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WHO IS THE REAL GOVERNOR MIKE HUCKABEE?

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Who is the real Governor Mike Huckabee?  (The evidence is overwhelming)

Following these remarks is a copy of an appeal for money by the former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for a 501 c 4 “non-profit” called “Secure America Now”. Secure America Now has offices in Wash. DC for whom Hypocrite Huckabee is calling on all Governors to take his stand against the illegal alien invaders and for all American citizens to donate as much money as they can to their efforts.

The problem is that the (then) Governor of Arkansas did EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE when he was the governor of that state and was one of the first national leaders to use his public office to do EXACTLY the things he is now asking all the rest of us to “take a stand against.”  Did this career politician honestly believe we here in the state he governed would forget his documented record that contradicts everything he now purports to be ‘taking a stand against?’

He has the nerve to call for secure borders, to not allow your city or state to become a “sanctuary” for illegals who are coming to take over—to take your jobs, tax dollars, public services…to overwhelm your hospitals, schools & prisons…and turn entire regions into Spanish-speaking welfare states.  All this in spite of his own Herculean efforts to achieve just those goals. (See proof below)

You can research “Secure America Now” for yourself…their website list no officers, no members, no financial statements, no list of donors, etc.  They campaigned to stop the Mosque from being built at Ground Zero and somehow grew big enough to office in DC, which was no small financial accomplishment.

Hypocrite Huckabee urges you to send money and now CLAIMS TO BE FOR STRONG BORDERS…NOT OPEN BORDERS, and for you to demand that your Governor stand with him and other Americans who want the same.  (A bold faced lie–proof below) Actions are much stronger than words – and Governor Huckabee directly ACTED AS GOVERNOR TO PROMOTE Arkansas as a Sanctuary State.

See the last page of a 7 page letter from Huckabee (personally) we assume to many Arkansas cities, not just ours, for donations and a NOT HERE message to Gov. Hutchinson to be returned to Secure America, not to Hutchinson.

Also see below the Donation Page see the proof that Huckabee is not only a hypocrite but much worse.

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Placement of NOT HERE SHEET

We have spent many decades devoted to exposing corruption, especially governmental. so when Huckabee was Governor of Arkansas recording and exposing his criminal behavior was fairly easy. We continue to this day exposing government at all levels.   The magnitude may surprise you.    Simply go to arkansasfreedom.net

A quick search on ‘Mike Huckabee’ on AF.com – > http://j85.01e.mytemp.website/?s=mike+huckabee

Within the above link are numerous articles describing Huckabee’s illegal misuse of his “Emergency Fund” on pet projects, the illegal use of Medicaid funds on illegal aliens, a citizen lawsuit against Huckabee’s malfeasance & his involvement in establishing a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock & use of taxpayer’s money to do so… he supported in-state tuition for illegals, also free pre & post-natal medical services for illegals.  There are also numerous articles written by various journalists & other authors regarding Huckabee’s short-comings and downright illegal activities.

 Note especially a paragraph in article by Joe McCutchen entitled “Huckabee’s Mexican connection caught in more shenanigans”== “An FOIA was filed in the name of Robert Trevino (Huckabee’s Mexican Point Man) to make some factual determinations. It was revealed that an Arkansas Consortium (perhaps the Arkansas Friendship Coalition) agreed to pay the expenses incurred by the (Mexican) Consulate for 3 years with an option for 3 more. One of the specific questions asked in the FOIA was who were the names involved in the Arkansas Consortium?  While my attorney and I were in Trevino’s office to receive the information requested in the FOIA Trevino redacted the names of those subsidizing the Consulate.”

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EXAMPLE;    Huckabee from an article  “Huckabee & Clinton: Arkansas Dynamic Duo”

“As Governor, Mike Huckabee, like Clinton, has done everything
Tyson Foods Corp. tells him to do. He babied and pampered the hundreds
of thousands of Mexican illegal aliens in his state. Many, naturally,
are employed at slave labor pay at Tyson’s chicken-processing plants.
Huckabee even went so far as to demand that the Arkansas legislature
boost welfare payments to the illegals and grant their children
scholarships and free tuition to state colleges and universities. Then,
Huckabee really went wild. He clamored for state drivers licenses to be
issued to all the illegal immigrants. “It’s our Christian duty,”
Huckabee explained, “we must be compassionate toward the illegal aliens
and treat them like Americans.” In contrast, even Arkansas’ own legal, native born citizens don’t receive free college tuition!

EXAMPLE”  Huckabee crushes hard drives & depletes funds”

Huckabee
left computers, fund gutted

BY SETH BLOMELEY AND MICHAEL R.
WICKLINE

Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee depleted
the governor 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 Huckabees 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
Huckabees tenure.

All drives have been subsequently
crushed under the supervision of a designee of your office,wrote Gary
Underwood, the agencys chief technology officer and a former Huckabee staff

EXAMPLE”  “Free Transport, Huckabee and family”

Updated: 12/1/2005

FREE TRANSPORT: Huckabee and family got it for this
marathon run.

Gov.
Mike Huckabee is still flying high on the taxpayers’ dime and refusing to
provide details about it, claiming security
interests.

The Arkansas Times
first reported Nov. 3 about his use of the State Police’s twin-engine
Beechcraft King Air 200. He has used it
several times since.

From Oct. 22 to
Nov. 10 he used the plane to fly to Atlanta, Charlotte, twice to Dallas and
three times to Washington, D.C. On one of those trips, Huckabee and his wife,
son and daughter-in-law traveled to and from Washington so Gov. and Mrs. Huckabee could participate in the Marine
Corps marathon.

Huckabee
will not answer questions about how or why he decides to use the State Police
plane for almost all of his out-of-state travel, which includes about 40 trips
in 2005. “Whether we are talking in general or about specifics, when it is
a matter of travel
it is a security issue and we’re not going to comment,” said Huckabee
press secretary Alice Stewart. It is
unclear what security concerns exist after a trip, but Stewart won’t discuss
that either.

State Police spokesman Bill
Sadler said the department has “no recollection or record” of
Huckabee ever reimbursing the department
for his use of its aircraft

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EXAMPLE: Huckabee from “More Huckisms from the Huckster”

“Huckabee is an extremely dangerous Theocrat.  He pillaged the Arkansas state government as Governor for 10 years.  Most damning was his secret negotiations with then Mexican President Vicente Fox, to establish a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock for the express purpose of warehousing and disseminating illegal Mexicans into the illegal labor forces of Arkansas, MO. MS. & TN. using bogus Matricular Consular I.D. cards issued by the unconstitutional Consulate.  The creation of the Mexican Consulate is a violation of Article 4, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution.  Huckabee had the temerity, in a nationally televised debate with a host of other candidates for the presidency, that he would stop the illegal Mexican invasion. “

 EXAMPLE;
HUCKABEE DEFIES THE US CONSTITITION
AND STATE LAWS


U.S CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 1, SECTION 10 – No state shall enter into an agreement with a foreign Power . . . without the consent of Congress.

Mike Huckabee has also violated Arkansas State Law: Codes ANN 6-65-101, 22-2-114C(i), 22-5-401(b), 22-2-108.

Your tax dollars are funding a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock which will facilitate illegal alien jobs in violation of federal law. The consulate will also provide illegal aliens with legal assistance, passports, non-mandated benefits that American citizens cannot get, as well as other services.

Governor Huckabee has been asked to declare exactly what functions the Mexican Consulate will provide in addition to those listed. He has refused to answer.

FACTS:

·  A Huckabee bureaucrat, Robert Trevino signed an agreement with Mexico to lease state property to Mexico for one dollar. The agreement also provides for the use of one Arkansas state employee.
Note: Robert Trevino, former President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), funded by taxpayer dollars who are lobbying to obtain amnesty for 20 million or more illegal Mexican aliens, etc. LULAC is actively involved in the anti-American Mexican reconquista (take over) of the southwestern US by colonization and occupation.

The purpose of the Little Rock Mexican Consulate is to encourage Mexican illegal aliens to come to Arkansas which is ALSO a violation of the Federal Immigration Laws called ”Aiding and Abetting” illegal entry.

Huckabee and Trevino traveled to Mexico City in October, 2003 to finalize the deal with Mexican President Vicente Fox.

Huckabee promotes open door policy at LULAC convention Thursday, June 30, 2005 By Wesley Brown Arkansas News Bureau

In a impassioned speech before hundreds of influential Hispanic civil rights leaders from across the nation, Gov. Mike Huckabee told a captive audience Wednesday that America is great because it has always opened it doors up to people seeking a better way of life
Pretty soon, Southern white guys like me may be in the minority. Huckabee said jokingly as the crowd roared in laughter. ¦He said Arkansas needs to make the transition from a traditional Southern state to one that recognizes and cherishes diversity in culture, in language and in population.

Huckabee lies on scholarships for illegals, Huckabee shameful record

Candidate Huckabee still loves illegal aliens

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Hi,

Earlier than usual, the GOP campaign to select a presidential candidate is turning into an elimination contest.

 

Mike Hackabee’s advocacy of illegal aliens and giving them in-State tuition benefits should put him on most people’s NO list. His rationale – make the illegal alien kid into a taxpayer rather than a tax-taker – is a false choice.  The policy many taxpayers would support is to put the illegal alien invaders into concentration camps or chain gangs until they decided that the US is an unhealthy place for them to be.

 

Look for political opportunist-Huckabee to change his tune but don’t forget his real position.

V.

 

 

http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/mike-huckabee-wants-to-give-tuition-breaks-to-illegal-aliens?CID=examiner_alerts_article  

 

Mike Huckabee wants to give tuition breaks to illegal aliens

 

On Tuesday, during yet another visit to Iowa, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said that he supports extending lower in-county tuition rates to illegal aliens. The County College of Morris administration recently proposed not only allowing illegal aliens to enroll but to pay the lower rate as well.

Huckabee said: “I decided I’d rather see that kid become a taxpayer, rather than a tax-taker. Many businesses — they say they do not want illegal immigration, but what they do want is very cheap labor.”

Of course, Huckabee has been spending a great time in Iowa of late, as he tries to garner support for another presidential run in 2012.

While Huckabee’s comments may come as a surprise to many Republicans, they are actually very typical for the supposedly conservative Huckabee.

While governor, Huckabee once denounced proposed legislation that would have prevented illegal aliens from voting and receiving state welfare benefits, saying it would simply stir-up “those who are racist and bigots.”

He went on to say that if the measure passed, foreign companies would not invest in Arkansas   because it would “send the message that, essentially, ‘If you don’t look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we don’t want you.’”

Also, while governor, he publicly criticized ICE raids on chicken processing plants in his state in which hundreds of illegal aliens were arrested.

Additionally, Huckabee was an ardent and vocal supporter of the McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill.

Watch this video see Mike Huckabee’s troubling history on illegal immigration:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9EkGNaQhrs&feature=player_embedded

 

 

 

 

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Flim-Flam Huckabee by Cutler

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FLIM-FLAM HUCKABEE

 

by Michael Cutler
December 30, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

An
excellent article appeared in Wednesday’s edition of the Washington
Times and merits your consideration, not only in terms of evaluating
Presidential Candidate Huckabee, but to also understand the concerns
I have about most politicians and the way that all too many of them
have become skilled at the craft of creating illusions. Of course
my focus is generally limited to immigration and border security but
I believe that you can find so many other areas where politicians
will attempt to create the impression that they are effectively addressing
an issue while maintaining the status quo.

It
may be that Mike Huckabee really wants to address the immigration
crisis confronting our nation, but I am baffled as to why he did not
follow through with the program in his state of Arkansas to enable
local law enforcement to receive the critical training under the provisions
of Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that would
have effectively deputized a number of state law enforcement officers
to enable them to work cooperatively with law enforcement personnel
at ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

Consider
this quote from the article about then Governor Huckabee’s failure
to complete the process that would have empowered Arkansas state police
officers to enforce provisions of the Immigration and Nationality
Act:

Mr.
Huckabee’s campaign acknowledged he didn’t follow through, but said
it was lack of time, not lack of interest.

Mr.
Huckabee really needs to explain what this statement means. How could
he claim that he lacked the time to make certain that the program
that apparently so many of his constituents wanted prevented him from
completing the process he began? Perhaps I am mistaken about Mr. Huckabee,
but frankly my concern is clear. He began an important program in
his state that could have helped with the enforcement of the immigration
laws and then abandoned this effort. We the People have the right
to know why! We the People have the right to know what he and all
of his opponents really plan to do where the issue of border security
and the effective enforcement and administration of the immigration
laws are concerned.

It
is my contention that there is no issue that has greater significance
for the future of our nation that the immigration issue because it
impacts so many other aspects of our nation. As I have often pointed
out, immigration impacts everything from the economy, the environment,
education and healthcare to criminal justice and national security.
Yet the politicians on both sides of the political aisle have been
fighting hard to prevent the borders from being secured and to prevent
the creation of an immigration bureaucracy that has even a modicum
of integrity, even after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001
and the findings of the 911 Commission in terms of the role that immigration
benefit fraud played in the embedding process utilized by the terrorists
who killed so many innocent people.

I
have heard Mr. Huckabee state that he favored providing in-state tuition
for the children of illegal aliens claiming he did not want to penalize
the children of illegal aliens. In point of fact, the children of
illegal aliens are, themselves, illegal aliens. Additionally, they
may well be the children of illegal aliens although with the rampant
issue of immigration benefit fraud that has been amply documented
in one GAO report after another and one OIG report after another,
I also fear that if our nation was stupid enough to create such a
lucrative benefit for such “children” that the fraud rates would be
astronomical!


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Finally
while these illegal aliens are the children of illegal aliens they
are not minors! We are talking about adult illegal aliens who would
be provided with the opportunity to remain in the United States and
file applications for their family members while being provided with
a level of financial assistance our nation does not provide to United
States citizen college students! This is the equivalent of my providing
a steak dinner with all the trimmings to my neighbors kids each night
for many years while feeding my own kids tuna fish and macaroni! If
I did this as a parent you would question my sanity and you would
be correct- yet Mr. Huckabee and other politicians who favor this
seemingly well-intentioned measure would be stabbing our own kids
in the back while opening yet another Pandora’s Box that would invite
massive fraud!

Mr.
Huckabee and his opponents need to explain their positions and their
justification for the positions that they take. They also need to
provide concrete proposals for securing our borders and creating a
secure immigration system. The Border Fence Bill was passed by the
Congress and signed into law by the President. I was called to appear
on many television programs to discuss the fence. I made it clear
that I doubted that the fence would ever be built. Then I was asked
about the “Virtual Fence.” My ‘sound bite’ was that “The Virtual Fence
would stop virtually no one!” The Virtual Fence will cost loads of
money, but in the end, to arrest illegal aliens your need Border Patrol
agents, jail space, vehicles, detention officers, attorneys, immigration
judges, etc.

To
prevent the entry of illegal aliens you need physical fences. Creating
a high-tech “Virtual Fence” that sounds alarms when illegal aliens
run the border is next to worthless unless there are enough agents
and all of the other components in place to stop and apprehend the
intruders. We also need to have enough special agents at ICE along
with other resources to back-stop the Border Patrol and the beleaguered
Customs and Border Protection inspectors at ports of entry so that
when aliens run our borders or are admitted through ports of entry
only to overstay their authorized period of admission or otherwise
violate their terms of admission they are likely to be found and apprehended.
Today there is a shortage of Border Patrol agents and an absolutely
outrageous shortage of special agents at ICE.


(As I have often noted, New York City has been consistently found
to be the safest big city in the United States- a fact largely attributable
to the fact that the NYPD has approximately 38,000 police officers
who are well trained and have incredible resources. ICE has about
6,000 special agents and they are responsible for enforcing customs
laws as well as immigration laws. Meanwhile
New York City has approximately 8 million residents and covers about
400 square miles while there are probably over 20 million illegal
aliens in the United States who are scattered across one-third of
the North American continent!) It is likely that fewer than 4,000
ICE special agents are engaged in the critical mission of enforcing
the immigration laws for the entire United States of America! Additionally,
most of the leaders at ICE came from Legacy Customs and not from Legacy
Immigration. Their orientation and background leaves much to be desired
where the effective enforcement of the immigration laws are concerned.
As one of my former colleagues at ICE told me during a recent conversation,
those bosses are more concerned with busting a gang that produces
counterfeit Gucci briefcases than counterfeit passports!

We
the People need to hear specific proposals from the candidates for
the Presidency. That is our right! We should think of the debates
and campaigns as a sort of job interview. The occupant of the Oval
Office, I would remind you, is our employee. The candidates understand
that they need to garner the votes in order to win the election. We
the People need to end our passivity about the campaign for the Presidency
and need to have our voices heard. Similarly we need to take a far
more active role in writing to our other politicians who seek to be
elected or re-elected to positions as members of Congress as well
as those seeking elections on the state and local levels. That is
how democracy is supposed to work. When we sit down in a diner to
order a meal we tend to be very specific about what we want to eat
and how we want it prepared. We must be at least as specific about
who we will hire to lead our nation especially in this perilous era.
This is not only our right, it is our obligation!

© 2007 – Michael Cutler
– All Rights Reserved

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Michael W. Cutler
graduated from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in
1971 with a B.A. in Communications Arts and Sciences. Mr. Cutler began
working for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in October
1971 when he entered on duty as an Immigration Inspector assigned to John
F. Kennedy International Airport. In August 1975 he became a Criminal
Investigator (Special Agent) for the INS at NYC.

He rotated through
virtually every squad in the Investigations Branch. From 1988 until 1991
he was assigned as the INS representative to the Unified Intelligence
Division (UID) of the DEA in New York. In 1991 he was promoted to the
position of Senior Special Agent and was assigned to the Organized Crime,
Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) which required that he work with
members of other law enforcement agencies including the FBI, DEA, ATF,
U.S. Customs and local and state police as well as law enforcement organizations
of other countries including Israel, Canada, Great Britain and Japan,
to conduct investigations of aliens involved in major drug trafficking
organizations. He retired from the INS in February 2002, after a career
that spanned some 30 years.

Finally, Michael
Cutler has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including
Lou Dobbs, Fox News, MSNBC and many other television and radio news-oriented
programs to discuss the enforcement of immigration laws.

E-Mail: mcutler007@aol.com

Huckabee lies on scholarships for illegals, Huckabee shameful record

Huckabee’s Fact Twisting

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Huckabee’s
fact-twisting



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HB 1525 was not a merit bill.

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

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

HB 1525 did not require proof of
legal status.

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

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

HB 1525 had no work requirements
specified.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Huckabee’s
fact-twisting



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HB 1525 was not a merit bill.

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

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

HB 1525 did not require proof of
legal status.

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

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

HB 1525 had no work requirements
specified.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Huckabee on Scholarships for Illegals: Lies, Deceit & misrepresentation

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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.