MIKE HUCKABEE

'Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee' (born August 24, 1955) is a former governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas, having served from 1996 to 2007. He was the third Republican governor of the state since Reconstruction and enjoyed good approval ratings during his tenure.^[1] He officially announced his candidacy for the 2008 United States presidential election on January 28, 2007, and has been running a national campaign since then.
Huckabee is an ordained Baptist minister and considered a strong social conservative. He is well known for losing 110 pounds and advocating a healthy lifestyle. ^[2] While his campaign has not raised nearly as much money as other top-tier candidates, Huckabee placed second in the Iowa Straw Poll on August 11, 2007, garnering 18.1% of the vote to third place finisher Sam Brownback (15.3%) and first place finisher Mitt Romney (31.6%).

Early life

Huckabee was born in Hope, Arkansas, to Mae Elder and Dorsey W. Huckabee. He was elected Governor of Arkansas Boys State in 1972 and is a Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Alumnus. He graduated magna cum laude from Ouachita Baptist University, completing his bachelors degree in 2½ years before attending Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.^[3]
Prior to his political career, Huckabee was pastor of several Southern Baptist churches in Arkadelphia, Texarkana, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He served as president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention from 1989 to 1991 and as president of a religion-oriented television station.

Early political career

In Huckabee's first political race, he lost to incumbent U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers (D) in 1992, receiving less than 40 percent of the vote. That same election saw Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton ascend to the Presidency. This made Lieutenant Governor Jim Guy Tucker the new Governor. Huckabee won a special election for lieutenant governor which was held early in 1993. He then became only the second Republican since Reconstruction to have served as Arkansas lieutenant governor, the first being Maurice L. Britt from 1967 to 1971. Huckabee was re-elected to a full term as lieutenant governor in 1994.

Governor of Arkansas

Ascent to governorship

On July 15, 1996, he was sworn in as Governor of Arkansas; Tucker had resigned because of a felony conviction in the Whitewater scandal. He rescinded his resignation as Huckabee was preparing to be sworn in, but within a few hours reinstated his resignation, and Huckabee was sworn in.
As governor, Huckabee signed legislation that created ARKids First, a health insurance program designed to provide insurance to children of families who could not qualify for Medicaid but could not afford private insurance.^[4] The program cut the number of uninsured children in half from 18% to below 9%.^[5]
On May 22, 1998 the Arkansas Ethics Commission fined Huckabee $1,000 for failing to report campaign payments made to Huckabee and his wife. ^[6]

First full term

In November 1998, Huckabee was elected to a full four-year term. He defeated retired Colonel Gene McVay of Fort Smith in the primary and Jonesboro attorney Bill Bristow, a Democrat, in the general election.
On April 1, 1999 Huckabee signed a bill which contained a 3 cent increase in tax on gasoline and a 4 cent increase on diesel tax. Attached to the bill was a bond issue to pay for highway construction. The Commercial Appeal reported, "All the diesel money will be earmarked to pay off the bonds or, if the bond issue fails, to directly finance repairs to the interstates. The gasoline tax money will finance work on non-interstate state roads, notably projects approved in a 1991 road program that without new money remains seven years from completion. Should the bond issue fail, the taxes would remain in place, lessening the chances that the trucking industry will campaign against the bonds." Huckabee commented that the bond issue, "won't affect taxes, it will only affect construction acceleration". ^[7]
Huckabee led a public relations campaign for the bond program for road reconstruction. Arkansas voters had traditionally shied away from public debt, having experienced a major bond scandal that affected the state's finances for the latter half of the 19th century. This time, however, the voters approved Huckabee's program.
Huckabee also led a campaign to dedicate via constitutional amendment one eighth of each cent of the state sales tax to improvement of the state's park system and natural resources. As part of the campaign, Huckabee traveled the entire length of the Arkansas River (the part within Arkansas) by boat.^[8]
In 2000, Huckabee moved into a mobile home on the grounds of the Arkansas Governor's Mansion while the mansion was being renovated. The move became the topic of jokes on the evening talk show circuit. "It's not a trailer. It's a triple wide," Huckabee joked. Huckabee told Jay Leno that the 2,100-square-foot, $110,000 trailer (donated by the Arkansas Manufactured Housing Association) "was big enough for your chin." Huckabee said the move saved the state substantial money because support and security staff did not have to move to a new rented location.^[9]
In 2000, Huckabee also led a campaign to funnel 100 percent of the state's tobacco settlement revenues into the state's health care system, rather than into the general fund.
On March 7, 2001 Huckabee signed a tax on nursing homes for $5.25 per day per non-Medicare patient. ^[10]
In April 2001, Canadian comedian Rick Mercer aired his ''Talking to Americans'' special; in it, Huckabee was recorded congratulating Canada on preserving its National Igloo.^[11]

Second full term

In November 2002, he was reelected to his second (and final because of term limits) four-year term. Huckabee narrowly defeated State Treasurer Jimmie Lou Fisher, garnering 53 percent of the vote to her 47 percent. By the end of that term, Huckabee owned the third-longest tenure of any Arkansas Governor (only Democrats Orval Faubus, who served six consecutive two-year terms (1955–1967), and Bill Clinton, who served eleven years, eleven months (1979–1981; 1983–1992), had longer tenures).
He was made the chair of the Southern Governors' Association in 1999 and served in that capacity through 2000. He has chaired the Southern Growth Policies Board, the Southern Region Education Board, the Southern Technology Council, and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, and currently serves as Chair of the Education Commission of the States. He is also a member of the Republican Governors Association and former chairman of the National Governors Association.
On November 21, 2002, the Arkansas Supreme Court declared that the state's school funding procedure was unconstitutional and ordered the state to produce a fair system. Huckabee proposed a controversial plan that would consolidate many of the state's smaller school districts, but his plan was rejected by the legislature.
On May 8, 2003 Huckabee signed into law increases in cigarette and tobacco taxes as well as a 3 percent income tax surcharge. ^[12]
After Hurricane Katrina made landfall and an estimated 70,000 evacuees fled to Arkansas, Huckabee ordered state agencies to take care of them. State parks offered discounts, waived pet restrictions, and bumped other reservations in favor of evacuees. Pharmacists were given emergency authority to dispense prescriptions and provide access to dialysis machines. Shelters opened up in nearly every portion of the state, and Huckabee requested that the entire state be declared a disaster area. It was not. Many of these shelters, either closed or set to close, were reopened or kept open to process a "second wave" of Katrina evacuees moved from Texas in the wake of arriving Hurricane Rita. (See also Hurricane Katrina disaster relief).
In November 2005, ''Time'' named Huckabee one of the five best governors in the U.S.
In early 2006, Huckabee — along with fellow governors Rick Perry (R-TX); Jim Doyle (D-WI); and Dave Freudenthal (D-WY) — went on a weeklong visit to the Middle East and South Asia as part of a Department of Defense-funded trip to provide the state leaders with an idea of the conditions under which American forces are serving. While visiting Baghdad and Tikrit, Huckabee and the governors received briefings from Gen. George Casey and Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad.^[13]
Huckabee has voiced his support of creationism. He was quoted in July 2004 on ''Arkansans Ask'', his regular show on the Arkansas Educational Television Network: "I think that students also should be given exposure to the theories not only of evolution but to the basis of those who believe in creationism." Huckabee also stated "I do not necessarily buy into the traditional Darwinian theory, personally."^[14]
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Criticisms

Fiscal record

Huckabee has been criticized for his fiscal record as governor.^[18]^[19] ^[20] ^[21] He increased state spending 65.3 percent from 1996 to 2004. He also supported 5 tax increases, prompting the Club for Growth to accuse him of being a liberal in disguise.^[22] The Cato Institute, a libertarian non-profit public policy research foundation,^[23] gave him an F grade for spending and tax policy in 2006, and an overall grade of D for his governorship.^[24] During his tenure, the number of state government workers in Arkansas increased over 20 percent, and the state’s general obligation debt shot up by almost $1 billion. ^[25] Huckabee's campaign has countered these arguments by claiming that Governor Huckabee cut taxes 94 times, although most of them were small deductions and exemptions initiated by the state legislature, and returned almost $400 million to Arkansas taxpayers, including signing the first broad-based tax cut in the history of the state, although this bill was proposed by his predecessor. ^[26] He doubled the standard deduction and the child care tax credit, eliminated the marriage penalty and the capital gains tax on the sale of a home, and reduced the capital gains tax for both businesses and individuals. After serving as governor for more than ten years, Gov. Huckabee left the state with almost $1 billion in surplus. ^[27] In January of 2007, Huckabee on Meet the Press resisted promising not raise taxes. He commented, "I think you got to be very careful. I, I wouldn’t propose any new taxes. I wouldn’t support any. But if we’re in a situation where we are in a different level of war, where there is no other option, I think that it’s a very dangerous position to make pledges that are outside the most important pledge you make, and that is the oath you take to uphold the Constitution and protect the people of the United States." ^[28] In March of 2007, Huckabee signed the Presidential Taxpayer Protection Pledge of Americans for Tax Reform, promising not to increase taxes at the federal level^[29]. Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, stated "Gov. Huckabee recognizes that the challenge is to rein in spending and reduce taxes."^[30] Nine months earlier, Norquist had commented that Huckabee was "serial tax increaser" ^[31]

Handling of the Wayne Dumond case

Huckabee has also come under criticism for his handling of the case of Wayne Dumond, a convicted rapist who was released during Huckabee's governorship and who subsequently sexually assaulted and murdered a woman in Missouri following his release.^[32] Dumond's case had attracted national attention in the mid 1990s from critics of President Bill Clinton who felt the former Arkansas Governor had been too harsh with Dumond because Dumond's victim was a distant Clinton relative. Even before taking office, Huckabee met with Dumond's wife and privately announced his intention that Dumond be set free, stating his unhappiness with the way Clinton had handled the case (Dumond had been attacked and castrated prior to his arrest for the rape).^[33]
On September 20, 1996, Huckabee publicly announced his intention of commuting Dumond's sentence. There was strong opposition to Huckabee's plan, leaving Huckabee in a difficult situation politically.^[34] On October 31, 1996, Huckabee met privately with the parole board to talk about the Dumond case. On January 16, 1997, Dumond was granted parole, just five months after he had been rejected. Huckabee released a statement saying, "In light of the action of the board, my original intent to commute the sentence to time served is no longer relevant."
Huckabee has denied influencing the parole board in any way, but acknowledges some responsibility for signing Dumond's parole. His full disclosure of the incident is described in his book ''From Hope to Higher Ground''.
The Dumond incident was cited in an Associated Press article about anonymous Wikipedia edits from someone using Arkansas state computers, as tracked by the IP addresses logged by the online encyclopedia. ^[35]

Controversial comments

On October 19, 2006, Huckabee appeared on the ''Imus in the Morning'' radio show with Don Imus. Referring to his significant weight loss, Imus remarked that Huckabee looked "emaciated." Huckabee joked that "I have just come out of six weeks at a concentration camp held by the (sic) Democrat Party of Arkansas in an undisclosed location, making a hostage tape...That's why I look that way." The National Jewish Democratic Council spoke out against the remarks; deputy executive director David Goldenberg said that Huckabee's comments were "insensitive" and that "making light of the Holocaust isn't something any elected official should be doing."
Huckabee's response was, "I have a great deal of respect for the Jewish people" and "To make such a far-reaching statement is laughable and is the type of allegation that makes people cynical."^[36]

Gift registry

In November 2006, both Huckabee and his wife drew criticism for creating wedding registries in the amount of over $6000 at both the Target and Dillard's web sites, in conjunction with a housewarming party to celebrate a new house they had purchased in Little Rock. The ''Arkansas Times'', which first reported the story, noted that wedding gifts represent one of the exceptions to a $100 cap on gifts to political leaders under Arkansas law.^[37] Huckabee claimed that the registries were intended only for those who were invited to the event, that he was not involved in organizing the event, and that they were classified as wedding registries only because those sites did not have separate categories for housewarming parties.

Illegal immigration

Huckabee has been criticized for supporting illegal immigration.^[38] In his 2005 State of the State address, he complained that a Hispanic student was not able to get financial aid because he was an illegal alien. Huckabee said: "But when he applied for financial aid, he wasn’t eligible for the various scholarships or grants because of his status, a status that he had no decision in or control over." ^[39] ^[40] Huckabee vehemently opposed a 2005 bill sponsored by Arkansas State Senator Jim Holt which would deny state benefits to illegal immigrants, calling it "un-Christian." ^[41] Huckabee argued that illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits: "They pay fuel taxes. If they're using a fake Social Security number, they're paying Social Security taxes and will never receive any benefit. It would be closer to the truth to say they're subsidizing Joe McCutchen and Jim Holt more than the other way around."^[41]
When a Mexican consulate opened in Little Rock in 2006, Huckabee strongly supported it.^[43] The ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' reported: "Before he left office, former Gov. Mike Huckabee gave $10,000 to Little Rock. The money was given to help the consulate. Former Mayor Jim Dailey had requested that the governor match the city’s Dec. 19 contribution of $50,000 in a letter written Dec. 20. Huckabee’s contribution came from the governor’s $500,000 emergency fund and was one of roughly 20 appropriations Huckabee made from the taxpayer fund in his final days in office." ^[44] Critics of Huckabee say his support of the Mexican consulate broke federal law. ^[45] In 2007, Huckabee said, "I just don't think it's realistic to say this weekend we're going to round up 12 to 20 million young people and their children and we're going to put them across the border and they're never going to come back." ^[46] In a 2007 interview, Huckabee argued against job loss caused by illegal immigration saying, "You know, when people say, 'they're taking our jobs' -- I used to hear that as Governor -- and I started asking this question, 'can you name me any person, give me their name, who can't get a job plucking a chicken or picking a tomato or tarring a roof that would like to do that work?' ....I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist."^[47] Huckabee believes that Congress should seal the border and does not advocate punishing children of illegal immigrants for their parents crime. He stated in an interview with National Review, “I have always said you don’t punish a child for the crime of a parent.....Frankly, it’s in our best interest to try to get that child on to a higher level of education.”^[48]

Janet Huckabee 2002 Run for Secretary of State

In 2002, Huckabee and his wife Janet ran on the same ballot. Mike Huckabee ran for Governor, while Janet Huckabee ran for Secretary of State. The New York Times reported that this set off an "avalanche of criticism". A Republican State Representative, Jake Files, commented, "'That's just a lot of power in one family's hands"^[49] Mike won his race 53-47, while Janet lost 38-62 ^[50]

Political positions

Main articles: Political positions of Mike Huckabee

★ Huckabee is pro-life, and opposes same-sex marriages, and civil unions

★ Huckabee supports the death penalty

★ Huckabee has expressed support for allowing Creationism and Intelligent Design in school science classes along side Evolution.

★ Huckabee supports the War in Iraq, the troop surge and the continued operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[1]

★ Huckabee endorsed the use of foreign workers from Canada and Mexico for agricultural labor^[51], opposed McCain/Kennedy immigration bill^[52] and believes the United States number one priority should be to secure Americans borders.^[53]. He said of the border, "Police it, absolutely. Militarize it, no." ^[54]

Presidential ambitions

Mike Huckabee campaign logo

On January 27, 2007, the Associated Press reported that Huckabee planned to file papers to form a presidential exploratory committee. He announced his run for the White House on ''Meet the Press'' on January 28, 2007.^[55] On January 29, 2007, Huckabee told The Associated Press "I think this is an opportunity to show the American dream is still alive and there's hope and optimism that can be awakened in a lot of people's lives if they think that a person like me can run and actually become president"^[56]
On April 3, 2007, Huckabee's campaign reported that it had raised only $500,000 in the first quarter of 2007, one sixth of the total raised by Sam Brownback, one thirtieth of the total raised by Rudy Giuliani, and one fifty-second of the total raised by Hillary Clinton during the same period. The numbers prompted speculation in Arkansas that Huckabee might abandon the Presidential race for a U.S. Senate race against first-term Democrat Mark Pryor. Huckabee denied any plans to do this, and Huckabee campaign manager Chip Saltsman claimed that the campaign had actually surpassed its first quarter fundraising goal.^[57]

Huckabee addressing supporters in Iowa.

Huckabee has said that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is "creating a major distraction for the President and for the administration and for the Republican Party," and suggested that perhaps Gonzales should consider resigning due to the current controversy surrounding him.^[58] On April 23, 2007, Huckabee finished second in a South Carolina straw poll conducted by the local Republican parties in Greenville, Spartanburg and Richland counties with 111 votes behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.^[59]
Huckabee participated in the May 3, 2007 Republican Presidential Debates along with the nine other declared candidates. Huckabee expressed support of a FairTax, a balanced budget with reduced spending, making the Bush administration's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent, combating climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.
Huckabee generated better reviews from his performance in the May 15, 2007 Republican Presidential Debates. One widely-reported Huckabee comment was "[w]e've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop," a reference to the report of Edwards, a 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate, spending $800 of campaign money on two haircuts.^[60]
Huckabee said on May 16 that, if his campaign falters, he would have to think long and hard before agreeing to become a vice-presidential candidate on a ticket whose presidential choice endorses abortion. "This is an issue to me that is very critical. It's one of the reasons that I got into politics because I believe the manner in which we treat innocent life and the matter in which we respect human life, at whatever stage ... is an incredibly powerful statement about who we are as a people," Huckabee told reporters in a conference call in South Carolina.^[61]
The Huckabee campaign announced on June 8, 2007 that Huckabee would participate in the Iowa Republican Party's Straw Poll, scheduled for Saturday, August 11, 2007 in Ames, Iowa at Iowa State University. At that straw poll, Huckabee placed second with 2587 votes totaling 18.1 percent, behind Mitt Romney, but ahead of Sam Brownback who had spent far more money on the campaign.
In a July 9, 2007 interview, Huckabee said that his solution for ending the ongoing violence in Iraq would include a troop increase and seeking additional support from other nations in the Middle East.^[62]
Huckabee has received many key endorsements, one such from former South Carolina Governor David Beasley.^[63] In August 2007, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich predicted that Huckabee will catch on with Republican primary voters, and called him "the most interesting dark horse".^[64]

Health advocacy

When elected governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee was significantly overweight. During 2003, physicians diagnosed the governor with adult-onset diabetes and informed him that he would not live more than ten years if he did not lose weight. Prompted by this diagnosis (as well as the subsequent death of former Governor White, whose obesity led to a fatal heart attack), Huckabee went on a diet. Huckabee subsequently lost over 110 pounds,^[65]^[66] according to a ''New York Times'' article at a pace so rapid that "it was as if he simply unzipped a fat suit and stepped out."^[67]
He has publicly recounted his previous burdens as an overweight man: the steps of the Arkansas capitol from the entrance of the building up to the Governor's office were so long and steep that Huckabee would be out of breath and exhausted by the time he reached the top of the stairs; Huckabee secretly feared that he would be interviewed by media at the top of the steps, and that he would be unable to respond appropriately due to his overexertion and breathlessness.^[68]
Huckabee has talked about his weight loss and used health care reform as a major component towards the end of his term as governor. ^[69]
Drawing attention to his weight loss and new outlook, Huckabee ran in the 2006 New York City Marathon.^[70]
Huckabee has run the 2005 Marine Corps Marathon, the 2005 and 2006 Little Rock Marathon, and the 2006 New York City Marathon. The 2005 Little Rock Marathon featured a contest between Huckabee and Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack (D). Huckabee completed the marathon in 4:38:31, defeating Vilsack by 50 minutes.
Huckabee was one of 10 recipients of a 2006 American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Impact Award acknowledging his work as a "health crusader".

Books

Huckabee has authored or co-authored five books:

★ ''Character is the Issue'' (1997), a memoir (inspired by the crisis surrounding the incidents prior to his taking office as governor)

★ ''Kids Who Kill'' (1998), a book about juvenile violence (inspired by the Jonesboro massacre, which took place during his tenure as governor)

★ ''Living Beyond Your Lifetime'' (2000), a guide for leaving a personal legacy

★ ''Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork'' (2005), a health and exercise inspirational guide (based on his personal health experience) Publisher: Center Street

★ ''From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 Stops to Restoring America's Greatness'' (2007) Publisher: Center Street
Huckabee also wrote the foreword to ''My Story Your Story His Story'' (2006) by Larry Toller

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39. Rush Limbaugh: How About Talking To Gov. Huckabee—Before GOP Is DOA? VDARE.com
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41. Immigration bill un-Christian, anti-life, governor says Doug Thompson
42. Immigration bill un-Christian, anti-life, governor says Doug Thompson
43. Mexican consul ready to facilitate Blogante news
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45. Is Beebe protecting a Human Smuggling Huckabee? Joe McCutchen
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58. Huckabee calls Gonzales a distraction Liz Sidoti
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60. Media heaped praise on Huckabee's "sexual dig" at Edwards
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63. Huckabee endorsed by Beasley
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65. MSNBC article
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67. New York Times article
68. www.state.ar.us/governor/media/radio/text/r07242004.html
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70. At NYC Marathon, there's no telling who you may run into

http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=About.Home is his Official Biography, not the other one which links to the current Governor of Arkansas and not Mike Huckabee. Added on Sept. 02, 2007.

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★ Follow the Money — Mike Huckabee campaign contributions for the 2002 Governor race

★ New York Times — Mike Huckabee News news stories and commentary

★ On the Issues — Mike Huckabee issue positions and quotes

★ Project Vote Smart - Mike Huckabee voter information

★ Genealogy of Mike Huckabee

★ Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture entry: Mike Huckabee

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