Sen. Sam Brownback is upset with Mike Huckabee over a supporter’s criticism of his Catholic faith. The Rev. Tim Rude wrote in an e-mail: “Frankly, (Brownback’s Catholicism) is all I need to know about his discernment when compared to the governor’s.” He added that Huckabee, a Baptist minister, is “one of us.”
Rude apologized and said: “In no way do I think a Catholic would not make a great president” and that if Huckabee drops out, he would support Brownback.
Brownback wants Huckabee to apologize too, but Huckabee merely said he didn’t condone the remarks and was glad the supporter recanted.
(CBS) He was born and raised in the small Arkansas town of Hope, served more than 10 years as governor and then launched a long-shot campaign for the presidency.
Sound familiar? Sure. But as CBS News senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield reports, he’s not Bill Clinton.
We’re talking about 51-year-old Republican Mike Huckabee, who turns his ties to Clinton’s home town of Hope, Ark., into a favorite punch line: “All I ask is — give us one more chance.”
(American Chronicle) – Bill Richardson (D-NM) and Mike Huckabee (R-AR) are both running for President of the United States in 2008. Both men are considered second tier by most watching the fray. On July 30, 2007 Wolf Blitzer from CNN News Situation Room interviewed both Bill Richardson and Mike Huckabee on the topics of Iraq, healthcare, and immigration. Some of their comments are provided below and where those comments required some expansion in order to provide complete views information has been added from each mans web site.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A lawsuit accuses former Gov. Mike Huckabee of breaking state law when his administration destroyed government-owned hard drives as he left office in January.
Jim Parsons of Bella Vista filed the lawsuit July 26 in Pulaski County Circuit Court accusing the Republican presidential hopeful of violating the state’s Freedom of Information Act and a state law prohibiting damaging a computer without authorization.
The state’s Ethics Commission has previously dismissed two complaints that Parsons, a self-described gadfly, has filed against Huckabee over the hard drives’ destruction.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback said rival Mike Huckabee should apologize for a supporter’s “prejudiced whisper campaign” against him for being Catholic.
The supporter, a pastor in Windsor Heights, Iowa, sent an e-mail to Brownback supporters pointing out that Huckabee is an evangelical Protestant and Brownback is not. Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, is an ordained Baptist minister.
