November 5, 2007
Michael Dale Huckabee, presidential candidate, is again
triangulating and Congressman John Boozman, not unlike Arkansas’ Gov. Mike
Beebe, feels “strongly both waysâ€. For
today’s detailed uttering’s of the two traitors, log on to arkansasfreedom.net
Mike Huckabee, the latter day Elmer Gantry, broke bread
with his bedfellows in DeSoto, TX. Saturday,
11/3/7 which included North Texas’ best known evangelicals. From best I can detect, evangelicals’
perspective on world events is abortion, same sex marriage, homosexuality, and
recruiting Jews to join them in Israel for the rapture. Notice, that Huckabee never mentions the
U.S. Constitution and the Founders, the two giving rise to this formerly
preeminent republic which allows him to trample our freedom and rule of law.
Sunday, he preached two sermons, first in Irving, TX at
New Beginnings, a pro-Israeli, multi-cultural, Pentecostal—charismatic congregation
a few miles from Texas Stadium, where American and Israeli flags stood on the
stage behind Huckabee, along with the Star of David.
Later in the day Huckabee spoke to the 28,000 member
Prestonwood Baptist Church. Huckabee
stated there, with plenty of references to Jesus that his appearance before the
congregation was in no way political. (How many references to Jesus did he make at
New Beginnings?)
Now to the point of these musings. As you may recall, if you witnessed the first
Republican “debateâ€, Huckabee rudely interrupted one of the candidate’s
responses to aggressively state the first thing we must do is to seal the
border with Mexico. This represents a
180 degree course change from his legislative and stated personal positions on
the illegal and OTM invasion while he was Arkansas’ Governor.
During Huckabee’s tenure he criminally violated the U.S. Constitution,
Article 1, Section 10 and paraphrasing Section 10 states vividly that only the
U.S. Congress can enter into compacts, treaties, agreements, etc. with foreign
governments. Huckabee did so in October,
2003, bringing in a Mexican Consulate that is acting as a magnet for illegals,
dispensing of illegal Matricula Consular cards for I.D. and acting as a
clearing house for the dispersal of illegal Mexicans into the Arkansas
workforce. Not one federal official has questioned Huckabee’s conduct in this
matter and numbers have been contacted regarding such. He and Robert Trevino, former Ark. President of
LULAC were instrumental in bringing LULAC’s national convention to Little Rock,
with John Tyson, CEO of Tyson’s Foods making the principal address to the legal
and illegal throngs. This was the occasion
when Huckabee joked that Southern White boys might be a minority before long…much
to the glee of the audience. He apologizes
for, while denigrating our Southern heritage.
Note that the New Beginnings church is a pro-Israeli,
multi-cultural organization. The Jewish
and Israeli populations are the principal undergirding forces propelling the
open-borders, cheap labor attacks on our sovereignty, heritage, and
culture. Question for Huckabee; how does
this square with your stated position in the national debate?
Finally, Huckabee, as earlier stated was in DeSoto, TX on
Saturday, also for a fundraiser at the home of Buddy Pilgrim. Coincidently, Pilgrim just happens to be the
nephew of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. co-founder Bo Pilgrim. Pilgrims’ Pride is just one of the multitudes
of poultry processors hiring illegals and has been raided by ICE.
Presidential candidate Huckabee is not only a good guitar
player, but he’s a jitter-bugging dude who loves to massage that 10 1b.
Bible. Oh yes, he’s the same Huckabee
that passed a law giving prenatal care to illegal Mexican and OTM women,
placing the monetary burden on middleclass taxpayers and the numbers of illegal
women on his program are in the thousands monthly and the spiraling cost into
the hundreds of millions, both increasing exponentially.
Yes, the Huckster is very generous, as long as he’s
spending someone else’s money. I will
remind you ladies and gentlemen, we are under no moral or Constitutional
obligation to subsidize the presence of illegal criminal aliens.
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Huckabee stands to gain from deal
He’s director at firm in merger
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June 28, 2006
BY JAKE BLEED
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
The New York-based comÂpany that counts Gov. Mike Huckabee among its
directors began merging Tuesday with a separate shell company, a cheap and fast
way to go pubÂlic.
With a complex series of stock transactions, Park AveÂnue’s Flagship
Patient AdvoÂcates Inc. will become part of Finity Holdings Inc., an Ohio-based shell company whose shares were
recently traded for a penny and whose maÂjor shareholders include two men who
were convicted last year of bank fraud and other charges in Colorado.
The resulting company will be renamed Patients &
PhysiÂcians Inc., said Fred Nazem,
chairman and chief executive officer of both Flagship and Finity. The
new company will specialize in providing memÂbers-only medical services, inÂcluding
referrals to a network of top medical and surgical specialists around the
world.
Nazem said Finity and FlagÂship will officially merge toÂday, with the
filing of a restatÂed certificate of incorporation. Finity shareholders
authorized the transaction at a meeting at Flagship’s offices Tuesday.
Huckabee was traveling in Japan on Tuesday. He said he did not
participate in the merger decision. He said his involvement with the company is
limited and that he wasn’t sure if he would benefit from his involvement with
Flag-See MERGER,Page 2B
Merger
• Continued from
Page 1B ship.
“Obviously, he doesn’t have me on there because I’m one
of the world’s richest men,” Huckabee said.
Nazem asked Huckabee to
join the company after reading
the governor’s book, Quit DigÂ
ging Your Grave with a Knife
and Fork, and hearing some of
his lectures on health. ._
Shell company transactions
can be hugely profitable. ReÂ
publican candidate for governor
AsaHutchinson saw a $2,800
“initial investment in Fortress
America Acquisition Corp.
grow to more than $1 million
on paper after the shell comÂ-
pany acquired another business,
earlier this month.
Finity isn’t much of a compaÂny, with no assets
reported on the company’s balance sheet, according to filings with the
Securities and Exchange ComÂmission.
However, the company does have regulatory approval to be traded
publicly, which makes it an attractive partner for priÂvately held companies
that are looking to go public, said Bob Williams, managing director of Little
Rock-based Delta Trust.
Finity’s shares are traded unÂder the ticker symbol FNTY on
the Over the Counter Bulletin Board, a market used primarily by small companies
with low-value, “penny” stocks, includÂing Fortress America.
Finity’s shares ended TuesÂday trading at eight cents a
share, up from one cent on June 13.
Going public is expensive,
Williams said, and is an option
usually reserved for large and
growing companies. For smaller
outfits, it’s easier and cheaper
to take over a shell company
and its publicly traded stock,
what Williams call “a backÂ
wards acquisition of a public
shell
company.”_____________
the governor.
Nazem said only Finity shares will be affected by the combination.
Flagship shareÂholders, including Huckabee, will retain the same number of
shares, Nazem said.
Flagship and Finity have the same officers and directors, acÂcording to
Finity’s proxy, and Huckabee will remain a direcÂtor of Patients &
Physicians Inc.
Huckabee is one of 10 of-
ficers and directors listed in
Finity’s proxy statement filed
with the SEC on June 15. The
25,000 shares that Huckabee
has the option to exercise rep-Â
resent less than one-tenth of
one percent of the Flagship’s
outstanding shares. _
Tuesday’s decision by the Finity shareholders will
see the company execute a series of transactions designed to bring the value of
shares in Finity in line with Flagship. That inÂcluded a 125-to-l reverse stock
split, and the authorization of tens of millions of additional shares.
“The reverse stock split is really just getting
the numbers of the stock right,” Nazem said, adding that the transactions
didn’t change the actual value of either company.
It was part of what Nazem called a
“housecleaning” of Finity. The shell company was originally founded
as ColumÂbia Capital Corp. in 1993, and partnered with Boulder, Colo.-based
BestBank, in processing credit cards.
BestBank was later declared insolvent, and two men involved with both companies, Glenn
Gallant and Douglas Baetz of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were later found guilty by
a federal jury on 63 counts, including bank fraud, and continuing a finanÂcial
crimes enterprise.
Although a federal judge latÂer dismissed 27 of those
counts, the pair still face a minimum sentence of 10 years on some counts,
said Jeff Dorschner, a
Health
company recruits governor for board of directors
June 13, 2006
BY BRIAN BASHN
ARKANSAS
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Fred Nazem, the investor behind several multibillion-dol-lar health-care
companies, has tapped Gov. Mike Huckabee to serve on the board of directors for
his latest project — a
physiÂcian referral service. The comÂpany,
Flagship Patient Advocates, will go public later this month.
Flagship Patient Advocates connects subscribing patients to
top doctors in more than 150 specialties. For $750 a year, a member can receive
health-care advice from high-profile
medical professionals in the United
States and abroad, Nazem said.
The company had $7,000 in revenue and $3 million in losses for the
quarter ending March 31. But Nazem —
who helped creÂate the Oxford Health Plan and a forerunner to the Tenet HealthÂcare Corp. hospital chain — says
he has
“tens of millions of dolÂlars” in deals that will be rolled out over
the next year.
Huckabee, who joined the board in September, won’t benÂefit much
immediately from the company’s growth. He receives no pay for his seat on the
board, but instead was granted 25,000 shares in Finity Holding Inc., a related
company trading over-the-counter at just over one cent.
Following a shareholder vote later this month, shares in FinÂity Holding will convert in a “reÂverse
stock split” into shares of Flagship Patient Advocates, at a rate of 125 to 1. That would leave Huckabee with 200 shares, which could
increase in value if invesÂtors buy into Nazem’s plan.
After that, Huckabee and other board members will likely
receive additional shares in exÂchange for their expertise, Na-
zem said.
Huckabee’s involvement
with Flagship Patient Advocates grew out
of the release of his 2005 book, Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and
Fork, as well as lectures on health policy he gave last year, said Alice Stewart, a spokesman for the governor,
a story that Nazem confirmed.
“I read his book, and a friend of a friend says he knew
him,” Nazem said. “I like … what he stands for.”
A sitting governor who is
also a member of the board of a pubÂlicly
traded company might raise eyebrows — if it
weren’t so close to
the end of Huckabee’s term, said Jay Barth, a professor of politics at Hendrix
College and a member of the Democratic Party’s State Committee.
“It’s not unusual at all for former elected officials to [join
corporate boards],” Barth said.
“It would not be happening if he had
longer left in his term.”
Graham Sloan, head of the
ArÂkansas Ethics Commission, said Huckabee’s board seat shouldn’t pose a
problem as long as his business associates aren’t given any special treatment
“I don’t think it’s that uncomÂmon,”
he said. “A lot of members of the General Assembly sit on the
boards of corporations or bank boards.”
Nazem said he had an easy
anÂswer for potential ethical issues.
“I told the governor
we’d nevÂer do any deal with the state of Arkansas,” he said.
\ Flagship Patient Advocates has its eye on more far-flung territory — namely China and India.
“We’re hoping to become one of
the health-care companies of choice for the
2008 Olympics” in Beijing, Nazem said.
(NOTE: INCLUDED IN THE CRUSHED HARD
DRIVES WERE ALL THE RECORDS OF HUCKABEE’S USE/ABUSE OF THE STATE POLICE KING
AIRPLANE)
Huckabee
left computers, fund gutted
BY SETH BLOMELEY AND MICHAEL R.
WICKLINE
Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007
URL:
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee depleted
the governor’s office emergency fund in the final weeks of his administration
in part to pay for the destruction of computer hard drives in his office.
That left Gov. Mike Beebe, who
replaced Huckabee on Jan. 9, with no emergency funds for the last half of
fiscal 2007.
Documents that the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, describe the destruction
of the computer drives, as ordered by Huckabee’s office, and Huckabee
complaining strongly about his cell phone and Blackberry not working.
A memo dated Jan. 9 from a state
Department of Information Systems official to Huckabee told of the “disposition
of data maintained†by the department “for the office of the governor†during
Huckabee’s tenure.
“All drives have been subsequently
crushed under the supervision of a designee of your office,†wrote Gary
Underwood, the agency’s chief technology officer and a former Huckabee staff
member.
Beebe has asked the Legislature to
replenish the $ 500, 000 emergency fund, but a legislative committee has so far
rejected his request.
On Jan. 3, the Department of
Information Systems requested $ 25, 000 from the governor’s office “for the
closeout of information systems for the office of the governor.â€
Huckabee on Jan. 5 sent the
department the last $ 13, 000 in the emergency fund, leaving an outstanding
balance of $ 12, 000. The $ 13, 000 would be used to help pay for crushing the
hard drives.
Department of Information Systems
Director Claire Bailey said hard drives for 83 computers and four servers were
destroyed, or “crushed,†after information was downloaded onto backup tapes.
Underwood supervised it and delivered the backup tapes to Huckabee Chief of
Staff Brenda Turner, who had ordered the hard drives crushed, Bailey said.
She said the computers were located
in the state Capitol; the state’s Washington, D. C., office; the state police
airport hangar; the Governor’s Mansion; and the Arkansas State Police drug
office.
In 2003, Huckabee announced that
after he left office, his official gubernatorial papers would be stored at his
alma mater, Ouachita Baptist University, a private institution in Arkadelphia.
He said at the time that the college would decide which documents would be
released to the public.
A Nov. 20, 2006, e-mail from
Huckabee’s director of media operations, Kerry Rodnick, to Turner asked, “Is
there someone at OBU that could tell me how they’d like to receive our digital
files ?â€
With the emergency fund empty just
before he took office, Beebe asked the Joint Budget Committee to put another $
500, 000 in it. On Thursday, the committee rejected Beebe’s request.
An alternate resolution for $ 250,
000 to meet Beebe’s request halfway also failed.
Lawmakers said they wanted to know
why Huckabee had spent it all and where it went.
Beebe said he’s not sure what to
make of the committee’s rejection of his request.
“I don’t know what’s going on,†Beebe
said. “I hope that it’s not an inside political issue at the expense of taking
care of emergencies and taking care of our people. The emergency fund is there
for a reason. We just had seven counties declared disaster areas. We may have
more. We’re coming into tornado season. That fund they usually try to keep, if
at all possible, at $ 500, 000 at all times so that money is there for counties
and cities and people if there is a disaster. I don’t know what they’re doing,
but I’m going to have a visit with a few legislators and I’ll find out.â€
Beebe said he didn’t know whether it
was normal for the governor’s office computer hard drives to be destroyed.
“It certainly removes any
opportunity to have any information,†he said.
Beebe has just finished a four-year
term as attorney general. He said he knows of no hard drives being destroyed
there in advance of his successor, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, taking
office.
“Certainly [there were ] no orders
for that by me,†Beebe said.
He said he did tell his attorney
general staff to delete e-mails and other files from office computers in
preparation for the new staff in McDaniel’s office.
Asked whether “crushing†hard drives
should be considered a criminal offense of destroying state property, Beebe
said he didn’t know.
Bailey said the Department of
Information Systems arranged to handle computers during the transition in
administration in the governor’s and lieutenant governor’s offices, but not the
attorney general’s or treasurer’s offices, which are the other constitutional
offices that changed hands in January as a result of the November election.
She said the Department of
Information Systems didn’t crush hard drives in the lieutenant governor’s
office.
“Some of our customers do crush and
/ or overwrite their hard drives themselves, and some of our customers ask for
our assistance,†she said. “We, as an agency, always overwrite or physically
crush our internal hard drives depending on the sensitivity of the data.â€
A Huckabee spokesman didn’t return a
message Thursday, and Huckabee didn’t respond to an e-mail seeking his response
to questions about the computers and his use of the emergency fund.
Beebe said he wasn’t aware until
recently that Huckabee had used the last of the emergency fund to pay costs
associated with the governor’s office file purge.
Beebe spokesman Matt De-Cample said
Beebe’s office now has 22 “updated†computers with new hard drives, 27 new
desk-top computers, and 22 new laptops. He said the computers and other
equipment were purchased with money from the governor’s office operational
fund.
“We are operational,†he said. “We
are not lacking in computers right now. We couldn’t run the office without
computers, and we couldn’t make the request [to the Legislature for the
computers ] until we were in office.â€
He said that forced Beebe to dip
into the operational fund for $ 335, 000 to buy the computers.
Bailey said the computers would
likely have been replaced even if the hard drives weren’t crushed. She said that
her department had replaced the computers at the governor’s office the day
before Beebe took office and Beebe had to reimburse the department.
HUCKABEE EXPENSES According to the
Bureau of Legislative Research, Huckabee spent the $ 500, 000 on 22 things, the
most being $ 100, 000 for a group called Play It Again Arkansas “to purchase
[musical ] instruments and provide operational funding.†Huckabee has been
supportive of that group, which distributes used musical instruments to
children. Among other things, he gave $ 10, 000 to the Hot Springs Documentary
Film Institute to buy a car; $ 97, 000 to the Game and Fish Commission’s
“Hooked on Fishing, Not Drugs†program; $ 10, 000 to the city of Little Rock to
help in “the development of the Mexican Consulate†office; $ 15, 000 for the
Arkansas chapter of the American Red Cross to help “prepare young people to
deal with disaster situations.†Huckabee’s wife, Janet, works for the Red
Cross.
Sen. Percy Malone, D-Arkadelphia,
made the request at the Joint Budget Committee for a list of everything
Huckabee has used the emergency fund for.
“I want to make sure it’s not a fund
the governor has to use however they want,†Malone said. “If that’s what we’re
going to do, we don’t need to call it an emergency fund.â€
Kim Arnall, assistant director of
the Bureau of Legislative Research, said the fund has traditionally been used
by governors for “emergency type situations or maybe not emergency type
situations.â€
Arnall said the governor has another
fund at his disposal, the Governor’s Disaster Fund, which amounts to $ 9. 5
million each year for things such aid during natural catastrophes.
Beebe’s request to replace the $
500, 000 failed with 22 votes in favor, seven votes short of the 29 needed to
pass. The alternate motion for $ 250, 000 failed with 25 votes.
Sen. Jim Argue, D-Little Rock, said
he voted against the $ 250, 000 in hopes that his colleagues later would
approve the $ 500, 000.
Rep. Bruce Maloch, D-Magnolia,
offered the motion to give Beebe half of what he requested. He said later that
it was not legislators’ attempt to send a “message†to Beebe as some at the
Capitol thought.
He said he and other legislators
thought that the emergency fund being depleted “really isn’t our problem.†But
he said he also thought that it “isn’t Gov. Beebe’s fault either.†He said he
wanted to “be fair†to Beebe, but he and other legislators want more
information about the fund. He said Beebe may end up getting the entire $ 500,
000.
Richard Weiss, director of the state
Department of Finance and Administration, said the emergency fund is typically
replenished during changes of administrations.
Rep. Rick Saunders, D-Hot Springs,
wondered in the committee whether Beebe wanted more emergency money to buy
lighting for news conferences in the governor’s conference room. He noted that
he had read in the Democrat-Gazette that Huckabee’s staff removed lighting
which wasn’t state property.
A Dec. 28 e-mail from Rodnick,
Huckabee’s director of media operations, to Huckabee chief of staff Turner
detailed some last-minute sorting out of state property and private property.
“Gary Underwood and I met this
morning and went through all equipment and communications related material to
determine what belongs to the state and what did not,†Rodnick wrote. “We were
able to define what was his, mine and the Republican Party’s.â€
Rodnick noted that the
conference-room podium was bought with party funds but “retrofitted with state
money.†He wrote that one option would be deconstructing the podium to give the
proper parts to the state and the party.
“The concern comes when the new
administration comes in and notices the podium gone and the guts on the floor,â€
he wrote. “I feel it would be better to avoid potentially negative press by
leaving the podium asis.â€
Clint Reed, executive director of
the state GOP, said he had no knowledge of the party buying items for the
governor’s office.
As for the Department of Information
Systems billing, Beebe said, “What I do know is apparently DIS never charged
the governor’s office what they were supposed to over the last several years
for the governor’s office proportional share of [information technology ]
services.â€
He noted that the state continues to
have “big problems†with the way the Department of Information Systems has
billed state agencies for computer services.
Last fall, Huckabee recommended that
the state set aside $ 37 million of the expected $ 843 million state surplus to
pay the federal government in case the state loses a lawsuit related to
Department of Information Systems’ billing.
The federal government has
maintained that federal dollars sent to the state wrongly went toward computer
billing at the Department of Information Systems.
Beebe said the governor’s office
owes a “bunch†of money to the Department of Information Systems for services
provided in the past few years, but he wasn’t sure of the exact amount. He said
Bailey would know.
Bailey said the governor’s office
owes $ 33, 302 for services rendered during the Huckabee administration. She
blamed “internal DIS billing process failures†for bills not previously being
sent to the governor’s office. BLACKBERRY AND CELL PHONE
Huckabee also was dealing with other
technological issues in the weeks before he left office.
“WHO THE HECK TURNED OFF MY
BLACKBERRY ?????†Huckabee wrote in a Dec. 23 e-mail.
The Dec. 23 e-mail from Huckabee to
Bailey concerned a disruption in the governor’s communication services during
the transition to Beebe’s administration.
“My Blackberry has been disconnected
by some genius who must have thought I quit being governor Dec. 23,†Huckabee
wrote. “1. Who did this and why ? I’d like an answer now. 2. Get it turned back
on. NOW ! I’ve called Cingular to try to get this fixed. We need to make sure
our computer lines aren’t down. This is beyond excusable.â€
Huckabee was one of the first people
at the Capitol to have a Blackberry, a portable email and cell phone device the
he has had since at least 2002.
Bailey quickly responded to
Huckabee’s concern, writing that “I will take care of this now.â€
Huckabee then wrote Bailey, saying
that his cell phone wasn’t working either. “I want to know why this happened
and who was responsible. It wasn’t very smart.â€
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