Huckabee broke, pulls out of Florida, can't afford media travel

Less than a month after a huge upset victory, and promises that fundraising would be ramped up, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is asking his senior staff to keep working for him without pay, while lower level campaign staff are seeing their salaries cut dramatically or eliminated altogether.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12611



Republican Huckabee ditches media entourage
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s cash-strapped campaign says it will no longer lug around the news media.

While candidates who have won multiple contests are expanding their campaigns to travel with more reporters critical for covering their events, the former Arkansas governor, who has only won Iowa, is getting out of the media transportation business.

Huckabee came in a disappointing second in South Carolina, a state full of conservative Republicans (a constituency that helped deliver a victory for him in Iowa), and he placed third in Michigan after spending several days there to try to knock off the state’s native son Mitt Romney.
http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/21/republican-huckabee-ditches-media-entourage/