Huck? Yuck!
BTW, there’s not really anything wrong with repeating rumors, or having them emerge in a liberal newspaper, if they are true.
Kinda hard to spin staff soliciting donations for a Christmas gift. Or cufflinks of that value.
I think we are seeing staff problems at Huckabee’s campaign. They should have had defense pre-arranged for all this. They clearly don’t, and those newspapers would necessarily call to ask for comment before running the story.
Time passes, 2nd tier organization asserts itself. It is all part of the process of trial by fire.