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Free Transport: Huckabee and family

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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

A
schedule released by Huckabee’s office says he is to be in Carlsbad, Calif.,
for a Republican Governors Association meeting from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, New York City to receive
an award on Dec. 5 and Greensboro, N.C., to deliver a speech on Dec. 6. His
office would not say if Huckabee will use the State Police plane for those
trips.

Sadler
said Huckabee’s use of the plane is governed by Section 12-8-108(a) of the
Arkansas Code, which says, “The Department of Arkansas State Police shall be responsible
for the safety and security of the: (1) Governor and his or her family.” It makes no
specific provision for use of the plane to transport the governor, an expense
worth thousands of dollars for every trip
at private industry prices.

Also,
Chapter 17 of the State Police Field Operations Policy and Procedure Manual
refers to the department’s aircraft. Among the approved uses other than for law enforcement
operations is “transportation of other state officials in the performance of official state business.”

The
same chapter stipulates “the determination of whether a situation warrants
the use of ASP aircraft shall be made by ASP field supervisors. (The Commander of the Executive
Protection Unit may also schedule and request ASP aircraft for use by the Governor.)”

According
to the manual, State Police flights must adhere to Federal Aviation
Regulations, which in the case of the King
Air 200 are found in Part 91.

In South Dakota,
Democratic state legislators have asked the Federal Aviation Administration
whether their governor’s use of a King
Air 200 complies with Part 91.

The
Argus Leader, South Dakota’s largest newspaper, reported in September that Gov.
Mike Rounds “sometimes uses the state airplane to travel to high school athletic
contests and other non-public events, often taking family members and friends along. Rounds said
state law allows him to pay for nonpublic use of the state-owned airplanes. He
said he usually uses
either his campaign fund or a Governor’s Club fund created by donors to the
state Republican Party to reimburse the
state for those trips.”

In
a survey of public aircraft policies in 49 states, the Argus Leader found mat
most states clearly prohibit use of state-owned planes for personal or political travel. For
Arkansas the newspaper quoted Rex Nelson, Huckabee’s former communications director, as
saying, “He doesn’t use the airplane for personal trips. Occasionally,
there’s a day when official business
travel is mixed with politics.”

There is bi-partisan
support among South Dakota lawmakers for examination of the use of the state
airplane by Rounds, who is a Republican.

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