Need a job? Following an incredibly disappointing showing in the bank for third quarter fundraising, Mike Huckabee, the former Governor of Arkansas, is in the market for a national finance chair.

But he acknowledged that he’s off to a slow start on money, saying the problem is that he hasn’t had a national campaign chairman overseeing fundraising efforts. Huckabee blamed campaign finance laws that he said favor rich candidates and Washington incumbents.

“If I was wealthy, I could have hired somebody to find a lot of people to give me money. If I was a senator, I could have transferred a lot of money (from Senate campaign accounts) to hire somebody to find a lot of people to give me money,” Huckabee said.

Or, if your name was Mitt Romney, you could have just loaned your campaign half of your take for the quarter.

While his rivals often fly private planes that whisk them to three or four fundraising events a day, Huckabee goes commercial. “I’ve spent a lot of time in airports with canceled or delayed flights,” he said.

For Mike Huckabee, it’s a hard knock life.

Posted by Matt Ortega
Friday, October 5, 2007 at 9:28 pm

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