In 1996 Mr Morris was forced to resign as President Clinton's
political consultant after it was alleged that he had regularly met a
prostitute at a Washington hotel.
He was later banished from the inner circle completely.
He went on to forge a career as an author and pundit bashing Bill and
Hillary Clinton.
Since breaking into the top tier of candidates, Mr Huckabee has come
under attack from an influential anti-tax group, the Club for Growth,
which claims that during his 11 years as governor he raised taxes
repeatedly.
In television adverts and YouTube videos it has dubbed Mr Huckabee
"Tax Hike Mike" and claimed he lacks all the bona fides of a fiscal
conservative.
From The Telegraph, 12/6/07:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/04/wuspols104.xml
Dirt flies over Mike Huckabee adviser
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Mike Huckabee, the evangelical pastor emerging as a strong Republican
contender for the White House, is being advised by a former Bill
Clinton aide with a history of sexual scandal.
As the backlash against Mr Huckabee's increasingly confident campaign
gathered pace yesterday, his staff admitted that he has regular
telephone brain-storming sessions with ***** Morris, a consultant seen
by some as the epitome of the cynical Washington political operative.
Mr Huckabee, like Mr Clinton a former governor of Arkansas, recently
described Mr Morris as "one of the smartest political minds in the
business".
The two men have known each other for 17 years, but have rekindled
their relations as Mr Huckabee has turned into a serious candidate for
the Republican nomination.
Without revealing their connection, Mr Morris has in a series of
columns promoted the affable Mr Huckabee as the only true conservative
in the Republican field.
In the past fortnight he has sprung to the top of the polls in Iowa,
where the first caucus to choose nominees is held in four weeks.
The Huckabee campaign slogan is "Faith. Family. Freedom".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Morris
On August 29, 1996, Morris resigned from the Clinton campaign after
reports surfaced that he had been involved with a prostitute named
Sherry Rowlands.
A tabloid newspaper had obtained and published a set of photographs of
Morris and Rowlands on a Washington, D.C., hotel balcony.
Accompanying the photo layout was Rowlands' story of the casual
affair, including the revelation that Morris's favorite sexual fetish
was toe-sucking.
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