Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and his rock and roll band, Capitol Offense
held on Thursday, January 20, 2005 in Washington, D.C.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335332/posts#20
Posted on 05/08/2015 3:04:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) announced his second presidential bid on Tuesday, he played up his blue-collar, working-class background in an attempt to distinguish himself from some of his rivals.
"I don't have a global foundation or a taxpayer-funded paycheck to live off of. I don't come from a family dynasty, but a working family. I grew up blue collar, not blue blood," Huckabee said in his announcement, which he delivered in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas.
Huckabee's statement took aim at several of his potential competitors in the 2016 election. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband run the Clinton Global Foundation. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) -- a likely 2016 contender and the son and brother of former presidents -- certainly didn't grow up working-class. And Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who have all announced their White House bids, draw a government paycheck from their jobs.
But it's not entirely accurate for Huckabee to insinuate that he doesn't benefit from taxpayer funds.
In the financial disclosure form that Huckabee filed in May 2007 for his first presidential run, he reported approximately $14,000 in a pension from the state of Arkansas between Jan. 1, 2006, and the date of filing.
Huckabee served as Arkansas' lieutenant governor from November 1993 to July 1996, and as governor from July 1996 to January 2007. Along with other state workers, he is part of the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System. From 1978 through mid-2005, employees joining APERS did not have to contribute any funds toward their retirement....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
He’s a huckster! He should stick to selling patent medicine to the gullible. Amazingly, he’s about tied with Ted Cruz in the latest RCP poll averages. 7.5% to Cruz’s 8.8%. That probably means he’s not going to be the nominee, which is a good thing. But it’s amazing how much name recognition gets you. He starts even with Cruz who has been clearly campaigning since the start of the year.
Good planning I’d say...
He won Iowa and about 6 or 7 other states in 2008 and has had a once a week TV show for many years now. Once people see Ted Cruz in the debates alongside these other people, the sheep and the goats shall soon be separated.
Huckabee: The gift that just keeps giving!
Cruz has to make debates. First. The MSM is doing their comrades proud. Never a mention of Ted Cruz by the serial news companies.
You go Huff Po, this is our guy. We are all in for him.
Sent him my 401K.
He will win!
/s
Let me help you out with the anti-Huckabee posts just since 05/05/16:
Mike Huckabee Scoffs At Pulling A ‘Taxpayer-Funded Paycheck’ While Pulling A Taxpayer-Funded Pension
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3287831/posts
Iowa Kingmaker Ditches Huckabee: He Sounds Like Hillary; I’m Going with Cruz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3287746/posts
What’s Wrong with Mike Huckabee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287701/posts
Trump: Huckabee can’t protect entitlements like I can
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3287543/posts
Would the Real Mike Huckabee Please Stand Up?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3287531/posts
The Honeymoon Is Over: Iowa Radio Host Steve Deace Turns On Huckabee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287487/posts
Huckabee’s daughter to run ‘16 campaign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287454/posts
Iowa radio host bashes Huckabee [Steve Deace]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287440/posts
Don’t Underestimate Mike Huckabee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3287371/posts
Can Mike Huckabee win back his Iowa flock?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3287358/posts
The Huckster stands by his scam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287339/posts
CNN’s Jake Tapper Confronts Mike Huckabee About Promoting ‘Hucksterism’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287308/posts
Republican Huckabee appeals to working class in launching 2016 bid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3287137/posts
Huckabee defends his email spam selling bible verses as a cancer cure (Video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3287029/posts
Reminder: Mike Huckabee Granted Clemency to a Criminal Who Murdered Four Police Officers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287021/posts
Huckabee’s repeated claim that he passed ’94 tax cuts’ as governor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287015/posts
Brody File Analysis: Evangelical Food Fight: Mike Huckabee vs. Ted Cruz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3287001/posts
Taxes went up in Arkansas when Huckabee was governor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3286976/posts
Mike Huckabee Pushes Senators to Resign or Quit WH Run
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3286968/posts
Mike Huckabee Is Campaigning Like A Liberal Blogger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3286927/posts
I WONDER if Huckabee was Urged to Run by (Fox News Chief) Karl Rove
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3286902/posts
So what?
He needs a straw hat and a jug.
Let me help you out with the anti-Huckabee posts just since 05/05/16
I blew my 401K?
WTF?
Remember the real timeline:
Maurice Clemmons
16-years old
Aggravated Robbery, Theft of Property
May 3, 2000: Arkansas Governor Huckabee reduced Clemmons’ 108 year
sentence to 47 years which made Clemmons eligible for parole immediately.
July 13, 2000: Clemmons went before the parole board which grants his parole.
August 1, 2000: Clemmons is released from prison to parole.
July 13, 2001: He committed a technical violation of his parole and had new pending charges for robbery. He was sentenced to 10 years to be served concurrently.
March 18, 2004:
The parole board released Clemmons only to Washington State because he had family here.
March 29, 2004:
Clemmons was transferred to Washington for supervision under the Interstate Compact agreement.
Washington Supervision History:
Until May 2009, his supervision was relatively uneventful.
More: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2009/12/01/2010399732.pdf
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