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Related: About this forumHucklebag Does Not Fly With The Unwashed
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/mike-huckabee-private-planes-108851.htmlsnip:
As a presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee made a name for himself as the regular Joe on the debate stage, a threadbare underdog who couldnt afford his opponents Madison Avenue-style commercials, plush hotels and chartered planes. In his campaign memoir, Huckabee proclaimed that he kept in touch with ordinary people while eating food-court fare and waiting for long-delayed commercial flights as other candidates were stepping onto their Gulfstream jets.
These days, the former Arkansas governor is living and flying far more comfortably.
Now a Fox News commentator and highly paid public speaker, Huckabee has in just a few years racked up at least $253,000 in private air travel bills on the way to political events, according to a POLITICO review of federal and state campaign finance records.
Another 1 percent hypocrite flimm-flamming and scamming the rubes with his "plain feller" return. More Elmer Fudd than Elmer Gantry.
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Hucklebag Does Not Fly With The Unwashed (Original Post)
kairos12
Jul 2014
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abakan
(1,819 posts)1. Scratch a republican, and find a hypocrite.
This one has always been a snake oil salesman.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)2. Who finances Hucklenutz's lifestyle?
safeinOhio
(32,690 posts)3. Huckabuck's net worth…$5 million
and currently earns $500,000/year
Hey Rev. if you wish to follow Jesus, sell everything you own and give it to the poor.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)4. A lot more expensive than a quarter million to fly private jets all over the place
Huckabee must own a private jet or lots of jet stock or one of his good buddies is lending his private jet to him for corporate tax deductions
PS IMO some big corporation or some giant business is cheating on their transportation and travel tax deductions for that jet
dhill926
(16,346 posts)5. ran into him at the Delta Club in LA...
last year, I think. He looked like warmed over shit btw .