Here’s your “Must Read” from around these parts tonight. The New Republic has a lengthy article, focusing on correspondence between Huckabee and Arkansas Times editor, Max Brantley.
Max Brantley, the editor of the alternative weekly Arkansas Times, has feuded with Mike Huckabee since the presidential candidate first appeared on the political stage during his failed 1992 Senate run. A liberal columnist married to a circuit judge appointed by Bill Clinton, Brantley penned weekly columns antagonizing Huckabee for his staunchly conservative social views, opaque campaign finance disclosures, and acceptance of gifts during his time in office. “Huckabee would believe I covered him obsessively, and he’d be right about that,” Brantley says. In a series of unpublished private letters [...]
Others in the family are getting some scrutiny, too.
Speaking of nice GOP values and parenting and all that stuff, I was reminded of Mike Huckabee’s son David, mugshot pictured on the left, who got a slap on the wrist for bringing a handgun on an airplane (imagine in this day and age, how dense you have to be to bring a gun on a plane) when I read this story about how David in 1998 was a camp counselor and was dismissed for being involved with [...]
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