Back By Popular Demand---Huckabee Caught Lying
I posted this on the day of its release, November 8. Here it is again.
For all of you Huckabee kool aid drinkers out there. Mike Huckabee has been lying about the '99 gasoline tax.
posted by Henry Rearden at
3:01 PM
9 Comments:
I don't trust any information coming from a group that supports NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, WTO, OPEN BORDERS! and every other surrender of national soveriegnty that you can imagine.
Hell, look at who funds the CfG.
Stephens... the same folks who are bankrolling the Arkansas Friend Coalition.
Oh... and yeah.. the same folks who are also bankrolling a campaign to INCREASE in the severance tax in order to get a cut in CORPORATE taxes. They are paying REPUBLICANS to sell out so that the Democrat governor will have cover.
You guys parrot crap from freaks like Joe McCutchen and the Club for Growth without completely thinking it through. You don't even seem to care if it is true or not. You don't consider the long term damage or impact it does to the Republican cause.
The Club for Growth's 45,000 members raise millions annually to elect pro-growth, smaller government politicians like Gov. Mark Sanford (SC), Sen. Tom Coburn (OK), Rep. Tim Walberg (MI-7) and scores more. They are for lower taxes period and anyone who can read knows that. They've correctly pegged Huckabee as a RINO, republican in name only, and they should know having coined the phrase.
3:24, that comment illustrates your ignorance.
Stephens, Inc., run by Warren Stephens, joined the Arkansas Friendship Coalition.
Steve Stephens, his conservative brother, who is the major backer of the conservative Arkansas Policy Foundation, is the Stephens who supports the Club for Growth.
Warren is in total control of Stephens, Inc. Steve, as far as I know, has no involvement with the company, now. You clearly don't know what you're talking about.
As for "completely thinking it through", feel free to tell me what I've parroted that isn't true. I doubt I'll get an answer since you didn't see fit to give examples in your first ill-informed comment.
Okay, so you have explained the Arkansas Friendship Coalition part. So I am not an insider with an agenda like you. Oh well. I am willing to admit when I don't have all the information.
That still doesn't explain the Club for Growth's support for NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, WTO, Open Borders, and all manner of other surrenders of national sovereignty.
Why not explain that?
I'm happy to explain that. They believe in free trade, like I do. None of those organizations equal open borders. As long as we're talking about this, you might as well show me some statements by CfG that demonstrate your claim. I wouldn't be surprised if they support some of those free trade organizations, but I guarantee you can't show me any statements by CfG that they support OPEN BORDERS!
If you really want some information about people who support open borders in actual practice, then you need to know about Mike Huckabee. Fred Thompson was right that Huckabee essentially wanted Arkansas to be a sanctuary state. As governor, Huckabee said that people who want to enforce immigration laws against illegal aliens were un-Christian and racist. He advocated giving illegal aliens in-state tuition and college scholarships. He specifically told a legislator who proposed laws to prohibit the state from giving taxpayer funded benefits that he drank "a different kind of Jesus juice" than Huckabee, insinuating that the legislator was racist and uncompassionate.
If you really are interested in the facts, then ask as many questions as you like and keep reading. I am not parroting anything untrue. I'd appreciate it if you would give examples before you say things like that. You don't have to take a snippy attitude. I am only responding to your insinuation, without examples, that I am being dishonest.
If you don't like those various trade organizations, fine. I'm not going to argue with you about them. I believe in free trade and, I assume, so does CfG, but their major concern and primary motivation is encouraging lower taxes and smaller government, which is their chief quarrel with Hucakbee, for good reason.
The fact, which 3:24 wants to ignore is that Huckabee is serial lying about the gas tax. The gas tax was put on by the Ledge amidst much Huckabee arm twisting. It was part of his package for highways (and he included it because the Highway Commission and truckers would only sign on to support the bonds if the tax was added as well). The ad is completely accurate to say that the voters only saw the bond issue, not the tax.
Find HB 11548 by Glover or Act 1028 of 1999 at the Arkleg web site.
Huck will almost assuredly begin to say that the tax was contingent on the bond vote succeeding. It was not. Read the bill. The tax went on regardless but was dedicated to the bonds if they passed. If they did not, it went into the regular road fund distribution.
Oops, that's HB 1548. Thankfully there were not 10,000 bills that session...
Thanks, saw it all. That's some good information.
"On June 15, 1999, Arkansas voters overwhelmingly approved by a four-to-one margin the proposal to allow the Commission to issue $575 million in GARVEE bonds to help finance reconstruction of Arkansas' Interstate highways on an accelerated schedule."
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativeFinance/ifp/csark.htm
Evidently it's the Club For Growth who are the liars....
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