For Huckabee, it's off to the Cayman Islands this weekend

[underpants]

Source: USA Today

While GOP front-runner John McCain is talking to the party faithful Friday night at the Wisconsin Reagan Day Dinner in Milwaukee, the guy who's running a distant second to him in the race for delegates will be in the Cayman Islands.

Mike Huckabee will be in that warmer clime until Sunday. He's due to speak at the Young Caymanian Leadership Awards banquet -- a paid gig -- on Saturday.

Fox News' Embed Producers blog reports that Huckabee campaign chief Chip Saltsman had this to say about his candidate's weekend plans:

"We're not giving up. He hasn't had two days off in a row in over a year. ... We are coming right back on the trail on Sunday night. ... This is the man's job, his livelihood. These speeches and books that he sells ... are how he makes his living. Everyone else running has the taxpayers paying their salary, he doesn't. If he does not do this, from time to time, he can’t pay his mortgage."

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/02/for-huckabee-it.html

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Cashing in while he is at the peak of his earning capability. Remember this is a guy who registered (at Target) when he and his wife retook their vows and made it clear that cash gift cards were not only acceptable but preferred.

[Parche]

1. He Can Stop Into The Halliburton Office there........

:grr: :hi:

[bbinacan]

3. Do they really

have one there?

[Parche]

4. thats what i heard

Tax breaks, offshore office :hi:

[NanceGreggs]

5. I hear it's very small ...

... about the size of a PO box.

Good one, Parche! :rofl:

[bbinacan]

6. Link? n/t

[Sal Minella]

8. see link below

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Oriental Kish, in turn, subcontracted parts of the project to Halliburton Products and Services registered in the Cayman Islands.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58298-2005Feb2.html

Halliburton has not tried to make a secret of their office in the Caymans -- their spokesman always reacts with mild surprise that anyone would consider this worth mentioning. I believe the head international office is now being built in Dubai or Qatar or someplace like that -- no doubt the skids all greased by Cheney's daughter, who's in the bidness. (not the new mother, the other daughter).

[bbinacan]

10. Thanks for the link

I had heard about Dubai but not Cayman.

[NanceGreggs]

11. "60 Minutes" (Leslie Stahl) went to the Caymans in late 2002 ...

... to 'check out' the Halliburton office there. There wasn't one.

She interviewed the manager of the Cayman bank that Halliburton uses (using a hidden camera during the interview) and found out that Halliburton's "offices" are a post office box; the mail that is sent there was automatically re-routed to Halliburton's Texas office.

Halliburton had incorporated a Cayman "subsidiary", and used it as a means of doing business with Iraq - thereby skirting the legal prohibition on US corporations doing business with Saddam's government.

The segment aired on the January 25, 2003, episode of "60 Minutes".

[Sal Minella]

16. Great post, thank you. Sometimes not having a TV means I miss good stuff.

[NanceGreggs]

18. Given the current state of the TV news ...

... you're really not missing a heck of a lot!

:hi:

[underpants]

22. Halliburton has a Cayman Island subsidiary to do business with.... Iran

Halliburton denied it had violated a U.S. law banning "direct or indirect exportation of U.S.-origin goods, services, or technology to Iran or the Government of Iran."

Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall said the company had not broken the law because all of the work in the South Pars gas field would be done by non-Americans employed by a subsidiary registered in the Cayman Islands.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58298-2005Feb2.html



"If these companies are going through the back door to invest in terrorist nations, Congress must take action to immediately close, lock and seal those doors," Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee said in February 2004.1

As investigators from 60 Minutes discovered, Halliburton has used an offshore subsidiary incorporated in the Cayman Islands (where the company has no oil and gas construction or engineering operations) to trade with Iran, a country that the Bush administration has described as part of an "axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world."2

Federal law disallows American companies from transacting business with nations that sponsor terrorism, but foreign subsidiaries of such companies are not banned from such transactions. In May 2004, the U.S. Senate voted against legislation that would have stopped companies like Halliburton from using offshore subsidiaries to invest in Iran. The legislation was defeated in a 50-49 vote, mostly along party lines.


http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/iran.html

[C_U_L8R]

2. Making a deposit?

of campaign funds?

[primavera]

21. I was going to say...

... sounds like he's got some money to launder.

[TwilightGardener]

7. He has an ad running on Nebraska radio for his book--using his campaign

(even though it's in its death throes) to line his pockets.

[katty]

9. stashing his dough

[whistle]

12. The Huckster may be laundering his campaign money and then leaving

...the country for good. Who knows what these shyster reTHUGlicons are capable of anymore!

[YDogg]

13. follow the money, yo

[daleo]

14. He cares about the little guy

So he's off to the Caymans.

[zeemike]

15. WWJG in February with all that ice and snow?

I am sure God told him to go there, I mean that is where Jesus would go in the same circumstance.

[stanwyck]

17. If he goes diving while he's there, I'd suggest

Stingray City. He can kneel the entire time. He'll probably want to skip The Devil's Grotto.

[ck4829]

19. Off to withdraw some money from the old Iran-Contra account maybe?

Or maybe Halliburton's offshore tax shelter?

Or did Pat Robertson give him the account number so he could give himself a couple million dollars?

[ConcernedCanuk]

20. Huckabee retires to the Caymans, Bushgang to Paraquay.

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Cheney? - somewhere where he can shoot living things . .

Rice? - on a ship with her name on it?

Gates? - somewhere where Windows 3.11 is IT (yeah, both Gates)

Someone else is welcome to embellish this list . . .

of interest

Huckabee wants to be replaced by "Hackable" in spell check.

hmmmm

[KamaAina]

23. The Caymans are rife with homophobia

a perfect fit for theocrat Schmuckabee.

http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?1998/01/08/3

The Cayman Islands' refusal to allow an upcoming gay cruise to dock for seven hours, as reported yesterday in NewsPlanet, was not the first instance of homophobia experienced by travellers there. The story has found extensive mainstream coverage, and although the Caymans government has released only a brief statement to journalists, some further information has been reported which may shed some light on the "prior experience" cited by Caymans Minister of Tourism, Commerce & Transport Thomas Jefferson (!!) in determining that, "we cannot count on this group to uphold the standards of appropriate behavior expected of visitors to the Cayman Islands."...

An executive of a Dallas, Texas-based public relations firm representing the Caymans told the "Los Angeles Times" that the islands are "an ultraconservative, deeply religious country" and that there have been problems -- which she would not detail -- with gay tourists in the past. An unnamed Caymans Department of Tourism spokesperson told Reuters that when a gay cruise stopped at Grand Cayman Island a decade ago, the residents were so shocked to see male pairs holding hands and kissing that church groups determined to never admit a similar group again....

An unnamed hotel owner in George Town told Reuters that, "Anyone who says that the Cayman Islands does not welcome gay people is absolutely correct. Let them go to other places." The place the Atlantis Events cruise on a Norwegian Line ship will go instead is Belize, which issued a statement of welcome to the cruise.

Huckabee for President! (of the Caymans, that is :P )

edit: quote; spelling

[LeftHander]

24. Crap gig set up by the GOP....reward for continuing to run....

So transparent....