Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee is a Baptist minister and candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He believes in Creationism and was the governor of Arkansas. He was born in 1955 in Hope Arkansas.
Record as Governor
As Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee has both cut and raised taxes. For example, during his ten years in office, he enacted a 37% increase in sales taxes, a 16% increase in taxes on motor fuels, and a 103% increase in taxes on the sale of tobacco products; however he also cut taxes over 90 times during that period as well. Recently he signed the Presidential Taxpayer Protection Pledge to Americans for Tax Reform.
In 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine's top five governors.
Political Beliefs
Taxes: He has criticized President George W. Bush's tax cuts as being too oriented towards the wealthy, although the Congressional Budget Office released a report in 2004, that claimed the opposite:
Spending: He increased state spending 65.3% between 1996 and 2004, which was 3 times the rate of inflation. This has led to strong critcism from conservative groups like the Club for Growth. [1].
Abortion: According to National Review, as Governor of Arkansas, Huckabee signed a bill requiring parental consent for abortion, and mandating notification by abortion providers to prospective parents that the unborn baby may feel pain.2 He is generally know to be strongly pro life.
Personal
Huckabee lost 110 pounds while governor of Arkansas and documented his weight loss and set out a 12-step plan for weight loss in his book Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork. [2] He has also made childhood obesity a major platform issue. He attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Fort Worth Texas, before becoming a Baptist pastor for twelve years in Arkansas.
References
- ↑ http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2007/01/a_report_on_mike_huckabees_fis.php
- ↑ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7752179/site/newsweek/
2: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmNjMmI1ODhjNGVlZWFmNTlmMGNiZTVjYTg1NTUzMTk=
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