I have spoken with a reliable source telling me that a little over a week ago, Mike Huckabee approached the Rick Scott campaign and made overtures that his endorsement could be had for $250,000 dollars.
A heated exchange occurred between Rick Scott and his campaign staff whether to pay-for-play for Huckabee's endorsement. Scott made the final call saying that, 'we're not going to have that kind of a campaign.'
My source is inside the Scott campaign and cannot be disclosed. Suffice to say they are on the payroll.
Once the offer was rejected, Mike Huckabee obliged establishment candidate Bill McCollum with the endorsement.
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Please also look at the discussion on my Facebook page about this.
http://www.facebook.com/nick.egoroff?v=wall&story_fbid=429505579249#!/nick.egoroff?v=wall
This is important information. However, I support Mike Huckabee for President in 2012 regardless of any disagreements I have with him, including the Crist/Rubio choice. What disgusts me most about Rick Scott is his attempt to get a court of law to forbid public financing of the McCollum campaign. What kind of madman would seek to do this (so he could slime McCollum as a "career politician" without any possibility of McCollum defending himself (from my vantage point, it was Scott who started the negative campaigning; in fact, he has no positive message -- who in the world are you anyway?)).
In fairness, the Huckabee campaign released a statement denying that an offer was made for the endorsement. Here's the link. http://www.huckpac.com/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=3193
I stand by my story. The source was reputable and clear about what they saw. I'll leave it to readers to decide. But several other bloggers have chimed in that they too have heard rumors over the last few years that Huckabee requested big buck 'speaking fees' in exchange for his 'endorsement.'
Huckabee is a total sleaster. He proved it once in endorsing a crook Nathan Deal, no surprise here that he's the crook!
This does NOT surprise me.
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