Posted on 12/12/2007 12:34:44 PM PST by ReagansRaiders
Gov. Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet, are registered for home furnishing gifts at Target and Dillard’s department stores as they prepare to leave the Governor’s Mansion in January and move into a house they recently purchased in North Little Rock.
Gifts requested at Dillard’s for Janet and Mike Huckabee include 24 place settings of Lenox “Holiday Nouveau” china and stemware (from $14 to $40 a piece), Biddeford bed linens (king and queen bed skirts from $89 to $99), an oval pot rack ($60), an asparagus pot ($30), a KitchenAid mixer ($300) and a Jack LaLanne power juicer ($100).
The Jack LaLanne juicer is also on the Target list, along with a Kitchen Essentials 12-piece cookware set ($250) and cookie sheet ($20), Fieldcrest bed linens (from $30 to $144), rugs (from $25 to $150), and table linens, potholders and kitchen towels (from $2 to $13) and more.
Target’s registry also notes: “Message from the couple: Target GiftCards are welcome.” They can be purchased in amounts from $10 to $1,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at arktimes.com ...
Private party of 30 people put up by two friends of Mike and Janet Huckabee...
It was a joke.
That's fine, but what is his reaction to this effort? If he says nothing and takes the gifts then he's complicit. When most people leave a job be it on good or bad terms, they don't get appliances, furniture and china. Why should politicians?
We don't need new laws to prevent this kind of "soft" corruption. We need political leaders who bring leadership instead of a sense of entitlement. Thanks for posting this article. Now I know I will not be voting for the Huckster!
It includes the story about the $70,000 in furniture he tried to walk off with.
Good grief. I thought Christians weren't supposed to be so greedy.
Housewarming gifts are very common, as are housewarming registries. Also, Janet Huckabee continues to work while her husband campaigns. I don’t really support the Huck for the Presidency, but I’ve never seen anything wrong with having a registry.
You have to understand, on FR these days, absolutely everything Huckabee has ever said or done is proof positive that he is a lying, two-faced, illegal-immigrant-loving, corrupt, tax-hiking SOCIALIST!!! Including if his friends want to give him and his wife a housewarming party, and Target lists it under "Wedding Registry" because their computer system doesn't have a "Housewarming" category, only Wedding and Baby showers.
Oh and BTW: people seriously think that being registered at freakin' TARGET is proof that he's a greedy graft-grubber like the Clintons? They backed a van up to the White House, and I assure you Hillary didn't fill it with Jack LaLanne juicers. I swear, some people on here are so invested in their fantasies of Duncan Hunter sweeping the nation that they have lost all grip on reality.
“The registry was set up by friends of the Huckabee’s. Not the Huckabee’s the themselves.”
The word “no” comes to mind.
By accepting, they said “yes;” and therefore, by accepting, they are very much a part of it.
Somebody had to give these “hostesses” their selection of things they wanted.
Nice try.
State ethics laws prohibited the Huckabees from receiving gifts of more than $100 as a reward for doing his job. But there was an exception for “wedding presents.”
THAT is why they did a “wedding” registry.
“Somebody had to give these “hostesses” their selection of things they wanted.”
Exactly!!!
And let’s call it for what it is. It is called “bribery,” and the Huck and the little wife know it.
Should he become president or should he have a future job with influence, favors will be returned.
There is nothing innocent about this.
The commission found Huckabee unintentionally failed to disclose $23,500 he received from a nonprofit organization set up to handle his speaking engagements and supplement his income before he became governor.
The nonprofit, Action America, paid Huckabee a total of $41,500 in 1994 and 1995 but missed IRS filing deadlines for those years. Huckabee has repeatedly declined to disclose the handful of benefactors who financed the group.
Allegations by a former governor’s mansion employee in 1998 became part of the basis for a lawsuit against Huckabee over his family’s use of a $60,000-a-year fund. The lawsuit also dealt with Huckabee’s assertion that $70,000 worth of furniture donated to the governor's mansion was his to keep.
The fund had been used to pay for pizza, a doghouse, a magazine subscription and pantyhose for Huckabee’s wife, Janet, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
The suit was settled with Huckabee admitting no wrongdoing but acknowledging a dispute "regarding reimbursements” and making clear the furniture was for the mansion.
Before leaving office Jan. 9, Huckabee spent $13,000 in state funds to destroy the hard drives of nearly 100 computers in the governor’s office.
He pointed out that he had backed up the data and argued that the hard drive destruction was standard practice to prevent the dissemination of sensitive information related to employees or constituents.
Critics suggested he was hiding something. But the ethics commission dismissed complaints alleging violations of record management rules.
That might not be the end of the story, though. A lawyer is suing Huckabee, alleging that he misspent state money on the destruction.
Even more at:
“THAT is why they did a “wedding” registry.”
Oh gads. I’m going to get sick!!!
You are correct.
Huckabee supported a bill for covenant marriage in Arkansas. After the law was passed, he and Janet renewed their vows at a public ceremony. A few of their friends decided to celebrate the occasion with a wedding registry. The local liberal weekly rag found out about the registry and tried to make an issue of it.
February 14, 2005 - Arkansas governor, first lady promote covenant marriage on Valentine's Day
LOL!
This is just sooooo tacky and embarrasing!
Wow! I missed this one last year. So Clintonesque. The more I learn about this guy, the more my opinion of him declines.
The registry was set up by friends of the Huckabee’s. Not the Huckabee’s the themselves.
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Quite possibly. But did the friends also compile the wish list? Did the Huckster insist that the list be shut down?
When will the freepers begin to get behind Duncan Hunter,
The other republican nominees are pretty much out.
Mitt is an ok kinda guy but can we conservatives bet the bank on him.
Fred is in the same camp.
We have a real need for someone like Duncan Hunter because he really does fit the MOLD of Ronald Reagan. The conservative base will come back and out to vote for Duncan Hunter not so sure about the others.
The reason the democrats are holding a power lead today is because the conservatives sit the last election OUT.
The time machine is ticking away and you can believe Hillary will win the nomination of the fruit bats on the left.
I think it is suppose to be for newly, 1st time, weds. Not old worn out politicians wanting a little graft, for their million dollar Mansion.
Well, that’s not quite as tacky as Hillary taking a tax deduction for giving away Bills old under ware, but it’s close.
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