Mike Huckabee in Ottuma, Iowa

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Check this article out in the Ottuma Courier.

• OTTUMWA — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s first visit to Ottumwa was something of a throwback campaign in some ways.
  
  There’s a lot of talk about the changes in Iowa campaigning by presidential candidates. About how living room chats are being pushed aside by rallies for thousands.
  Huckabee’s visit centered on a cluster of picnic tables in Central Park, with a cooler off to one side full of plastic ice cream cups for supporters. The scale fit Huckabee’s goal. He thinks there’s plenty of space for a candidate to break out of the Republican pack and into the national consciousness.

Some quotes from the picnic;

• “Americans expect people, when they get elected, to do something,” he said. “Americans aren’t stupid. We understand that there’s a complete dereliction of duty on the part of Congress.”
• Huckabee, a Baptist minister, sprinkled his speech with references perhaps more common to the pulpit than the campaign trail. He said he won’t avoid questions about his faith, but said he doesn’t expect it to play a major role in the campaign.
  “I think people just want to know you’re honest about your faith,” he said.
• Huckabee supports the fair tax plan. The plan eliminates the income tax, along with other taxes on revenues. That means it ends the capital gains tax and estate taxes.
  “It’s a ridiculous system we’ve got,” Huckabee said. He contrasted a federal audit with the criminal justice system, saying the burden of proof in the audit is on the accused.
  A national sales tax takes the place of the current system. Huckabee described it as a system simple enough “for a 7-year-old with a lemonade stand,” to understand.
  “You take all the taxes off productivity,” he said.

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