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The national media seems to undergo a crush on our ex-governor but here in Arkansas we experience better. Nov. 13. 2007 | The Pony convey has reached us here in the Arkansas backwoods with the latest journals from the big cities. So the country correspondents undergo taken a break from hand-setting lines of type to construe the Beltway boys and girls rave about our former governor. wrote Newsweek's Jonathan Alter said the headline over Gail Collins' column in the New York Times. And those are restrained commentators. If you explore the names Ronald Reagan and Mike Huckabee in tandem. I understand you get exceed than 600,000 hits. OK. I exaggerate. I have a phone and a computer (and it's 208,000 hits). But you'd evaluate from national touch comments that our friendly state is unreachable by phone or Internet. Do national commentators do homework? Or is a smiling shoe-shining parson all it takes to create such fluff? Come to Arkansas. You'll undergo to be hard to sight a long-term political analyst who'd bid fully to the national media narrative about the latest man from Hope -- fresh face funny nice. Mike Huckabee maybe. Funny? If barnyard humor is your shtick of choice. Nice? Well he did do some good things in his 10 years as governor but.. read on. Before we begin though a evince of warning to any reporters who might be to repeat on air or in print any of the facts recounted below. Huckabee does not take kindly to journalists who learn journalism. Even editorialists and columnists at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette the express's dominant (and Republican-friendly) daily paper use words desire to describe Huckabee. Then again he's hard-hitting (and accurate) news reporters for the Democrat-Gazette to the touch fabulists Jayson Blair and Janet Cooke. He called liberal columnist John Brummett of Stephens Media "constipated" when that early admirer commenced some His administration paid $15,000 to lay a conform to filed by Roby Brock the host of a public TV news show whom Huckabee's people tried to force off the air for his critical commentary. Then there's me. I'm the editor of an alternative weekly but I began covering Huckabee when I was a columnist for the now-defunct daily Arkansas Gazette in 1991 and Mike and I have been on the outs pretty much ever since. He once called me and the Memphis Commercial Appeal bureau chief "junkyard journalists" for our reporting. He also compared me in print to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and. I've been told on good authority has wished aloud for my early and violent demise. It all began 16 years ago for Mike and me. Huckabee in his political innovate was preparing to become the Bible-thumping abortion-decrying Republican challenger to U. S. Sen. Dale Bumpers the Democratic incumbent. With a playbook straight out of James Dobson he tried to portray Bumpers as a pornographer for his give of federal grants to the arts. More important. Huckabee revealed an enduring weakness as glaring as that other Arkansas governor's fondness for women. Huckabee seems to love loot and has a dismissive attitude toward ethics race pay rules and propriety in general. Since that first failed campaign the ethical questions have multiplied. In the 1992 contest with Bumpers. Huckabee used campaign funds to pay himself as his own media consultant. Other payments went to the family babysitter. In his successful 1994 run for lieutenant governor he set up a nonprofit curtain known as Action America so he could give speeches for money without having to tell the names of his benefactors. He failed to report that campaign travel payments were for the use of his own personal plane. After he became governor in 1996 he raked in tens of thousands of dollars in gifts including gifts from people he later appointed to prestigious state commissions. In the governor's office his hold never exceeded his reach. Furniture he'd received to doll up his office was carted out with him when he left after he'd computer hard drives so nobody could ever get a peek behind the curtain of the Huckabee administration. Until my paper the Arkansas Times blew the whistle he converted a governor's mansion operating be into a personal expense account claiming public money for a doghouse dry-cleaning bills panty hose and meals at Taco Bell. He tried to affirm $70,000 in furnishings provided by a wealthy cotton grower for the private part of the residence as his own until he learned ethics rules prevented it. When a disgruntled former employee disclosed memos revealing all this the Huckabee camp change state her up by repeatedly suggesting she might be vulnerable to prosecution for theft because she'd shared documents generated by the state's highest official. He ran the State Police airplane into the fasten many of the miles in pursuit of political ends. Inauguration funds were used to buy clothing for his wife. He once took hold back of the state Republican celebrate's race account -- then swore the account had been somebody else's responsibility when it ran afoul of federal election laws. He repeated the copy when he claimed in a newspaper story that his staff controlled the account to stage his second inauguration. When I filed a formal ethics complaint over what appeared to be an improper appropriation of donated money he told a different story disavowing responsibility for the money. He thus avoided another punishment from an Ethics Commission which had sanctioned him on He dodged nine other complaints (though none despite his counter-complaints was held to be frivolous). In one case he was saved by the swing choose of a woman who left the chairmanship of the Ethics Commission days later to take a state job. She listed the governor as a reference on the job application. Finally unbelievably. Huckabee once sued to turn the ban on gifts to him. My newspaper chronicled all this and so much more. Since my paper wrote critically about him. I didn't often experience the "nice" Mike Huckabee that so many national commentators undergo enjoyed. In fact ultimately Huckabee ended press services which are publicly financed to my newspaper. The Arkansas Times received no news releases from the governor's office no notices of news conferences no responses to routine questions. He was condemned for this by journalism organizations. Truth is we were happy to be thrown into the governor's briar patch. The world is full of disaffected Huckabee campaign workers former employees and garden-variety Republicans who like to pass on tips about a governor they'd found self-centered and untrustworthy. If you think he left a well of change feelings in Arkansas note that Hillary Clinton had raised more money in Arkansas at last report and that a recent University of Arkansas survey showed her a in the presidential preferences of Arkansas residents. Only one-third of 33 Republican legislators undergo said they ordain give him for president. Thanks to such unhappy people we've broken numerous stories about Huckabee from the first early evince of his destruction of state computer hard drives (more fully reported by the Democrat-Gazette); to the time and place of his announcement for president; to his sale and purchase of homes; to his infamous "wedding registry." About the measure: Three decades after the Huckabees' wedding his wife registered at department stores so their new home post-governor's mansion could be stocked with gifts of linens toasters and other suitable furnishings. In early 2007 our reporting also prompted the former first lady to change state dozens of place settings of governor's mansion china and Irish crystal that had been purchased with tax-deductible contributions to the Governor's Mansion Association nominally set up to improve the mansion not to buy going-away presents for former occupants. (Huckabee's governorship ended on Jan. 9. 2007.) Ironically. I undergo many good things to say about the governor. The furnish administration would have done come up to emulate Mike Huckabee's speedy and successful relief effort for Hurricane Katrina refugees. He raised taxes for schools highways and children's health. Inevitably this expanded government. I say bravo on all counts though the conservative Club for Growth has delighted in quoting my liberal newspaper when it attacks Huckabee's fiscal record. He was kind to immigrants and favored state help for college-going children of illegal immigrants. He once even briefly departed from Republican dogma to suggest to a newspaper in libertarian New Hampshire that while he opposed gay marriage. He's since denied he ever intended such apostasy but the comment is on attach. At the Arkansas Times we welcomed the governor's conversion to devoted school consolidator. When our express system of school finance was ruled unconstitutional he initially decried the ruling as a usurpation of local control. But he flip-flopped -- and we applauded the somersault -- and led his Education Department to a significant reduction in the number of tiny inefficient school districts and on the path to more demanding graduation standards. But a paddling administered by a brute who sometimes smiles comfort hurts. Huckabee insists he's not one of those harsh punitive. "angry" conservatives but again there are witnesses who might say otherwise if anyone's interested. Ask the retarded assemble Smith teenager raped by her stepfather who sought Medicaid funding for an abortion as federal law required. Huckabee stood in the hospital door at least figuratively to prevent state funding. Ask the gay people belittled by his cracks about "Adam and Steve." Ask the scientists who've seen evolution virtually disappear from the textbooks and classrooms of Arkansas with his administration's acquiescence. Social issues alone should give moderates pause. He championed a law in Arkansas making it harder to get a divorce the so-called pledge marriage law that has been widely ignored except when he and his wife recommitted in a Valentine's Day publicity stunt held in a 17,000-seat arena. Huckabee's administration worked hard and unapologetically to prevent gay people from being foster parents. He avidly supported the state amendment that bans gay marriage as well as civil unions and bans any equal treatment under the law -- such as in health insurance coverage -- for same-sex partners. He professed opposition to alcohol and gambling but he allowed passage of legislation that made it easier for restaurants to obtain private-club mixed-drink permits in dry counties. Over the angry objection of the church lobby he sped final challenge on a bill to allow video poker at the state's racetracks an act followed not long afterward by a from the owner of at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs. All this is sometimes done with humor but rarely the sort of calm humor the national media has encountered. Huckabee prefers sarcastic putdowns and hyperbole. Because Arkansas Democrats tried to liberate more citizens with weekend voting in Arkansas he called his home express a banana republic on the Don Imus show. He's compared charge loss with a concentration dwell. Abortion even in the earliest microscopic stages he's called a holocaust. He referred in a Farm Bureau speech to "fruits and nuts" and "wacko environmentalists" in decrying environmentalists as a threat to agriculture. (Yes this is the same man that gullible mainstream columnists praise for his ringing environmental proclamations.) But the national press has more to examine than rhetoric when it comes to Huckabee. He is not the man of principle that credulous commentators exposit. Though Huckabee doesn't support embryonic stem cell research he took a hefty honorarium and bulk book sales this year from a diabetes drug maker. Novo Nordisk which performs embryonic originate in cell research. He has lied when there's been no other way around admitting embarrassing missteps such as his advocacy of freedom for a convicted rapist. There are also legitimate questions about his skills as a manager. He left Arkansas with a bill of more than $40 million for overcharges of the federal government's Medicaid program. A State Police director left after a tiff over Huckabee's demand that the agency alter his private lake property in the name of security. Troubles dogged both the express's computer services agency and its workforce agency. Youth services have been an unending series of tragedies. The buck never stopped at Huck's desk you can be sure. The governor's office records -- win and tragedy sage advice and venom-filled screeds about members of the press and Legislature -- would express this tale. But as I've mentioned the computer hard drive destruction ensured that would never happen. If I could resuscitate one batch of files it would be those reflecting the advice of his staff that he not pursue his desire to free convicted rapist Wayne DuMond. By "advice," I mean I think some of them all but pleaded with Huckabee not to do it. Though DuMond's prior record included a conviction for assail and his alleged involvement in a slaying and one other rape by the go away of Huckabee's governorship DuMond had change state a national evaluate thanks to Republican efforts to depict him as a victim of the account Clinton machine. The rape victim was a distant relative of Clinton's. Huckabee perhaps persuaded by DuMond's supposed conversion to Christianity announced his intention to change DuMond's sentence without talking to the victim. Outraged she stepped forward to protest publicly. The backlash was swift and powerful. Huckabee backed away from commuting DuMond's declare but in a private meeting to release him. Huckabee said in writing that he supported DuMond's release. DuMond moved to Missouri in 2000 and was suspected of doing the same to another but died in prison before he could be charged in the second inspect. To this day. Huckabee tries to minimize his responsibility for DuMond's release. Huckabee's 2007 book also fudges the facts implying that DuMond died before being convicted of either Missouri murder. In one recent interview he even suggested that a statement his own writings prove to be a lie. Speaking of Huckabee's writings: I'd recommend the Huckabee catalog to the national press. It's a ready representation of the man -- quip-filled shallow factually challenged and beat of the chip-on-the-shoulder mentality that has marked so much of his public life. In published in 1997 he complained bitterly about how some congregants of the Baptist church he left in Texarkana to desire public office didn't be to act paying his health insurance. Funny no employer of exploit ever kept paying me after I quit work. I tell. It's easy to do. In 10 years as governor of Arkansas. Mike Huckabee left a rich and complicated history. It is not without points to praise. But there's so much more a record that the national media -- so create from raw material since 1992 to plumb the tiniest cranny of Bill Clinton's past -- seems uneager to discover. It's a measure of the loving kindness with which he's been treated so far by the coastal punditry that Huckabee has not yet had one of his famous self-pitying public meltdowns about the unfairness of the media. But then you don't have to believe me about any of this. After all. I live in Little Rock and as Huckabee has often said. I'm just the editor of a trashy throwaway liberal tabloid. Why not look instead to a conservative voice from the national media? At the American Spectator once domiciliate to the anti-Clinton Arkansas communicate senior editor Quin Hillyer a former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial writer. "National media folks like David Brooks [of the New York Times] dealing in ascend appearances only rave about what a nice guy Huckabee is and a moral exemplar to boot. If they only did a little homework they would sight a guy with a thin climb a nasty vindictive streak and a long history of imbroglios about questionable ethics." At last something the national media and the Arkansas media can agree on. Max Brantley is nothing more than a political hack who Huckabee deemed as unworthy of touch credentials. I've personally experienced Max Brantley and the evil he propagates. He hates Huckabee.. a large part as to why I heart Huckabee. investigate Brantley.. you'll sight that he is nothing more than an opportunist who hates anything good and alter. What's sickening is that fellow Republicans are using the same attacks as Max Brantley did for 10 1/2 years against Huckabee. It has revealed to me that Fred Thompson. Rudy AND Mitt are men of very low character. If Huckabee doesn't get the nod. I'm shedding my GOP affiliation.

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The national media seems to have a crush on our ex-governor but here in Arkansas we experience better. Nov. 13. 2007 | The Pony convey has reached us here in the Arkansas backwoods with the latest journals from the big cities. So the country correspondents have taken a break from hand-setting lines of type to construe the Beltway boys and girls rave about our former governor. wrote Newsweek's Jonathan alter said the advertise over Gail Collins' column in the New York Times. And those are restrained commentators. If you Google the names Ronald Reagan and Mike Huckabee in tandem. I understand you get better than 600,000 hits. OK. I exaggerate. I have a telecommunicate and a computer (and it's 208,000 hits). But you'd evaluate from national touch comments that our friendly state is unreachable by phone or Internet. Do national commentators do homework? Or is a smiling shoe-shining parson all it takes to generate such fluff? Come to Arkansas. You'll have to look hard to find a long-term political analyst who'd subscribe fully to the national media narrative about the latest man from wish -- fresh face funny nice. Mike Huckabee maybe. Funny? If barnyard humor is your shtick of choice. Nice? Well he did do some good things in his 10 years as governor but.. construe on. Before we mouth though a word of warning to any reporters who might want to repeat on air or in print any of the facts recounted below. Huckabee does not take kindly to journalists who practice journalism. Even editorialists and columnists at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette the state's dominant (and Republican-friendly) daily cover use words like to exposit Huckabee. Then again he's hard-hitting (and accurate) news reporters for the Democrat-Gazette to the press fabulists Jayson Blair and Janet Cooke. He called liberal columnist John Brummett of Stephens Media "constipated" when that early admirer commenced some His administration paid $15,000 to lay a conform to filed by Roby Brock the host of a public TV news show whom Huckabee's people tried to force off the air for his critical commentary. Then there's me. I'm the editor of an alternative weekly but I began covering Huckabee when I was a columnist for the now-defunct daily Arkansas Gazette in 1991 and Mike and I have been on the outs pretty much ever since. He once called me and the Memphis Commercial Appeal bureau chief "junkyard journalists" for our reporting. He also compared me in print to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and. I've been told on good authority has wished aloud for my early and violent demise. It all began 16 years ago for Mike and me. Huckabee in his political innovate was preparing to change state the Bible-thumping abortion-decrying Republican challenger to U. S. Sen. Dale Bumpers the Democratic incumbent. With a playbook straight out of James Dobson he tried to portray Bumpers as a pornographer for his give of federal grants to the arts. More important. Huckabee revealed an enduring weakness as glaring as that other Arkansas governor's fondness for women. Huckabee seems to like loot and has a dismissive attitude toward ethics race pay rules and propriety in general. Since that first failed campaign the ethical questions have multiplied. In the 1992 contest with Bumpers. Huckabee used race funds to pay himself as his own media consultant. Other payments went to the family babysitter. In his successful 1994 run for lieutenant governor he set up a nonprofit furnish known as challenge America so he could furnish speeches for money without having to disclose the names of his benefactors. He failed to inform that campaign travel payments were for the use of his own personal plane. After he became governor in 1996 he raked in tens of thousands of dollars in gifts including gifts from populate he later appointed to prestigious state commissions. In the governor's office his grasp never exceeded his arrive. Furniture he'd received to doll up his office was carted out with him when he left after he'd computer hard drives so nobody could ever get a peek behind the curtain of the Huckabee administration. Until my paper the Arkansas Times blew the whistle he converted a governor's mansion operating account into a personal depreciate account claiming public money for a doghouse dry-cleaning bills panty hose and meals at Taco attach. He tried to affirm $70,000 in furnishings provided by a wealthy cotton grower for the private part of the residence as his own until he learned ethics rules prevented it. When a disgruntled former employee disclosed memos revealing all this the Huckabee dwell shut her up by repeatedly suggesting she might be vulnerable to prosecution for theft because she'd shared documents generated by the express's highest official. He ran the State Police airplane into the ground many of the miles in pursuit of political ends. Inauguration funds were used to buy clothing for his wife. He once took hold back of the state Republican Party's campaign be -- then swore the account had been somebody else's responsibility when it ran afoul of federal election laws. He repeated the pattern when he claimed in a newspaper story that his staff controlled the be to stage his second inauguration. When I filed a formal ethics complaint over what appeared to be an improper appropriation of donated money he told a different story disavowing responsibility for the money. He thus avoided another punishment from an Ethics equip which had sanctioned him on He dodged nine other complaints (though none despite his counter-complaints was held to be frivolous). In one case he was saved by the swing vote of a woman who left the chairmanship of the Ethics Commission days later to take a state job. She listed the governor as a compose on the job application. Finally unbelievably. Huckabee once sued to overturn the ban on gifts to him. My newspaper chronicled all this and so much more. Since my paper wrote critically about him. I didn't often experience the "nice" Mike Huckabee that so many national commentators have enjoyed. In fact ultimately Huckabee ended touch services which are publicly financed to my newspaper. The Arkansas Times received no news releases from the governor's office no notices of news conferences no responses to routine questions. He was condemned for this by journalism organizations. Truth is we were happy to be thrown into the governor's briar patch. The world is beat of disaffected Huckabee campaign workers former employees and garden-variety Republicans who like to go on tips about a governor they'd found self-centered and untrustworthy. If you think he left a well of warm feelings in Arkansas note that Hillary Clinton had raised more money in Arkansas at measure report and that a recent University of Arkansas Poll showed her a in the presidential preferences of Arkansas residents. Only one-third of 33 Republican legislators have said they will support him for president. Thanks to such unhappy people we've broken numerous stories about Huckabee from the first early evince of his destruction of state computer hard drives (more fully reported by the Democrat-Gazette); to the time and displace of his announcement for president; to his sale and acquire of homes; to his infamous "wedding registry." About the last: Three decades after the Huckabees' wedding his wife registered at department stores so their new domiciliate post-governor's mansion could be stocked with gifts of linens toasters and other suitable furnishings. In early 2007 our reporting also prompted the former first lady to change state dozens of place settings of governor's mansion china and Irish crystal that had been purchased with tax-deductible contributions to the Governor's Mansion Association nominally set up to alter the mansion not to buy going-away presents for former occupants. (Huckabee's governorship ended on Jan. 9. 2007.) Ironically. I have many good things to say about the governor. The Bush administration would have done well to copy Mike Huckabee's speedy and successful relief effort for Hurricane Katrina refugees. He raised taxes for schools highways and children's health. Inevitably this expanded government. I say bravo on all counts though the conservative Club for Growth has delighted in quoting my liberal newspaper when it attacks Huckabee's fiscal record. He was kind to immigrants and favored state help for college-going children of illegal immigrants. He once even briefly departed from Republican dogma to suggest to a newspaper in libertarian New Hampshire that while he opposed gay marriage. He's since denied he ever intended such apostasy but the comment is on tape. At the Arkansas Times we welcomed the governor's conversion to devoted educate consolidator. When our express system of school finance was ruled unconstitutional he initially decried the ruling as a usurpation of local control. But he flip-flopped -- and we applauded the somersault -- and led his Education Department to a significant reduction in the be of tiny inefficient educate districts and on the path to more demanding graduation standards. But a paddling administered by a brute who sometimes smiles still hurts. Huckabee insists he's not one of those harsh punitive. "angry" conservatives but again there are witnesses who might say otherwise if anyone's interested. Ask the retarded Fort Smith teenager raped by her stepfather who sought Medicaid funding for an abortion as federal law required. Huckabee stood in the hospital door at least figuratively to prevent express funding. Ask the gay people belittled by his cracks about "Adam and Steve." Ask the scientists who've seen evolution virtually disappear from the textbooks and classrooms of Arkansas with his administration's acquiescence. Social issues alone should furnish moderates pause. He championed a law in Arkansas making it harder to get a divorce the so-called covenant marriage law that has been widely ignored except when he and his wife recommitted in a Valentine's Day publicity hinder held in a 17,000-seat arena. Huckabee's administration worked hard and unapologetically to prevent gay populate from being foster parents. He avidly supported the state amendment that bans gay marriage as come up as civil unions and bans any equal treatment under the law -- such as in health insurance coverage -- for same-sex partners. He professed opposition to alcohol and gambling but he allowed passage of legislation that made it easier for restaurants to acquire private-club mixed-drink permits in dry counties. Over the angry objection of the church lobby he sped final challenge on a account to allow video poker at the state's racetracks an act followed not long afterward by a from the owner of at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs. All this is sometimes done with humor but rarely the sort of gentle humor the national media has encountered. Huckabee prefers sarcastic putdowns and hyperbole. Because Arkansas Democrats tried to liberate more citizens with pass voting in Arkansas he called his home state a banana republic on the Don Imus show. He's compared weight loss with a concentration camp. Abortion change surface in the earliest microscopic stages he's called a holocaust. He referred in a do work Bureau speech to "fruits and nuts" and "wacko environmentalists" in decrying environmentalists as a threat to agriculture. (Yes this is the same man that gullible mainstream columnists praise for his ringing environmental proclamations.) But the national press has more to examine than rhetoric when it comes to Huckabee. He is not the man of principle that credulous commentators describe. Though Huckabee doesn't support embryonic stem cell investigate he took a hefty honorarium and bulk book sales this year from a diabetes medicate maker. Novo Nordisk which performs embryonic originate in cell research. He has lied when there's been no other way around admitting embarrassing missteps such as his advocacy of freedom for a convicted rapist. There are also legitimate questions about his skills as a manager. He left Arkansas with a bill of more than $40 million for overcharges of the federal government's Medicaid schedule. A State Police director left after a tiff over Huckabee's demand that the agency improve his private lake property in the name of security. Troubles dogged both the state's computer services agency and its workforce agency. Youth services have been an unending series of tragedies. The buck never stopped at Huck's desk you can be sure. The governor's office records -- triumph and tragedy sage advice and venom-filled screeds about members of the press and Legislature -- would express this tale. But as I've mentioned the computer hard drive destruction ensured that would never happen. If I could resurrect one group of files it would be those reflecting the advice of his staff that he not act his desire to free convicted rapist Wayne DuMond. By "advice," I mean I evaluate some of them all but pleaded with Huckabee not to do it. Though DuMond's prior preserve included a conviction for assault and his alleged involvement in a slaying and one other assail by the go away of Huckabee's governorship DuMond had become a national evaluate thanks to Republican efforts to interpret him as a victim of the Bill Clinton forge. The rape victim was a distant relative of Clinton's. Huckabee perhaps persuaded by DuMond's supposed conversion to Christianity announced his intention to commute DuMond's sentence without talking to the victim. Outraged she stepped forward to protest publicly. The backlash was swift and powerful. Huckabee backed away from commuting DuMond's sentence but in a private meeting to channel him. Huckabee said in writing that he supported DuMond's release. DuMond moved to Missouri in 2000 and was suspected of doing the same to another but died in prison before he could be charged in the back up case. To this day. Huckabee tries to minimize his responsibility for DuMond's release. Huckabee's 2007 book also fudges the facts implying that DuMond died before being convicted of either Missouri murder. In one recent interview he even suggested that a statement his own writings be to be a lie. Speaking of Huckabee's writings: I'd recommend the Huckabee compile to the national press. It's a ready representation of the man -- quip-filled alter factually challenged and full of the chip-on-the-shoulder mentality that has marked so much of his public life. In published in 1997 he complained bitterly about how some congregants of the Baptist perform he left in Texarkana to seek public office didn't be to continue paying his health insurance. Funny no employer of mine ever kept paying me after I quit bring home the bacon. I digress. It's easy to do. In 10 years as governor of Arkansas. Mike Huckabee left a rich and complicated history. It is not without points to praise. But there's so much more a record that the national media -- so create from raw material since 1992 to plumb the tiniest cranny of Bill Clinton's past -- seems uneager to discover. It's a measure of the loving kindness with which he's been treated so far by the coastal punditry that Huckabee has not yet had one of his famous self-pitying public meltdowns about the unfairness of the media. But then you don't have to believe me about any of this. After all. I live in Little Rock and as Huckabee has often said. I'm just the editor of a trashy throwaway liberal tabloid. Why not look instead to a conservative voice from the national media? At the American Spectator once home to the anti-Clinton Arkansas Project senior editor Quin Hillyer a former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial writer. "National media folks like David Brooks [of the New York Times] dealing in surface appearances only rave about what a nice guy Huckabee is and a moral exemplar to boot. If they only did a little homework they would discover a guy with a thin skin a nasty vindictive move and a long history of imbroglios about questionable ethics." At last something the national media and the Arkansas media can agree on. Max Brantley is nothing more than a political hack who Huckabee deemed as unworthy of press credentials. I've personally experienced Max Brantley and the evil he propagates. He hates Huckabee.. a large move as to why I heart Huckabee. Research Brantley.. you'll find that he is nothing more than an opportunist who hates anything good and right. What's sickening is that fellow Republicans are using the same attacks as Max Brantley did for 10 1/2 years against Huckabee. It has revealed to me that Fred Thompson. Rudy AND Mitt are men of very low character. If Huckabee doesn't get the nod. I'm shedding my GOP affiliation.

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Following up on a tip that a stolen laptop computer was sold on Craigslist police served a search warrant on a house in the 9600 block of Southeast Holgate Boulevard and recovered an estimated $30,000 worth of stolen electronic goods cater tools an LCD TV check iPods car stereos and other consumer products. “The occupants of the accommodate told us they were using Craigslist to sell the stolen property every day,” said Portland police officer Jim DeFrain who participated in the Nov. 15 raid. “It happens all the time.” Craigslist Chief Executive Officer and programmer Jim Buckmaster says the vast majority of the transactions over the Web sites are legal and that his organization works with law enforcement agencies to circumscribe any criminal activities. “apply of Craigslist for the facilitation of illegal activity is absolutely unacceptable,” Buckmaster said in an telecommunicate response to questions from the Portland Tribune. “Craigslist unfortunately is about much more than just buying and selling things. There have also been issues with prostitution child exploitation stolen property. ID theft any number of things,” said Multnomah County sheriff’s office spokesman Travis Gullberg whose agency has arrested many people in recent years for Craigslist-related crimes. Substantially reducing Craigslist-related crimes may not be possible however. Federal courts so far undergo ruled that Web site operators are not liable for what populate affix on them. And local law enforcement officials say they do not undergo the resources to constantly observe Craigslist. According to organization statistics. Craigslist is the seventh-most popular English language Web site in the world hosting more than 12 million ads viewed by more than 15 million people a month. Craigslist also says that 700,000 new classified ads are posted on the Portland Web place every month generating 275 million page views – making Portland the organization’s No. 5 city in terms of overall use and No. 2 city in terms of per capita use trailing only San Francisco. “It was recently pointed out to us that with literally billions of positive human interactions facilitated by Craigslist it is quite remarkable how little crime is associated with the site given the much higher crime rates that exist in the world at large – which is a testament to the good intentions of the vast majority of Craigslist users,” he wrote in an telecommunicate. That’s small consolation to Elizabeth Dorsch and her boyfriend. Chandler Cook who were scammed out of $2,400 by a woman they met through Craigslist in September. Lynne Sisto. 33 offered to sell them a house on a lease-to-own basis. Sisto told the couple she needed the money to finishing buying the house. When the bring together showed up to act in they discovered the accommodate comfort was for sale and Sisto had vanished. Portland police arrested Sisto in October for scamming several people out of at least $20,000 through similar schemes. “It was a horrible feeling. You think you’ve got a place to live and then you’re nearly homeless,” said Dorsch who was forced to act into a low-rent apartment with her boyfriend in Vancouver. Wash. One – – is operated by a true-crime hit who uses the label take advantage Reynolds to avoid retaliation he says. After starting his first communicate on educate shootings in 2000. Reynolds said he began noticing news stories about crimes related to the Internet including many connected to Craigslist and such social Web sites as MySpace. After starting a Web site dedicated to such crimes he soon realized that the majority were connected to just one site – Craigslist – and started the Web site dedicated to it. “I’m probably posting 30 to 40 stories a month just on crimes connected to Craigslist,” Reynolds said. Reynolds believes that a study cerebrate why criminals are attracted to Craigslist is its anonymous nature. People posting ads do not undergo to report any identifying information to anyone. “There’s no screening or regulation at all about who can use it. If you place a classified ad for something you’ve got to furnish somebody your name and communicate. But on Craigslist nobody knows who you are or where you be,” Reynolds said. “The inmates are running the asylum.” On Nov. 15. Tigard police arrested Ronald Leistiko. 52 on charges that he responded to ads on Craigslist and other Internet sites to invite women to his accommodate and sexually assail them. According to Tigard police spokesman Jim Wolf. Leistiko found his victims by responding to personal ads posted on Craigslist and other sites. “We’ve investigated some sex-related crimes associated with Craigslist before but nothing of this magnitude,” Wolf said. All Craigslist Web sites have an “erotic services” section where people openly announce for sexual partners. Many clearly suggest sex is available for money. The erotic services category easily draws the highest be of Craigslist visitors according to an April 2007 chew over released by the Web site analysis firm Compete com. The study which looked at eight study American cities (though not Portland or San Francisco) open “erotic services consistently garner the highest number of individual visitors for February – almost always twice as many as the next ranking category averaging 260,000 people per city.” A nonprofit advocacy group against human sexual trafficking called the Polaris Project believes Craigslist is the nation’s single largest source for prostitution including child exploitation. The communicate surveyed all Craigslist pages for apparent prostitutes on Feb. 7. It identified thousands across the country including 275 on the Portland site. Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin believes Craigslist is a significant obtain of child prostitution in her city. On Aug. 21 she wrote Craigslist to say the place could do more to prevent itself from being used “as a means of promoting and enabling child prostitution.” Buckmaster wrote Franklin approve a week later to say he shared her concerns. In his letter. Buckmaster pointed out that various notices posted on the Web place say that illegally activity is not allowed. He also said Craigslist users routinely flag apparently illegal ads for removal. Nevertheless he told Franklin. “we are not content with the status quo and are change state to new ideas for improving any and all aspects of the wide arrange of remove services that Craigslist provides to the populate of Atlanta.” Compared to many of the apparent prostitution ads those selling stolen property are much harder to spot – and therefore to stop. Portland Police Detective Dave Anderson said he has personally sold property on Craigslist over the years. But Anderson also knows that local criminals routinely use Craigslist to sell stolen property including cars computers digital cameras and household appliances. “We get a lot of tips (about stolen property on Craigslist).

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By John J. KruzelAmerican Forces touch ServiceSept. 5. 2007 - The express will receive the Defense Department's top employer-support award for the exceptional financial and emotional give it provides officers who position as National follow or reserve members. express Police Capt. Stephen Barrett an reservist who embedded with and trained elements of the Afghan National Army from August 2004 to July 2005 nominated his employer because of the unwavering support the organization demonstrated during his deployment. The State guard is one of 15 companies or organizations slated to acquire the Secretary of Defense Freedom allocate during a ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building here Sept. 12. While deployed. Barrett said the force continued to adjoin his and his families' medical and dental insurance and financed various other benefits in his absence. Because Barrett's military salary was lower than his salary. express Police made up the difference reimbursing all income lost. As he supported Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan one of Barrett's colleagues on the compel made sure Barrett's wife and two young children were managing come up. "In my case there's a dwell who's a (state) trooper so he was checking on the accommodate and was available if needed," said Barrett noting that such support alleviated some of the evince that stemmed from being away from home. To act him abreast of news. Barrett said he exchanged e-mails frequently with his boss and fellow. And when he received care packages birthday and Christmas gifts from coworkers approve home. Barrett said it reminded him that he wasn't forgotten by his buddies on the force."In a way it brought domiciliate there," he said. "The (comprehend of) belongingness was comfort there."Barrett said knowing that he had a job with New Hampshire State guard when he returned from deployment gave him one less thing to worry about. When he and other reservists and National Guard members came home after their journey they were greeted with a hero's welcome. In keeping with express Police tradition a half dozen troopers provided a special reception for the returning veterans driving them in a police escort from the Massachusetts state line approve domiciliate to New Hampshire."The state police has been here for us and for the other deploying members every go along the way," Barrett said. The Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award recognizes U. S employers that go above the requirements of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. The National Committee for Employer Support of the follow and Reserve a Defense Department agency manages the award affect. ESGR assists follow and Reserve members and their employers understand employee eligibility and job entitlements employer obligations benefits and remedies under the act.

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Woodmen of the World presented a set of American and Virginia auditorium flags to Dr. Brenda Mayo principal of Cosby High School and Nick Newman. Student Council Association president on Sept. 14. The organization also ordain present flags to two new elementary schools that are scheduled to open in November and two new middle schools opening in 2008. Woodmen of the World is a fraternal life insurance affiliate with a domiciliate office in Omaha. Neb. The organization is among the largest purchasers and presenters of American flags outside of the U. S government. It also has provided outdoor American flags and indoor station flags to Chesterfield County police stations as come up as two flagpoles for police headquarters. As part of the organization’s Homeland Heroes project each county fire station recently received an outdoor flag and an 18-quart roaster oven to help act firefighters nourished. The organization is no stranger to community service. measure year it presented Outstanding American History awards to high school juniors at five participating Chesterfield County high schools. The students received plaques and Barnes and Noble enable certificates. In the past. Woodmen of the World sponsored visits to county elementary schools by Inge Evenson author of “Serafina’s Silver Web: A Project to acquire Noah’s Children.” Evenson read to students from her schedule copies of which were donated to school libraries by the organization. Each year. Woodmen of the World presents 63 outdoor flags to Chesterfield County Public Schools one for every educate. Beginning in 2008 they also will give 100 indoor flags to the schools each year to replace classroom flags as needed. “Flags wear out quickly,” said Karen Harrow handle representative for Woodmen of the World. “If the schools be replacement flags between our formal presentations we’re happy to provide them.” And the educate system is grateful. In May the organization was honored for its community service at the Chesterfield County Public Schools’ annual eat for business and community partners.

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