[RebekahT]

Arkansas House Minority Leader wrote a letter to combat talking points spread by the Huckabee campaign (and Huck himself yesterday on Fox News) that Huck’s request for “any” tax increase from the legislature back in 2003 was part of a mandate by the Arkansas Supreme Court.

Click to see the letter: http://arkjournal.com/2007/11/correction-huckabee-defenders-lying.html

[Plutarch]

Govs Under The Gun

Sunday, May. 11, 2003

The situation is particularly tricky for Republicans, many of whom are now invoking the ultimate G.O.P. heresy — tax hikes. While President Bush held a rally last week near Arkansas' state capitol to drum up support for his tax cuts, a few blocks away, at nearly the same hour, Republican Governor Mike Huckabee was imploring his balky legislature to support a tax raise. "I envy his position of being able to come to Little Rock and preach tax cuts while I preach a tax increase," Huckabee told TIME. "He has a tool that I do not have, called deficit spending, and can shift — or at least not fix — the Medicaid issue, which is causing most of my heartburn."