Governor Mike Huckabee
Biography
Gov. Huckabee was born in Hope, Arkansas in 1955. After high shcool he went to Ouachita Baptist University followed by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He then became a Baptist pastor and ultimately moved back to Arkansas. In 1989, he became president of the Arkansas Baptist Convention, with a membership of 490,000. Huckabee's first attempt at politics was in the 1992 senatorial race against incumbent Dale Bumpers. He lost by a large margin but returned to the political realm a year later in the lieutenant governor race in which he won. Mike Huckabee has been governor of Arkansas since July 1996, after then-Governor Jim Guy Tucker resigned. (2006 Almanac of American Politics)
Statements about global Warming
03/07/2007
“There may be [a human role in climate change]. But whether there is or there isn’t, it doesn’t release us from the responsibility to be good stewards of the environment. It’s the old boy scout rule: you leave your campsite in as good or better shape than how you found it. It’s a spiritual issue. [The earth] belongs to God. I have no right to destroy it. I think we work toward alternative energy sources. [We need to make it] like the Manhattan Project or going to the moon. We need to accelerate our energy independence.” Interview for Newsweek, 3/7/07
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"People are waking up to the fact that if we're going to be true to our faith and believe that god is the creator of the earth and we are manager and steward and taking care of it, we've done a lousy job of really taking care of it." Asked directly if he believes humans caused global warming, Huckabee says that while he is "not a scientist," he thinks "we ought to act as if that is the case. There is never a downside when it comes to conserving national resources." The Hotline.
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Videos
Iowa Global Warming Snowman asks Huckabee a question about Energy Policy
11/13/2007
Huckabee speaks on Coal Natural Gas & Energy Independence in Vinton IA
11/07/2007
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