Just before Rev. Huckabee climbed on the election bandwagon, his political organization donated money to Planned Parenthood in Arkansas. He also has the enthusiastic support of the NEA.
Pro-lifers and homeschooler...BEWARE!!
SATIN: “Huckabee’s political organization donated money to Planned Parenthood in Arkansas.”
That’s a new one. Please provide documentation.
SATIN: “He also has the enthusiastic support of the NEA. pro-lifers and homeschoolers...BEWARE!!”
Wow.
Somebody better tell all those homeschoolers who manned phone banks for Huck in Iowa. And Mike Ferris, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association, who endorsed him. And that home school mom he appointed to the state Board of Education.
The truth is, the NEA has not endorsed him. Their state affiliate in N.H. did, but only because they promised their Repub members they’d endorse a Repub, but choose only from Repubs who came to their convention and talked to them, and he was the only one who went.
Union officials were somewhat deceptive in their endorsement news release, saying they endorsed him because he has opposed vouchers.
But the fact is that many CONSERVATIVE groups don’t support vouchers for fear that govt regulations will follow the transfer of govt funds.
Most School Choice activists now agree that a Universal Tuition Tax Credit is the far preferable mechanism, because it involves no transfer of govt funds.
And whaddaya know...
CNS NEWS
Washington, D.C.
January 3, 2008
Huckabee and Education
by Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor in Chief
...Conservatives, I suspect, will find some of Huckabee’s reservations about vouchers more persuasive than others. He cites a compelling argument from Christian school administrators, for example, who told him they fear that “once you take government money, you take government control.”
...Huckabee did offer an alternative route to school choice for parents who don’t want to send their children to public schools.
“I think that we ought to have tax credits for a family whose decision is to put their children in an alternative environment. And that is something that I would support,” he said. “It’s an empowering method to families.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200801/COM20080103a.html