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Huckabee's Record: Freed a Rapist Who Became a Killer, etc...
The Brad Blog ^ | November 28, 2007 | Jon Ponder

Posted on 11/28/2007 1:34:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Huckabee's Record: Freed a Rapist Who Became a Killer, Destroyed Gov't Hard Drives, Raised Taxes, Misappropriated Funds

Extremist Religious Views Appeal to Christian Nationalists But Will Repel Normal Voters in the General Dems Should Pray He's on the Ticket

Recent polls show that Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and Baptist preacher, is rising in popularity in Iowa, where he is cutting into Mitt Romney's lead. (Romney has 28 percent, Huckabee has 24 percent in the ABC news survey; Romney is at 27 percent and Huckabee's at 18 percent in the local KCCI-TV poll.) He's also moving up in in Florida, where he's running second to Rudolph Giuliani, 26 percent to 17 percent --- leaving good ol' boy actor Fred Thompson in fifth place with 9 percent.

With Thompson's campaign fading, Huckabee becomes the last best hope for the GOP's Christian nationalist base. Unlike Thompson, Huckabee is authentically one of them. He believes in the inerrancy of the Bible and says he does not believe in evolution. He wants to amend the Constitution to outlaw abortion, and he is the only candidate who has smeared a gay person in the debates, so far.

But Mike Huckabee comes with some serious baggage, and with his rise in the polls comes new scrutiny of his record as governor Arkansas, both in the media and by his opponents, who are quickly finding his record in Little Rock to be what opposition researchers might call a "target-rich environment."

The scandals associated with the Huckabee administration in Arkansas include:

A rapist released at Huckabee's behest who went on to murder his next victim Accusations that Huckabee and his family misappropriated tax-payer funds for personal use The charge that at the end of his term, Huckabee ordered the destruction of government computers worth over $300,000, apparently to obstruct possible future investigations While he was governor, the state of Arkansas raised taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars Details follow:

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TOPICS: Arkansas; Campaign News; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2008; aliens; amnesty; election; electionpresident; elections; gop; graft; huckabee; hushmoney; littlerock; mikehuckabee; obesity; parole; republicans; scandals; shields; taxes; taxhikemike; waynedumond; weightloss
Hillary must be very pleased with the latest news from Iowa's Rasmussen poll putting Mike "Open Borders For Jesus" Huckabee in the lead, instead of a true conservative like Fred Thompson or Duncan Hunter!!
1 posted on 11/28/2007 1:34:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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It saddens me that Christians are falling into the trap of supporting an individual who is clearly not a conservative, one who is ideologically committed to bigger government and higher taxes, and one who wants to undermine the rule of law.

Only smaller government, fiscal discipline and lower taxes leads to a free society where traditionally moral values can flourish.

Now, it seems like everybody is trying to run to the right to court the fiscal conservative wing of the GOP, but their records don’t hold water.

We must get past the political rhetoric and understand clearly where a candidate stands on the most important issues of our day. And when you do that, you can tell that no front runner is a real conservative.

2 posted on 11/28/2007 1:46:41 PM PST by theworkersarefew (www.aaronhankins.com)
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Every candidate we have who has executive experience has examples of this.

I guess it’s fortunate that none of the “true conservatives” have any executive experience.


3 posted on 11/28/2007 1:50:21 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT (The Swiss Ninja.)
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In addition, Dr. Jerome Corsi reports that “Financial inducements arranged by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to establish a Mexican consular office in Little Rock may have violated state law, according to an Arkansas attorney.”

Writing for World Net Daily, Dr. Corsi exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee “worked with some of the state’s most prominent and politically powerful businesses to establish the [Mexican] consulate as a magnet for drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs.” [Legality of Huckabee’s Mexican consulate deal questioned, November 1, 2007]

Corsi goes on to report that “Arkansas attorney Chip Sexton provided WND a written legal brief arguing the state government’s sublease to Mexico of office space for the consulate was illegal under Arkansas law. Sexton contended the deal raised questions about the appropriateness of private citizens and corporations in Arkansas providing financial incentives for the government of Mexico to locate a consulate office in Little Rock.”

Corsi also writes that “Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, told WND he and Huckabee helped arrange state and private financial support to induce Mexico to establish the consulate as a business development ‘quid pro quo.’

“Trevino signed on July 7, 2006, a ‘Facilities Use Agreement’ with Mexican consular officials to rent state government office space for $1 a year on the second floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services building at 26 Corporate Hills in Little Rock.”

According to Sexton, not only did subleasing state government offices to Mexico violate Arkansas state law under Ark. Code Ann. 22-2-114(C)(i) which provides: “After July 1, 1975, no state agency shall enter into or renew or otherwise negotiate a lease between itself as lessor or lessee and a nongovernmental or other government lessor or lessee,” but it was even more offensive in that “there was nothing in the lease or other agreements that would have prevented the Mexican consulate from providing legal assistance to illegal aliens.”

In addition, Corsi also exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee worked with Mexican President Vicente Fox to help provide cheap Mexican labor for Tyson Foods and other large Arkansas corporations. According to Corsi, “Trevino confirmed he was state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC, an activist group strongly advocating for the rights of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S., when on Oct. 3, 2003, he accompanied Huckabee in a state airplane to visit [President Vicente] Fox in Mexico.”


4 posted on 11/28/2007 1:52:50 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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"Every candidate we have who has executive experience has examples of this.

I guess it’s fortunate that none of the “true conservatives” have any executive experience."

Man, you spin more than a Maytag washer!

5 posted on 11/28/2007 1:55:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Your "dirt" on Fred is about as persuasive as a Nancy Pelosi Veteran's Day Speech)
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I’m not trying to spin anything here. Invariably those who have executive experience will have taken actions which turn out badly.

Surely you could even name a few things Reagan did as Governor, and as President, that didn’t turn out well.

It’s the nature of the beast.

Our political discourse has become way too much of a “gotcha” game, which is playing right into the hands of the democrats this year, as their candidates universally have LESS experience, which means LESS of a record to use to “get” them.

I suppose someone will say I “maligned” Reagan now. I certainly don’t think making mistakes makes someone less of a great leader.

BTW, my comment was really a general statement. We should look into these things, and some things would rise beyond the typical errors or unlucky results. I am not expressing an opinion about the specific charges in this case, as I am not a Huckabee supporter.


6 posted on 11/28/2007 2:24:02 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT (The Swiss Ninja.)
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>>Invariably those who have executive experience will have taken actions which turn out badly.<<

In fact I would say that WRT immigration, “executive experience” in these times is likely to be a corrupting influence.


7 posted on 11/28/2007 4:06:07 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Illegals: representation without taxation--Citizens: taxation without representation)
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November 27, 2007

More Reasons To Beware Of Mike Huckabee—Mexican Consular Scandal And Other Ethical Questions
By Chuck Baldwin

Many Christian conservatives see Mike Huckabee as the best candidate to deliver the GOP from an impending pro-abortion presidential nomination of either Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney. Huckabee is doing especially well in Iowa, particularly among evangelicals. Is Mike Huckabee worthy of this support, however? The facts say no.

I have already attempted to warn my evangelical brethren as to the dangers of supporting Mike Huckabee. See Christians—Beware Of Mike Huckabee!

However, that first column was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Here are more reasons to beware of Mike Huckabee.

Robert Novak recently wrote a column about Mike Huckabee entitled, “The False Conservative.” In the column he said, “Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist, big-government advocate of a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans.”

Novak also said, “There is no doubt about Huckabee’s record during a decade in Little Rock as governor. . . He increased the Arkansas tax burden by 47 percent, boosting the levies on gasoline and cigarettes.”

Novak continued saying, “Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas journalist writing in the conservative American Spectator, called Huckabee ‘a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak.’ Huckabee’s retort was to attack Hillyer’s journalistic procedures, fitting a mean-spirited image when he responds to conservative criticism.”

Calling Huckabee a proponent of big-government is an understatement. “If you listen closely, all the things he supports increase the size, power and cost of government. From subsidies for energy research to increasing money for health care and government housing, the size, power, and cost of government will not shrink under a President Mike Huckabee; they will increase . . . Mr. Huckabee swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution when he became governor, yet many of his proposals are clearly unconstitutional.” (Source: David Ulrich, Letter of the Week, World Net Daily, 10/26/07)

In addition, Dr. Jerome Corsi reports that “Financial inducements arranged by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to establish a Mexican consular office in Little Rock may have violated state law, according to an Arkansas attorney.”

Writing for World Net Daily, Dr. Corsi exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee “worked with some of the state’s most prominent and politically powerful businesses to establish the [Mexican] consulate as a magnet for drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs.” [Legality of Huckabee’s Mexican consulate deal questioned, November 1, 2007]

Corsi goes on to report that “Arkansas attorney Chip Sexton provided WND a written legal brief arguing the state government’s sublease to Mexico of office space for the consulate was illegal under Arkansas law. Sexton contended the deal raised questions about the appropriateness of private citizens and corporations in Arkansas providing financial incentives for the government of Mexico to locate a consulate office in Little Rock.”

Corsi also writes that “Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, told WND he and Huckabee helped arrange state and private financial support to induce Mexico to establish the consulate as a business development ‘quid pro quo.’

“Trevino signed on July 7, 2006, a ‘Facilities Use Agreement’ with Mexican consular officials to rent state government office space for $1 a year on the second floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services building at 26 Corporate Hills in Little Rock.”

According to Sexton, not only did subleasing state government offices to Mexico violate Arkansas state law under Ark. Code Ann. 22-2-114(C)(i) which provides: “After July 1, 1975, no state agency shall enter into or renew or otherwise negotiate a lease between itself as lessor or lessee and a nongovernmental or other government lessor or lessee,” but it was even more offensive in that “there was nothing in the lease or other agreements that would have prevented the Mexican consulate from providing legal assistance to illegal aliens.”

In addition, Corsi also exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee worked with Mexican President Vicente Fox to help provide cheap Mexican labor for Tyson Foods and other large Arkansas corporations. According to Corsi, “Trevino confirmed he was state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC, an activist group strongly advocating for the rights of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S., when on Oct. 3, 2003, he accompanied Huckabee in a state airplane to visit [President Vicente] Fox in Mexico.”

There is more.

The American Spectator reported that “Fourteen times, the ethics commission—a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group—investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him. And as only MSNBC among the big national media has reported at any real length, there were lots of other mini-scandals and embarrassments along the way.”

Plus, writing for The Washington Times, Greg Pierce quoted Hillyer as saying, “[Huckabee] used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor’s mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a ‘charitable’ organization he set up while lieutenant governor—an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious ‘charity.’”

Mike Huckabee’s beliefs and actions even border on the bizarre. According to David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, “GOP presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee suggested that as president he would, for the good of the people, support a federal anti-smoking law. You see, as governor, Huckabee supported such laws because, well, he doesn’t like smoking and doesn’t think folks should indulge in so heath-threatening an activity. If he could move on up to the presidency, he would continue his abolitionist crusade at the national level without giving much, if any, thought to the question of whether the Constitution or anything else would legitimize a federal ban on smoking.”

I have yet one more word of warning for those evangelicals supporting Huckabee because he is pro-life: Mike Huckabee will most definitely support Rudy Giuliani should Giuliani obtain the Republican nomination. Count on it.

I ask you, how could a committed “pro-life” conservative support a pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, pro-gun control liberal such as Rudy Giuliani? He couldn’t.

At the end of the day, however, there is absolutely no question that Huckabee will support Giuliani (or any other pro-abortion Republican), because, when all is said and done, Huckabee and his fellow big-government Republicans have no real commitment to the life issue or to any other conservative principle.

Let’s say it plainly: Mike Huckabee is just another big-government, establishment politician who will do nothing to stem the tide of socialism or fascism (pick your poison) emanating from Washington, D.C., these days.


8 posted on 11/29/2007 4:53:43 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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Huckabee wanted rapist set free; rapist then raped and murdered another woman; BUMP TO THE TOP!


9 posted on 12/04/2007 6:27:05 PM PST by Joya (May God rest your soul in peace, Sean Taylor. Heartfelt condolences to your loved ones.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ping


10 posted on 11/29/2009 8:33:58 PM PST by restornu (Teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves! ~ Joseph Smith)
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