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"Mike Huckabee raised taxes on dog groomers!" |
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"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal." |
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Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined." |
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"As governor, Mike Huckabee supported higher income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, grocery taxes, tobacco taxes, beer taxes, Internet taxes, nursing home bed taxes." |
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Mike Huckabee "supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens." |
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Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate." |
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Huckabee "was one of the highest taxing governors that we had in this country and rivaling Bill Clinton in terms of the Cato ratings." |
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