Posted on 02/27/2006 10:22:07 PM PST by ReaganIncarnate
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a potential candidate for president in 2008, sat down with a few bloggers last week while he was in town for a National Governors Association meeting (Read here and here). He seems to have gotten a fair treatment from them, but nobody asked him why he has been a habitual tax-hiker while in office. Let’s run through the laundry list:
* Huckabee signed a 3-cent gas tax increase in 1999
* He called for a state sales tax hike in 2002
* He signed a 25-cent cigarette tax in 2003
* He allowed a major tax hike package to pass in 2004
And this guy wants to be the Republican nominee for president in 2008? He also opposes school choice, and spends money like a drunken sailor (he increased spending 65.3% from 1996 to 2004).
I’m sorry, but he is NOT one of the best Republican governors in the country and he’s not presidential material. Period.
(all tax and spending information provided by Americans for Tax Reform - no link)
I don't know that much about him, so your post is appreciated. What we need is FReepers from each state giving us the same type of info you've given us...less for Presidential 2008 reasons and more for 2006 reasons. Let's concentrate on 2006 first.
he's also an illegal alien apologist (being that tyson is from AR)
Yea, i dont even know why anyone lends him any legitmacy. I clump him with pataki, just someone running to bump their name id or something.
Huckabee is soft on criminals. Highest rate of clemency in the country
See my About page (about half way down) for links to previous articles about Huck. - OB1
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