Thread: HUCKABEE HAS 'CULT' FOLLOWING

HUCKABEE HAS 'CULT' FOLLOWING
By JEANE MACINTOSH

December 31, 2007 -- Mike Huckabee is being backed by a bizarre upstate group that has been denounced as a cult, The Post has learned.

Records show Huckabee raked in $20,000 from Sara Bronfman, the Seagram liquor heiress and high-profile devotee of the NXIVM group.

Bronfman made the donation to Hope for America, a political action committee set up in Virginia by Huckabee, according to that state's public records.

Albany-based NXIVM bills itself as an executive-training program, but detractors have said it is a "cult."

Its leader, Keith Raniere, was run out of Huckabee's home state of Arkansas in 1992 after authorities there accused him of running a pyramid scheme. Facing probes in 23 other states, Raniere shuttered his operation.

Bronfman listed herself as an employee of a NXIVM subsidiary when she donated to Huckabee's PAC in December 2005.

Huckabee shuttered the PAC earlier this year.

Huckabee campaign officials did not respond to requests for comment

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12312007/ne ... 249917.htm

This is their website

http://www.nxivm.com/

Oh iam not surprised Huck is a loon anyhow!

Originally Posted by Acidrain

Oh iam not surprised Huck is a loon anyhow!

Probably THE ONE THING we all agree on here

Bunch of little Gomers and Goobers supporting the Huckster.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

This is their website

http://www.nxivm.com/

Links about them:

http://www.rickross.com/groups/esp.html

"Mike Huckabee is being backed by a bizarre upstate group that has been denounced as a cult, The Post has learned.

"Its leader, Keith Raniere, was run out of Huckabee's home state of Arkansas in 1992 after authorities there accused him of running a pyramid scheme. Facing probes in 23 other states, Raniere shuttered his operation."

http://www.rickross.com/reference/esp/esp71.html

"An upstate motivational group that critics have branded a cult has attracted a galaxy of star students, including a former U.S. surgeon general, the daughter of a Mexican president and a Hollywood actress.

NEXIVM also boasts a stellar roster of politicians it has favored with campaign bucks.

Its top members and devotees showered Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton with more than $39,000 and New York's Senate Republicans with $66,000 in cash and jet flights, as The Post reported last week. Also, several have given to the campaigns of Barack Obama, Tom Daschle and Gov. Spitzer.

But behind the politicking and the courting of the rich and famous, the group harbors a dark history: Its leader, Keith Raniere, has been accused of running a pyramid scheme, driving a 35-year-old student to drown herself, and hiring a high-powered investigation firm to dig up private bank records and sexual dirt on his detractors. "