Former National Basketball Association coach Dick Versace has decided to drop out of the race to replace retiring Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.), leaving Democrats without a candidate in a race they had hoped to make competitive.Versace announced Friday in a statement that he was exiting the race “due to unforeseen personal circumstances,” but he did not provide details.
Well, that’s going real well for them isn’t it. Too bad.
The Club for Growth, an anti-tax advocacy group, will launch Monday a national advertising campaign depicting Mike Huckabee (R) as an eager proponent of tax increases while he was governor of Arkansas.
The first round of advertising, costing $175,000, will run on broadcast and statewide cable television in Iowa, where Huckabee is leading the GOP presidential pack by a narrow margin. They will also run on statewide cable TV in South Carolina and nationwide on Fox News Channel.
The ad shows a younger, portly Huckabee as governor in 2003 addressing a special session of the Arkansas legislature, which he convened solve a budget impasse.
The clip shows Huckabee telling state lawmakers that he would “very happily” sign a wholesale tobacco tax, and calling a proposed surcharge on income tax “acceptable” and a proposed sales tax “fine.”
That clip of Huckabee happily accepting whatever tax increases the Arkansas State Legislature would give him is all over the Internet and he is going to have a very hard time working his way around that. If Huckabee should get the nomination I will support him only because he has come out for wanting to implement the Fair Tax. That is his only saving grace with me and there is no way I will vote for him in the primary.