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DEL.ICIO.USHuckabee names his Georgia team, with a few surprises
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The campaign of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee just announced the leadership of its Georgia organization. It might make Fred Thompson people take some notice.
Key business supporters are Ron Terwillger of Trammel Crow, the developer and owner of the new Atlanta WNBA team, and Virgil Williams, who was the deep pockets behind Zell Miller in his campaigns for governor and U.S. senator.
Stan Wise, the public service commissioner from Cobb County, allows Huckabee to lay claim to a statewide elected official. State lawmakers include Reps. Ed Setzler of Kennesaw, Charlice Byrd of Woodstock, Melvin Everson of Snellville, Harry Geisinger of Roswell, Mike Keown of Coolidge, Martin Scott of Rossville, Tommy Smith of Nichols, and Len Walker of Loganville. Judson Hill of Marietta is the sole state senator named as a Huckabee supporter.
Operation-wise, Shawn Davis of Marietta, son of former GOP gubernatorial candidate Guy Davis, will handle communications. Craig Dowdy, former treasurer for Bob Barr, will handle finances. So the Cobb County influence will be strong.
But here’s something else to take note of: Pat Tippett and Kay Godwin will direct the Huckabee campaign in the First Congressional District. Tippett and Godwin, as well you know, organized the core of Sonny Perdue’s support in rural Georgia. They remain an essential link to the conservative Christian wing of the state GOP.
Comments
By Tony
December 6, 2007 6:19 PM | Link to this
Georgia is on a roll here, first the Georgia Right to Life endorses Mike Huckabee and now these key business owners and public service officals.
Georgia is becoming a lead example that is showing guts and determination. The other 49 states should follow Georgia’s role model example.
Mike Huckabee is an outstanding individual committed to helping Americans instead of just talking about it. While others are out there taking cheap shots and mud slinging, Mike is taking the high road and speaking positive and optimistic. What a role model example for society. Mike is so humble and trustworthy.
The inertia of the HUCKABOOM!!!!! force is being felt all around America now, it’s like a high speed locomotive blazing at super sonic speeds. NASA we have lift off!!!
GO MIKE GO!!!!!!!!
By paula Jacobs
December 6, 2007 9:24 PM | Link to this
Huckabee is a man of his word! We can count on him to encourage and help unite a very divided nation.
By Debrar
December 6, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this
Go Mitt Romney !!!
We love you even more after your speech today !!!!
Romney 2008!!
By Debrar
December 6, 2007 10:10 PM | Link to this
Go Romney !!
Romney is a man of his word! We can count on him to encourage and help unite a very divided nation.
By Robert
December 6, 2007 10:13 PM | Link to this
Romney is a snake-in-the-grass, flip-floppin’ millionaire trying to buy his way into the White House.
Mike Huckabee is a freedom-loving, family-loving Baptist minister who understands how to run a family (married 33 years), a church, a state and a nation.
Mike Huckabee for president in 2008.
By Louis Nardozi
December 6, 2007 10:59 PM | Link to this
Take a GOOD look at Huckabee and the FairTax - why is the FairTax studies only evaluate incomes up to $200,000? Because the effective tax rate for billionaires under the FairTax is less than 1%. You can buy things of great value all day long without ever buying a new one. Think mansions, land, yachts, valuable coins, stamps, bullion, stocks and bonds - all of which increase his wealth and none of which is taxed. The things that are NEW that the super rich require will be provided them as perquisites by the businesses they control. Think company car, company house, company jet - all of which use our infrastructure and none of which is paid for by the entity using them. Why should Walmart pay for roads and bridges when they can get you to pay for free? This is another attempt by the liberal media to help hand the nomination to ANYONE but Dr. Ron Paul. Much as we’d like politics to be positive, it is in fact ruled almost entirely by negatives. For instance, what’s the biggest negative the Republican Party is facing in 2008? Iraq - a staggering 70% of people favor IMMEDIATE withdrawl from Iraq. Who is the only candidate that doesn’t have that negative? Dr. Paul, who advocates using those trillions of dollars to secure our border (perhaps against Saudis who were 20 of the 24 terrorists in 9/11) and rebuild our crumbling infrastructure which is far more worrying than the loss of Social Security. Hm, full employment, withdrawl from Iraq and a huge boost to our economy from rebuilding our infrastructure - what Democrat wants to run against that. Hence the behavior of known liberal biased network CNN, who wants us to nominate either Guiliani or Romney - both of whose negatives are so high the copy practically writes itself!
By Louis Nardozi
December 6, 2007 11:00 PM | Link to this
Take a GOOD look at Huckabee and the FairTax - why is the FairTax studies only evaluate incomes up to $200,000? Because the effective tax rate for billionaires under the FairTax is less than 1%. You can buy things of great value all day long without ever buying a new one. Think mansions, land, yachts, valuable coins, stamps, bullion, stocks and bonds - all of which increase his wealth and none of which is taxed. The things that are NEW that the super rich require will be provided them as perquisites by the businesses they control. Think company car, company house, company jet - all of which use our infrastructure and none of which is paid for by the entity using them. Why should Walmart pay for roads and bridges when they can get you to pay for free? This is another attempt by the liberal media to help hand the nomination to ANYONE but Dr. Ron Paul. Much as we’d like politics to be positive, it is in fact ruled almost entirely by negatives. For instance, what’s the biggest negative the Republican Party is facing in 2008? Iraq - a staggering 70% of people favor IMMEDIATE withdrawl from Iraq. Who is the only candidate that doesn’t have that negative? Dr. Paul, who advocates using those trillions of dollars to secure our border (perhaps against Saudis who were 20 of the 24 terrorists in 9/11) and rebuild our crumbling infrastructure which is far more worrying than the loss of Social Security. Hm, full employment, withdrawl from Iraq and a huge boost to our economy from rebuilding our infrastructure - what Democrat wants to run against that. Hence the behavior of known liberal biased network CNN, who wants us to nominate either Guiliani or Romney - both of whose negatives are so high the copy practically writes itself!
By JasonV
December 7, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this
If you think evangelicals are going to vote for a blue state republican, whose’s supported both homosexual marrige and abortion in the past, you really need to get your head out of the sand.
Huckabee the only conservative cadidate!!!
Go Mike Go!!
By reaganconservative
December 7, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this
Huckabee pardons and commutes the sentences of 10 times more criminals than Bill Clinton did as Governor.
This has been posted on Peach Pundit and Drudge report. http://www.arkansasleader.com/frontstories/st0811_04/huckabee8.html
Here are the figures for neighboring states since 1996, when Huckabee took office (and keep in mind the population of these states is nearly 20 times ours): _ >> Louisiana – 213. >> Mississippi – 24. >> Missouri – 79. >> Oklahoma – 178. >> Tennessee – 32. >> Texas – 98 (in-cludes 36 inmates released because they were convicted on drug charges with planted evidence). Total: 624 vs. Huckabee’s 703. _ Governors in neighboring states almost never grant killers clemency, while Huckabee has commuted the sentences of a dozen murderers.
By George Woodruff
December 7, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this
Although I am a socially and financially conservate Republican I am also a 100% disabled war veteran. Because of Huckabee’s so-called “Fait Tax” plan there is no way he will ever get my vote. This asinine idea would work a severe hardship on millions of folks in the lower and middle income groups while allowing the “big bucks” people to get off easy…as usual! It would also place an undue burden on millions of the elderly who can barely make it now on Social Security and on milions of others who can least afford it. When these forty plus million voters who would would get hit in the pocketbook with a major tax increase by Huckabee’s “welfare for the rich” scheme…concocted at their expense… figure it out (and they will sooner or later) I predict they will flush Huckabee down the drain in short order. As for the rest of the presidential “lightweights” in both parties who are running…a pox on all their houses. We need a statesman…not some special interest panderer. Oh if only Sam Nunn would run as an independent! But I guess that is too much to hope for. Oh, well!
By reaganconservative
December 7, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this
Immigration group: Huckabee a ‘disaster’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071130/NATION/111300094/1001
“He was an absolute disaster on immigration as governor,” said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a group that played a major role in rallying the phone calls that helped defeat this year’s Senate immigration bill. “Every time there was any enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal aliens.”
As Mr. Huckabee rises in the polls, his opponents are beginning to take shots at him on immigration. Just as problematic for the former Arkansas governor, however, is that the independent interest groups that track the issue are also giving him the once-over, and don’t like what they see.
“Huckabee is the guy who scares the heck out of me,” said Peter Gadiel, president of 9-11 Families for a Secure America, a group instrumental in fighting for the REAL ID Act that sets federal standards for driver’s licenses.
Some leaders said Mr. Huckabee reminds them of President Bush, who pushed for legalization of illegal aliens and a new supply of foreign guest workers, despite his base calling for better border security and enforcement.
“I would say that Huckabee comes from the same perspective on the issue that George W. Bush came from — that out of a strong sense of compassion, he tries to identify with someone who comes to the United States, even if they came illegally,” said Steven A. Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/389698.html
By reaganconservative
December 7, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this
Governor sets record for clemencies
By GA GOP
December 7, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this
Huckster is freedom loving…just asked the criminals he gave freedom to.
He uses his religion as an excuse for everything from immigrant scholarships to banning smoking to releasing rapists.
Sounds like just the guy we need after GWB.
By Reaganconservative
December 7, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this
Murderers were granted clemency by Huckabee, too.
Huckabee backtracked on his decisions to grant clemency to Sgt. Green because of public outcry but he did grant clemency to other murders.
Huckabee Grants Clemency to Murders
Huckabee has reversed that trend, ignoring victims’ families and lending a sympathetic ear to killers, rapists and drunks, especially if a minister from Huckabee’s circle vouches for their jailhouse conversion. Last week alone, he issued 12 clemencies, several over the objections of local prosecutors, and, in one local case, even over the objections of the usually pliable Post-Prison Transfer Board. The board unanimously disagreed with Huckabee and a minister friend that former Air Force Sgt. Glen M. Green, who is serving life without parole, didn’t mean to kill a pregnant woman, and even if he did, he has been rehabilitated.
Last week’s clemencies are as strange as the others. Arkansans are shaking their heads in disbelief that Huckabee would free a monster like Glen M. Green, a former sergeant at Little Rock Air Force Base, who beat a pregnant Gravel Ridge woman with a martial-arts weapon, raped her and then drove over her with his car in Lonoke County. Lonoke County Prosecutor Lona McCastlain and the Jacksonville police aren’t too happy with Huckabee, but that doesn’t bother him because his friend, the Rev. Johnny Jackson, says Green is a good guy.
Huckabee also likes Denver Witham, a fellow musician who plays in the Cummins Prison band and is serving life without parole. Witham, who was also granted clemency last week, beat his victim with a lead pipe during a robbery in a Saline County cemetery.
Huckabee and his staff will not discuss his clemencies, except for a brief statement he issued to the Leader last month claiming that he acts on only 10 percent of the cases that are put before him. But, as we have shown, even that 10 percent translates into hundreds of pardons and commutations. Victims’ families fear there will be many more in the coming months, but they’re organizing to stop Huckabee before he cleans out the prisons. Some victims’ families are so unhappy with Huckabee, they’re demanding that he resign.
By Bitter EX democrackkk
December 9, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this
wonder if Huckaboom’s outfit can match wits with the RON PAUL folks?
www.RonPaulBlimp.com
www.TeaParty07.com
www.DailyPaul.com
HOPE for AMERICA 2008 Ron Paul!
By Marge
December 9, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this
Huckabee is a loser because of his illegal alien loving stance. His new “hard-line” reaction can’t fool me when we see how he fought for illegal aliens to have in-State tuition. Talk about a flip flop! He is just like Bush…pretending to be a conservative, but acting like a bleeding heart liberal. He needs to know that illegal alien children have stolen their education from American taxpayers and denied needy Americans access to these resources. The governments of these foreign nationals should be billed as they are deported back to let someone else take care of them. If they are good enough for college, they can apply and pay for colleges in their own countries. There is nothing cruel about returning criminals to their own country. By rights, they should be in jail. Lets stop the sympathy train by saying all of these teenagers came over as tots and are victims. It is our children that are the victims. Wake up and smell the coffee. So far, Romney is my man.