The Republican Race '08 was invited to take part in a Blogger conference call Friday morning with Mike Huckabee (R-Arkansas) and one of his strong supporters former Governor David Beasley (R-South Carolina).
Governor Huckabee started off the phone conference thanking his wife for being such a saint. Friday was the Huckabee's 33rd Wedding Anniversary.
He also mentioned that he was head for Des Moines, Iowa this weekend to be the commencement speaker at Des Moines University.
He wanted to take a moment to remember all the countries service men and women, and reflected on what a great nation we live in. He finished off his opening comments by wishing everyone a happy Memorial Day and weekend.
I started off questioning asking Gov. Huckabee how important his growing support coming from the FairTax grassroots organization (a campaign with over 30,000 members) has been to his campaign.
He said that FairTax cannot endorse him, however he strongly endorses it.
It's clear to see that he has plans to revolutionize the U.S. Tax system, and supporters of the FairTax are quickly becoming supporters of Huckabee as well. In a FairTax.org poll over 42% said that Huckabee had the best plan for tax reform and that was almost twice the percentage of the second place candidate, Ron Paul, who had just of 22%. In the same poll 96% of voters think that an overhaul of the current tax system is "Very Important". (Results of the poll can be viewed by Clicking Here)
The other big question of the day was some what of a surprise. Kevin Tracy of KTracy.com asked Gov. Huckabee what his opinions were on legislation that would destroy "Net Neutrality" and give ISP's such as AT&T, Comcast, and Verison the power to pick and choose how website are viewed and at what speeds. (I still am not well rounded on this subject, however I encourage you to visit www.SaveTheInternet.com for further information.)
Gov. Huckabee was unfamiliar with the issue, as most of us are, but after a brief explanation by Kevin he quickly took a stand that Net Neutrality must be preserved.
Stay tuned, as soon as the audio recording from the conference call is released we will post it here on Republican Race '08.
Until then, have a happy Memorial Day weekend!
Friday, May 25, 2007
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3 comments:
Thanks for mentioning this in your blog today. The topic of Net Neutrality is something I believe the blogger community needs to be very aware of, regardless of political identification.
-Kevin Tracy
www.ktracy.com
I have to wonder how accurate was the explanation Gov. Huckabee got. As you say, the issue is murky, and unfortunately some on the activist left are turning it into an attack-the-telcos cause.
I work on the Hands Off the Internet campaign, and AT&T is a member of our group, and let me make this clear:
Nobody is going to degrade anybody's access to a particular website, or restrict you from using a particular service.
What's at stake is whether ISPs can offer what's called QoS, or packet prioritization -- essentially, guaranteeing that video and audio packets will be delivered in a timely and orderly fashion.
Click on my name, check out our blog. I think Gov. Huckabee will reconsider if he's presented with the full picture.
Dave,
If that was true, the ISPs would have no problem with Net Neutrality. They would have no problem with congress passing legislation protecting us from restriction.
The excuse they make is that they need the money to invest in their networks.
Have you looked at your cable bill lately? I'm paying $120 for the 6 channels on cable I watch and my basic cable internet service. I can't even get them to come out to fix things when they have a problem without harassing them for a month.
And they think they deserve MORE money? More over, they think they deserve more money by holding websites and blogs HOSTAGE, threatening them with slower speeds or even total censorship if Senator McCain has his way.
If this was some sort of "lefty" conspiracy, I doubt the National Rifle Association, Senator Snowe, and thousands of other conservative politicians, bloggers and organizations would be on board with it.
This is not a Conservative vs. Liberal issue.
This is Right vs. Wrong.
-Kevin
PS. Vonage is my phone service. Do you really think Comcast would willingly let me use their network to use a rival service? I doubt it.
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