It also appears Mr. Huckabee is good at creating image over subtance, and trying to steal furniture and other goodies from the executive mansion:
Once, Gov. Huckabee even had the gall to file suit against the state ethics commission. He lost.
Fourteen times, the ethics commission -- a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group -- investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him. And, as only MSNBC among the big national media has reported at any real length, there were lots of other mini-scandals and embarrassments along the way.
He used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor's mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a "charitable" organization he set up while lieutenant governor -- an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious "charity."Huckabee has been criticized, reasonably so, for misusing the state airplane for personal reasons. And he and his wife, Janet, actually set up a "wedding gift registry" (they had already been married for years) to which people could donate as the Huckabees left the governorship, in order to furnish their new $525,000 home.
And there is even more. For those of you out there who fall for the "praise JEEZ-us" talk and think he is honorable, Reaganesque, Conservative, and Christian, then I suggest you read this article...a few times. Mike Huckabee is not what we need. He is merely the Republican Bubba, with a less obnoxious wife. Don't fall for the posturing...follow the money....I am going on record:
I DON'T (heart) Huckabee
Have you voted yet? You really should...you know you want to...do it for our country.
