If the Republicans are going to keep the White House in 2008, we're going to need to show voters that we're for clean government, not "business as usual."
From the Pine Bluff Commercial:
Huckabee has tangled with the ethics panel previously over gifts. The commission has five times found that he violated state ethics guidelines.
Huckabee was issued letters of warning and reprimand and drew a pair of $500 fines after the commission found that he failed to report a $43,150 payment he received from his 1994 lieutenant governor's campaign for the use of his personal airplane, and for failing to report that he was paid about $14,000 from his 1992 U.S. Senate campaign.
Huckabee was issued a letter of caution by the panel in 1997 for failing to report that he received $23,500 from Action America, a tax-exempt organization he incorporated with three associates in 1994 to coordinate parts of his private-sector speaking schedule while he was lieutenant governor.
And in January 2003, the commission ruled that Huckabee violated two state ethics laws on accepting and reporting gifts in 2001. The commission fined the governor $250 and issued him a letter of warning for accepting a $500 canoe from Coca-Cola in 2001.
Huckabee did get a break on the blanket, though.
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