Category: Politics

CNN has a story on El Cenizo, Texas, a border town of 6,500 where Spanish is the official language of the city and city employees are prohibited from turning in illegal immigrants.

Watch the story

Texas Monthly had an interesting story on the 24-year-old mayor sometime last year as well. He’s pretty radical in his thinking but a lot of it makes sense.

Mike Huckabee’s website has posted the audio of the blogger conference call from earlier today.
The call started off with James Robinson, who heads his own ministry in Texas and hosts the television program, Life Today. The ministry brings aid to people around the world.
Michael Ferris, president of Patrick Henry College also joined the former governor and bloggers on the line.
With Ferris, Huckabee talked briefly about his support of education in public schools, private schools and homeschooling. He said he believes all parents should have an opportunity to choose the best education for their kids, and personally he sent his children to public schools. “I believe in competition in education. This is a mom and dad decision not a bureaucrat decision.”
Robinson and Ferris both gave their support to Huckabee during the first portion of the conference call.
Ferris said Huckabee was the most able communicator he’s ever met.
Ferris also said Huckabee is a real conservative and senators and mayors don’t win the presidency.
Huckabee said news from the polls has been encouraging and he’s now tied for support with McCain in several states now.
As for immigration, Huckabee said he doesn’t support the current legislation because it doesn’t focus on border security and doesn’t require authentic paperwork at the border or a legitimate reason for entry into the country – such as American’s are now required to have when crossing our own borders.
“We’re a nation not selfish about our freedom. American’s don’t resent the immigrants, they resent their government for botching the manor in which they’ve been allowed to come in.”
On media attention, regarding fundraising:
“Our goal is not to get elected by the national media but it’s to get elected by folks out there in America.”
On his energy plan:
Huckabee plans to have true energy dependence before the end of his second term.
“This is not only for the economic factor but for the security factor… If we want to see innovation and conservation the Fair Tax helps us accomplish both. If our only tax is your tax on consumption people will find ways to be less consumers of energy because it will be in their best interest.”
Huckabee also said companies will have advantages to innovate because they won’t be taxed for coming up with innovations.

Listen to the full conference call online.

I thought this was a great “quote” from a conference call with bloggers today from presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
While talking with the bloggers, Christianconservative reports that the former Arkansas governor said that current alternative energy plans probably won’t happen.

In the past, those plans have been in the 25 to 30 years range – “What that means is they never happen,” Huckabee said – if he’s elected president, the Governor will pursue alternative energy sources aggressively.
We could put a wind mill outside of the capitol, Huckabee said, so that every time Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi make speeches, “we should have enough power to run most of the east coast.”

Not bad, not bad at all.
Huckabee also touched on immigration and said he wasn’t a fan of the current proposed legislation saying if other Americans could get out of back taxes by simply paying $2,000 they’d come out “so far ahead.”
He also stood behind his support of the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax would eliminate the IRS and the current tax system and move our tax system to a system of sales tax, or consumption tax.
I am a huge proponent for this idea as well.
It will be interesting to see what happens next in the race. Some have suggested Sen. John McCain may pull out before too long, but we’ll have to wait and see.

I’m looking forward to watching Michael Moore’s documentary, “SiCKO,” which takes a look at the American Health Care System.
If nothing else watch the trailer for the George Bush quotes. Doh!