Report on Huckabee Visit to Fort Mill, SC
(The following report on Mike Huckabee's visit to Fort Mill, SC comes from York County for Fair Taxation Co-Chairman Coit Morrison.)
An estimated 100-150 people came out to Knights stadium in York County to meet Gov. Mike Huckabee on Aug 21. Twenty of those attending were FairTax supporters, all wearing FairTax T-Shirts - a large FairTax pop up was displayed in the room - FairTax Tri-folds were available for the taking. From my perspective the event was a success. Not only did people get to hear Gov. Huckabee speak - but they also got an opportunity to hear about the FairTax as well. At the reception I made contact with the leadership of the Republican Party of York County. We have been invited to come to their meetings to present the FairTax to their membership. We also talked to several people who were new to the FairTax - they were sold on the idea by the time they went home. On my way home from the event I was listening to WBT, a Charlotte, NC radio station. Mike Huckabee was interviewed about 30 minutes prior to my turning on the radio - John Hancock was still talking about him and the FairTax. One of the callers I heard was a fellow who attended the event. Momentum for the FairTax in York County is beginning to pick up!
**I'm excited to see the event was such a success from both a Mike Huckabee and FairTax perspective. If I have any other readers in York County who have information and/or pictures from his events in York and Fort Mill, please send them on and I will publish them. For that matter, anyone attending any Huckabee or FairTax event, please send me your writeups and I will include them here. Cheers! ~Christian
You decide if Huckabee’s candidacy is rising:
(1) “Huckabee Building Support in New Hampshire” by Soren Dayton in The Daly Acts
Wed Mar 14 2007 11:04 AM
“Though he is mentioned derisively as a “second-tier” presidential candidate, former Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee is quietly making gains in New Hampshire, the earliest primary state.
Debra Vanderbeek signed on last week to run Huckabee’s New Hampshire operations. Venderbeek served as chief of staff for former Rep. Jeb Bradley and is an experienced Republican political hand.
“I was surprised to see Deb go with Huckabee,” one Republican state legislator told The Daily Acts. “That fact alone is enough to get me to take a second look at him. I respect Deb’s judgment.”
http://www.thedailyacts.com/stories.php?story_id=59&comment_added=true
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(2) “VIVA HUCKABEE!” by Noah Scheiber in The Plank
08.11.07
“Whatever the case, it’s hard to overstate the significance of Huckabee’s performance here. Combined, Huckabee and Brownback–the field’s two leading social conservatives–outpolled Mitt Romney today 33 to 31.5. If, as the results suggest, Huckabee emerges as the lone standard bearer for this group, he’ll probably end up with a block of support to rival Romney’s. (Most “Brownbackers” I spoke to would feel extremely comfortable throwing their support behind the Arkansan.) But, of course, just combining Brownback’s and Huckabee’s numbers actually way understates Huckabee’s potential ceiling. For one thing, he’s come this far running on fumes. It will be interesting to see what he can do with the fundraising boost he’ll enjoy after today. On top of that, there seem to be a lot of social conservatives currently supporting Romney because he’s running as the most conservative of the top-tier candidates. Now that Huckabee has demonstrated his viability, it’s not hard to imagine him peeling off a decent number of Romney’s conservative backers.”
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the_plank?pid=134096
This may well be a resurgence of the Reagan-democrats of a couple of decades ago. It’s going to be VERY interesting to watch.
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(3) “Democrats Beware: An Economic Populist Is Rising In the GOP’s Presidential” by David Sirota in SirotaBLOG 8/14/07
“Huckabee has an extraordinarily different message than any of the other Republican presidential contenders – a populist economic message that may be shunned by conservative operatives and K Street lobbyists in the GOP-dominated Money Party in Washington, but likely has an appeal among rank-and-file working-class Republican voters.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/dems-beware-an-economic-_b_60370.html#postComment
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(4) Jokisch & Kotlikoff on The Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Effects of the FairTax at TaxProf Blog 8/16/2007
“America’s aging coupled with high and growing old–age health and pension benefits augers for much higher payroll taxes, with damaging effects on the U.S. economy. This prognosis is supported by our analysis of a detailed dynamic life–cycle general equilibrium model. The FairTax, which proposes to replace the federal payroll, personal income, corporate income, and estate tax with a progressive consumption tax, offers a potential alternative to this dismal economic future. According to our simulation model, these policy changes would lead to major improvements in the U.S. capital stock, long–run real wages and the well–being of the majority of Americans.”
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/08/jokisch-kotliko.html#comments
Thanks for the articles. Sorry for taking so long to approve the message, I don’t have my blog set for moderation but it’s length was captured by the program. I just caught it now. Sorry!
Some really positive articles there. I didn’t realize that Deberah Vanderbeek was Bradley’s Chief of Staff. I like watching big names, or at least known names, sign on to support my candidate!
Cheers,
Christian