Mike Glover/AP promotes Mike Huckabee, fails to note his immigration issues

Mike Glover of the Associated Press offers a partial lionization of Mike Huckabee in "Iowans Gives Huckabee a Second Look". It's similar to the Adam Nagourney puff piece, starting with:

Mike Huckabee, who strums a bass guitar and cracks jokes at campaign stops, is quietly establishing himself with Iowa voters as a serious candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

Then, we get the downsides of the other candidates, including this:

McCain stirs distrust among party regulars because he has advocated an immigration overhaul that includes a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens and because he co-wrote a campaign finance law despised by conservatives.

As readers know, Huckabee is extremely weak on immigration, but Glover doesn't mention that among his "vulnerabilities":

He has been criticized by anti-tax groups for signing tax increases as governor, although he also signed into law nearly $100 million in income tax breaks... Two months after taking over as governor, Huckabee announced he would commute the sentence of castrated rapist Wayne DuMond, creating a furor. Four months later, Huckabee denied clemency on the same day that the state parole board announced it would release DuMond if another state accepted him. DuMond was released to Missouri in October 1999 and in June 2001, he was charged in the murder of a Kansas City-area woman.

If you want to get Huckabee's immigration record out there, please go to his campaign appearances and ask him a question like this.

Politics · Thu, 10/25/2007 - 11:47 · · Importance: 1