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Huckabee: minister, self-help politicianPosted on Sun, Jan. 20, 2008
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BY SCOTT CANONMcClatchy News Service
HUCKABEE
BIO BORN: 1955, Hope, Ark. EDUCATION: Attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1976-77; Bachelor's degree, Ouachita Baptist University, 1976 CAREER:
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Mike Huckabee would later write about that day in 1996 as his ``crucible moment.'' Jim Guy Tucker, the Democratic governor of Arkansas and a newly convicted felon, was reneging on his earlier pledge to resign. His I'm-staying-after-all phone call came as Huckabee, a Republican and then lieutenant governor, was rehearsing the speech he had planned for later that day, when he expected to become the state's chief executive. What followed was a brief constitutional crisis in Little Rock. Huckabee teamed with Democrats to confront Tucker in a daylong showdown. It made him a momentary hero for taking a firm position -- that it was time for Tucker to go -- and won the new governor praise for his grace in awkward circumstances. ''Some of us want to be bitter,'' Huckabee would say after finally being sworn in. ``I don't know what could be gained. What's done is done.'' So emerged the self-help politician. ''Leaders never ask others what they're unwilling to do themselves,'' he said in an interview. Never shy about his background as a Baptist minister, Huckabee regularly promoted conservative social issues even as he dueled regularly with the state's ethics commission about his habit of accepting lavish gifts. Strongly pro-gun, he boasted that he was the first governor to have a concealed carry permit. POLITICIAN OF FAITH, FLEXIBILITY The facts don't add up into a neat political archetype. Rather, Huckabee's record is that of an openly religious man who periodically injects his faith into politics and of a conservative Republican who's willing at times to make government bigger. He beefed up Arkansas' pre-kindergarten and insisted on arts education. He repaved state highways and greatly expanded health insurance for children. With nearly every big issue, he lobbied for tax increases, though he cut smaller taxes, too. Huckabee now has taken a no-new-taxes pledge. ''He's a flexible politician,'' said Jay Barth, a co-author of Arkansas Politics and Government. ``He's a pragmatic politician.'' In Arkansas, he's almost universally described as a man of great energy and a public speaker the likes of which the state hasn't seen since Bill Clinton. Self-transformed from flabby to trim marathon man, his Christianity lies not far beneath the surface. Michael Dale Huckabee was born Aug. 24, 1955, in Hope, Ark., the son of a firefighter and a teacher. His was a humble upbringing, but he thrived. Rich Caldwell, who would become a college roommate at Ouachita Baptist University and a lifelong friend, describes Huckabee as someone with clear ambition, deep faith and a work ethic that put peers to shame. Next came Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Soon Huckabee was pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Pine Bluff, where he founded a broadcast television station that carried his church services. By 1989, he was president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, and in 1992 he ran for the U.S. Senate against Dale Bumpers. The preacher was taking on a popular Democrat in a Democratic state. Huckabee over-reached. He ran campaign ads comparing Bumpers to pornographers for his support of the National Endowment for the Arts. But voters knew Bumpers, a longtime Methodist Sunday school teacher, and the tactic backfired. Bumpers won easily. TUMULT IN ARKANSAS Clinton's departure to the White House set dominoes tumbling, and Huckabee went to running for lieutenant governor. He won narrowly, was reelected, and by 1996 seemed headed to a U.S. Senate seat. Then came Tucker's conviction in the Whitewater scandal that dogged the Clintons. Huckabee dumped his Senate campaign and moved into the governor's mansion. Through most of his decade in office he got along well with the lopsidedly Democratic Legislature. But ethics charges hounded him. He fought the state's ethics commission over gifts that were showered on him. In one year, he took in $110,000 worth of items. Huckabee said the gifts were the result of friendships made outside public service. Critics charged that they were essentially graft. ''If you compared the list of people who were giving him gifts and the list of people who were getting appointed,'' said Arkansas Ethics Commission Director Graham Sloan, ``there was a pretty good overlap.'' When Huckabee was diagnosed with Type II diabetes in 2003, he went on a diet and shed more than 100 pounds. The weight loss gives a narrative to Huckabee's campaign. The story line suggests a man willing to recognize the errors of his ways and change. ''When he makes up his mind to do something,'' said Charles Barg, Huckabee's primary physician for many years, ``he's going to get it done.''
Coronation Street snubbed in TV Bafta nominationsLast updated at 12:18pm on 18th March 2008
BBC1's critically lauded costume drama Cranford is in the running for four awards, including best drama serial and a 12th Bafta acting nomination for Dame Judi Dench.
The Street, another BBC1 drama, and ITV1's Harry Hill's TV Burp are among a clutch of programmes with two nominations each, including BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, ITV1's Britain's Got Talent, Channel 4's Peep Show, Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain on BBC2 and BBC4's The Thick Of It.
Scroll down for more...  Snubbed: Coronation Street, which stars Jack P Shepherd as David Platt and Helen Worth as his mother Gail, failed to garner a nomination for the Bafta TV awards today
But there was no room in the continuing drama category for ITV1's Coronation Street, with nominations for the soap award going to EastEnders, Holby City, Emmerdale and The Bill.
A year after Sky One celebrated its first two Baftas, including one for Ross Kemp on Gangs, the channel received no nominations.
The satellite broadcaster received a solitary nod for Sky News in the news coverage category.
Scroll down for more...  Sisterly rivalry: Dame Eileen Atkins and Dame Judi Dench are both nominated for best actress for their roles in the BBC drama Cranford
Hill is also nominated for the entertainment performance prize, along with Never Mind the Buzzcocks' Simon Amstell, QI presenter Stephen Fry and Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins of Channel 4's Friday Night Project.
ITV1 has three out of the four sports awards, with nods for its coverage of the Boat Race, Canadian Grand Prix and Rugby World Cup semi-final between England and France. BBC1 is nominated for the Wimbledon men's final.
Four first-time Bafta TV nominees will compete in the best actor category: Andrew Garfield for Boy A, Tom Hardy for Stuart: A Life Backwards, and Matthew Macfadyen for Secret Life, while Antony Sher receives his first nomination for Primo.
ITV1's controversial Paul Watson documentary, Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell, is nominated for the single documentary prize, along with Molly Dineen's Channel 4 film Lie of the Land, BBC2's Beautiful Young Minds and BBC4's Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives.
Two episodes of Channel 4's Dispatches are nominated in the newly-reinstated current affairs category ? October Films' programme on the Taliban and a Dispatches special, China's Stolen Children, produced by True Vision. Also nominated are a Panorama undercover investigation into dog-fighting and BBC3's Honour Kills.
Russell Brand's Channel 4 show, Ponderland, is nominated for best comedy programme, one of four first-time nominees in the category along with BBC1's The Armstrong and Miller Show and two other Channel 4 programmes, Star Stories and Fonejacker.
Nominated for the sitcom prize are ITV1's Benidorm, BBC4's The Thick of It, and Peep Show and The IT Crowd, both on Channel 4.
More4 receives its first Bafta nomination for single drama The Trial of Tony Blair, up against two Channel 4 shows, Boy A and The Mark of Cain, and BBC1's Coming Down The Mountain. In the running for the drama serial award, along with Cranford, are Channel 4's Britz and BBC1's Murphy's Law and Five Days.
Heston Blumenthal also receives his first nomination for BBC2's Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection. He is up against fellow chef Gordon Ramsey, for Channel 4's Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, in the features category along with BBC2's Top Gear and another Channel 4 show, The Secret Millionaire.
Channel Five's Paul Merton in China is nominated for the factual series prize, one of two nominations for the broadcaster, up against BBC1's The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities, BBC2's Tribe and Channel 4's Meet The Natives.
The international programme Bafta will go to either Five's Californication, Channel 4's My Name is Earl, BBC2's Heroes or BBC3's Family Guy.
The Bafta TV awards, sponsored by Sky+, will be held at the London Palladium on April 20. They will be hosted by Graham Norton and broadcast on BBC1.
• Votes are being cast for the Sky+ audience award at www. bestonthebox.com until 18 April. Here are the nominations for the British Academy Television Awards
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