The cry of the Huckabots is that Bubba Jr. is more conservative on everything than the other candidates. Let's take a look.
1. Ethics and judgment. Some of this stuff has been adjucated some of it has not. This is not meant to be a complete list by any means. Even on the stuff that has been adjucated in his favor, if you stand back and look at the preponderance of evidence, it becomes apparent that BJ can probably be bought, and pretty cheap at that. The Bible tells us that we not just avoid evil, we should avoid the appearance of evil. BJ has a long history of wallowing in the appearance of evil. He will get beaten like a cheap drum on this stuff by the national media and he has no good story, other than "hey, everybody does it in Arkansas!"
FACT: BJ took at least $112,000 in gifts in one year. None were from the Clintons. His salary was $67,000.
FACT: He appointed a number of individuals to State jobs after receiving sizable contributions.
FACT: He walk out of the Governor's Mansion and took $70,000 worth of furniture. He gave it back as part of a settlement with the state. Said it was a "misunderstanding".
FACT: Registered at bridal registeries when he left office so his supporters could get him appropriate gifts.
FACT: Accepted a $5,000 $10,000 contribution from the family of a man who was in prison for DUI. Shortly afterward, he got an early release.
FACT: He wanted Dumond released early, made no bones about it including a letter to Dumond, and put pressure on the parole board.
FACT: There are over 1,000 pardons that BJ signed off on as Governor. They are just being looked at now. There's a good probability that someone will have victims of those pardoned guys lined up to make videos about how their family was impacted when BJ let a felon out of prison early. The DUI guy above is just the first.
FACT: 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.
WITH RESPECT TO OTHER CANDIDATES: Only Rudy comes close to these kind of ethics issues and his stuff is personal not governmental and nobody has EVER accused him of lining his own pockets. Romney is so squeaky clean he's boring. McCain has the Keating Five but that's twenty years ago and he was cleared. Fred is right up there with Romney.
Bottom line: the "Christian Leader" is easily the dirtiest of our group of candidates.
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