Monday, November 20, 2006
Gifts for guvs
The latest development in the delusions of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is not pretty. In the newest episode, which we will call china-gate, the Governor’s Mansion Association has pledged a lovely parting gift to Mrs. Huciabee. Total value appears to be somewhere between seven and ten thousand dollars.
Arkansas Times Blog reported on this and correctly observed that donors to the Mansion’s foundation might be surprised to know that their gifts went to a single individual. This revelation comes on the heels of the Huckabee’s housewarming registry, again seeking gifts.
This is probably all legal but unseemly for a man that makes $80,000 a year in one of America’s poorest states and is moving into what amounts to a private mansion in North Little Rock at the end of his term. The problem is always in the cover-up, and the governor’s paranoid, bordering on weird, reaction to reporter’s questions will soon be picked up by the national media. Our governor sounds stranger than Richard Nixon.
Mike Huckabee bitterly complains that Arkansas Times is always against him, which is just plain untrue. He conveniently forgets that his own office cut that same publication off from official press releases. Even the Democrat-Gazette managing editor, Griffin Smith, says the registry story has legs.
Doesn’t Mike Huckabee know that a soft answer turns away wrath?
(Broadcast November 16, 2006)
Arkansas Times Blog reported on this and correctly observed that donors to the Mansion’s foundation might be surprised to know that their gifts went to a single individual. This revelation comes on the heels of the Huckabee’s housewarming registry, again seeking gifts.
This is probably all legal but unseemly for a man that makes $80,000 a year in one of America’s poorest states and is moving into what amounts to a private mansion in North Little Rock at the end of his term. The problem is always in the cover-up, and the governor’s paranoid, bordering on weird, reaction to reporter’s questions will soon be picked up by the national media. Our governor sounds stranger than Richard Nixon.
Mike Huckabee bitterly complains that Arkansas Times is always against him, which is just plain untrue. He conveniently forgets that his own office cut that same publication off from official press releases. Even the Democrat-Gazette managing editor, Griffin Smith, says the registry story has legs.
Doesn’t Mike Huckabee know that a soft answer turns away wrath?
(Broadcast November 16, 2006)
