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Democratic U.S. Senior Blanche Lincoln says that in considering the 2008
presidential race, Governor Huckabee may offer an alternative
to conservatives such as Arizona Senator John McCain....[more...]
LSU’s Ed Seidel said he felt as if he sat across the table from Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee Monday morning....[more...]
AR Gov. Mike Huckabee joined hundreds of friends and supporters
Saturday night at the Statehouse Convention Center to celebrate a "Decade
of Progress" -- focusing on the major achievements of the Governor's
tenure in office...[more...].
Gov. Mike Huckabee received the "Role Model of the
Year" Award from the Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) program tonight
at the Senate Russell Building in Washington, D.C.... [more...].
Americans saw their government "melt
down" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but the people came through
when their government did not, Gov. Mike Huckabee said Friday...
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Gov. Mike Huckabee,
considering a run for president in 2008, said Thursday that fellow Republican
John McCain's decision to form a presidential exploratory committee won't
change his timetable for deciding whether to make the race...
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American running pioneer Frank Shorter,
an Olympic gold and silver medalist in the marathon who has also helped enact
important policy changes in the sport of distance running, and Arkansas Governor
Mike Huckabee, whose personal battle against obesity led
him to take up running, lose 110 pounds and become a passionate national advocate
for proper health and nutrition practices, are among the nine runners who
are honored this year as Runner’s World magazine’s 2006 Heroes
of Running.
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When Gov. Mike Huckabee
leaves office in early January, he will not be sitting still long...
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Gov. Mike Huckabee
on Thursday gave some satisfaction to fellow guitarist Keith Richards, pardoning
the Rolling Stones member for a 31-year-old misdemeanor reckless driving ticket...
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The Arkansas governor who went from
fat to fit, from munching to marathoning, from political unknown to a man
profiled by the nation's leading news organizations. Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee says he isn't interested in separating his
personal faith from politics...
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
said his successful hunt of an antelope in Wyoming over the weekend was literally
a one shot deal...
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Governor Huckabee told
an audience in Lexington, South Carolina, that he bagged an antelope in Wyoming
over the weekend...
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I finally met a likely presidential
candidate who leaves no doubt about where he stands on the gun issue. Arkansas
Governor Mike Huckabee is a true blue gun rights supporter...
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
said Monday the federal government has done a "lousy job" protecting
America's borders because the country lacks a practical way to let people
in legally...
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Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
recently sat down for an interview with Bill Sammon of The Examiner
in Washington, D.C.. Click this link to read the resulting article...
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Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
says Americans are looking for politicians to be more like the comedian who
coined the phrase "Git-R-Done"...
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Mike Huckabee has been
the governor of Arkansas for a decade, but he is most famous for what he has
done in the last three years: lose more than 100 pounds and encourage other
Arkansans to follow his example...
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Gov. Mike Huckabee
faulted some congressional Republicans for abandoning party principles and
said Friday he is urging local candidates to draw distinctions with the GOP-controlled
Congress....
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
donned a green hardhat Friday and got a crash course in renewable fuels...
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Arkansas Governor and potential presidential
candidate Mike Huckabee says he supports a flat tax instead
of a progressive income tax...
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Dodd, Huckabee to tread
through Iowa communities ...
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Communities to remember 9/11 anniversary...
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So who is Gov. Mike Huckabee?
A former minister with a razor sharp wit? A tax-cutting Southern GOP governor?
A pragmatic, big-government conservative? The original compassionate conservative?...
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
rebuffed one of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s most vociferous union-funded critics
as a "traveling circus" and refused to join other politicians in
criticizing the Bentonville retailer...
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Here’s one tax cut that business
doesn’t like...
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An aggressive partnership between schools
and state health agencies has stabilized Arkansas' childhood obesity rate
over a three-year period, officials announced Wednesday...
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Rhonda Sanders received an eye-opening
letter from her daughter's school three years ago: At age 10, her 5-foot,
137-pound child was heavier than 98 percent of her peers...
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Gov. Mike Huckabee
on Wednesday hailed a slight decline in the number of Arkansas children who
are overweight or at risk for being overweight as the end to rising obesity
rates in the state...
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Hendrix never took the stage like this:
blue blazer with brass buttons, wool slacks, black cap-toe dress shoes. But
then, Hendrix was never the governor of Arkansas...
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The nation's governors, protesting what
they call an unprecedented shift in authority from the states to the federal
government, will urge Congress today to block legislation that would allow
the president to take control of National Guard forces in the event of a natural
disaster or a threat to homeland security...
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Continuing his four day visit to New
Hampshire, Arkansas Gov. and rumored Republican presidential hopeful Mike
Huckabee stopped off at a political breakfast in Bedford yesterday
to illustrate problems with American health care by telling the tale of his
own battle with obesity and diabetes...
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Potential presidential candidate Mike
Huckabee stressed health care as an economic issue Friday at a forum
on politics...
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Rumored Presidential hopeful and Arkansas
governor Mike Huckabee rocked Granite State Republicans last
night when his band, Capitol Offense, performed at a fund-raising pig roast
for executive council candidate Ray Wieczorek...
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
said Thursday the recent arrests in London show the critical importance of
surveillance and intelligence gathering in the fight against terror...
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Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee
of Arkansas warned that his party risks its long-term viability if
it takes too hard a line on the immigration issue.
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Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina,
the nation's governors voiced their opposition to the Bush Administration's
proposal to take over control of state National Guard troops in the case of
a natural disaster or terrorist threats ...
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Based on the successes of tax reforms
in his own state, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said the
Senate should use the same approach for national tax issues, beginning with
the elimination of the death tax ...
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A sense of experiment, even optimism, marked the nation's
governors' discussions on health care this weekend, a long way from the dire
predictions that have dogged their work over the past few years...
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee,
chairman of the National Governors Association, is in Charleston this weekend
at the group's annual meeting, spreading the message on better healthcare
and other initiatives ...
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Several callers to Gov. Mike
Huckabee's monthly radio call-in show Wednesday clamored for tax
relief as the state's $400 million budget surplus swells ...
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
told a crowd Thursday they need to turn out the votes for a gay marriage ban
amendment to South Carolina’s Constitution in November and show “marriage
still means something.” ...
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Gov. Mike Huckabee
is lucky he's not running for office this year. Now, he has time to run in
the New York City Marathon just two days before Election Day.
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
dropped by Greenville Wednesday to spread the gospel of good health and preach
against the dangers -- and high costs -- of obesity...
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Sometimes the selection of race numbers
takes a bit of thought. New York City Marathon race director Mary Wittenberg
presented Gov. Mike Huckabee with No. 110 in the Governor’s
Conference room at the State Capitol in Little Rock on Wednesday...
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Many Americans see evangelicals as a
monolithic group that opposes gay marriage and abortion and worships in the
suburbs at megachurches...
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The Des Moines Register asked 21 Democrats
and Republicans mentioned as possible 2008 presidential candidates what their
plans would be to address cancer research. ...
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IDEA Health & Fitness Association,
the leading membership organization of health and fitness professionals worldwide
with more than 20,000 members in over 80 countries, will present Arkansas
Governor Mike Huckabee with its 2006 IDEA Fitness Inspiration
Award at the 24rd annual IDEA World Fitness Convention®, held July 25th-29th
in Las Vegas...
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Is Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
a closet crunchy-con? He came by the Dallas Morning News today to talk to
the editorial board...
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As the bass guitarist for an obscure
rock band, Mike Huckabee is unlikely ever to have the pleasure
of giving the downbeat to world-famous Keith Richards, lead guitarist for
the legendary Rolling Stones..
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Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
will headline a celebration of traditional marriage August 3 in Columbia,
South Carolina...
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
in Iowa Saturday downplayed the threat North Korea's missile testing last
week posed to the United States, but discouraged U.S. officials from confronting
the actions without strong international collaboration...
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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
said Friday he hopes the Legislature considers reimposing a ban on gay foster
parents, struck down a day earlier by the state Supreme Court...
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Washingtonpost.com's
Chris Cillizza and Washington Post reporter Dan Balz interviewed Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on May 16 ...
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When Arkansas Governor Mike
Huckabee was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age 47, he was warned
he might have only another decade to live unless he began to control his disease.
In the August issue of the American Diabetes Association’s Diabetes
Forecast magazine, Gov. Huckabee discusses his lifestyle
transformation -- from fried food to early morning fitness -- and provides
his own practical fitness tips...
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Faith is not present enough in politics
as candidates and elected officials try to court voters too broadly out of
fear that their values will splinter their base, Arkansas Gov. Mike
Huckabee said at a Christian gathering ...
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No need to worry if you missed Arkansas
Governor Mike Huckabee in his May 2, 2006 appearance on the
Colbert Show. We have a link to the Comedy Central video clip here...[more...]
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee,
a Republican exploring a bid for president, said an overhaul of U.S. immigration
laws should be based on the country's economic need, and that aliens have
been unfairly demonized in the national debate...
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In the political equivalent of preaching
to the choir, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee introduced himself
Monday to many of the Iowa social conservatives whose support he will need
should he run for president...
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In March of 2006, ABC News carried a
portion of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's address at the
Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Memphis, TN. If you are interested
in seeing a short video clip of his speech, click on the following link...[more...]
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
and three other governors are in Iraq on a surprise visit to their states'
troops, his spokeswoman said Tuesday morning....[more...]
He was born in Hope, has been governor
of Arkansas for 10 years and is thinking about running for president....[more...]
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
was interviewed by Charlie Rose of PBS on December 5, 2005. Click
here to watch a video clip of this interview...[more...]
Two years ago, Governor Mike
Huckabee was obese and suffering from several health problems. Now
Huckabee is slim and...(Click on the link to watch a video clip of an interview
with Harry Reid of The Early Show on CBS...[more...]
Arkansas Governor Mike
Huckabee says it's a big honor to be named by Time Magazine
as one of the top five governors in the nation... [more...]
Gov.
Mike Huckabee will be honored by Governing magazine as one of its
Public Officials of the Year for 2005 during a Nov. 9 awards dinner in Washington,
DC. [more...]
After losing 110 pounds, Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee hopes his new book and
a national initiative will inspire other Americans to slim down, too. [more...]
Gov. Mike Huckabee
(R-AR) launched "Healthy America," his initiative as chairman of
the National Governors Association. Huckabee has personal experience with
this subject, having lost 110 pounds after being diagnosed with Type II diabetes.
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Two years ago Mike Huckabee,
Arkansas governor and current chair of the National Governors Association,
was 100 pounds overweight and diagnosed
with Type 2 Diabetes. [more...]
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee,
a possible Republican contender for the White House in 2008, didn't touch dessert
during lunch at the National Press Club on Friday. [more...]
Gov. Mark Sanford and Arkansas Governor
Mike Huckabee will be in Charleston tomorrow (Oct. 6, 2005) to visit
and tour the Health-e-AME Health Fair. The visit is the first of several
site visits around the country that Governor Huckabee - also chairman
of the National Governors Association - will be making as part of the NGA's
Healthy America initiative. [more...]
Gov. Mike Huckabee,
who has lost 110 pounds in two years, on Friday launched a year-long national
initiative to urge Americans to live healthier, more active lives. [more...]
The American Heart Association and former
President Bill Clinton announced plans today to join forces to create a new
generation of healthy Americans by addressing one of the nation's leading
public health threats - childhood obesity. They will be joined
in their efforts by Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark). The
initiative will focus on preventing childhood obesity and creating healthier
lifestyles for children overall. [more...]
Gov. Mike Huckabee
hopes his first major initiative as chairman of the National Governors Association
will change the health habits of a generation of Americans. [more...]
Mike Huckabee became
Governor of Arkansas July 15, 1996 at the resignation of his predecessor.
Huckabee was later elected as Arkansas' 44th governor after winning the
1998 election with the highest percentage of the vote ever received by a Republican
gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas. In November 2002, he was elected to a second
four-year term. [more...]
Long-steeped in a Southern tradition
of fried delights, the people of Arkansas are saying no more. [more...]
Gov. Mike Huckabee
of Arkansas is recognized as a national leader in the area of education reform.
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