Ted said (on or about) 11/10/2007 07:20:
> On Nov 9, 8:42 pm, Sean Sannity <sean_sann...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/politicalforum-2/topics?start=
>>
>> To all those who are gullible and believe that Mike Huckabee is an
>> actual conservative, wake up!
>>
>> This douche bag is selling you a bag of goods like most preachers
>> posing as politicians they are really just all politician the preacher
>> part is a load of bull****.
>>
>> Mike Huckabee is pro illegal alien and wants them into the country to
>> please his Wal-Mart and Tyson foods masters. Forget that he tells you
>> its an issue of compassion. He's pro taxes and big government he have
>> enough of that now.
>>
>> http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22796
>>
>> "critics in Arkansas charge Huckabee, who lately has enjoyed a surge
>> in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, worked with
>> some of the state's most prominent and politically powerful businesses
>> to establish the consulate as a magnet for drawing illegal immigrants
>> to the state to accept low-paying jobs."
>>
>> Mike Huckabee may have some ethical violations, let's all hope he does
>> so that he fades from the picture and goes back to Arkansas where he
>> can love his illegal aliens.
>>
>> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58455
>>
>> ELECTION 2008
>> Legality of Huckabee's Mexican consulate deal questioned
>> Critics say Arkansas citizens, businesses financed office to draw
>> illegal workers
>> Posted: November 1, 2007
>> 1:00 a.m. Eastern
>>
>> By Jerome R. Corsi
>> © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
>>
>> Robert Trevino
>> Financial inducements arranged by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
>> to establish a Mexican consular office in Little Rock may have
>> violated state law, according to an Arkansas attorney.
>>
>> As WND re****ted yesterday, critics in Arkansas charge Huckabee, who
>> lately has enjoyed a surge in his bid for the Republican presidential
>> nomination, worked with some of the state's most prominent and
>> politically powerful businesses to establish the consulate as a magnet
>> for drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs.
>>
>> Huckabee, in an interview with WND, strongly denied the allegations.
>>
>> Arkansas attorney Chip ***ton provided WND a written legal brief
>> arguing the state government's sublease to Mexico of office space for
>> the consulate was illegal under Arkansas law. ***ton contended the
>> deal raised questions about the appropriateness of private citizens
>> and cor****ations in Arkansas providing financial incentives for the
>> government of Mexico to locate a consulate office in Little Rock.
>>
>> "This arrangement to bring a Mexican consulate to Little Rock and the
>> manner in which it occurred amounts to a 'consul-gate,'" ***ton told
>> WND. "I'm an Arkansas citizen, why doesn't the state lease me some
>> property and furniture for $1 per year?"
>>
>> Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, told
>> WND he and Huckabee helped arrange state and private financial sup****t
>> to induce Mexico to establish the consulate as a business development
>> "quid pro quo."
>>
>> Trevino signed on July 7, 2006, a "Facilities Use Agreement" with
>> Mexican consular officials to rent state government office space for
>> $1 a year on the second floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services
>> building at 26 Cor****ate Hills in Little Rock.
>>
>> ***ton points to Arkansas law, which appears to prohibit state
>> agencies, including Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, from sub-leasing
>> government space.
>>
>> Ark. Code Ann. § 22-2-114(C)(i) provides: "After July 1, 1975, no
>> state agency shall enter into or renew or otherwise negotiate a lease
>> between itself as lessor or lessee and a nongovernmental or other
>> government lessor or lessee."
>>
>> "Even more offensive, there was nothing in the lease or other
>> agreements that would have prevented the Mexican consulate from
>> providing legal assistance to illegal aliens," ***ton told WND. "We
>> have information that the Mexican consulate operating out of the
>> Arkansas Rehabilitation Facility was providing legal assistance even
>> to Mexican illegal aliens who were accused of committing violent
>> crimes in Arkansas."
>>
>> ***ton said he and other critics have "called on the Arkansas attorney
>> general's office to set the lease aside and recover the value of the
>> lease."
>>
>> A memo Trevino wrote July 21, 2006, indicating the mortgage for the
>> land to build a new, permanent Mexican consulate in Little Rock was
>> arranged by Arkansas commercial real estate developer Bob Burrow and
>> that the $7,500 mortgage would be paid by Arkansas cor****ations to
>> sup****t the Mexican consular presence for three years.
>>
>> WND also has also obtained copies of invoices from Arkansas
>> construction contractor Baldwin & Shell charging $60,000 for building
>> the new consulate at 3500 South University Park in Little Rock.
>>
>> A copy of a check from the city of Little Rock, dated June 1,
>> indicates contractor Baldwin & Shell was paid $60,000 as requested.
>>
>> Trevino, in the WND interview, did not dispute the do***entary record,
>> but he argued the state government and the sponsoring Arkansas
>> businesses did expect to receive financial returns, in the form of
>> expanded ex****ts to Mexico.
>>
>> "I executed that lease agreement as part of the former governor's
>> agreement to provide certain assistance to Mexican officials once they
>> located to Little Rock, because their offices wouldn't be ready for
>> some time," Trevino said.
>>
>> Trevino explained that the counsel general of Mexico, Carlos Garcia de
>> Alba, on behalf of the Mexican government, had asked for Huckabee's
>> consideration.
>>
>> "So, the sublease agreement was in fulfillment of Governor Huckabee's
>> agreement to assist them as they moved to Little Rock," he said.
>>
>> Trevino further explained the written sublease agreement came only on
>> the insistence of the Arkansas Building Authority.
>>
>> "The request from the Mexicans was strictly to allow their officials
>> to use their computers, to have a seat and a chair, to be able to plug
>> their computers in to do business," Trevino said. "It wasn't ever
>> envisioned to be a long-term agreement. It was just a tem****ary
>> op****tunity for them."
>>
>> Trevino said Mexican officials estimated their permanent office would
>> be available within a few months.
>>
>> "We had some office space that we weren't using but the state was
>> paying for anyhow," he explained. "We would not be able to use that
>> office space, because the furniture which was adapted for people with
>> disabilities and our staff wouldn't be available until November."
>>
>> Trevino said Arkansas officials felt, therefore, "it was cost-
>> effective for us to kill two birds with one stone."
>>
>> "It was a quid pro quo in that the Mexican government was already
>> helping Arkansas businesses to compete selling their products in
>> Mexico," he said. "We had already realized some benefit, so it was
>> basically a good natured gesture - an expression of a mutual working
>> relation****p with regard to promoting Arkansas products in Mexico."
>>
>> The State Building Authority, which regulates the buildings, he said,
>> then recommended Arkansas "put something in writing, because
>> oftentimes for contingencies and liabilities we would be at least
>> underscore that we were establi****ng them to allow to work from that
>> office for a short period of time."
>>
>> Essentially, Trevino argued, "we were covering the state's interest.
>> We were making official an informal agreement."
>>
>> Trevino argued that the tem****ary space provided the Mexican consulate
>> was not used to conduct official consular business.
>>
>> "They weren't even empowered to conduct official duties at that time,"
>> he said. "They had only two staff members, including the current
>> consul in Little Rock. They felt like because of the time frame was so
>> abbreviated because of their need, they just needed someplace to put
>> their computer, as I mentioned."
>>
>> Arkansas private investigator Michael Hardy disagreed, arguing in a
>> July 25, 2006, investigative re****t, a copy of which has been provided
>> to WND, that Arkansas receptionists were taking messages for the
>> Mexican consulate at 26 Cooperate Hills.
>>
>> "On July 25, 2006, I went to 26 Cooperate Hills," Hardy told WND in
>> telephone interview yesterday, "and Stephanie, the receptionist on
>> duty when you first enter the building told me that the two Mexicans
>> were not there that day, but she was instructed to take messages for
>> them when they were not present."
>>
>> Hardy left a message for Consul Andres Chao, but never received a
>> return call.
>>
>> Trevino confirmed that Arkansas business leaders and cor****ations
>> arranged the land purchase and paid the mortgage on the Mexican
>> consulate's new building.
>>
>> "Mr. Burrow had developed not only a friend****p but a business
>> interest in Mexico," Trevino told WND. "He had offered to the Mexican
>> government to sponsor and facilitate their location to Arkansas, and
>> that was an agreement made between Mr. Burrow and the Mexican
>> government, which you'll have to speak to them (about). That was
>> beyond my authority and my official duties."
>>
>> WND placed a second phone call yesterday to Burrow's Jonesboro office
>> but received no return call.
>>
>> "With regard to the other companies," Trevino continued, "there were
>> some companies that came to our attention that we conveyed over to the
>> Mexican government, companies that had said they were interested in
>> sponsoring the Mexican government."
>>
>> Trevino told WND he could not recall which Arkansas companies were
>> involved in sponsoring the Mexican companies.
>>
>> "A number of companies, particularly ones who do business
>> internationally, were very excited about the prospect of a Mexican
>> consulate establi****ng a presence in the state, which was for the
>> reasons I stated earlier - for enhanced business development
>> op****tunities for Arkansas companies," Trevino explained.
>>
>> "If you have spent any time in Arkansas, you know people are very
>> generous and hospitable here," he continued. "So that was, from my
>> perspective, that was their intent - to demonstrate to the people of
>> Mexico who were in part their consumers, that they welcomed an
>> op****tunity to strengthen business op****tunities between our state and
>> their economy in Mexico.
>>
>> "These companies had discussions with the Mexican government that they
>> would sponsor the ...
>>
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> Huckabee would perform oral *** on a road-killed skunk.
>
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