Posted on 01/13/2008 2:18:39 PM PST by Maelstorm
Mike Huckabee is the new establishment favorite GOP presidential contender, and one reason is probably because he'd keep the cheap labor flowing. In fact, he encouraged Mexico to build a consulate in his state with the obvious intent of providing a workforce for Arkansas' low-wage employers. Jerome Corsi asked him to defend his actions:
A lingering controversy over the role former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee played in establishing a Mexican consulate office in Little Rock financed by taxpayers and local businesses continues to follow the Republican presidential candidate's campaign, even as he enjoys a surge in polls.
Critics in Arkansas contend Huckabee worked with some of the state's most prominent and politically powerful businesses to draw illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs.
Huckabee strongly denied the charges in a telephone interview with WND yesterday...
Others mentioned include his then-economic development adviser Robert Trevino, who was also an official with the League of United Latin American Citizens. Trevino later was appointed commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services; they leased space to Mexico in a state office building at $1 per year.
And:
A July 21, 2006, memo from Trevino's office also documents that a consortium of Arkansas corporations had agreed to "support the consular presence" during the first three years, including what appears to be the costs of building for Mexico a permanent consular facility in Little Rock.
Much more at the link. And, I urge everyone to go to the Huckster's campaign appearances and ask him this question:
UPDATE: "Legality of Huckabee's Mexican consulate deal questioned" has more, including the possibility that the scheme might have violated the law:
Ark. Code Ann. Section 22-2-114(C)(i) provides: "After July 1, 1975, no state agency shall enter into or renew or otherwise negotiate a lease between itself as lessor or lessee and a nongovernmental or other government lessor or lessee."
And:
"Even more offensive, there was nothing in the lease or other agreements that would have prevented the Mexican consulate from providing legal assistance to illegal aliens," [Arkansas attorney Chip Sexton] told WND. "We have information that the Mexican consulate operating out of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Facility was providing legal assistance even to Mexican illegal aliens who were accused of committing violent crimes in Arkansas."
Mike Huckabee was above the law as Arkansas Governor, do you think it would be any different if he were POTUS?
http://www.arkansas.gov/dfa/accounting/guide/acc_fin_man_guide_ch2_sub1.html
He’s aiding and abetting the modern slave trade. I guess in some respects he’s similar to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Unfortunately its all the bad parts and none of the good parts.
and he has the gall to say that he cares about the American worker.
You have that right. McCain just wanted Amnesty, Mike wanted to give part of Arkansas Mexico. He is a real vertical candidate. lol
somewhere down the road there will be a tyson foods tie-in.
Anyone who falls for his phony Christian posturing is just a fool.
didn’t Clinton do something in Little Rock having to do with an airport and mexican drug runners? or am I way off?
Aiding big business at the expense of the working man. Cheap labor driving down American labor's pay. Good for big business elites, bad for the little guy.
No need to wait for down the road:
Mike Huckabee
Supporters
Some supporters, who may have also contributed to other candidates, include:
John Tyson, CEO and chair of Tyson Foods
Donated $2,300
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/candidates/mike.huckabee.html
The more I read about this clown, the more I realize he’s a modern day Jimma Carter. You’d have to be a real asshat to support this moron.
“Fred Thompson is getting very close to raising a million! Help out and lets make another headline for him!”
Sorry, I am adamantly opposed to illegal immigration and amnesty. I won’t contribute to a campaign who’s teamed up with illegal immigration/amnesty advocate & activist George P. Bush.
With the dope from hope, it is what tyson wants tyson gets. They wanted slave labor and the huckster was willing to help provide it. Depressing the wages of poor working people in Arkansan and taxing them more.
“Gov. Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that God has given America a “second chance” to do the right thing on race relations by treating Hispanics better that it treated blacks years ago.................. “One of our greatest challenges is making sure we don’t commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African-Americans 150 years ago and beyond,” Huckabee responded. “We’re still paying the price with the way this country, particularly the South, handled that issue. I think we’ve got a second chance. I feel the Lord, frankly, has given us a second chance to do better than we did before. I hope we will do that.” Afterward, he declined to give news media details on what he thought America should do for the Hispanic population. He also declined to address differences between the groups in his analogy, such as with regard to many Hispanics being in the country illegally.”
http://thecitizensjournalblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/brittians-tony-blair-on-immigration.html
HUCKABEE LASHES OUT AT REPORTERS OVER GIFT REGISTRY: Gov. Mike Huckabee on Tuesday ripped news reporters for writing about gift registries in his and his wife’s names for a housewarming party for their recently purchased halfmillion-dollar home in North Little Rock. The registries are on the Internet at Target and Dillard’s Web sites under “weddings.” It’s the “Janet Huckabee and Michael Huckabee’s Club Wedd Registry” at Target and “Welcome to the wedding registry of: Janet Huckabee and Michael Huckabee” at Dillard’s. The governor accused news media of being “tools” for Arkansas Times Editor Max Brantley, who runs a blog that discussed the registries and who has been a longtime critic of Huckabee. Huckabee said the registries weren’t any different from gift lists for a wedding shower or a baby shower. He said anyone, when told that the affair was put on by his wife’s friends, should have no problem with the registries. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Huckabee on registry reportage: For shame
It just keeps getting better. Who are these people that voted for Huckabee? He is a master deceiver and he calls himself a minister? Scarey.
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