News Flash : Former Arkansas Governor Veracity Challenged
The Man from Hope has described his illegal immigrant scholarship program as follows:
I supported a bill that would have allowed those children who had been in our schools their entire school life the opportunity to have the same scholarship that their peers had who had also gone to high school with them and sat in the same classrooms. They couldn’t just move in in their senior year and go to college. ... [It] said that if you’d sat in our schools from the time you’re 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student, you completed the core curriculum, you were an exceptional student, and you also had to be drug and alcohol free, and the other provision, you had to be applying for citizenship.
Wish I could say I was shocked to find out most of that isn’t true:
Actually, the bill Huckabee pushed for in his 2005 State of the Union address did not apply only to “those children who had been in our schools their entire school life.” It required only three years in an Arkansas high school to be eligible. And students did not have to be “applying for citizenship,” but rather they had to sign an affidavit stating their intent to do so in the future. All students who apply for state scholarships must “certify that they are drug-free” and “pledge to refrain from alcohol” if they are under 21, just as Huckabee said. But they certainly don’t have to be “an A-plus student.” The state requires a solid “B” average (a 3.0 average on a 4.0 scale). And the state may reduce that to a 2.5 average if sticking with the higher requirement “would unduly reduce the number of low-income or disadvantaged students who would otherwise be eligible for the program.” That’s a C-plus average.
On one issue after another, the Man from Hope has been displaying an unfortunate habit of playing fast and loose with the facts. I could be wrong, but I suspect that might become a liability if he doesn’t get on the straight and narrow PDQ.
Link: http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/190277.php
Note, for me this isn’t really about Huckebee, who I thing is a decent person and would be much better than the Hildabeast, it’s about who controls the process of selecting the candidates by controlling the framework of the public debate.
Watching the efforts by the MSM and business types to lift Huckebee from obscurity to within (perceived) striking distance in Iowa is totally fascinating. Now I understand how we could go from a “compassionate conservative” to a “heroic conservative” - Both types are really Liberals at heart dressed up in socially conservative clothing.
But he said he finds a lot of anger and frustration directed at immigrants who don't speak English.
"Unfortunately, instead of being angry at the federal government for totally failing us in this, they sometimes get angry at the people themselves," he said.
He also said he's willing to take the heat for pushing for illegal alien students to be able to get taxpayer-funded financial aid and college scholarships.
"Our country is better than that, to punish children for what their parents did in breaking the law. If that costs me the election, it costs me the election, but somewhere along the line we cannot just pander to the anger and hostility without challenging it," he said.
I don't see why the Federal Government, i.e., the taxpayers, has some overriding obligation to teach English to illegal aliens, or even legally resident aliens, for that matter. People who come here wanting to become Americans should take some individual responsibility and learn English with the help of massive, locally available resources in places like community colleges. When Huckster relieves them of any accountability for their voluntary failure to learn English, he shows himself to be the illegals' enabler.