Drudge reports "floating cross" in Huckabee Ad

[Steve]

Food for thought on Mike Huckabee, all who say you support him and say you are conservatives:

1. He accepted $35,000 in "honoraria" as governor of Arkansas from Novo Nordisk, a large researcher using embryonic stem cells.


2. When the Clintons left the WH, they registered for gifts. They were investigated by the House Government Reform Committee, roundly criticized for their overt hands out for largesse, but they were cleared of any illegality. Well, it runs in the Arkansas water. When Mike Huckabee and his wife were leaving office in Arkansas, they registered for wedding gifts at Dillard's and Target stores in Little Rock. They'd been married for years, although they did 're-up' their vows in a so-called "covenant marriage" in 2005. Arkansas law forbids gifts to officials leaving office that are based on their political activities. I'm sure their friends were all too glad to buy them gifts of up to $1,000 in value each (that's the limit of a gift card the Huckabees registered for), but not for anything they did in office. They've renewed their vows TWO TIMES, by the way.

3. When Huckabee moved into the Gov.'s mansion in Arkansas, a cotton planter and contributor gave him $70,000 worth of new furniture for the private, personal quarters in the mansion. He was investigated, called it a personal gift, then had to "disown" much of it.

4. He used inaugural funds to buy clothes for his wife. BTW, former Alabama governor Guy Hunt -- a former probate judge and Primitive Baptist preacher -- was convicted for doing that (not for his wife, though .... evidently in Arkansas, that's a defense) and he was unseated when convicted, then later pardoned by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Where did the above information come from? I would like to see some references so I can check this out. So far, I have only found this information on Pro Fred Thompson blogs.

Here is a statement form the Novo Nordisk website about their use of stem cells. It says in part:

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Novo Nordisk needs to extend its research on mouse embryonic stem cells to include human embryonic stem cells, in order to be able to move forward in our efforts to direct human embryonic stem cells into mature insulin-producing beta cells, which can be further developed for transplantation.
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Novo Nordisk will only use human embryonic stem cells when it is not anticipated that the same scientific results can be obtained by the use of adult stem cells.
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Novo Nordisk will only work with human embryonic stem cells derived from spare embryos from IVF treatment that are obtained with freely given informed consent.
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Novo Nordisk does not support IVF-treatment of women, or the creation of human embryos, solely for research purposes.

I am not giving this information as a pass for Huckabee, only to balance what I am reading on other websites about this issue. On many sites, Novo Nordisk is listed as "the world's LARGEST embryonic stem cell company", obviously hinting that these came not from mice, but humans, and aborted ones at that.

Thanks for the post, Dolfan.