The Club for Growth, more accurately described by Mike Huckabee as the Club for Greed (why did no Democrat think of that one?), is launching an ad buy in Iowa and New Hampshire attacking Huckabee as a tax raiser. Apparently Huckabee's promise to get rid of the inheritance tax, and to get rid of the income tax and replace it with a national sales tax is not good enough for these Grover Norquist-clone nutjobs. All part of the byzantine world of Republican politics, I guess.
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."
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Nachama Soloveichik, spokeswoman for Club for Growth, said the organization would increase the size of the buy "dramatically as we go along."
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Huckabee and the Club for Growth have sparred over his Arkansas record for months.
The group aired a critical television spot in Iowa in August. Huckabee has nicknamed his antagonist "The Club for Greed."
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