Huckabee has BIG ethics problems.

[cali]

Huckabee rivals unearth ethics complaints

By: Kenneth P. Vogel
Nov 21, 2007 01:24 PM EST
Updated: November 23, 2007 03:55 PM EST



Mike Huckabee's career has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity.

As Mike Huckabee gains ground on his rivals for the Republican nomination, opponents have quietly begun highlighting the slew of ethics issues the social conservative faced during his political career in Arkansas.

A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found Huckabee trailing only Mitt Romney — and by less than the margin of error — in Iowa, where the primary season kicks off with Jan. 3 caucuses.

But opposition research files on Huckabee’s ethics stand at the ready, and their contents have begun seeping into press releases.

An ordained Southern Baptist minister known for his charm, Huckabee rose swiftly through Arkansas politics, culminating with his decade-long stint as governor.

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Read the whole article which details his scummy history of corruption and unethical behavior

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7000.html

[aquart]

1. Once again Politico is the source?

WTF is the matter with people here?

[cali]

2. Wait a minute; are you actually claiming Politico is fabricating this?

Are you suggesting they fabricated the Guiliani/Nathan stuff?
Do you think Politico is on par with Worldnut Daily? I don't think I'd use it for stories about dems without other backup sources, but I don't see the problem with using it for a story like this. Perhaps you can explain rationally why I shouldn't have posted this.

[KatyaR]

9. Okay, is this a little more credible?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/13/huckabee/index1.html">Mike Huckabee's Record

Ask the retarded Fort Smith teenager, raped by her stepfather, who sought Medicaid funding for an abortion as federal law required. Huckabee stood in the hospital door, at least figuratively, to prevent state funding. Ask the gay people belittled by his cracks about "Adam and Steve." Ask the scientists who've seen evolution virtually disappear from the textbooks and classrooms of Arkansas with his administration's acquiescence.

Social issues alone should give moderates pause. He championed a law in Arkansas making it harder to get a divorce, the so-called covenant marriage law that has been widely ignored except when he and his wife recommitted in a Valentine's Day publicity stunt held in a 17,000-seat arena.

Huckabee's administration worked hard and unapologetically to prevent gay people from being foster parents. He avidly supported the state amendment that bans gay marriage as well as civil unions and bans any equal treatment under the law -- such as in health insurance coverage -- for same-sex partners. He professed opposition to alcohol and gambling, but he allowed passage of legislation that made it easier for restaurants to obtain private-club mixed-drink permits in dry counties. Over the angry objection of the church lobby, he sped final action on a bill to allow video poker at the state's racetracks, an act followed not long afterward by a $10,000 campaign contribution from the owner of the state's biggest race track, at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs.

All this is sometimes done with humor, but rarely the sort of gentle humor the national media has encountered. Huckabee prefers sarcastic putdowns and hyperbole. Because Arkansas Democrats tried to enfranchise more citizens with weekend voting in Arkansas, he called his home state a banana republic on the Don Imus show. He's compared weight loss with a concentration camp. Abortion, even in the earliest microscopic stages, he's called a holocaust. He referred in a Farm Bureau speech to "fruits and nuts" and "wacko environmentalists" in decrying environmentalists as a threat to agriculture. (Yes, this is the same man that gullible mainstream columnists praise for his ringing environmental proclamations.)

[denem]

3. It looks like small beer to me.

Nothing like a million. Disclosure, not tax offenses. No sex or drugs to hang a hat on. Some money was spent of a dog house? I could make a comment about Rudy or Mitt here but it's inappropriate.

[cali]

5. I wouldn't call this such small beer

he had ethics problems for most of his tenure as guv, and was fined for personal use of campaign funds. Granted, Rudy's problems are far larger, but this stuff isn't exactly behavior becoming of a Minister. And his religiosity is something he stresses.

[Berry Cool]

4. A Republican?!? Ethics problems?!?

Quit pulling my leg.

Actually, it's more like...Take a number. We'll handle this problem in the order received. Got a big backlog of 'em right now, though. Hope you brought something to read. :boring:

[Perry Logan]

6. The Republicans would never nominate a guy whose name rhymes with "fuckabee."

[Olney Blue]

8. Or fuckamee

[sufrommich]

7. Inside every bible thumping ,pious,holier than thou

politician,beats the heart of Elmer Gantry.

[Vickers]

13. They should be showing that movie on AMC and TNT and A&E

non-stop for the next month.

[Alter Ego]

10. Not to mention Mike "HYUCK HYUCK" Huckabee is dumb as a bag of hammers.

Like I said--he's the guy who though Canada's Parliament met in an igloo.

[1corona4u]

11. Republicans don't care about ethics...

or values, remember?

[EV_Ares]

12. See no reason to doubt Politico's credibility, they appear to have

more of a conservative tilt in their choice of stories but this article seems to put some light on questions needed to be asked about this candidate if he wants to be president. My fear of him is we already have a president that has made decisions based on his faith and do we want another one that makes decisions based on his faith.