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Arkansas A recent editorial (Sept. 10, 07) entitled “Hillary vs. The Leader’s <\/i>editorial reminds me of one of <\/span><\/h2>\n <\/span><\/h3>\n Fantasizing Our former governor might be the GOP’s best candidate against Sen. Clinton, at We noticed that he was not very specific on their contrasts. It was strange She was the author of the higher school standards that were approved in 1983 So what is the contrast? You will remember that ArKids First, the great We presume that Huckabee, alone among the GOP presidential candidates, favors As governor, Huckabee sought and won a federal waiver for a plan to have the Education affords the best comparison. Huckabee likes to lump the Clintons Huckabee demanded wholesale and immediate school consolidation and abolished Huckabee fathered a 4-cent increase in gasoline and diesel taxes. He claims Huckabee accounted for bigger increase in general state debt — the kind that For rest of article see this link: http:\/\/www.arkansasleader.com:80\/2007\/09\/editorialshillary-vs-huckabee.html<\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Quotes from other Arkansas articles that support the thesis that Mike Huckabee’s pro illegal alien agenda- unbelievable! <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Government Control <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Health Care & Other Issues<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>Getting health <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>Concerning <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>Advertised on <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Physician Office Visit<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Immunizations<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Inpatient Hospital<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Dental Care<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Home Health<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Chiropractor<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Laboratory and X-ray<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Durable Medical Equipment<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Prescription Drugs<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Outpatient Hospital<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Vision Care<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Outpatient Mental and Behavioral Speech Therapy<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Podiatry<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Medical Supplies<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Nurse Midwife and Nurse <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>Concerning <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>Huckabee wrote an <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>Another article with <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>“Huckabee touts national <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>Gov. Mike Huckabee <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>“Clinton, Huckabee joins <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/b>Taxes<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n ·<\/span> <\/span>The
\nEditorial Says Mike Huckabee Is Closest of all Candidates to Hillary Clinton<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nHuckabee?” in the Arkansas paper, The Leader,<\/i> begins by
\nsaying: “Mike Huckabee said on ABC’s ‘This Week with George
\nStephanopoulos’ that he would be the Republicans’ best candidate because his
\nrecord contrasted the most sharply with hers. Our former governor might be the
\nGOP’s best candidate against Sen. Clinton, at least among the present and forthcoming
\nchallengers, but his strength would be that he is closest to, not farthest
\nfrom, Sen. Clinton on the issues and their records. (See
\nbelow for more excerpts from the article and the link to the article: )<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nArkansas’s best known liberal writer John Brummett’s article, February 1,
\n2000 in which he says :<\/b> “As it happens, Huckabee governs about as
\nClinton governed<\/b>, and Boozman [Huckabee’s appointee] directs the
\nstate Health Department about as Dr. Joycelyn Elders directed it, save the
\nbrutal and over-the-top rhetoric…The state’s leading liberal Democratic
\njournal (the only one), the weekly Arkansas Times at Little Rock, has in recent
\nissues put Boozman on the cover and suggested it might have been wrong about
\nhim and put Huckabee on the cover as ‘Arkansan of the Year’ and extolled his
\nClintonesque moderation..<\/b>. His moderation is evident in that his most
\ntouted program is a form of liberal-lite. It is the expanded and modified
\nMedicaid for kids in families of the working poor that he calls ARKids
\nFirst. In another article Brummett had this to say ” Mike
\nHuckabee, despite his rhetoric and religious conservatism, has been more of a
\nmoderate progressive, like modern Democrats, at least in a broad historical
\ncontext encompassing race and immigration and spending.”<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\nMonday,
\nSeptember 10, 2007 Excerpts from The Leader <\/i>Arkansas paper.<\/span><\/p>\nEDITORIALS>>Hillary
\nvs. Huckabee? <\/p>\n
\nabout a race for president against Sen. Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee said on
\nABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos†that he would be the Republicans’
\nbest candidate because his record contrasted the most sharply with hers.
\nHalf of his equation could be right. <\/p>\n
\nleast among the present and forthcoming challengers, but his strength would be
\nthat he is closest to, not farthest from, Sen. Clinton on the issues and their
\nrecords. Better than the others, he might carve into the middle ground of
\nindependent voters who would otherwise tilt toward the Democrat. <\/p>\n
\nthat he vaguely mentioned two comparisons: education and health care. It would
\nbe hard to separate the former Arkansas governor and the former Arkansas first
\nlady on those issues, based on their Arkansas records. It was on education and
\nhealth care that as Arkansas first lady she made a lasting imprint. <\/p>\n
\nover her husband’s imprimatur, and she worked to expand children’s health-care
\ninitiatives, founding the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
\nHuckabee claims education and children’s health care as his best innovations. <\/p>\n
\nexpansion of government-paid health insurance for children, was Arkansas
\nAdvocates’ suggestion to the newly sworn in Gov. Huckabee in 1996. He eagerly
\nembraced it and calls it even today his proudest achievement. Sen. Clinton’s
\nhusband, as president, brought it about on the national level a few months
\nafterward. <\/p>\n
\nexpanding the national children’s health initiative, which Sen. Clinton and all
\nthe Democratic members of the congressional delegation favor. <\/p>\n
\nfederal government — that’s you — subsidize health insurance for poor adult
\nworkers. Other Republicans, including President Bush, are opposing that remedy
\nas creeping socialism.<\/p>\n
\ntogether as a unit, which is fair. So how do they stack up? Hillary’s tough
\nschool standards in 1983 forced some gradual school consolidation as school
\ndistricts failed to measure up to the standards over five years. <\/p>\n
\nmore than 50 of them in one swoop. He wanted more than 100 other school
\ndistricts consolidated but the legislature balked. Does he dare boast about
\nthat?
\nTaxes? Huckabee raised them considerably more in 10 years than Clinton did in
\n12. Clinton vetoed a 4-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax, and it passed over his veto.<\/p>\n
\nbefore conservative audiences that the voters, not he, approved those taxes,
\nbut that is not true. Debt? The Clinton regime produced a small increase in
\ngeneral state indebtedness, to fund water projects and college construction. <\/p>\n
\ntaxpayers are obliged to service — than all previous Arkansas governors
\ncombined. Sen. Clinton is nailing down union endorsements in the Democratic
\nprimary. Huckabee is the only Republican candidate to seek them.<\/p>\n
\nHuckabee Is Closest of all Candidates to Hillary Clinton:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>See following link for n Arkansas newspaper articles that outline
\nHuckabee’s pro illegal alien agenda. <\/b>One quote from the article
\nwill give you an idea: “Gov. Mike Huckabee said Thursday that a bill to
\ndeny state government benefits and voting rights to illegal immigrants is
\n‘inflammatory… race-baiting and demagoguery.’ He challenged the Christian
\nvalues of its main sponsor.<\/b>” We don’t believe that Hillary could
\ndo any better! http:\/\/www.wpaag.org\/Huckabee%20pro%20illegal%20alien%20agenda%20-%20unbelievable.htm<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>As an example of Huckabee’s idea of government control vs
\nlocal control, he actually called for superintendents to be appointed by the
\nState Department of Education, saying in his educational plan, A
\nsuperintendent, who will have the authority to hire and fire principals and
\ncentral office staff, will administer each district. <\/b><\/span>The
\nauthority to hire and fire the superintendent will rest with the director of
\nthe state Department of Education<\/span><\/b>, [whom Huckabee appoints].<\/span><\/b>
\n Only Hillary Clinton could dream of such arrogance and power.
\n<\/span> For this and other such outrageous government control ideas from
\nGovernor Huckabee’s own paper on education , see this link: http:\/\/www.wpaag.org\/Huckabee’s%20Ed.%20Plan%20-2%20Parts.htm<\/a>
\nAlso see this link with numerous examples of how Huckabee and his appointed
\nDirector of Arkansas Department of Education did a better job than Hillary in
\ngovernment takeover of the schools in Arkansas. http:\/\/www.wpaag.org\/Simon%20Appointment%20Cause%20for%20Concern.htm<\/a>
\nRay Simon<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\ncoverage for every Arkansan is now a goal of Gov. Mike Huckabee’s
\nadministration,<\/b> the governor and top administration members confirm. (Isn’t
\nthat just what Hillary tried at the very beginning of her husband’s
\npresidency?) “Health care for all ranks high on list for governor,”
\nMonday, June 5, 2000 Arkansas Democrat Gazette. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nHuckabee’s Arkansas Kids First Department of Human Services Director Tom Dalton
\nsaid, “This program will put us in a very small group of states that
\nvirtually provides a kind of universal coverage for children. <\/b>
\nFew states will cover children up to 20 percent oft he poverty level. I
\ndon’t know of any in the South. ” Plan would bridge gap in
\nhealth-care system” “Plan would bridge gap in health-care
\nsystem”, by Kevin Freking, Arkansas Democrat Gazette<\/i>, Feb. 9,
\n1997<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nhandouts to use in schools to recruit people to sign up for Arkansas Kids First
\nthe following quote is found:<\/b> “We are looking for organizations
\nto partner with us in an outreach effort to contact families and children….When
\nchildren are enrolled in ARKids First, their coverage includes the following:
\n(How many of you have insurance this good, even with your exorbitant priced
\nplans?) Name of pamphlet “About ARKids First” obtained from school
\ncounselor who said they were given instructions to find as many children as
\npossible for the program.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nHealth<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nPractitioner”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n“Our Kids First” health insurance for children, Huckabee is quoted as
\nsaying, “The program will push Arkansas from near the bottom among the
\n50 states in expenditures for health care for children to first in the
\ncountry. The program is already being “heralded as a model for other
\nstates,”<\/b> (“Session could be regarded as very effective”
\nMarch 28, 1997 Jonesboro Sun.) O<\/i>n the same day this article was
\npublished, The Sun<\/i> also published an AP article
\nsaying, “The intense focus is (health insurance) is driven
\nby Democrats’ effort to incrementally expand access to health insurance…C<\/b>linton
\naims to cover 5 million children over the next four years by enrolling more who
\nare eligible for Medicaid, and by giving states $750 million a year to develop
\nor expand subsidy programs. (Arkansas Our Kids First children’s health care is
\npaid for by state and federal money.) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\narticle entitled “Why I Am Against Instituting School Prayer”<\/b>
\npublished July 1999. At the following link a liberal praises him for that
\narticle saying, “But Huckabee said he never could understand why so
\nmany people ‘railed against (the absence of) prayer in schools when they didn’t
\neven pray at home.’ … “I felt it was not the schools’ job,†he said, to teach
\nhis children to pray, but the family’s… For himself, Huckabee quipped, “I
\nprayed in school every time I took a math test.’ This writer goes on to say,
\n“That’s, um, right. In fact, when I worked at Americans United for
\nSeparation of Church and State, I’d make practically the same argument on a
\nregular basis.”<\/b> http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9855.html<\/a>
\nAt the close of the article this writer said “He [Huckabee] doesn’t have a
\nprayer” in getting the conservative nomination. Name of article “I
\nprayed in school every time I took a math test”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nheadline reads: “Huckabee says year-round school in Tennessee model for
\nArkansas.” <\/b> Hillary Clinton wants schools to be open from 6:00
\nam. to 6:00 p.m. year round to match the parents’ work schedules.
\nArkansas Democrat Gazette, September 23, 1997.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\ncertification as goal for Teachers“<\/b> is the headline of another
\narticle. Arkansas Democrat Gazette,<\/i> August 9, 1999. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\non Friday announced another condition he wants before he calls a special
\nlegislative session on education — the appointment of a panel of teachers to
\nmeet in secret to offer advice to himself and the Legislature<\/b>… The
\npanel of teachers Huckabee would appoint would consist of nine teachers who
\nwould be current or former state “teachers of the year†or Milken Award
\nwinners.<\/b> http:\/\/nwanews.com\/adg\/News\/141121\/<\/a>
\n( Milken Awards are Presented on the Basis of Innovation, Not on Test Scores or
\nAcademic Achievement and are given to Educators who incorporate global UNNESCO
\ncurriculum) For another article that gives extensive details on Milken
\nAward Winners, see this link: http:\/\/www.wpaag.org\/Huckabee%20Wants%20Milken%20Award%20Winners’%20Input.htm<\/a>
\n” Huckabee Wants Teacher Input from Milken Award Winners” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nobesity fight.” is the headline of an article in Arkansas Democrat Gazette
\nMay 4, 05 with a picture of Huckabee and Clinton together at a
\nmicrophone. The first paragraph reads, “Arkansas
\nGovernor Mike Huckabee addresses reporters during a news conference with former
\nPresident Clinton on Tuesday in New York. In many schools in
\nArkansas now the teachers can no longer allow cupcakes to celebrate their young
\nstudents’ birthdays, and all students have to be weighed annually and parents
\nnotified of their weight problem. (Some teachers have nicknamed
\nHuckabee’s obesity fight as “The Fat Police”.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nHouse of Representatives approved Thursday what would be the largest ever
\nArkansas state tax increase,<\/b> sending the $360 million-a-year measure for
\neducation to the Senate for expected approval today. (Arkansas Democrat
\nGazette, February 6, 04 by Michael Rowett and Michael Wickline) This was
\nat the request of Governor Huckabee.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n