I have my reasons for not backing him...his anti-smoking push for Arkansas, his stance on illegals, raising taxes here, and a couple more. Taxes and anti-smoking being the top.
But I just learned something on the raising taxes. Huck raised taxes in Arkansas only a fraction percentage-wise that Romney did! That fact alone put him far above Romney in my book!
It will come as a shock to my Arkansas friends, but The Huck just very well may get my vote Tuesday!
You may be mistaking me for Jim Robinson? I am not him :)
Here’s an objective analysis of how the records of the two Governors regarding spending in their respective states:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/clarification-on-huckabee-and-romney-spending/
“The bottom line? The difference in annual spending growth, adjusted for inflation, between Mr. Huckabee and Mr. Romney is not 3.9 percent compared to 1.8 percent, as the original post said. Instead, it is 4.9 percent versus 1.1 percent, a slightly larger difference.
As the original post said, Mr. Romney can still rightly claim to have done a better job restraining spending on annual basis than Mr. Huckabee, now by a larger margin.”