What You Don't Know About Mike Huckabee

Dakstang · 11-28-2007, 10:48 PM

This comes from a Rollingstone article.

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...Huckabee also has a televangelist's knack for getting caught with his fingers in various cookie jars. In his first year as governor, Huck used a $60,000 tax payer fund for personal expenses like dog food, pantyhose and meals at Taco Bell. (One of his sons â€” also a very heavy man, as his *father was â€” reportedly joked that "there's not a Huckabee alive that can eat at Taco Bell for seven dollars.") The governor also tried to keep $70,000 in furnishings for the governor's mansion supplied by a local cotton grower, and used inaugural funds to pay for clothes for his wife. "Mike is first and foremost about Mike," says Brantley. "He'll nickel-and-dime whoever he can to line his pockets."

Huckabee has also been accused of paying himself as a consultant to his own senatorial campaign, allowing special interests to pay for airline tickets for his daughter, receiving a canoe from a Coke bottler and â€” hilariously, if you're wont to laugh at the sheer small-town gauche greediness of it all â€” setting up a "wedding registry" at Target and Dillard's department stores so citizens could lavish the Huckabees with gifts as they renewed their marriage vows. The long list of desired goodies included twenty-four settings of Lenox "Holiday Nouveau" china, a KitchenAid mixer and a "Jack La Lanne power juicer." If you didn't want to pick out something yourself, the Huckabees were glad to take straight cash. "Message from the couple," the registry noted. "Target GiftCards are welcome."

Brantley suggests that a lot of this behavior stems from a Southern tradition of ponying up to the local preacher. "If you're the pastor of a church and you've got a guy who owns a men's clothing store, you expect the guy to give you a couple of new suits every year," says Brantley. "But Huckabee continued on like that as governor."

The Arkansans I spoke with about Huckabee invariably describe him as thin-skinned and petty. One evangelical Arkansas Republican who has worked in several GOP campaigns says a family member provided free services to Huckabee just as he had for other preachers, believing that he was helping out someone who was "doing the Lord's work." But the extent of Huckabee's gift-gouging, the man says, was unprecedented: "It's never been understood that that's what you do for politicians."...

The article is quite long so I didn't post the whole thing. This is the link to the whole article if anyone is interested.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...htwing_nut_job

Slimdust · 11-28-2007, 10:56 PM

a lot of dirt get brought into political debates for no reason. How do we know any of this is even true? Certain things could be brought up by all candidates.

People need to focus on the issues, not try to fine skeletons in closets.

Joe Cool · 11-28-2007, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Slimdust

a lot of dirt get brought into political debates for no reason. How do we know any of this is even true? Certain things could be brought up by all candidates.

People need to focus on the issues, not try to fine skeletons in closets.

True. but when the man has a history of playing games and lying to people then his character needs to come into question as someone who is in worthy to be in this thing.

I refuse to "focus on the issues" when the gentleman in front of me is not someone I want running the country.

I am judging this by his own comments, btw which so far have been one sided and publicity based; not to mention that mob mentality.

I have no idea who I am voting for yet so my opinion is entirely unbiased.

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What You Don't Know About Mike Huckabee

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