The Mexican consulate
The wonders of the web. I just stumbled across what appears to be a quite thorough job of reporting how then Gov.-Mike Huckabee worked around legal limitations to get a building for a Mexican consulate in Little Rock. It includes an interview with developer Bruce Burrow of Jonesboro (he and his wife were appointed to state boards by Huckabee), who did the project for no profit, and details on $50,000 supplied by the city and $10,000 supplied by the state to defray costs.
We're tickled to have the consulate in Little Rock, by the way, though Rep. Rick Green, quoted in the article, and many others on the fringes are not.
(OK, this article is from the ultra-conservative World Net Daily, home of the Chuck Norris column, but unless they manufactured all the Bruce Burrow quotes, it includes some details I haven't read before.)



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More and more of the Huckster's record is oozing out of the closet. When it is exposed, conservatives won't vote for him. Instead of the FOB's that supported Clinton we need to send out Huckabee Truthspeakers to insure people know the truth.
They can also visit the blog of Arkansas Conservatives who know the Huckster the best.
arkjournal.com
Posted by: Born Red
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November 13, 2007 02:24 PM
Click on my name to read what the leader of the Republicans in the Arkansas House of Representatives has to say about Mike Huckabee.
Posted by: Born Red
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November 13, 2007 04:55 PM
It occurs to me, by the way, that if the righties manage to make immigration to this country too difficult it is going to make the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences a ghost town. Seems like most of the docs over there are from someplace abroad. I'm still a little confused as to how immigration became such a cause celebre for the righties, but I'm not entirely sure how they latched onto abortion either (except that unwanted pregnancies sometimes result from someone having sex and enjoying it). I understand why the righties are scared of homosexuality, since it turns out a large number of prominent right-wingers are closet members of the gay community. The really funny thing is that most Latin Americans are Catholic and therefore against abortion, and Latin machismo is at least a stereotype, which would argue against them being gay. Seems like the righties would want MORE Latin immigrants. But what do I know?
Posted by: Carrick Patterson
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November 13, 2007 07:43 PM
Strange bedfellows.
Posted by: JD
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November 13, 2007 08:50 PM
Ugh! I feel dirty after reading the article, not least because it was so poorly written and blatantly twisted. It's hard to believe the author, one Jerome R. Corsi, has a Harvard Ph.D., or that a book he co-authored was "the No. 1 New York Times best-seller" (swiftboating Kerry). UGH!
Posted by: widj
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November 13, 2007 08:54 PM
Gawd, I slogged through the article, too.
Did anyone else happen to hover your pointer over the green word, CONTRIBUTIONS in this sentence? (about 3 quarters of the way down)
"The government contributions then reduced the total redevelopment cost by $60,000, Burrow said."
I thought it was a related story. Snot, as dbi would say. These are strange times that we rent out a word like "contributions" to an outfit in the business of taking in contributions.
Try explaining that one at the nursing home.
As for the consulate, Ole!
Posted by: hugh mann
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November 13, 2007 10:59 PM
I just want to know if they let gringos dine in the consulate cafeteria. I could go for a some ceviche right about now.
Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR
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November 13, 2007 11:18 PM
The consulate is in a converted dentists office, my dentist's old office in fact. I've been in there dozens of times and if there is room for a cafeteria it would have to be in the fourth dimension.
And if it cost $1.2 Million to convert it then somebody took somebody else to the cleaners, and that sounds like a trip Mr. Burrow is familiar with.
Posted by: 70%er
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November 13, 2007 11:37 PM
It must be a great source of pride for Arkansans to host a consulate from a country whose primary
exports are ILLEGAL aliens and drugs.
Posted by: Loonatikjenn
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November 14, 2007 06:07 AM
Most open borders zealots and liberals like many Times readers will never admit it contrary to their own safety but we need to know who is coming into this country, period.
Did you happen to see the news that a Lebanese national managed to work herself into a job at the CIA and FBI accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hizballah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
This has nothing to do with race or politics, its a national security issue. If you Liberals bothered to drop the PC routine you'd see that.
At the link.
Posted by: The Citizens Journal
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November 14, 2007 06:33 AM
On an unrelated note, the driver of a Nissan SUV with consul license plates parked in a handicapped space at the Little Rock Athletic Club this afternoon, and the driver who exited it very closely resembled Andrés Chao. I understand the rule of immunity, and granted, the vehicle was there only briefly; but, still, behavior like this is NOT good PR.
Posted by: durangokid
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November 14, 2007 04:42 PM
the driver of a Nissan SUV with consul license plates parked in a handicapped space . . . I understand the rule of immunity . . . behavior like this is NOT good PR.-Posted by: durangokid
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Doesn't this illustrate the issue with our "New Americans" that we are so proud to welcome? Laws? What laws?
Ignore the laws getting into our country, then ignore the laws once you get here. If your consul ignores the law, why shouldn't you?
Lead by example, right?
Got a photo of this "Lead by Example" parking escapade? Might want to send it to Gov. Beebe. Not that our governor would ever have any illegal parking issues . . .
Posted by: Don Keyhotay
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November 15, 2007 08:59 AM