Tidligere Arkansas-guvernør Mike Huckabee (R) liker å framstille seg som en «Average Joe» fra Arkansas som har grasrota i sin hule hånd. 2008-kampanjen og Fox-kontrakten som fulgte har imidlertid gjort ham rik. Han har kjøpt seg et stort hus i Florida og har lagt seg til en privatfly-vane som kan brukes mot ham nokså effektivt dersom han stiller i 2016. Politico har detaljene:
In his campaign memoir, Huckabee proclaimed that he “kept in touch” with ordinary people while eating food-court fare and waiting for long-delayed commercial flights as “other candidates were stepping onto their Gulfstream jets.”
These days, the former Arkansas governor is living — and flying — far more comfortably.
Now a Fox News commentator and highly paid public speaker, Huckabee has in just a few years racked up at least $253,000 in private air travel bills on the way to political events, according to a POLITICO review of federal and state campaign finance records.
