Posted on 11/13/2007 3:43:02 AM PST by Man50D
An Arkansas commercial developer confirmed his role in a no-cost "incentive deal" packaged by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to attract a Mexican Consulate to Little Rock.
Meanwhile, an Arkansas legislator expressed concern that Huckabee used taxpayer funds inappropriately in a plan ultimately designed to assist illegal immigrants in Arkansas.
"Any taxpayer money that is used to help facilitate breaking the law is wrong," Green emphasized.
WND previously reported Robert Trevino, commissioner of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, had signed a lease providing the Mexican Consulate space in an Arkansas Rehabilitations Services building at a cost of $1 per year. The lease provided the consulate temporary space until permanent space could be found.
Bruce Burrow told WND his commercial real estate company acquired the land and developed the Mexican consulate building in Little Rock at the request of Huckabee, in a deal the then-governor engineered to make sure he snared the Mexican consulate away from other states.
"I agreed to do the project at no cost," Burrow told WND, confirming his involvement in the Huckabee plan.
Arkansas Republican state legislator Rick Green objected to Huckabee using taxpayer funds in the scheme.
"I'd like to sit down with Huckabee and visit with him on the issue and see if there is anything he can tell me on the Mexican consulate deal that I am not seeing," Green told WND in a telephone interview.
"But I have not seen any argument Huckabee has made that convinces me that the Mexican consulate deal was the right thing to do," he said.
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LOL!
Only thing you need to know about Huckabee is that he’s an idiot and religious flake, a kook. So what if he’s religious. I wouldn’t let him run my lemonade stand. Did I mention he’s an idiot?
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