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Huckabee:Plane Ride No Conflict of Interest???

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Huckabee: Plane
Ride No Conflict Of Interest

June 16, 2006

ARKANSAS NEWS BUREAU

LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Huckabee’s use of a plane provided
by a provider that has an $8.5 million contract with the state was an in-kind contribution to  Huckabee’s political action comittee, the
governor’s office said Thursday.

 

There was no conflict of interest
in Hucka­bee’s use of the plane provided by the director of the Lord’s Ranch
youth camp for a flight to Ra­leigh, N.C., to a state Republican convention
this month, Huckabee spokesman Alice Stewart said.

“Arrangements were made
through the Hope America PAC,” she said.

The
weekly Arkansas
Times of Little Rock reported Thursday that the plane the governor, first lady
Janet Huckabee, their daughter, Sarah, a Huckabee aide and at least one state
police security officer flew to Raleigh in on June 2 was owned by Southeastern
Asset management, a New Hamp­shire corporation managed by Ted Suhl, director of
the Lord’s Ranch, a religious-based youth home in Warm Springs.

The
flight gained atten­tion when Huckabee said the plane developed engine trouble
and had to make an emergency landing in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Julie
Munsell, spokes­woman for the state Depart­ment of Health and Human Services,
said the facil­ity has a state contract paid through Medicaid of about $8.5
million this fiscal year—up from under $140,000 in 2000.

Stewart
said Thursday that Suhl is “one of numer­ous plane owners who have offered
to provide trans­portation to various candi­dates.”

She
said the flight was listed as an in-kind contribution, but that the exact cost
of the” flight was not known.

The
type of plane used, by Huckabee, a Citation SII; costs up to SI,900 an hour!

Huckabee
told The Associ­ated Press on Thursday that he was “very careful with my
own personal things not to mix that” when asked if the contribution posed
a conflict, of interest.

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 ‘he Mexican
Consulate” office; 5,000 for the Arkansas chapter »f
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



 

 

 

 

 

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