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Yesterday's decision by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton is just  another example of an activist Judge putting their ideas ahead of the law. Judge Bolton in the very first page of her opinion notes, "Against
a backdrop of rampant illegal immigration, escalating drug and human trafficking crimes, and serious public safety concerns, the Arizona Legislature enacted a set of statutes and statutory amendments in the
form of Senate Bill 1070, the "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act."

Yet her decision did nothing to help the people of Arizona deal with these "serious public safety concerns." Instead, she chose to put the politics of the Obama Administration ahead of the welfare of the
people. Keep in mind that Judge Bolton could have simply let the matter move ahead for a full hearing on the merits of the case, rather than picking the law apart as she chose to do.

Her decision to piece-meal the parts of the Arizona law is a clear indication that she simply intended to make a political statement, rather than apply established law in reaching a fair and equitable
decision. I suspect that Judge Bolton was willing to take this bold step of legislating from the bench because she knew that she would have the consistently ultra liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals backing up her
decision.

The fact that our country has even gotten to this point is troubling enough. Like you, I'm upset that the federal government decided to sue a state - a state that is simply trying to protect
itself. That's like you using a garden hose to put out a fire at your own house - and then the fire department suing you for not using the right hose.

In the end, this matter will go before the United States Supreme Court, where Judge Bolton may not fare so well. It is inconceivable that a federal judge - who knows the residents of her state don't feel
safe, even in their own homes - would reward the Federal Government for not doing its job.

Let's hope that the U.S. Supreme Court applies the law properly and lets the states do their job when the federal government won't.

Being tough on border security is one of the criteria we are using to select candidates to support at Huck PAC. I know this issue is important to you and I want you to know I am standing with you.

THE BACKGROUND

Recently, a story broke about website for journalists called "journolist." The website was characterized by a story on the Politico website this way: "Journolist was founded by Ezra Klein in early 2007. Journolist was limited to those 'from nonpartisan to liberal, center to left.' Klein determined who would get on Journolist - political reporters, academics, think tank members, left-wing bloggers - and it grew from a manageable 30 members to a pretty unmanageable 400. There was no censorship."

The emails were leaked and according to records obtained by The Daily Caller, "at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage."

THE RESPONSE

Chief White House Correspondent and Political Director for NBC news - Chuck Todd talked about Journolist website:

"I am sure Ezra (creator of Journolist) had good intentions when he created it, but I am offended the right is using this as a sledgehammer against those of us who don't practice activist journalism.

"Journolist was pretty offensive. Those of us who are mainstream journalists got mixed in with journalists with an agenda. Those folks who thought they were improving journalism are destroying the credibility of journalism.

"This has kept me up nights. I try to be fair. It's very depressing."

THE HYPOCRISY
A note to "journalists" being lumped in with "journolists":

If Mr. Todd and other journalists are "offended" about the right's "sledgehammer" being used to lump them in with agenda driven journalists that predominately populated the website - then I'm furious about the wrecking ball being used to do the same thing with the Tea Party movement - who's only "offense" to date, is passionately but peacefully articulating a message of less government intrusion and fewer taxes.

I wonder if we can expect the same lamentation and sleep deprived nights for Mr. Todd and other journalists when MSNBC chooses to focus on a few Tea party attendees and broadly paint them as some kind of blanket representative of the entire nationwide Tea party movement.

Mr. Todd and a few journalists may "try to be fair" . . . but based on the biased coverage I've seen against the Tea Party movement, some need to try harder.

Huck PAC and I are pleased to support Triston Cole for Michigan State Representative, from District 105. Triston is a hard working farmer, family man and small business owner. Triston believes in the resiliency of the people of Michigan especially during these trying economic times – and he believes the best way to jump start the Michigan economy is to enact the Michigan FairTax.

Triston is ardently pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, a long time NRA member and staunch supporter of the right to keep and bear arms. Triston will bring a real world perspective to Lansing and will provide some common sense solutions to the current problems stifling all of Michigan.

We need more people like Triston in our state capitals across the country. Please join me in supporting Triston Cole for State Representative from district 105.

Huck PAC and I are pleased to support Rich Nugent for Congress, for Florida’s 5th District. Rich has selflessly served his country and community for more than four decades, first serving in the Air National Guard and then beginning his career in public safety and law enforcement.
Sheriff Nugent is pro-traditional family values, like the right to life, the definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman and the rights of Americans to keep and bear firearms. Sheriff Nugent will use his law enforcement experience to ensure that the borders are sealed and the immigration laws are strengthened and dutifully enforced – and Rich will never support amnesty for those who have entered our country illegally.

Rich will fight the liberal left’s hijacking of our healthcare system and work to repeal it. Rich opposes Medicare cuts and wants to ensure the people of Florida can keep the coverage they already have. Rich believes we need common sense solutions that actually reduce the cost of healthcare for everyone.

I’m confident with the presence of a Congressman like Rich Nugent we’ll see real positive change in Washington. Please join me in supporting Sheriff Rich Nugent, and let’s send him to Congress.

Learn more about Rich on his website www.nugentforcongress.com.

Huck PAC endorsed James Lankford is stunning Washington with his first place finish in Oklahoma's 5th congressional district. The race now goes into a runoff. Hey Washington, get ready, you've got more James' coming your way.

To read about James'win and the DC reaction click here.

Huck PAC and I are pleased to support Marlin Stutzman for Congress. Marlin is unabashedly pro-life, and his position on protecting unborn children isn’t political it’s personal. Marlin is a member of the NRA and has received an A rating from the organization - in part, for his work on getting Indiana’s lifetime handgun permit passed.

Like many states, Indiana unfortunately knows first hand the devastating effects of a struggling economy. As a fourth-generation farmer, Marlin understands how the states' families and small businesses are affected by poor economic policies. Marlin believes in lowering taxes on businesses, eliminating taxes on capital gains and investments and opposes the latest market-killing ‘solutions’ coming from Washington like Cap and Trade, government-run health care and card check.

We need more people like Marlin Stutzman in Washington because he’ll work for the right kind of change in D.C. Please join me in supporting Marlin Stutzman for Congress from Indiana.

Huck PAC and I are pleased to support Kelly Boyd for Arkansas State Representative, from District 61. I’ve known Kelly for many years, and I know what a great Representative he would be in Little Rock. He has the experience – working as a conservative in politics for over 20 years, both in the 61st district and on a statewide level.

We’ll never have to question where Kelly stands, or if he’ll be as conservative as his campaign promises because he’s a man of his word. I got to know Kelly very well when I appointed him as a commissioner on the Arkansas Rural Development Commission, and then asked him to come and work as a member of my staff, serving as my Policy Advisor for Technology. He served the Governor’s office well during some difficult Legislative negotiations – working with Legislators on both sides of the aisle to get the job done. No doubt, he’ll serve the people of the 61st well too.

Kelly believes that lower taxes are better than higher taxes and he will fight to reduce the tax burden for the families not only in his district but for all of Arkansas. Kelly believes that life begins at conception and will fight to protect the unborn. Kelly will actively oppose any effort to weaken or repeal the current Right to Work laws in Arkansas. Put simply, Kelly will fight for the people of the 61st district.

We need more people like Kelly in our state capitals across the country. Please join me in supporting Kelly Boyd for State Rep. District 61 – let’s send him to Little Rock.

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Huck PAC and I are pleased to announce our support for David Harmer. David is running for Congress because he loves the freedom we have in this country, and he is alarmed by Congress's encroachments upon it.

David wants to grow the economy, not the government – he wants to balance the budget by curbing out of control spending, not by simply raising taxes. David will free up small businesses from suffocating taxation and regulation so they can make business decisions instead of tax decisions. David will fight to put an end to the government using taxpayer funds to bailout failing private companies.

David knows that when we reward irresponsibility and waste, we get more of the same.

David believes in the conservative values that make our country great – limited government is better than more government, lower taxes are better than higher taxes, that marriage is between one man and one woman and the sanctity of life.

I hope you’ll join me in supporting David Harmer for Congress.

Huck PAC and I are pleased to announce our support of Assemblyman Van Tran for Congress. Van is committed to using common-sense solutions to solve the current problems in California, and around the Nation. He wants to balance the budget deficit by putting a restraint on reckless spending and eliminating waste in Washington bureaucracy.

Van’s personal history is truly the American Dream. His family first came to America in 1975, having been evacuated by the U.S. Army a week before the fall of Saigon. Before serving the people of the 68th Assembly District in Orange County, Van was the managing partner of his own law practice. Van also served on the Garden Gove Planning Commission and served as Vice-Mayor of Garden Grove before being elected to the California State Assembly in 2004. In fact, Van became the first Vietnamese-American elected to any state’s legislature.

Assemblyman Van Tran has fought hard for his constituents in Sacramento with public safety as one of his top priorities. Serving as vice-chair of the Judiciary Committee as well as sitting on the Banking and Finance and Governmental Organization Committees – Van has the right knowledge and expertise to affect real positive change in the 47th district, all of California and Washington, D.C.

I hope you’ll join me in supporting Van Tran for Congress.

Governor Huckabee will be on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on the Fox News Channel today, at 4pm ET and he'll also be on "Hannity" at 9pm ET.

I’m sure you will remember back in March, when the health care legislation was being so hotly debated. At the time, Congressman Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, said that he would not vote for any legislation that included federal funding for abortions. He said that he would ONLY vote for President Obama’s health care legislation as long as the President would issue an Executive Order clarifying that no federal funds would be used for abortions.

The President signed an Executive Order purporting to do just that.

It is unfortunate that Cong. Stupak and his small band of followers didn’t listen to the pro-life warning sirens in March – when they warned of obvious pathways created by Obamacare that lead straight to federal funds being used to pay for abortions. Still, Cong. Stupak and several other blue dog Democrats trusted President Obama and voted for his health care bill.

Fast forward to the present: Pro-Life organizations just reported that more than $160 million in federal funding was being allocated to state high-risk insurance pools in Pennsylvania and New Mexico that included abortion services.

After this news surfaced, the Department of Health and Human Services was quick to post a statement rejecting this claim. Then they issued a second statement promising to communicate to state agencies that federal funds for patients with “pre-existing conditions will not” be used for abortion services.

While that is certainly good news, it does nothing to alleviate the concerns of pro-life Americans. After all, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has still never refuted her comments in a letter to Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on the implementation of the President’s healthcare law when she wrote, “States may choose whether and how they participate in the program, which is funded by the federal government.”

I believe this confusion between the states, the federal government and HHS, only proves the President’s Executive Order on this issue is meaningless and can’t be relied on to protect the lives of the unborn.

Whether the policy consequence was intended or not, this latest revelation is sadly just another example of a President whose track record with the truth has left many Americans scratching their heads.

I want to remind you:

-  It was this President who said if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor – but even the New York Times reported that in fact, under Obamacare, that’s not necessarily might not be the case.

-  It was this President who said, “We must pass the stimulus to keep unemployment from reaching double digits,” However, a year after its passage, the unemployment rate had already skyrocketed to double digits, and continues to hover around 10%.

-  It was this President who said, he “will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days,” but that hasn’t been true – many bills have been signed within hours or days of passage.

-  It was this President who said, “we'll have the negotiations (about healthcare) televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies,” instead, the meetings were held behind closed doors.

-  It was this President who said he was, “committed to returning earmarks to less than $7.8 billion a year, the level they were at before 1994." However, for the fiscal year 2010, total earmarks are costing taxpayers $15.9 billion.

As I’ve said many times before, elections have consequences – but at least we can do something about it come November. Support Huck PAC as we continue working tirelessly to elect conservative candidates and send them to our State Capitals and to Washington D.C. – let’s hold our elected officials accountable for their promises.

Huck PAC and I are pleased to announce our support of Jeff Duncan for Congress.

Jeff was first elected to the South Carolina House in 2002 and since that time he has served the people of the 3rd District with honor and distinction – fighting for lower taxes and against bigger government. Having run his own business, Jeff understands all too well that businesses suffer under high taxes are excessive government regulation. There is no doubt Jeff will take his commonsense solutions to Washington and will work to bring jobs back to South Carolina.

An advocate of traditional values, Jeff believes that life begins at conception and that we should protect the unborn. Jeff believes that marriage is a union between one man and one woman, and will fight any attempt to alter that. He’s a lifetime member of the NRA, truly believes in the 2nd Amendment and will fight to protect the rights of all lawful gun owners.

We need positive change in Washington and we can start by sending Jeff Duncan to Congress. We need more people like Jeff in D.C. to put an end the radical left’s liberal agenda.

Please join me and support Jeff Duncan for Congress.

Huck PAC and I are pleased to announce our support of Trey Gowdy for Congress. Trey has the right kind of experience to be an effective voice for change in Washington. With his years spent as a federal prosecutor coupled with his time as a circuit solicitor, Trey knows better than most the shortcomings of the criminal justice system and the burden it puts upon every taxpaying citizen.

Trey believes that lower taxes and ending the out of control spending coming from Washington will help create more jobs through out South Carolina and the country. We simply cannot solve our spending problem by spending more money – and Trey knows that.

He’s a true believer in the sanctity of life and other traditional values, like the right to bear arms, a more limited federal government and a strong national defense.

The people of the 4th District deserve someone who will stand firm in the face Washington’s political pressures. Trey Gowdy is just the man for the job. I hope you will join me in supporting Trey Gowdy for Congress.