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Mike Huckabee Lies

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Huckabee Lies. Mike Huckabee Lies Huckabee Lies about being outspent by Romney Lie check: GOV. HUCKABEE DID PUSH FOR IN-STATE TUITION BREAKS FOR ILLEGALS Gov. Huckabee Has Repeatedly Claimed He Didn't Support Tuition Breaks For Illegals: Gov. Huckabee Has Also Repeatedly Claimed That He Only Supported Merit-Based Scholarships: Gov. Huckabee lies about immigration: "I've corresponded with John Bolton, who's agreed to work with us on developing foreign policy.” About Bush (ok maybe not a lie... you decide..) Huckabee said most of the signers of the deceleration of independence were ministers... Mike Huckabee lies about the need for the tax increase Mike Huckabee lies about in-state tuition breaks for illegals Mike Huckabee lies about the fuel tax Mike Huckabee lies about not knowing about Tabacco money Mike Huckabee lies about Wayne DuMond Mike Huckabee lies about asking that they not release DuMond Huckabee Lies on Larry King

 

Huckabee Lies about being outspent by Romney

 

Huckabee said on many occasions that Romney outspent him "20 to 1".

 

Click here for the truth:

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080104/ap_po/romney

 

"Romney spent about $7 million on ads in Iowa, compared to $1.4 million for Huckabee."

 

The last time I checked, 7 devided by 1.4 equals 5. 5 to 1, 20 to 1... what's the difference right?

 

That's just part of it... Romney much more time being competitive in Iowa, keeping McCain, and Rudy out of the State. Would Huckabee have done as well, had they not competed? Also, Huckabee didn't have to spend as much of his own money, because fair taxers bussed people into the straw poll for him, and 60% of the Caucus was evangelicals. Huckabee will not have this advantage in California, some of whom said on Mike Huckabee's official site, and it still hasn't been taken down, "Mitt Romney worships Satan". Money can't buy you hatred for your opponent like that.

 

Lie check: GOV. HUCKABEE DID PUSH FOR IN-STATE TUITION BREAKS FOR ILLEGALS

Despite His Claims, Gov. Huckabee Supported Special Tuition Breaks For Illegals

 

"Governor, let me stop you right there because a lot of people have looked at this and I've got the bill right in front of me, and I know that what you're talking about may have been in your original legislation, but you continued to push for a bill after the scholarship provisions were dropped that would simply provide in-state tuition benefits to illegal immigrants. I've read through it." – ABC News' George Stephanopoulos (ABC's "This Week," 12/2/07)

 

Gov. Huckabee Has Repeatedly Claimed He Didn't Support Tuition Breaks For Illegals:

 

On NBC's Meet The Press Yesterday, Gov. Huckabee Claimed He Did Not Support Special Tuition Breaks For Illegals. GOV. HUCKABEE: "He said that I supported special breaks for illegal aliens. That's not true, Tim. We supported simply giving children, who had earned a scholarship the same, it never happened, didn't make the legislature." (NBC's "Meet The Press," 12/30/07)

 

• At The CNN, YouTube Debate, Gov. Huckabee Said He Did Not Support Giving Illegals Tuition Breaks. GOV. HUCKABEE: "Ashley, first of all let me just express that you're a little misinformed. We never passed a bill that gave special privileges to the children of illegals to go to college." (CNN/YouTube, Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, St. Petersburg, FL, 11/28/07)

 

• On ABC's This Week, Gov. Huckabee Again Tried To Claim He Didn't Support In-State Tuition Breaks For Illegals. ABC's GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: "Excuse me. Let me just stop you right there because that's why you pushed a bill that would allow the children of illegal immigrants, if they went through an Arkansas high school, to get in-state tuition." GOV. HUCKABEE: "Actually it was to qualify for an Academic Challenge Scholarship which was a meritorious scholarship based on their grade point average, their being drug and alcohol free, and their also being in the process of applying for citizenship." (ABC's "This Week," 12/2/07; www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tKnV3_pbVI)

 

Gov. Huckabee Has Also Repeatedly Claimed That He Only Supported Merit-Based Scholarships:

 

Gov. Huckabee Claimed, "It Wasn't About Out-Of-State Tuition, It Was An Academic Meritorious Scholarship." GOV. HUCKABEE: "I supported the bill that would have allowed those children who had been in our schools their entire school life, the opportunity to have the same scholarship that their peers had, who had also gone to high school with them and sat in the same classrooms. They couldn't just move in in their senior year and go to college. It wasn't about out-of-state tuition, it was an academic meritorious scholarship, called the Academic Challenge Scholarship." (CNN/YouTube, Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, St. Petersburg, FL, 11/28/07)

 

Gov. Mike Huckabee Said He Only Supported A Program Where Illegals Were Granted "Scholarships" For Doing "Academically Well." FOX NEWS' BILL HEMMER: "The suggestion in that is that you favor giving children of illegal immigrants tuition breaks." HUCKABEE: "Here's the deal -- he has hit me on that. Mitt Romney has tried to hit me on that. What I supported was the idea that if a student had been in our Arkansas high schools and had done academically well to be able to compete for an academic challenged scholarship which was meritorious then that student should be able to have the same opportunity as anyone else. It wasn't a special break. It was something that a person had earned." (Fox News' "Live," 11/14/07; www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHwTcWHhLaE)

 

But The Fact Is, Gov. Huckabee Supported A Bill Granting ONLY In-State Tuition Breaks To Illegals:

 

Gov. Huckabee Proposed Extending Taxpayer-Funded College Scholarships To Illegal Aliens. "Gov. Mike Huckabee is proposing extending eligibility for state-funded college scholarships to illegal aliens who graduate from Arkansas high schools - an idea that several legislators predicted will go nowhere." (Laura Kellams, "Huckabee Plan Would Aid Illegal Aliens," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 1/12/05)

 

• Gov. Huckabee Asked Arkansas Legislator Joyce Elliott To Add His Scholarship Proposal To Her Bill Extending In-State Tuition To Illegal Immigrants. "In 2005, Huckabee tried to make children of illegal immigrants eligible for scholarships and in-state college tuition. Joyce Elliott, the former state representative who sponsored the scholarship measure, said she originally had wanted to offer just in-state tuition, but Huckabee's office asked her to add the scholarship provision. 'The notion I got from him is that he believed it was the right thing to do,' said Elliott, a Democrat from Little Rock." (Andrew DeMillo, "Huckabee Adopts New Tone On Immigration," The Associated Press, 12/27/07)

 

Yet The Scholarship Portion Was Stripped From The Bill:

 

The Scholarship Portion Of The Bill Was Stripped From The Bill. "Hard-liners, led by state Sen. Jim Holt, R-Springdale, said 'illegal aliens,' as they prefer, have no rights because they're lawbreakers. It may not be fair to single Holt out because he had plenty of company. When House Bill 1525 stalled in a Senate committee, the scholarship portion of the bill was stripped out, sending the measure to the Senate floor, where it failed twice, the final time by only two votes." (Dennis Byrd, "Federal Judge: Illegal Immigrants Qualify For Tuition Breaks," Arkansas News, 7/10/05)

 

And The Bill That Was Actually Voted On Only Included In-State Tuition Breaks For Illegals. H.B. 1525, "Access To Postsecondary Education Act Of 2005": www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1525.pdf

 

Gov. Huckabee Fought To Pass The Stripped Bill Which Granted ONLY In-State Tuition Breaks For Illegals. "The only bill in the governor's 21-bill legislative package that failed to win legislative approval was a proposal to make the children of illegal immigrants eligible for state-funded scholarships and in-state tuition to Arkansas colleges. After passing the House relatively early in the session, the bill faltered in the Senate where it was amended to remove the scholarship provision but fell just short of passage Tuesday and Wednesday. Huckabee said his office worked throughout the day Wednesday for the two Senate votes needed to pass the bill. 'I don't understand the opposition to it, I just honestly don't,' Huckabee said." (Melissa Nelson, "Governor Touts Successful End To Legislative Session," The Associated Press, 4/13/05)

 

Gov. Huckabee lies about immigration:

 

The Washington Post Called Out Gov. Huckabee's Misleading Statements. " In fact, the initial bill he supported did have a scholarship provision. But that provision was later stripped out, and was not included in the legislation that Huckabee continued to push. The bill read: 'Any tuition rate that is granted to residents of Arkansas shall be granted on the same terms to all persons, regardless of immigration status, who have attended a secondary educational institution in Arkansas for at least three (3) years and who have either graduated from an Arkansas high school or received a general education diploma in the state.'" (Michael D. Shear, "Rising in Iowa Polls, Huckabee Now In Crosshairs," The Washington Post, http://blog.washingtonpost.com, Posted 11/15/07)

 

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos: "You Continued To Push For A Bill After The Scholarship Provisions Were Dropped." STEPHANOPOULOS: "... you pushed a bill that would allow the children of illegal immigrants, if they went through an Arkansas high school, to get in-state tuition." GOV. HUCKABEE: "Actually it was to qualify for an Academic Challenge Scholarship which was a meritorious scholarship based on their grade point average, their being drug and alcohol free, and their also being in the process of applying for citizenship." MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: "Governor, let me stop you right there because a lot of people have looked at this and I've got the bill right in front of me, and I know that what you're talking about may have been in your original legislation, but you continued to push for a bill after the scholarship provisions were dropped that would simply provide in-state tuition benefits to illegal immigrants. I've read through it." (ABC's "This Week," 12/2/07; www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tKnV3_pbVI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I've corresponded with John Bolton, who's agreed to work with us on developing foreign policy.”

 

At a Thursday evening news conference, Huckabee said, "I've corresponded with John Bolton, who's agreed to work with us on developing foreign policy.”

 

Bolton, however, has a different view. “I’d be happy to speak with Huckabee, but I haven’t spoken with him yet,” said Bolton, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.

 

“I’m not an official or unofficial adviser to anyone,” said Bolton, who mentioned he’d had conversations with other Republican candidates but declined to name any names.

 

Asked to explain Bolton’s comments, Huckabee aides said the former Arkansas governor had e-mailed with Bolton. Bolton did not immediately respond to a request to address Huckabee’s e-mailing claims.

 

Huckabee said he had also spoken with former State Department official Richard Haass (now president of the Council on Foreign Relations); military analyst Ken Allard; former national security adviser Richard Allen; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think tank; and a “number of military personnel.”

 

A Gingrich spokesman said the two men had spoken, on an unofficial basis, on Friday.

 

Council on Foreign Relations spokeswoman Lisa Shields said Haass has “briefed Huckabee on foreign policy issues as well as briefing many other candidates” in both parties. Shields stressed that the relationship was not exclusive and that Haass was not affiliated with the campaign.

 

Reached via e-mail, Allen said an intermediary asked him to speak with Huckabee, but he hadn't yet agreed. "I'm gradually getting older, but am fully capable of recalling with whom I have spoken," said the former Nixon and Reagan foreign policy campaign adviser.

 

Allard and Gaffney could not be reached for comment.

 

About Bush (ok maybe not a lie... you decide..)

 

Rice rejects Huckabee criticism

ASSOCIATED PRESS

http://www.star-telegram.com/464/story/373403.html

WASHINGTON -- In a brief foray into politics, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday denounced comments by a leading Republican presidential candidate that the Bush administration's foreign policy is arrogant and unilateral.

"The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous," she said at a State Department news conference. "One would only have to be not observing the facts, let me say that, to say that this is now a go-it-alone foreign policy."

Her remarks came in response to a question about criticism from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who has surged in the polls to become a front-runner in the upcoming Iowa caucuses for the GOP presidential nomination. Huckabee recently said the administration's foreign policy was characterized by a "bunker mentality."

Rice did not mention Huckabee by name in her response and at first declined to respond, saying dismissively: "Look, I don't comment on other people's comments. I don't have time, all right. I really don't have time to worry about this."

But she then launched into a vigorous defense of the administration's multilateral diplomatic efforts on Afghanistan, North Korea and Iran, and pointed to improving ties with traditional allies in Europe, some of which were strained by the Iraq war.

"We have right now probably the strongest trans-Atlantic relations ... I would say in a very long time," Rice said, noting in particular Britain, France and Germany.

"We're working with allies in Europe, Russia and China on Iran. The (NATO) alliance is mobilized together in Afghanistan," she said. "We had 50-plus countries at Annapolis to launch the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. We're working together with allies in Lebanon.

"I can go on and on and on and on," Rice concluded. "And so, I would just say to people, look at the facts.

 

 

Huckabee said most of the signers of the deceleration of independence were ministers...

 

The signers of the Declaration of Independence were "brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen."

 

Mike Huckabee on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in Orlando

1 out of 56 equals 'most'? No, it doesn't

Pants on fire!

 

During the Republican debate, Mike Huckabee said he believes one of the defining issues facing the country is the sanctity of human life. Arguing that the issue is of historical importance, he invoked the Declaration of Independence's rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and said that most of the signers of the declaration were clergymen.

 

Not even close.

 

Only one of the 56 was an active clergyman, and that was John Witherspoon. Witherspoon was a Presbyterian minister and president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).

 

A few more of the signers were former clergymen, though it's a little unclear just how many. The conservative Heritage Foundation said two other signers were former clergymen. The religion web site Adherents.com said four signers of the declaration were current or former full-time preachers. But everyone agrees only Witherspoon was an active minister when he signed the Declaration of Independence.

 

One issue that may contribute to the confusion about which signers had a history in the clergy is that during the time the Declaration was written, people who studied at universities often received doctorates of divinity, a common degree designation, even if they were not working clergy, said Mary Jenkins of the Independence National Historical Park. As for religious affiliations, all of the signers were Protestant Christians with one exception, Charles Carroll of Maryland, who was Roman Catholic.

 

We'd like to give Huckabee every benefit of the doubt, but even if you consider former clergymen among the signers the best you could come up with is four. Out of 56. That's not "most," that's Pants-on-Fire wrong.

 

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/personalities/mike-huckabee/

 

 

 

Mike Huckabee lies about the need for the tax increase

 

On Fox News Sunday, Mike Huckabee claimed that his calling for higher taxes was because he had to... that judges said he had to raise taxes... of course, this is stupid, and not true... as you can see in this video, anyone who believed him was an idiot.

 

 

Mike Huckabee lies about in-state tuition breaks for illegals

 

THE WASHINGTON POST: GOV. HUCKABEE CANNOT DENY HE SUPPORTED IN-STATE TUITION BREAKS FOR ILLEGALS

"Pinocchios For Huckabee On Illegals"

The Washington Post

By Michael Dobbs, The Post's Fact Checker

December 18, 2007

"Now that he has become a front-runner, Mike Huckabee is feeling the heat from other Republican candidates who ... have accused Huckabee of having 'championed' an effort to permit illegal immigrants to benefit from in-state tuition rates at state universities. Huckabee has denied the charge…"

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"Huckabee's denials fly in the face of the record."

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"A Democratic representative named Joyce Elliott, had already proposed legislation granting in-state tuition status to undocumented immigrants. During talks with the governor's staff, Elliott agreed to include a scholarship provision in her bill …"

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"She says that both parts of the bill were fully supported by Huckabee.

"'I never had the slightest indication that he wanted any changes,' Elliott told me, when I called her in Little Rock. 'He clearly supported the entire bill, and I never heard anything different from them.'

"Huckabee defended the bill in conversations with reporters, and expressed disappointment when the measure failed to pass the Arkansas Senate by just two votes."

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"Asked about the measure during the November 28 CNN/YouTube debate, Huckabee said that his proposal applied to students who had been in Arkansas schools from the time they were 'five or six years old,' were 'A-plus' students, 'drug and alcohol-free', and in the process of 'applying for citizenship' … a point reiterated by his spokeswoman Kirsten Fedewa.

"'He did not support in-state tuition,' Fedewa said in an e-mail. 'He supported scholarships for students who qualified.'

"The distinction that Huckabee is attempting to draw is an artificial one. His original State of the State address talked about making all Arkansas high school graduates eligible for state 'financial aid,' not just A-plus students applying for citizenship…"

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"But it is untrue to claim that he 'did not support in-state tuition' for illegal immigrants. Three Pinocchios."

To read the full article, please see: http://www.washingtonpost.com

 

Mike Huckabee lies about the fuel tax

 

He lied on five separate occasions on national TV about the fuel tax being on the ballot. He knew better, he wrote the legislation and campaigned for the ballot initiative that was for a bond issue, NO fuel tax increase was part of the initiative it had already been passed by the legislature and signed into law by BJ. It was not contingent on the bond issue passing. When he was caught in the lie, he blamed others and never addressed the issue that he had lied.

 

Mike Huckabee lies about not knowing about Tabacco money

 

In an e-mail message on Friday, the Huckabee campaign described Action America as a “nonprofit set up to promote conservative ideas and policies” and reiterated Mr. Huckabee’s assertion that he did not know tobacco money was behind the group.

 

But Mr. Vigneault said Mr. Huckabee “absolutely” knew of the Reynolds connection. Mr. Huckabee not only knew that Mr. Vigneault and Mr. Graves were Reynolds lobbyists, Mr. Vigneault said, but he also met Reynolds executives in his apartment in Little Rock.

 

“There’s no way he could not have known about the money from R. J. Reynolds,” Mr. Vigneault said. “If he’s saying he didn’t know about the Reynolds money, he’s been less than truthful.”

 

Mike Huckabee lies about Wayne DuMond

 

In 1996 Mike Huckabee said; "I concur with the board’s action and hope the lives of all those involved can move forward. The action of the board accomplishes what I sought to do in considering an earlier request for commutation ...In light of the action of the board, my original intent to commute the sentence to time served is no longer relevant."

 

However now he claims that he did not support DuMond being released.

 

Mike Huckabee lies about asking that they not release DuMond

 

In this video, Huckabee said that he did not press the parol board to release Dumond, but Ermer Pondexter has another view.

 

 

• “I signed the parole papers because the governor wanted Dumond paroled. I was thinking the governor was working for the best interests of the state.”
  • Ermer Pondexter, ex-member of the board of pardons and paroles

 

Huckabee has come under criticism for his handling of the case of Wayne DuMond (also spelled Dumond), a convicted rapist who was released during Huckabee's governorship and who subsequently sexually assaulted and murdered a woman in Missouri. (http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419|Link) DuMond's case had attracted national attention in the mid-1990s from critics of President Clinton who felt that Clinton, Arkansas Governor at the time of the rape, had been too harsh with DuMond because DuMond's victim was a distant Clinton relative. Clinton had recused himself from any involvement in the case. 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.

 

On September 20, 1996, Huckabee publicly announced his intention of commuting DuMond's sentence to time served. DuMond had originally been sentenced to life plus twenty years in prison, but in 1992, Tucker reduced the sentence to 39½ years, which gave DuMond the possibility of parole. There was strong opposition to Huckabee's plan from DuMond's rape victims, female Arkansas legislators, and various law enforcement officials, leaving Huckabee in a difficult situation politically. Link 1, 2

 

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, "I concur with the board’s action and hope the lives of all those involved can move forward. The action of the board accomplishes what I sought to do in considering an earlier request for commutation ...In light of the action of the board, my original intent to commute the sentence to time served is no longer relevant." The parole was granted on the condition that DuMond leave the state (?). He moved to Smithville, Missouri in 1999 and was later convicted there of sexually assaulting and murdering a woman that lived near his home. DuMond was also a suspect in the murder of a pregnant woman in Platte County, Missouri.

 

So Mike Huckabee lies when he says he didn't support the commutation. You see a direct quote above saying that he agreed with the commutation. That quote can be found here:

 

Arkansas Times article.

 

You can also take the word of Ermer Pondexter, who said:

• “I signed the parole papers because the governor wanted Dumond paroled. I was thinking the governor was working for the best interests of the state.”
  • Ermer Pondexter, ex-member of the board of pardons and paroles

 

 

Here is the link.

 

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Huckabee Lies on Larry King

I watched Mike Huckabee on Larry King Monday night. Two answers he

gave left my jaw on the floor. I was so disappointed in Larry King for

not calling Huckabee out on two specific issues that he flat out lied

about.

 

KING: The "Newsweek" article also raised -- that we discussed earlier

about ethics -- it said, "As governor, Huckabee battled numerous

charges that he improperly took cash, expensive clothing, and other

gifts from friends and contributors, and that he was sanctioned or

fined five times by the Arkansas Ethics Commission." True?

 

HUCKABEE: Actually, not true.

 

KING: None of that true?

 

HUCKABEE: In all of the time, I was never, ever found having received

an illegal gift.

 

Now, the history to this is that in Arkansas, one of the great

political weapons is to file an ethics complaint. Most of these were

filed during an election year by the opposition party, the Democrats,

or by editors of papers who were writing stories, or activists within

the Democrat Party or my political opponents.

 

And some of them were foolish things. For example, it was like a lady

had quilted a blanket for us to use at Razorback games, gave it to one

of my staffers. We reported it, because that was what we were supposed

to do, reported it as a $50 gift, thinking that's what it was. The

editor of a paper called and said, "you gave him a gift. How much is

it worth?" She said, "I don't know, maybe $200." So the complaint was

that we had underreported the worth of a handmade blanket.

 

So when we tried to go back and say, look, we will just give it back

to her, then she said, oh, I guess it really wasn't worth $50. Larry,

it's that kind of stuff we dealt with.

 

I have got a long tenure. I kept getting reelected in Arkansas, not

once but four times. People of Arkansas obviously did not believe that

there was something that they needed to worry about.

 

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/17/lkl.01.html

 

Truth: Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from 21 Arkansans he

appointed to state posts during his decade as governor. In one year,

the value of the gifts given to Huckabee amounted to more than

$112,000. Some of which included bass boats, fur coats, cash money,

exotic trips, 600$ watch, 700$ suits, cuff links, 70,000$ worth of

furniture, chain saws, 3700$ boots, 11k worth of flowers, etc. Then he

appointed these "gift givers" to political appointments.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7401_Page3.html

 

The ethics commission fined Huckabee $1,000 for failing to report that

he paid himself $14,000 from his 1992 U.S. Senate campaign and $43,000

from his 1994 lieutenant governor's campaign.

 

HUCKABEE: "an interesting thing, when he talks about the meth

penalties....... For him to say that we've made it easy on the meth

dealers is really a mistake or an outright just distortion of the

truth."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/17/lkl.01.html

 

UPDATE:I posted the wrong link to the above quote but here are two

links that go to the point.

 

*In an appearance on ABC's This Week on Sunday, Huckabee struggled to

defend his support of a 2005 bill that would have reduced mandatory

sentences for meth offenders and sent more to treatment rather than

jail. The Thompson camp quickly sent out a news release headlined:

"Ten Percent of all Infants Born in Iowa Have Meth Exposure. Mike

Huckabee's Solution? Early Release for Meth Dealers!"

http://www.riverwalkcurrent.com/article.cfm?articleID=47360

 

In 2005, Huckabee once again led the charge to allow early release for

those convicted of meth manufacturing or the intent to manufacture

meth. "Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee plans to ask the legislature to

reform sentencing laws to ease penalties for drug possession and to

send more meth users into treatment than to jail. The proposal would

end the requirement that offenders serve at least 70 percent of their

sentences. The changes would have the effect of reducing the average

sentence for meth possession by five years.. .One of every 20 state

inmates in Arkansas is serving time for a meth-related

crime." ("Arkansas Plans Sentencing Reforms," Corrections Digest,

1/21/05)

"Arkansas is running counter to other states in regard to meth crimes

by exempting users from the law that requires offenders to serve at

least 70 percent of their sentences." ("Arkansas Advances Broad Prison

Reforms," Corrections Digest, 3/4/05)

http://www.earnedmedia.org/fred1202.htm

 

TRUTH:

"Arkansas is also running counter to other states in regard to meth

crimes by exempting users from the law that requires offenders to

serve at least 70 percent of their sentences.

Gov. Mike Huckabee proposed the reforms that have gained the support

of the Arkansas Prosecuting Attorneys Association.

Senate Bill 387 would reduce the mandatory minimum sentences for meth

processing from 70 percent to 50 percent."

http://www.dea.gov/pubs/state_factsheets.html

 

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette titled the bill "Meth Makers

Relief Act of 2005." "The prisoners who would

benefit...are the dealers-the source of the plague, the ones

who cook up the drug and spread it around. These are the

folks who prey on addicts lower down the drug chain.

These are the manufacturers and merchants of so much

misery in Arkansas...This bill not only cuts the time to be

served to half the original sentence, it also allows prisoners

to earn up to 12 days a month off their sentences for good

behavior." (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , 3/16/05)