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From Arkansas Blog…Max Brantley has an interesting item on Jackson “Steve” Stephens, Jr., and The Club for Growth

Stephens, you might recall, has been hounding Mike Huckabee for expanding government for the likes of providing health insurance for children of the working poor, building highways and keeping the sales tax on groceries to improved inadequate schools.

Small government, that’s the mantra of the Club for Growth, which is heavily financed in its political activities by Stephens, heir to the financial fortune built by his father and uncle.

So what?

Well, in the fine print of the defense spending bill approved Thursday, you’ll see $1.6 million to Exoxemis of Little Rock to research and test a substance for wound decontamination. That’s Stephens’ company. Nothing like having taxpayers finance R&D for multi-millionaires.

This just gets interestinger and interestinger.

See also: Evangelical Outpost Joe Carter asks, If CfG’s Pat Toomey is willing to overlook pork when it goes to one of his largest contributors, how serious can he be about earmark reform?

Previously:
More on The Club for Growth’s Smear of Mike Huckabee
What is behind Club for Growth’s attack on Mike Huckabee?,
Huckabee: Life is good,
Huckabee: The Real Deal,
Fred Duncabee vs Rudy McRomney,
Primary Momentum, Mike Huckabee is on the rise,
The Dobson Effect

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Comment posted by Nuke
at 11/13/2007 9:34:10 AM

You can’t have it both ways Emmet.
But, you know that.

Comment posted by Emmet
at 11/13/2007 9:22:19 AM

Having busted you before I get to do it again. You need to check your facts El Nuko.

This “earmark” is for surgical wound disinfection and biological decontamination to be spent by the Army’s Instituie of Surgical Research. Go to http://www.exoxemis.com and you will find decades of research funded by that company. I guess you don’t want the wounded soldiers in Iraq or Afganistan protected from infection. http://benenlson.senate.gov/issue/earmarks/dod/index.cfm

Or maybe you equate this Army program with the earmark for the Woodstock museum.

You huckabee people don’t have much sense. If I had my head in th mouth of lion, I wouldn’t pull its mane.

Comment posted by Nuke
at 11/13/2007 9:22:05 AM

It will be ignored, unless it is picked up by the major media.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 11/13/2007 6:21:20 AM

Glass house syndrome, eh?
But I was led to believe that the CFG was perfect in every way, that their judgement was not to be questioned, and that when they called someone out they were doing so with the purest intentions and motives. Will an explano be forth coming on this pork product, or will it be ignored?

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