Thread: Jim Gilchrist is paid member of Huckabees Campaing in Michig

Huckabee begins Michigan push

Huckabee begins Michigan push
High-profile backer's 8-city swing may be followed by TV ads, visit by candidate late in week.
Mark Hornbeck / Detroit News Lansing Bureau

Republican Mike Huckabee's late-starting Michigan campaign begins in earnest this week with an eight-city swing by a high-profile supporter, possibly followed by TV advertising and an appearance by the candidate himself late in the week.

Huckabee's loose band of volunteer supporters, meanwhile, will continue their campaign of e-mailing, leafleting and phone-calling, focusing primarily on evangelical pastors, home-schoolers and church-goers who ushered the former Arkansas governor to his impressive first-place finish in last week's Iowa caucuses. Huckabee is downplaying his chances in today's primary in New Hampshire, which does not have a large religious voting base. Polls show him in third place there.

Minuteman Project Founder and President Jim Gilchrist will come to Michigan Wednesday and Thursday for appearances in Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Midland, Traverse City, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Lansing. Gilchrist's California-based citizens' group patrols the border and reports illegal immigrants to authorities. The Huckabee campaign, which is flying on a wing and a prayer here, is paying his expenses, Gilchrist said.

Gilchrist's endorsement of Huckabee has been opposed by some members of the Minuteman Project because Huckabee backed in-state college tuition for illegal immigrant students while he was governor of Arkansas. But Gilchrist said Huckabee supports more border patrols, more secure fences and deportation of illegal immigrants.

"Mike Huckabee is a viable candidate and is the only candidate with a plan to resolve the illegal invasion crisis," said Gilchrist, who personally endorsed Huckabee a month ago.

Meanwhile, "Trust Huckabee," an independent group that bought TV ads on his behalf in Iowa and has made thousands of phone calls to Michigan voters, is considering TV ads in Michigan, said Patrick Davis, the group's director.

"It's a possibility in Michigan and in other states," Davis said.

Huckabee is relying on outside groups and volunteers to campaign for him here because he has no paid campaign team in Michigan.

The campaign hasn't confirmed it, but Huckabee's Michigan supporters expect he'll make at least one stop in Michigan -- possibly on Friday. Huckabee has been in the state twice.

"Nothing has been officially set, but he will be coming in toward the latter part of the week," said Huckabee activist Tom McMillin of Rochester Hills, former mayor of Auburn Hills and an Oakland County commissioner.

Gary Glenn of Midland, an informal spokesman for Huckabee supporters in Michigan, said his volunteers "will do everything we can to maximize turnout" of religious conservatives in the state. That includes e-mailing, telephoning and leafleting outside churches.

They're also contacting evangelical pastors to make sure their congregations know about the primary election.

"We know from polling that social conservatives are breaking six to one in favor of Huckabee over (former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt) Romney," Glenn said. "So we don't have to tell them who to vote for; we just need to get them to the polls."

Detroit News pollster Ed Sarpolus said there's a good chance religious conservatives "will show up in good numbers" Jan. 15. His late December survey showed Romney and Huckabee in a tight contest.

"Huckabee should do reasonably well in Michigan," Sarpolus said. "If I was Mitt Romney, I'd be very concerned."

Corwin Smidt, a political science professor at Calvin College, said Huckabee likely would motivate evangelical Christian voters to the polls given enough time.

"But there's a very short period before the primary, and Huckabee hasn't spent a lot of time here," Smidt noted. "He's a relative unknown. It's taken time even among the evangelical subculture to find out about him."

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Gilchrist should donate his salary to the campaign if he truly believes in it.

Due to difference in Huckabee's immigration policy and the version Gilchrist released, am frankly surprised they haven't parted ways. Gilchrist is 'a walking time bomb just waiting to go' off for Huckeabee.

"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
Sinclair Lewis

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Jim Gilchrist: Paid Liar for Huckabee's Campaing in Michigan

ALIPAC Note: Jim Gilchrist has been flat out busted lieing about the stances of the Huckabee campaign. See articles above and below.

http://www.alipac.us/article2851.html

"flat out busted lying..."