The Politico examines some of the ethics allegations against Mike Huckabee, from his time as Arkansas governor:
But his career has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the governor’s office.
Some of the ethics complaints deal with fairly penny ante stuff, and most were dismissed.
They did, however, yield five admonitions and $1,000 in fines from Arkansas' Ethics Commission and, perhaps more significantly, a pattern that strategists for two competing GOP campaigns privately predict could become fodder for attacks playing on the culture-of-corruption theme Democrats used to pound Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections.
These incidents involve things such as failure to report that he paid himself at various times from campaign funds, nondisclosure of income, receiving various gifts like $3700 cowboy boots that had the appearance that he was "rewarded" for his performance as governor, for (reminiscent of the Clinton departure raid on the White House) trying to take $70,000 in furniture from the governor's mansion, as well as using a governor's expense fund for a dog house and panty hose.
We had enough of this kind of cheesy, sleazy goings-on when the Clintons were in the White House. We don't need a sequel.
2 comments:
Where does Rounds stand now? There's the story.
I'm a South Dakota native but have lived in Arkansas for several years. Although I'm registered as a Democrat, I originally was quite supportive of Mike Huckabee in his first year or so as Governor of Arkansas, However, as time went on he proved to be a person who tried to exploit the office for economic gain. At the very least he skirted the edge of ethical behavior (google Huckabee ethics to see what I mean)--not something you want in your governor or expect from a Baptist minister. Questioned about those issues his common response was a thin-skinned disbelief that anyone could dare question his credibility or his actions. Arrogance. In early "skirmishes" with the state of Oklahoma about poor water quality flowing form NW Arkansas into Oklahoma he threatened to sue Oklahoma for allowing the Arkansas River to flow into Arkansas with high levels of chlorine. He was actually talking about CHLORIDE (salt) which is found in relatively high levels in the Arkansas River because of NATURAL salt deposits in Oklahoma and other parts of the southwest. Again showing an arrogance and also lack of knowledge when he should have been trying to be constructive.
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