Stephens Group, an investing firm based in Little Rock. Individuals associated with Stephens contributed nearly $51,000 to Huckabee’s 2008 presidential run, making the firm the single biggest source of funding for that campaign.
Celebrity Attractions, a theatrical production company based in Tulsa, Okla. Individuals associated with this company, which stages productions in Arkansas and three other states, have donated at least $35,000 to Huckabee’s political-action group, Huck PAC, since 2010.
Walmart. Individuals associated with the Arkansas-based retail giant donated $26,629 to Huckabee’s 2008 campaign. Huckabee ranked fourth that year in donations from Walmart, behind Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton.
Panduit Corp. People affiliated with this Illinois-based building-materials firm gave $28,200 to Huckabee’s 2008 campaign.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries. Huckabee is close with Texas televangelist Kenneth Copeland and his wife Gloria, whose group pumped nearly $21,000 into the 2008 campaign (and helped promote Huckabee’s several books). Huckabee defended the Copelands as a Senate panel investigated their finances and spending habits. (In its final report, the panel urged “self-reform” but took no further action.)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/here-s-where-mike-huckabee-gets-his-campaign-money-170047570.html
Mike Huckabee super PAC pays Mike Huckabee’s company nearly $30,000
The super PAC backing Huckabee, Pursuing America’s Greatness, paid Blue Diamond Travel, LLC nearly $30,000 on May 8, 2015, just three days after the former Arkansas governor announced his second presidential campaign. Huckabee, according to his personal financial disclosure form filed on July 31, currently serves as president and managing member of that company.
Another officer of the travel agency is the super PAC’s treasurer, Bryan Jeffrey, according to Florida corporate records. Huckabee and Jeffrey together direct a collective of companies using the Blue Diamond name: Blue Diamond Media, Blue Diamond Communications, Blue Diamond Horizons and Blue Diamond Travel, all based in Florida.
State-level campaign finance reports show that Blue Diamond Travel acted as Huckabee’s personal travel agency from 2013 until at least August of last year, taking money from political committees as Huckabee stumped and spoke at their events.
The company often charged a pretty penny. In 2013, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli’s campaign paid Blue Diamond Travel $11,365 for “air travel,” according to Virginia campaign finance records. That day, Huckabee was there to rally the troops. The Lake County (Ill.) Republican Federation paid $15,797 in April of that year and listed the beneficiary as “spring gala — speaker travel committee” — in other words, Huckabee. And in August 2014, Illinois state senator and then congressional candidate Darin Lahood’s committee received in-kind contributions amounting to $14,578.75 — paid to Blue Diamond Travel, LLC. Huckabee headlined Lahood’s fundraiser.
The $29,796 payment to Huckabee’s travel company from the super PAC supporting him was by far the largest single disbursement marked as “travel” from any presidential super PAC during the first six months of 2015, an OpenSecrets.org review of campaign finance data reveals. The second largest came from the Bush-backing Right to Rise USA, which paid Revolution Media Group $13,872 for travel.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/08/mike-huckabee-super-pac-pays-mike-huckabees-company-nearly-30000/
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