Press Release: 400 Contributors To Donate Price Of Last Haircut To Mike Huckabee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Presidential Campaign: Next 48 Hours Critical To Goal
\nThursday, May 24, 2007<\/p>\n
LITTLE ROCK, AR \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campaign announced a new fundraising drive late Tuesday to take in donations at the price of an average haircut from at least 400 individual contributors in 96 hours. Now at its midway point, the campaign has nearly hit its target.
\nThe drive started at 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 and will end at 5 p.m. ET on Saturday, May 26, 2007.
\nHuckabee said the goal of the drive is to underscore comments he made last week at the GOP Presidential Debate in Columbia, SC. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A joke I used in the last Republican debate comparing Congressional spending to John Edwards spending money in a beauty shop seems to have gone over pretty well. While I used humor to illustrate my point, the fact is, most hard-working Americans have to budget for everyday expenses such as getting a haircut,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perhaps if Senators and Members of Congress were more in touch with the real concerns of average Americans, they would be more responsible with the money of their constituents,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Huckabee, who launched his presidential exploratory committee in late January.
\nHuckabee said he believes that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153connecting with average Americans is critical to the Republican Party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prospects\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of holding onto the presidency in 2008. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hope my supporters will use this opportunity to weigh in with the campaign while having a little fun,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.
\nDonations in the amount of an individual\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last haircut can be made online at www.explorehuckabee.com or by calling Huckabee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exploratory campaign headquarters at 1-501-324-2008. Donations are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.
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\n400 donations at $10 each (what I pay for a haircut) may not go a long way but it does get a number of average people involved.
\nIn addition, Huckabee has posted a video on YouTube about getting rid of the IRS and instituting a Fair Tax<\/a>.
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