Political Clippings

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that former GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee “has been writing checks and headlining fundraisers across the country to support like-minded politicians,” as he promised to do when he ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Huckabee’s two political action committees have donated more than $ 52,000 to 28 Republicans, including Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and John E. Sununu, R-N.H. “There was one glitch. Among the PAC’s donations was a $2,300 contribution” to Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, who “is famous for earmarks, so-called pork-barrel spending that angers some conservatives. Many Huckabee supporters used his Web site to criticize the endorsement.”