Posted on 11/23/2010 4:27:45 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
In late December, 2007, just before the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, I posted the following excerpt from the Wall Street Journal Blog in which the journal noted the fervor with which former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was campaigning against abortion and, in particular, embryonic stem cell research in the lead up to the Iowa Caucuses. The article read, in pertinent part:
"Mike Huckabee was prepared when a voter asked him today about embryonic stem-cell research. He pulled from his pocket a photo of a girl, given to him by a woman at a campaign event.
“This little girl was born from a frozen embryo, frozen for four years, two-cell embryo,” he said. She “became this precious little girl.” He said the girl’s mother told him, “When you think about embryos and stem cells just remember my daughter.” [Mike Huckabee] Huckabee
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Huckabee praised President Bush for blocking federal funding for research that destroys embryos, saying he rightfully stood up to pressure to cave. {snip}
He added that “now science has proved that he’s right,” noting that recent research suggests that other forms of stem-cell research may hold just as much promise.
In his swing through eastern Iowa this week, Huckabee has hit the “sanctity of life” issue forcefully. He has equated the rights of the unborn to the rights of all humans and said that because abortion is a moral issue, not a political issue, it’s not OK simply to overturn Roe vs. Wade. In that case, abortion will still be legal in states that choose to allow it.
“That’s the logic of the Civil War. Some states see slavery is right. Others can say it’s wrong. I don’t think that’s where we want to be as a country,” he said. “If abortion isn’t wrong then nothing is wrong.”
His staunch opposition to abortion — as well as his strict stand against same-sex marriage — have fueled his rise among evangelical Christians in Iowa..."
It turns out that Huckabee had only very recently pocketed huge consulting fees from one of the largest embryonic stem cell researchers in the world:
"The Cooler has obtained documents that show Mike Huckabee received $378,000 in consulting fees during 2006, while he was still governor of Arkansas. Most noteworthy, $35,000 came from Novo Nordisk, one of the world's largest embryonic stem cell researchers. It seems that when money is at stake Huckabee may be able to look past his supposedly fervent opposition to this procedure
He also received speaking fees and honoraria from churches while Governor.
It is certainly calls into question whether or not it is appropriate for a Governor to be taking a consulting fee from interest groups, as Huckabee did, when issues surrounding that interest group could come across his desk.
The consulting money was funneled through an organization called 12 stops, a group created in 2004 to handle Gov. Huckabee's book deals. With all the attention Senator Obama received for running a separate PAC and potentially funnelling money from maxed out donors through that PAC, it calls into question whether Huckabee may have done the same.
Update- We never claimed to be math majors. Huck took 2 payments of 17,500 from Novo bringing the year-end total to 35K. Nearly half his governor's salary...
From Novo Nordisk's web site from 2007:
"Novo Nordisk has finding a cure for diabetes as part of its vision and human stem cell research with the potential for cell transplantation, is presently the most promising approach to achieve this goal for Type 1 diabetes."
Mitt Romney had between 100,000 and 250,000 in stock in the same company and, when its involvement in embryonic stem cell research came to light in August, 2007, he sold it (under pressure).
Huckabee chose to keep his $35,000 fee from the company that destroys unborn babies for profit, as well as the rest of the $315,000 he made in 2006 on "consulting/speaking" while he was supposed to be the full time governor of Arkansas.
So when he asks Governor Palin why she resigned as Governor instead of fulfilling her duty to the people of Alaska, she can reply:
"Well, I could have traveled the country earning "consulting fees" while preparing to run for President (and pardoning another hundred or so felons), but I decided to resign and help the Tea Party retake the Congress and elect Constitutional Conservative Senators and Governors from sea to shining sea."
Now, which one accomplished more in the last last eighteen months of their gubernatorial term?
More to the point, which one is the real prolifer, the one who walks the walk instead of just talking the talk?
Ping!
And ping any prolife groups who might be interested in this. It was in the news in the 2008 cycle but was downplayed by the MSM which had a vested interest in promoting Huckabee to prevent a conservative alternative from arising.
bump!
Thanks Brice!
This is what I need, ammo. (although they still defend him, saying all these charges are all lies)
Paging David Frum!
What’s the screen name of the guy who has a lot of info stored on his forum page? We looked at it today.
Huckabee is a nanny-statist of the 1st order.
We don’t want him running for President anyway.
The links don’t lie, though. Even Romney was shamed into divesting himself of the company, since they were in the business of killing human unborn children. Huck put the money in his pocket and went out and railed against stem cell research, the very activity that was Novo Nordisk’s bread and butter. What a hypocrite!
OB1kNOb is his screen name.
Ping to you, OB1kNOb.
Please come see this Huckabee information, compiled by Brices Crossroads.
Yes, thanks very much! I just found his name on that last thread I linked.
Isn’t he the guy DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the deaths of 4 or 5 policemen near Seattle, due to is inability to understand that some people are bad and shouldn’t have their sentences commuted because they claim to have “found God”.
did he deposit the money in the Cayman islands??????????????
Check this guy out, Glenn Green, whom Huck also turned loose. A vicious rapist killer.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937215/posts
Glenn Green, freed by Governor Mike Huckabee:
Who would free a madman who beat an 18-year-old woman with Chinese martial-arts sticks, raped her as she barely clung to life, ran over her with his car, then dumped her in the bayou, her hand reaching up, as if begging for mercy? We’re publishing the gruesome picture of Green’s victim on the front page because we believe her hand is reaching up to demand justice. In usual fashion, Huckabee’s office didn’t even contact the victim’s family about the clemency.
What would you guys think about starting a facebook page to post some of this information.
Something like “Just Say No to Huckabee!” or something like that?
I’d like to get as much of this out as possible, and most of the people I need to reach don’t come to FreeRepublic.
We could ask friends to ‘like’ the page and we could add to it as we found information. I could even link to it on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page and lot’s of other conservative pages as well...
we could even link to it on Huckabee’s page (although he’d probably take it down)
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