Mike Huckabee in Arkansas Senate Debate

On Health Care: No additional AIDS spending; cancer & vascular victims first

At the present time, the per capita federal spending on AIDS is $15,450. That compares with $285 spent per capita on cancer victims, $33 per capita spent for victims of heart and vascular diseases, and $25 per capita spent on victims of diabetes. In light of the extraordinary funds already being given for AIDS research, it does not seem that additional Federal spending can be justified. Source: Associated Press Questionnaire for AR Senate Debate Nov 1, 1992

On Health Care: Ban smoking in all public places

As a long-time sufferer from extremely sensitive allergies to tobacco smoke (I take an allergy shot each week for this condition), I would like to see smoking banned in public places, or at least a requirement that smoking cannot take place when it would infringe upon the clean air of nonsmokers. For some of us, it is not a mere nuisance--it represents a very definite health threat. It should not be appropriate to indiscriminately blow toxic smoke on other people. Source: Associated Press Questionnaire for AR Senate Debate Nov 1, 1992

On Health Care: Isolate carriers of this plague of AIDS

If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague. Source: Associated Press Questionnaire for AR Senate Debate Nov 1, 1992

On Social Security: No Congressional pensions; give them same deal as citizens

It is imperative that Congress learn that they have not been elected to be “princes of privilege”, but servants of the people. Congressional pensions should be eliminated altogether. Congressmen should be subject to the Social Security system and to the same kind of Independent Retirement Accounts that other Americans have to experience. There are people in this nation who have worked 45 years and will earn a fraction of what the incumbent will receive after 18 years of Federal service as a Senator. Source: Associated Press Questionnaire for AR Senate Debate Nov 1, 1992

On Tax Reform: No tax increase under any circumstances

I would not support any tax increase under any circumstances. There needs to be significant reductions in spending, not an increase in taxes. Source: Associated Press Questionnaire for AR Senate Debate Nov 1, 1992

On Technology: Opposes public electronic voting; wouldn’t focus on issues

Television is a wonderful communications tool and will help to communicate issues to the voters, but it would be impossible to have an effective and fairly administered two-way communication system in which the public could vote electronically on major issues. In addition, issues might be decided on the basis of which groups could most effectively communicate by television, not which groups really presented the most convincing and/or constitutionally sound arguments. Source: Associated Press Questionnaire for AR Senate Debate Nov 1, 1992

The above quotations are from Arkansas Senate Debate: Jim Holt (R) vs. Blanche Lincoln (D), Oct. 28, 2004. Click here for other excerpts from Arkansas Senate Debate: Jim Holt (R) vs. Blanche Lincoln (D), Oct. 28, 2004. Click here for other excerpts by Mike Huckabee. Click here for a profile of Mike Huckabee.
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