphasis added.]

 

Hackneyed Huckabee is unaware that
child-centered schooling has been in place for decades. Progressive pedagogues
and parents have been gratifying children’s demands for fun and frivolity for a
very long time now. 

 

The Governor should also rest
assured: It’s been quite some time since America’s youth were burdened by a
core curriculum or exposed to a literary canon. Content-based, top-down
education has long since been supplanted by pop-culture-friendly,
non-hierarchically delivered flimflam.

 

Huckabee’s “idea” that learning
ought to flow from the child is vintage romantic nineteenth-century
progressivism. In their dedicated efforts to “romance the child,”
progressives—also Hillary’s preferred handle—have always insisted that learning
must be made natural, organic.

 

Classicists, as the authentic
educator E. D. Hirsch Jr. has
illustrated, see effective, analytical and explicit instruction as very
definitely not a natural but a highly artificial, often-unintuitive process.

 

In other words, genuine learning is
a tough process. Nothing that’s worth learning comes easily.

 

I’ll spare you Huckabee’s brain
bifurcation balderdash—he puts great stock in right brain/left brain
discredited pop psychology. His pop pedagogy is bad enough for one day.

    

©2007 By Ilana Mercer

   WorldNetDaily.com

    December 14

   

 

Huckabee illegal Consulate, Huckabee shameful record

Malkin hits Huckster again

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Meet the
GOP’s Border Control Cross-Dressers
By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, December 12, 2007



Every Democrat running for
president thinks anti-illegal immigration activists are all racists and
xenophobes. Do we really need a Republican nominee for president who thinks
the same way?


Men, stripped down to their underwear, walk back into Mexico
across the Rio Grande river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Laredo, Texas
in this May 2, 2006 file photo. Carrying their clothes in plastic bags the men
were trying to swim into the U.S. when they spotted the U.S. Border Patrol
watching them and then turned back. Hundreds of illegal aliens cross the
river each day trying to sneak into the U.S.

Related Media:

Breakout GOP candidate Mike
Huckabee, the soft-on-border control former governor of Arkansas, scored a
jaw-dropping endorsement Tuesday from Jim Gilchrist, founder of the
Minuteman Project. Despite a long gubernatorial record opposing employer
sanctions and pushing tax-subsidized illegal alien education benefits,
Huckabee won Gilchrist’s support by unveiling a last-minute, tough-sounding
homeland security plan.

Trouble is, Huckabee has
downright and longstanding contempt for his new bedfellows of convenience.

Just two years ago, Huckabee
appeared before the open-borders Hispanic group, The League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC), preaching an open-door policy. According to the
Arkansas News Bureau, Huckabee also criticized state legislation requiring
proof of citizenship to register to vote and enhanced reporting of illegal
aliens as un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life — not to
mention “inflammatory,” “race-baiting” and “demagoguery.”

Just last year, Huckabee
lambasted opponents of the bipartisan shamnesty bill providing a mass
pardon to illegal aliens as “driven by racism or nativism.” He
called strict immigration enforcement — the kind he now supports —
“sheer folly” in his campaign-timed book released earlier this
year. He actively invited the Mexican government to establish a consulate
in Arkansas — giving its office a $1 per year special office space rate —
so that its foreign officials could start dispensing security-undermining
matricula consular ID cards to illegal aliens for banking and employment
purposes. And he’s not only for government in-state illegal alien
discounts, he’s for expanding them far beyond what the federal DREAM Act
proposed.

But now that he needs to
establish his border control bona fides, Huckabee is all honey.
“Frankly, Jim,” he said to the Minuteman Project founder at a
press conference in Iowa on Tuesday, “I’ve got to tell you there were
times in the early days of the Minutemen I thought, ‘What are these guys
doing, what are they about?’ I confess I owe you an apology

It’s
Gilchrist and those who allow themselves to be snowed by Huckabee’s cynical
conversion who’ll be sorry and deep in apology debt, I guarantee you. Huckabee
showed his true colors at the Univision Spanish-language debate over the
weekend when he pandered to the crowd by lamenting “racial profiling”
of immigrants — while remaining silent about catch-and-release policies that
fail to detain criminal aliens who go on to commit more heinous crimes because
politically correct politicians and police chiefs are more concerned with being
accused of “racial profiling” than protecting the public.

Huckabee
isn’t the only shameless border control cross-dresser in the GOP field, of course.
Rudy “I supported sanctuary policies before I was against them, but my
sanctuary policy wasn’t really a sanctuary policy, anyway” Giuliani now
quotes “the advice of a great man, Father Hesburgh, who said, ‘We must
close the back door of illegal immigration in order to preserve the front door
of legal immigration.'” In an interview with Washington Examiner reporter
and author Bill Sammon, Giuliani now says he really, truly would have deported
400,000 illegal aliens in New York if he could have. Never mind that small
matter of the lawsuit he brought against the feds to block them from enforcing
immigration laws. Never mind that he was openly inviting illegal aliens into
his open-borders safe harbors.





Related Media:

Reports
Sammon: “Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this
city are undocumented aliens,” the mayor said at a 1994 press conference.
“If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an
undocumented status, you’re one of the people who we want in this city. You’re
somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is
often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair.”

Bringing
up the false convert rear is Sen. John McCain. Earlier this year, he was the
most vocal critic of grass-roots conservatives who mobilized against the
amnesty bill. He now says he has learned his lesson and supports securing the
border. He has learned nothing. During the shamnesty debacle, he called Rush
Limbaugh a “nativist”; over the weekend, he repeated such
contemptuous “straight talk” at the Univision debate by assailing what
he called anti-Hispanic rhetoric. In an interview with the New Yorker, he
irritatedly dismissed immigration concerns in Iowa as marginal and irrational
— just a bunch of “senior citizens” in Iowa caught up in the
“emotion” of a cultural assault.

Bad enough
that the Democrat candidates are still stuck in a 9/10 mentality on the nexus
between immigration and national security. The question for conservatives is:
Would a Republican immigration drag queen be any better — or worse?

 

 

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CFR touts Huckabee

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CFR touts
Huck’s sympathy for illegals



Posted: December 14, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

While many pro-life supporters trace
Mike Huckabee’s rise in the polls to his success in the Sept. 17 Values Voter
Presidential Debate, his recent success can also be traced to
increased coverage by the Council on Foreign Relations.

The CFR’s increased focus on
Huckabee began with a speech on foreign policy posted Sept. 28 on the Council on Foreign Relations website.

The Sept. 28 speech, delivered at
the Center for
Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., focused
entirely on foreign policy, portraying Huckabee as a cautious supporter of Bush
administration policy in Iraq.

An Oct. 29 University of Iowa
Hawkeye Poll notes Huckabee’s support through August was flat, beginning
to rise noticeably in September and October.

The poll noted, “While Mike
Huckabee has gained ground dramatically since the August Hawkeye Poll, he is
still well behind Rudy Giuliani.”

Today, many consider Huckabee the
front-runner in Iowa.

Yet, despite obtaining the
endorsement of Jim Gilchrist, the founder of The Minuteman Project, Huckabee is
dogged by his pro-illegal immigration record as Arkansas governor.

Which is the real Huckabee – the
last, best hope of Jim Gilchrist to secure the border, or the wink-wink border
activist just posturing to win conservative votes in Republican primaries?

Evidently unimpressed with
Huckabee’s recent rhetoric emphasizing border security, a profile of Huckabee
on the Council on Foreign Relations’ “Campaign 2008” blog, emphasizes only Huckabee’s open-borders record supporting illegal
immigration.

The profile of Huckabee posted on
the CFR website begins a synopsis of the candidate’s position on immigration by
noting, “The former Arkansas governor has openly sympathized with the
needs of illegal immigrants.”

Among the points emphasized on the
CFR blog are the following:

  • Huckabee has advocated prenatal care for pregnant
    immigrants;
  • According to the Arkansas News Bureau, Huckabee has proposed
    a scholarship program for illegal immigrants who graduate from Arkansas
    high schools;
  • According to the Associated Press, Huckabee criticized a 2005 federal immigration raid in
    Arkansas    ;
  • Huckabee has expressed support for illegal immigrants
    under some conditions;
  • In an interview with ABC-TV’s George Stephanopoulos,
    Huckabee said, “We should have a process where people can pay the
    penalties, step up and accept responsibility for not being here
    legally.” He added: “The objective is not to be punitive. The
    objective is to make things right.”
  • Huckabee has also expressed support for some type of
    barrier along the border with Mexico.

Huckabee has received attention on
the CFR website from Michael J. Gerson, a former speech writer for President George W. Bush
who joined the CFR in July 2006 as a Roger Hertog senior fellow.

The CFR is currently featuring a Nov. 9
article Gerson wrote in the Washington Post entitled, “The Huckabee
Difference.”

Gerson noted, “In our
conversation he [Huckabee] was highly critical of Fred Thompson’s view that
abortion policy should be left to the states,” making no comment on
Huckabee’s immigration policies.

WND has documented Huckabee’s efforts in 2006 to
finance with state funds and contributions made by private commercial
developers a Mexican customs office established in Little Rock.

In establishing the Mexican
consulate in Little Rock, Huckabee was assisted by his economic development
officer, Robert Trevino, who was then also district president of the League of
United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC, an activist group strongly
advocating for rights of Hispanic immigrants in the United States.

Trevino moved on to be the
commissioner of the Arkansas Rehabilitations Services, where he signed a July 7, 2006 “Facilities Use
Agreement” agreement leasing space for the Mexican consulate to
set up a temporary office in the Arkansas Rehabilitations Services Building at
the cost of $1 per year, until a permanent facility could be built in Little
Rock to house the consulate office.

Bob Burrow, an Arkansas commercial
real estate developer, told WND his firm spent $1.2 million in facilitating
Huckabee’s deal with Mexico, buying the property and building for
Mexico the consulate office at 3500 South University Ave. in Little Rock.

At no cost to Mexico, the consulate was
opened on April 25 this year.

Huckabee told WND he and Trevino traveled south
of the border in a state airplane in 2003 to pursue the deal with Mexico
because he believed having a Mexican consulate in Little Rock would support
Arkansas exports to Mexico.

Yet, the Mexican office Huckabee
sought to put in Little Rock was not a trade mission office, but a consulate
office.

Nationwide, Mexican consulate
offices are known for supporting illegal aliens in their effort to get various
kinds of identification, work permits, driver’s licenses and bank accounts.

Huckabee’s website still presents
him as saying, “Securing our borders must be our top priority and has
reached the level of a national emergency.”

Yet, the Washington Times quoted Ray Beck, president
of NumbersUSA,
as saying Huckabee “was an absolute disaster on immigration as
governor.”

The bottom line is the CFR would be
unlikely to give favorable attention to any candidate who was truly for
securing our borders by building a fence.

The evidence of Huckabee’s record as
governor, regardless what Gilchrist may say, is that he helped create Arkansas
as a sanctuary state, serving the interest of the Arkansas corporations that
wanted to exploit the cheap labor readily available from an open flow of
illegal immigrants.

This, Huckabee’s actual record on
immigration while governor rather than his newfound border-security rhetoric,
is a record the CFR globalists appear to be signaling the organization is
prepared to embrace and promote with increased coverage that curiously
coincides with Huckabee’s recent rise in the polls.


Jerome R. Corsi
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
John Kerry.” Other books include “Showdown with Nuclear Iran,” “Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil,” which he co-authored with WND columnist Craig. R. Smith, and “Atomic Iran.”


Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

The Great Huck(ster)bee

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The Great Huck(ster)bee

By Don A. Bright



Author’s note:
Most, if not all of the information
for this and other national exposure of Huckabee’s wrongdoings would not have
gotten to the public’s notice without the untiring efforts of anti-illegal
immigration activist and Mike Huckabee watchdog, Joe McCutchen and his wife,
Barbara, of Fort Smith, AR. For more on the exploits of Huckabee visit Joe’s
website: ArkansasFreedom

I live in Arkansas. I have lived through two terms of
“governance” under Mike Huckabee. That alone qualifies me for membership in the
vastly expanding BYVMHCO (before you vote for Mike Huckabee, check this out)
early warning academy. This encouraging and growing movement is represented by
a lot of ex-Huckabee fans – inside and outside his circles – who were, like me,
sorely disappointed and angry at his metamorphic personality.

At this point I should admit the error of my ways concerning Mr. Huckabee. I
voted for the man the first time around. Yep, I fell for his “I’m a
Conservative, Christian, honorable and trustworthy man of humble upbringing…”
syrup drippings. It grieves me greatly to look back on this weakness.

Now, having gotten all that off my chest, I will proceed here to, hopefully,
enlighten the BYVMHCO academy with a couple of heretofore unknown sins of the
Baptist preacher.

My first dealing with Huckabee came shortly after his first term began. At that
time I was actively working for private property issues. I was a co-founder of
a property rights organization called Take Back Arkansas. We had discovered
that a great land theft was afoot. The United Nations and local
“environmentalists” were wasting no efforts in an attempt to establish the Ozark Man and the Biosphere
Reserve in our own backyard. We were eventually successful despite Governor
Huckabee resistance.

When we raised enough awareness of this tomfoolery the good
governor began getting a lot of pressure to own up to his involvement. (We knew
he was working with the Fish and Game Commissioner in helping the UN get
control of a massive amount of private and public property. We actually had a
copy of a letter Huckabee had sent to the commissioner instructing him to
assist the UN and environmental groups to actually turn over a huge section of
the land and inhabitants of his own state to international control. But I get
ahead of myself.)

Upon finding out about the UN scheme we were naïve enough to think that a
letter to the office of the huckster would call his attention to what was
happening and he would, of course, put an immediate stop to the land grab. His
response? Silence. We persisted, however, and managed – as I state above – to
bring a lot of pressure on the governor’s office and the members of the state
legislature. (At the time I hosted a local radio program which was, needless to
say, a great help. (More on that later.)

Having no choice but break his cover-up-by-silence efforts, Huckabee came out
and vociferously denied that the plan existed and that those who were saying it
did exist were a bunch of “black helicopter”, anti-UN types who were trying to
scare the good citizens of Arkansas. I am sure I remember him saying something
to the fact that if any such effort as described by we scaremongers was ongoing
he would have stopped it long ago.

So there was the governor of the State of Arkansas, effortlessly lying to his
own citizens about a life-shattering event that would change their lives in a
devastating manner. And in so doing he gleefully tried to destroy the
reputations of other Arkansans. Typical acts of a true Christian? I’ll leave
that for the reader to decide.

It was at this time that we released the letter –signed by Huckabee – wherein
he had instructed the Arkansas Fish and Game Commissioner to proceed with
assisting in the implementation of the “plan that didn’t exist”. Well, needless
to say, the barnyard filler hit the fan. Huckabee, acting like a kid with his
hand in the cookie jar, began a barrage of denials, blame shifting and
scapegoating that would have done Bill Clinton proud. We had managed to drag
him kicking and screaming into the realm of truth. A realm in which, I’m sure,
he did not recognize as familiar surroundings. Much to his discomfort he had to
confront his deceit and openly put a stop to Arkansas’ cooperation in the UN
invasion and the Biosphere plans were abandoned. Read Defeating
the Biosphere by Henry Lamb

My second up front and personal experience with Huckabee happened during an
interview with him on live radio. I couldn’t entice the man with the mutating
mouth to be a guest on my show but a friend of mine who had a show following
mine managed to land him and invited me to take part.

Many questions were asked covering a multitude of subjects. As is his wont,
Huckabee danced around the difficult ones in a manner that would make Bo
Jangles proud. I wanted desperately to get him on the subject of property rights
and finally my chance came. I asked him for his opinion on regulatory takings
and the property loss of individuals without just recompense by the government
as called for in the Constitution.

I could see the anger in his face when I confronted him this subject. His
answer? He stated that the taking of property by the government without paying
for it had to be considered on a “case by case” basis. I thought I had him
there and went in for the kill. Or at least I tried to. I began a question
about how he could justify his position that the Fifth Amendment could be
ignored on a “case by case” rationale. Half way through the question his face
became livid and he interrupted me and changed the subject.

There you have it. The governor of an American state was on record as a liberal
“the Constitution is a living document” adherent. So much for Huckabee’s
adherence to the law of the land. He actually thinks the Constitution of the
United States is his to play with to further his insatiable thirst for power over
the people. Not a standard for conservatism, that.

Now add the following to his resume: (It may serve the reader well to remember
that Huckabee was propped up by support and financial help by several corporate
tycoons who made a great deal of profit off the backs of exploited captive
labor.)

*Huckabee tried to give
scholarships for criminal aliens to attend Arkansas state colleges

*Huckabee increased the
average Arkansan’s tax burden
by 47 percent, boosting the levies on gasoline and cigarettes.

*Quin Hillyer, a former
Arkansas journalist writing in the conservative American Spectator was quoted
by Greg Peirce in the Washington Times as saying, “[Huckabee] used public
money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He
tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor’s
mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from
conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors
to a ‘charitable’ organization he set up while lieutenant governor–an outfit
whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches.
Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious
‘charity.'”

*Roy Beck, president of
NumbersUSA said the following about Huckabee’s record on illegal immigration: “He
was an absolute disaster on immigration as governor; Every time there was any
enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal aliens.”

*Article 1 Section 10 of the
US Constitution reads as follows: “No State shall enter into any Treaty,
Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money;
emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in
Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law
impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility”. And
yet, Jerome Corsi, author of the best seller “The Late Great
USA.” writing for Worldnetdaily , exposed the fact that Mike
Huckabee “worked with some of the state’s most prominent and politically
powerful businesses to establish the [Mexican] consulate as a magnet for
drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs.” Corsi
also writes that “Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation
Services, told Worldnetdaily
he and Huckabee helped arrange state and private financial support to induce
Mexico to establish the consulate as a business development ‘quid pro quo.’
“Trevino signed on July 7, 2006, a ‘Facilities Use Agreement’ with Mexican
consular officials to rent state government office space for $1 a year on the
second floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services building at 26 Corporate
Hills in Little Rock.”

* Mike Huckabee ordered the
destruction of a number of computer hard drives before leaving office. Hard
drives in 83 computers and four servers were destroyed,

Mike Huckabee has proven over and over again that the rule of law & the
Constitution are meaningless, and that he will say & do anything to promote
himself….the republic be damned.

So BYVMHCO. You
have been warned.

 
TO
DAY’S ROMP

With syrupy words and witty quips
preacher Mike covers his flips.
Believe him if you will,
but I won’t until,
I see some sutures crossing his lips.





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Coincidence? Beebe reports plane use/reveals Huckabee’s abuse

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December 10,
2007

On Nov. 27th
I filed an FOIA request to the Arkansas State Police to determine if a
commercial license had been applied for and/or obtained according to FAR-91 for
the new King Air.  I received information
Dec. 6th that a commercial ticket had not been sought.  In the same FOI, I requested detailed
information regarding Spanish language commercial produced for and used by the
State Police.  At this point I will say
that there are tens of thousands of dollars being spent on Spanish language
commercials.

Is it a
coincidence that today, Dec. 10th a large story appeared in the
Democrat-Gazette regarding Gov. Beebe’s trips (67) on the state plane made to
different cities and towns in Arkansas and two out of state trips.

Since this
article appeared only days after I FOIed, it might lead one to the conclusion
that Beebe wanted to head this FOIA off at the pass.

1.      10 of the 67 trips could have been
made in a state owned vehicle in about the same time or less than the airplane
could have been pre-flighted, cleared for takeoff, etc.  The estimated cost per hour is bare bones
$870.

2.      I am not convinced that the flights
shown in today’s Democrat article are the only flights made by Beebe in the new
King.

3.      I will FOIA the ASP for a copy of the
log to see if the Governor has used it for his personal use.

As mentioned
above, re: Spanish language commercials, print material, etc., I have FOIed 4
state agencies and they are all spending tons of tax money on said advertising.

Is the
English language not the official language of Arkansas?  State fiefdoms are thriving and making
absolute fools of the citizens.

Kindest
regards,

Joe
McCutchen

P.S.  go to arkansasfreedom.net
for FOI requests/results

Also note in the news article
Huckabee’s blatant misuse of the police airplane!!

 

Beebe holds use of police plane to state’s
needs

No personal flights, he says

By Seth
Blomeley (Contact)

LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe is using the state
police airplane much less than his predecessor did, and that’s costing
taxpayers less money.

Since taking office in January, Beebe took 63 flights, many on the new $4
million airplane bought in April.

He took two out-of-state trips, each to a National Governors Association
conference.

The flights totaled 76.4 flight hours, costing $68,775.

“I told you we wouldn’t use it for anything that’s not state business,”
Beebe said in an interview. “And we don’t use it when the weather is bad
because I don’t like it. You can look at records at how we use it vis-a-vis how
it’s been used in the past. But we use it for getting around the state to do
those things the people want us to do, to be in the local communities.”

Beebe’s predecessor, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, spent nearly $600,000 in
state money to use the Arkansas State Police airplane his last five years in
office. His out-of-state trips on the plane reached a high in 2005 with 40,
including 16 visits to Washington.

Huckabee wouldn’t disclose the purpose of his flights, but Beebe’s office
provided a list of what the governor did on each of his trips this year.

They included trips across the state from Corning to Texarkana and from
Bentonville to Monticello for economic development announcements, chamber of
commerce meetings, local festivals, meetings and banquets.

“The thing I think I hear over and over is the folks around the state say,
‘You’re not the governor of Little Rock,’” Beebe said. “We want to see you in
Monticello, Crossett or Blytheville or Rogers or Texarkana, wherever. The
airplane lets you do that and be at the events you have to be at.”

He said it allows him to be in multiple places the same day. He cited a
recent day visiting Rogers, Hot Springs and Monticello.

Beebe and the state police advocated for a new airplane during the 2007
legislative session. They said the old plane, with 2,900 flight hours logged,
needed too much repair so that buying a new one made sense. The Legislature
agreed to fund the purchase.

The last time the state police bought a plane was in 1997, when it acquired
a 1982 King Air 200 turboprop twin-engine. It was a 10-seater that cost the
state $1.4 million.

That plane was traded in as part of the $4 million deal with King Air to get
a newer version of the same model. It was bought as a demonstration 2007 model
that has about 200 hours on it.

It took a while for Beebe to settle on a policy for the use of the plane.

During the 2006 gubernatorial race, he said if elected he would reimburse
the state police in a way similar to presidents’ reimbursing the federal
government for use of Air Force One when on political trips.

But in May when unveiling the new plane, Beebe’s office and state police
said the Federal Aviation Administration wouldn’t allow reimbursements. That
would require a different license that would include state police spending more
money to meet additional federal rules, they said.

An FAA spokesman, however, later said that exemptions could be granted.

The governor’s office then considered finding a different way to reimburse
the state but later abandoned those plans, saying Beebe wouldn’t use the plane
for personal or political trips.

Matt DeCample, a spokesman for Beebe, pointed to a June 1 trip to Northwest
Arkansas as an example of how careful Beebe is about using the plane.

Beebe flew on the plane to Fayetteville for a chamber of commerce luncheon
and planned to attend the Benton County Bean Supper in Little Flock that night.

DeCample said Beebe sent the plane back to Little Rock without him because
he didn’t want to appear that he was using the plane to attend the supper,
which is a political event.

Beebe returned to Little Rock by a state police vehicle the next day,
DeCample said.

“I think he believes that he’s not to use that plane unless something
absolutely necessary as part of his job as governor,” said Bill Gwatney of
Little Rock, chairman of the state Democratic Party. Gwatney served with Beebe
in the state Senate.

Huckabee, who is running for the Republican nomination for president, used
state police aircraft to attend events such as the 2004 Republican National
Convention in New York City, several political stops in New Hampshire in 2005,
and several visits to his house on Lake Greeson in Pike County.

“We have a governor [Beebe] who wants to be governor and only wants to be
governor,” Gwatney said. “I think it’s pretty clear some of [Huckabee’s] plane
usage was directly related to going outside the state and making a name for
himself.”

Alice Stewart, a spokesman for Huckabee, didn’t return messages last week.

Last year, Huckabee said he had a “clean conscience” on his use of the
airplane because he didn’t take trips on state aircraft for “purely political”
or “nefarious” purposes or for a random “ride somewhere.”

Huckabee was chairman of the governors association from July 2005 to July
2006 and some of his trips were related to that. Huckabee, who wrote a
weight-loss book, gave numerous speeches around the country on health.

Beebe also differs from Huckabee regarding state-funded commercial flights.

According to the Department of Finance and Administration, the state has
purchased no commercial airline tickets for Beebe or first lady Ginger Beebe.

Last year, the state spent $1,380 on plane tickets for Huckabee and $2,748
for former first lady Janet Huckabee, including a $633 ticket to Puerto Rico
for Janet Huckabee.

This article was published Monday, December 10, 2007.

Arkansas, Pages 7, 9 on 12/10/2007

Huckabee illegal Consulate, Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Huckabee outrageous lies re illegal immigration

561 Comments


Huckabee outrageous lies…see explanations in red.

ttp://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2007/dec/07/huckabee-plan-supports-fines-hiring-illeg-20071207/     

Huckabee plan supports fines for hiring illegals

By Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

LITTLE ROCK — Mike Huckabee’s
immigration plan would make it easier for highly educated and highly skilled
foreigners to get visas and harder for illegal aliens to get jobs.

The Republican presidential
candidate’s “Secure America Plan,” announced Thursday, is modeled after a
proposal by Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration
Studies, a Washington group that advocates tougher immigration laws.

Huckabee’s Web site,
mikehuckabee.com, calls it “a broad-based strategy that commits the resources
of the federal government to the enforcement of our immigration laws and
results in the attrition of the illegal immigrant population.”

His plan calls for “a universal, mandatory citizenship verification
system as part of the normal hiring process.” It would impose “steep fines and
penalties” on those who hire illegal aliens. (See
existing Federal Law

8
USC Sec 1325 – Illegal Entry

Any alien who enters U.S. other than at A port of entry
by false or misleading representation shall be subject to civil and criminal
penalties can be fined and imprisoned)

It would not recognize the matricula
consular identification card issued by the Mexican government through its
consulate offices.

 (See arkansasfreedom.net for documents proving
Huckabee defied the Constitution by going to Mexico to cut a deal with Vicente
Fox to bring a Mexican Consulate to Little Rock, Arkansas, subsidized by
American citizen taxpayers, in order to give Matricula Consular cards to
illegals and attract more cheap slave labor for the poultry and other
industries, as well as government programs such as Arkids 1st ,
Prenatal care, and tried to give illegals in-state tuition &
scholarships.  All of which is subsidized
by taxpayers, including education and scores of benefits. This is his biggest
lie yet.)

Other elements of the plan:

Complete a fence and
surveillance-camera system along the Mexican border by July 2010.

Increase the number of border-patrol
units.

Train local police in immigration
laws.

(See Federal Law 8USC  Section 1324c Law
officers have authority to make arrests…

All officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws
shall have authority to make arrests for violation of any provision of this section
(affirmed US vs. Perez-Gonzalez 2002 Fed App 0360, 6th Circ.) Section 1324a
Hiring – Harboring – Transporting any illegal alien.

Section 1644

No local ordinance, rule, or measure shall stop law enforcement
officers from enforcement of this section  
(affirmed Southern District Court of NY, US vs. Rudy Giuliani, 1996.)

 

Give illegal aliens 120 days to
register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the
country. Those who do not do so would be barred from re-entering the country
for 10 years.

This article was published Friday,
December 7, 2007.

Front Section, Pages 11 on
12/07/2007

 

Huckabee lies on scholarships for illegals, Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Huckabee on Scholarships for Illegals: Lies, Deceit & misrepresentation

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Download critical document for viewing 
In the You Tube Debate held last week, Mike Huckabee was asked
the following question about sponsoring a bill proposing tuition cuts
to illegal aliens graduating from Arkansas high schools:
“Governor Huckabee, while governor of Arkansas, you gave illegal
aliens a discount for college in Arkansas by allow them to pay lower
in-state tuition rates. However, we have thousands of military
members currently serving our country in Iraq with children at
home. If these children chose to move to Arkansas to attend college,
they would have to pay three times the tuition rate that illegal aliens
pay. Would you support a federal law which would require any
state that gives these tuition rates to illegal aliens to give the same
rates to the children of our military members?”
Huckabee answered:
“Thank you very much. Ashley, first of all, let me just express that
you’re a little misinformed. We never passed a bill that gave special
privileges to the children of illegals to go to college.
Now, let me tell you what I did do. I supported the 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.
They couldn’t just move in in their senior year and go to college. It
wasn’t about out of state tuition. It was an academic, meritorious
scholarship called the Academic Challenge Scholarship.
Now, let me tell you a couple of provisions of it. And, by the way, it
didn’t pass. It passed the House but got in the Senate and got caught
up in the same kind of controversy that this country is caught up in.
And here’s what happened. 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.
That’s not what we typically do in this country.
It said that if you’d sat in our schools from the time you’re five or
six-years old and you had become an A-plus student, you’d
completed the core 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.
It accomplished two things that we knew we wanted to do, and that
is, number one, bring people from illegal status to legal status.
And the second thing, we wanted people to be taxpayers, not taxtakers.
And that’s what that provision did.
And finally, would we give that provision to the children of
veterans, personally? What we’ve done with not just the children of
veterans, but most importantly, veterans is disgraceful in this
country.
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.”
Discussion of Huckabee’s Lies, Deceit and Misrepresentation
Instead of being candid, Huckabee tried to confuse the issue by
interjecting information about the Arkansas Academic Challenge
Program, codified at Ark. Code Ann. § 6-82-1001, et seq. (a copy of
which is enclosed). The Academic Challenge Program is based on
being an Arkansas resident and makes no mention of the children of
illegal aliens. In addition, the truth is that Huckabee played no part
in the Academic Challenge Program and that it was enacted with the
passing of Arkansas Act 352 of 1991, becoming law more than four
years before Huckabee began his first time as Arkansas Governor in
1996.
Mr. Huckabee sought to avoid questions about the bill that he was
really asked about, the Access to Postsecondary Education Act of
2005, HB1525. A full copy of that bill is attached. Huckabee can
be viewed promoting HB1525 during his State of the State Address
at http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=5193.
A mere perusal of HB1525 reveals that Huckabee was deceptive in
giving his response. For example, Huckabee indicated that the bill
required children to attend schools in Arkansas their “entire school
life,” or “from the time you’re five or six-years old.” However,
Section 1(b) of HB1525 only required three years of attendance in
an Arkansas school.
Huckabee claimed that students had to be an “a A-plus student” and
that they must have “completed the core curriculum,” and “be drug
and alcohol free.” The truth is that not even a single one of these
requirements is contained in HB1525. HB1525 was not a merit
based bill.
Huckabee also was untruthful when he said that the bill would
“bring people from illegal status to legal status.” The bill did not
require legal status. Rather, it only required filing an affidavit
saying that you intend to legalize your immigration status. Contrary
to what Huckabee said, HB1525 did not even require proof of even
attempting to obtain legal status. Huckabee also tried to deflect
attention away from his actions by saying that the bill would make
people taxpayers. Again, the bill contained no such requirement
because proof of legal status was not part of HB1525.
Summary of Huckabee’s Lies, Deceit and Misrepresentation
In sum, a total of five statements made by Huckabee in his response
to one single question were lies.
The lies were (as emphasized below):
(1) “I supported the bill that would’ve allowed those children who
had been in our schools their entire school life the opportunity t

o
have the same scholarship that their peers had, who had also gone to
high school with them and sat in the same classrooms.”
(2) “It was an academic, meritorious scholarship called the
Academic Challenge Scholarship.”
(3) “It said that if you’d sat in our schools from the time you’re
five or six-years old and you had become an A-plus student, you’d
completed the core 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.”
(4) “It accomplished two things that we knew we wanted to do, and
that is, number one, bring people from illegal status to legal
status.”
(5) “And the second thing, we wanted people to be taxpayers, not
tax-takers. And that’s what that provision did.”
It’s one thing to flip flop on a position that is the most important
issue in the campaign.
It’s a vastly different thing to tell millions of Americans numerous
lies about your record on the issue.
In the You Tube Debate held last week, Mike Huckabee was
asked the following question about sponsoring a bill proposing
tuition cuts to illegal aliens graduating from Arkansas high
schools:
“Governor Huckabee, while governor of Arkansas, you gave illegal
aliens a discount for college in Arkansas by allow them to pay lower
in-state tuition rates. However, we have thousands of military
members currently serving our country in Iraq with children at
home. If these children chose to move to Arkansas to attend college,
they would have to pay three times the tuition rate that illegal aliens
pay. Would you support a federal law which would require any
state that gives these tuition rates to illegal aliens to give the same
rates to the children of our military members?”
Huckabee answered:
“Thank you very much. Ashley, first of all, let me just express that
you’re a little misinformed. We never passed a bill that gave special
privileges to the children of illegals to go to college.
Now, let me tell you what I did do. I supported the 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.
They couldn’t just move in in their senior year and go to college. It
wasn’t about out of state tuition. It was an academic, meritorious
scholarship called the Academic Challenge Scholarship.
Now, let me tell you a couple of provisions of it. And, by the way, it
didn’t pass. It passed the House but got in the Senate and got caught
up in the same kind of controversy that this country is caught up in.
And here’s what happened. 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.
That’s not what we typically do in this country.
It said that if you’d sat in our schools from the time you’re five or
six-years old and you had become an A-plus student, you’d
completed the core 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.
It accomplished two things that we knew we wanted to do, and that
is, number one, bring people from illegal status to legal status.
And the second thing, we wanted people to be taxpayers, not taxtakers.
And that’s what that provision did.
And finally, would we give that provision to the children of
veterans, personally? What we’ve done with not just the children of
veterans, but most importantly, veterans is disgraceful in this
country.
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.”
Instead of being candid, Huckabee tried to confuse the issue by
interjecting information about the Arkansas Academic Challenge
Program, codified at Ark. Code Ann. § 6-82-1001, et seq. (a copy of
which is enclosed). Truth is that Huckabee played no part in the
Academic Challenge Program and that it was enacted by Arkansas
Act 352 of 1991, becoming law more than four years before
Huckabee began his first time as Arkansas Governor in 1996.
Mr. Huckabee sought to avoid questions about the bill that he was
really asked about, HB1525. A full copy of that bill is attached.
Huckabee can be viewed promoting HB1525 during his State of the
State Address at http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=5193.
A mere perusal of HB1525 reveals that Huckabee was deceptive in
giving his response. For example, Huckabee indicated that the bill
required children to attend schools in Arkansas their “entire school
life,” or “from the time you’re five or six-years old.” However,
Section 1(b) of HB1525 only required three years of attendance in
an Arkansas school.
Huckabee claimed that students had to be an “a A-plus student” and
that they must have “completed the core curriculum,” and “be drug
and alcohol free.” The truth is that not even a single one of these
requirements is contained in HB1525. HB1525 was not a merit
based bill.
Huckabee also was untruthful when he said that the bill would
“bring people from illegal status to legal status.” The bill did not
require legal status. Rather, it only required filing an affidavit
saying that you intend to legalize your immigration status. Contrary
to what Huckabee said, HB

1525 did not even require proof of even
attempting to obtain legal status. Huckabee also tried to deflect
attention away from his actions by saying that the bill would make
people taxpayers. Again, the bill contained no such requirement
because proof of legal status was not part of HB1525.
In sum, a total of five statements made by Huckabee in his response
to one single question were lies.
The lies were (as emphasized below):
(1) “I supported the 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.”
(2) “It was an academic, meritorious scholarship called the
Academic Challenge Scholarship.”
(3) “It said that if you’d sat in our schools from the time you’re
five or six-years old and you had become an A-plus student, you’d
completed the core 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.”
(4) “It accomplished two things that we knew we wanted to do, and
that is, number one, bring people from illegal status to legal
status.”
(5) “And the second thing, we wanted people to be taxpayers, not
tax-takers. And that’s what that provision did.”
It’s one thing to flip flop on a position that is the most important
issue in the campaign.
It’s a vastly different thing to tell millions of Americans numerous
lies about your record on the issue.
6-82-1001. Legislative findings and declarations of public necessity.
The General Assembly hereby recognizes that taking the proper
course work in high school is essential for success in college.
Arkansas high school students who complete the recommended
precollegiate or technical preparation core curriculum score
significantly higher on standardized preadmissions tests and are
more likely to be successful in college. Because the State of
Arkansas also benefits from the academic success of well-prepared
college students, there is hereby established the Arkansas Academic
Challenge Scholarship Program, a college scholarship plan to
promote academic achievement and encourage academically
prepared Arkansas high school graduates to enroll in the state’s
colleges and universities and to encourage students to enter the field
of teaching for the purpose of teaching in subject matter areas of
critical teacher shortage or in geographical areas of critical teacher
shortage in the state.
History. Acts 1991, No. 352, § 1; 1991, No. 362, § 1; 1993, No.
1170, § 1; 1997, No. 977, § 4; 1999, No. 858, § 11; 2003, No. 1798,
§ 1. 6-82-1005. Eligibility.
(a) Eligibility for the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship
Program shall be based on the criteria set forth in this section as
well as program rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this
subchapter by the Department of Higher Education.
(b) An applicant shall be eligible for an award from this program
if the applicant meets all of these criteria:
(1) The applicant graduated from an Arkansas high school on or
after March 5, 1991;
(2) The applicant has been a resident of the State of Arkansas for
at least twelve (12) months prior to graduation from an Arkansas
high school, and the applicant’s parent or parents or guardian or
guardians have maintained Arkansas residency for the same period
of time;
(3) The applicant is a citizen of the United States or is a permanent
resident alien;
(4) The applicant is accepted for admission at an approved
institution of higher education as a full-time first-time freshman as
defined by the department and enrolls in an approved institution
within twelve (12) months of the applicant’s high school graduation;
(5)(A)(i) Except as provided in subdivision (b)(5)( of this section,
the applicant has successfully completed the core curriculum
established by the State Board of Education and the Arkansas
Higher Education Coordinating Board pursuant to § 6-61-217.
(ii) An applicant who graduates from an Arkansas high school
after December 31, 2001, but before December 1, 2009, and who
meets the provisions of subdivisions (b)(1)-(4) of this section but
who has not completed the core curriculum defined in this
subdivision (b)(5)(A) by the end of the senior year of high school
due to the unavailability of the courses in the applicant’s high school
shall have a grace period of twelve (12) months from the date of
high school graduation in which to make up any course deficiencies
required for program eligibility.
An applicant who graduates from an Arkansas high school after
December 31, 2009, shall have:
(i) Successfully completed the Smart Core Curriculum as
established by the Department of Education; and
(ii)(a) Demonstrated proficiency in the application of knowledge
and skills in reading and writing literacy and mathematics by
passing the end-of-course examinations as may be developed by the
Department of Education and as may be designated by the
Department of Higher Education for this purpose.
(b) “End-of-course” examinations means those examinations
defined in § 6-15-419;
(6)(A) The applicant who graduates from an Arkansas high school
after December 31, 2001, must have achieved the following:
(i) A grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in the set of core
curriculum courses if enrolling at an approved four-year institution;
or
(ii) A grade point average of 2.75 on a 4.0 scale in the set of core
curriculum courses if enrolling at an approved two-year institution;
and
(iii)(a) These revised grade point average requirements may be
reduced to no lower than a 2.5 on a 4.0 scale by a rules change by
the Department of Higher Education if it is determined by the
department, based on the most recent evaluation of the program’s
operation, that the change to a 3.0 or 2.75 grade point average on a
4.0 scale would unduly reduce the number of low-income or
disadvantaged students who would therwise be eligible for the
program.
(b) At the Department of Higher Education’s discretion, the
Department of Higher Education may make such a reduction for
admissions to institutions with a high percentage of students
receiving full Pell Grants upon petition to the Department of Higher
Education by the institution.
(The applicant scored nineteen (19) or above on the American
College Test composite or the equivalent as defined by the
Department of Higher Education.
(C)(i) The Department of Higher Education is authorized to
develop selection criteria through program rules and regulations that
combine an applicant’s American College Test or equivalent score
and grade point average in the core curriculum into a selection
index.
(ii) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions (b)(6)(A) and
(b)(6)( of this section, this selection index shall be employed as an
alternative selection process for applicants who achieve a grade
point average above 2.75 if attending an approved two-year
institution or 3.0 if attending a four-year institution on a 4.0 scale in
the set of core curriculum courses defined in subdivision (b)(5)(A)
of this section or for applicants who have an American College Test
composite or equivalent score greater than nineteen (19).
(D)(i) The applicant demonstrates financial need as defined by the
department.
(i) In calculating financial need for applicants who graduate from
an Arkansas high school after December 31, 1998, but before
January 1, 2001, the following criteria shall be used:
(a) An applicant whose family includes one (1) unemancipated
child shall have average family adjusted gross income over the
previous two (2) years not exceeding seventy thousand dollars
($70,000) per year at the time of application to the program;
(b) An applicant whose family includes two (2) unemancipated
children shall have average family adjusted gross income over the
previous two (2) years not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars
($75,000) per year at the time of application to the program;
(c) An applicant whose family includes three (3) or more
unemancipated children shall have average family adjusted gross
income over the previous two (2) years not exceeding eighty
thousand dollars ($80,000) per year at the time of application to the
program, plus for families with more than three (3) unemancipated
children, an additional five thousand
dollars ($5,000) per year for each additional child;
(d) Any applicant whose family includes more than one (1)
unemancipated child enrolled full time at an approved institution of
higher education shall be entitled to an additional ten thousand
dollars ($10,000) of adjusted gross income for each additional child
when the department calculates financial need; and
(e) If the applicant is an adopted child who was at least twelve
(12) years of age at the time of adoption and if the applicant’s family
includes unemancipated adopted children who were at least twelve
(12) years of age at the time of adoption, the adoptive family shall
be entitled to an additional ten thousand dollars ($10,000) of
adjusted gross income per adopted unemancipated child.
(iii) In calculating financial need for applicants who graduated
from an Arkansas high school after December 31, 2000, but before
December 31, 2004, the following criteria shall be used:
(a) An applicant whose family includes one (1) unemancipated
child shall have average family adjusted gross income over the
previous two (2) years not exceeding fifty thousand dollars
($50,000) per year at the time of application to the program;
(b) An applicant whose family includes two (2) unemancipated
children shall have average family adjusted gross income over the
previous two (2) years not exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars
($55,000) per year at the time of application to the program;
(c) An applicant whose family includes three (3) or more
unemancipated children shall have average family adjusted gross
income over the previous two (2) years not exceeding sixty
thousand dollars ($60,000) per year at the time of application to the
program, plus for families with more than three (3) unemancipated
children an additional five thousand
dollars ($5,000) per year for each additional child; and
(d) Any applicant whose family includes more than one (1)
unemancipated child enrolled full time at an approved institution of
higher education shall be entitled to an additional ten thousand
dollars ($10,000) of adjusted gross income for each additional
unemancipated child enrolled full time at an approved institution of
higher education when the Department of Higher Education
calculates financial need.
(iv) In calculating financial need for applicants who graduate from
an Arkansas high school after December 31, 2006, a Free
Application for Federal Student Aid or a subsequent application
required by the United States Department of Education for federal
financial aid shall be filed by the applicant or other proof of family
income as defined by the Department of Higher Education. The
following criteria shall be used:
(a) An applicant whose family includes one (1) unemancipated
child shall have an average family adjusted gross income over the
previous two (2) years not exceeding sixty-five thousand dollars
($65,000) per year at the time of application to the program;
(b) An applicant whose family includes two (2) unemancipated
children shall have an average family adjusted gross income over
the previous two (2) years not exceeding seventy thousand dollars
($70,000) per year at the time of application to the program;
(c) An applicant whose family includes three (3) or more
unemancipated children shall have an average family adjusted gross
income over the previous two (2) years not exceeding seventy-five
thousand dollars ($75,000) per year at the time of application to the
program, plus for families with more than three (3) unemancipated
children, an additional five thousand dollars ($5,000) per

year for
each additional child; and
(d) Any applicant whose family includes more than one (1)
unemancipated child enrolled full time at an approved institution of
higher education shall be entitled to an additional ten thousand
dollars ($10,000) of adjusted gross income for each additional
unemancipated child enrolled full time at an approved institution of
higher education when the Department of Higher Education
calculates financial need.
(c)(1) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
have the authority to increase these financial need family income
limitations if sufficient additional funds become available.
(2) Financial need criteria necessary for the selection of recipients,
including those defined as emancipated or independent by federal
student aid regulations, shall be established through rules and
regulations issued by the department.
(d) Recipients of Arkansas Governor’s Distinguished Scholarships
are prohibited from receiving Arkansas Academic Challenge
Scholarships.
(e) As an additional component to the Arkansas Academic
Challenge Scholarship:
(1) Each applicant for the scholarship shall agree that for each
year the scholarship is awarded he or she may volunteer to serve as
a literacy tutor for a minimum of twenty (20) clock hours each
semester in a public school or a faith-based educational institution
serving students in prekindergarten through grade six (PreK-6);
(2) A recipient who agrees to volunteer as a literacy tutor:
(A) Shall complete the prerequisite training in literacy and college
readiness skills provided under § 6-82-1006(d) before he or she
begins tutoring; and
( May receive college credit for the tutoring as determined by the
institution of higher education awarding the scholarship; and
(3) An enrolled college student who participates in the tutorial
program and fails to meet the Arkansas Academic Challenge
Scholarship academic eligibility requirement for the fall or spring
semester shall be given the probationary opportunity during the
subsequent spring or summer term to continue his or her education
and improve academic performance prior to losing scholarship
funding in the subsequent semester.
History. Acts 1991, No. 352, § 4; 1991, No. 362, § 4; 1991, No.
733, §§ 1, 2; 1992 (1st Ex. Sess.), No. 47, §§ 2, 3; 1993, No. 1170, §
3; 1993, No. 1244, §§ 1, 2; 1995, No. 1296, § 38; 1997, No. 977, §
5; 1999, No. 858, §§ 4-9; 2001, No. 1836, § 3; 2005, No. 2011, §§
2, 3; 2005, No. 2197, § 3; 2005, No. 2214, §§ 2, 3; 2007, No. 341, §
2; No. 840, § 1.

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Huckabee, choice of CFR & LULAC

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“ What is more evil than a
liar, traitor pretending to be “a man of God”?”
Another George Bush.




 

Did you know that Huckabee is the hero of the anti-American
racist hate group LULAC who has repeatedly worked with the anti-Christian
ACLU to defeat pro-American & pro-Christian efforts?  What is
more evil than a liar, traitor pretending to be “a man of
God”?

                                                                    
Barb Coe – CCIR

 

 

——- Forwarded message follows ——-

From:                        “Christopher 
Golden” <cmarshg@earthlink.net>

To:                            <cmarshg@earthlink.net>

Subject:                     Why
Mike Huckabee is Surging

Date
sent:                  Thu,
29 Nov 2007 17:10:48 -0500

 

 

Dear Fellow Republicans, Conservatives,
Constitutionalists, and other Patriotic Americans:

 

Mike Huckabee has all the sudden become the “Great
Right Hope”. Because of his (supposed) opposition to abortion and
homosexuality, a fmr President of the Arkansas Bapitist Convention,
and a southern GOP governor, he is considered a conservative.

 

Question: When was the last time a
darkhorse, evangelical fmr governor from a small southern state became
president? Answer: Jimmy Carter. Question #2:  How did Carter, also a
darkhorse, get elected? Answer: The Establishment – particularly the Trilateral
Commission and its parent: the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

In September Gov. Huckabee spoke before the CFR. What is
significant about that speech is that it is posted on the CFR’s website – which
is a special privilege in its own right. After last night’s CNN Debate, Uber-
Establishmentarian David Gergen (CFR) was oozing praise on Huckabee.

 

Since September, Huckabee has surged. Not just in Iowa,
but nationally as well. This is no coincidence. The establishment knows that
Giuliani and McCain would split the GOP if they get the nomination (which would
induce a ‘populist’ major third party candidacy). Hence, they tried Romney (who
is an empty suit), and Fred Thompson (CFR) who flopped.

 

Who better to turn to than a “Christian coalition
Republican” to dupe conservatives into backing a CFR globalist. Make no
mistake, Huckabee is one (pro-illegal immigration, pro-interventionism,
pro-foreign aid, etc). Plus he is a tax-and-spend liberal. Below are
two columns by Chuck Baldwin that exposes Huckabee’s liberalism.

 

Christian conservatives were fooled by Carter. Don’t be
fooled again by this huckleberry Huckabee.

 

Chris