US election 2012: Jon Huntsman joins Republican field..spinning his web?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13862118
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
In sight of the Statue of Liberty, Mr Huntsman declared that he respected President Barack Obama but had “a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love.”
Mr Huntsman enters the race at the bottom of the field, and is little-known to the party’s electorate.
He most recently served as Mr Obama’s ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011.
Mr Huntsman’s service as envoy in Beijing until April this year is seen as one of his most significant liabilities, with some staunchly conservative Republicans viewing his work for Mr Obama as a betrayal of the Republican Party.
The son of a wealthy chemical manufacturer, Mr Huntsman rides a motorcycle and plays in a rock band.
He worked as a White House aide under President Ronald Reagan, was ambassador to Singapore under the first President George Bush, and was a trade official under President George W Bush.
Before being elected Utah governor in 2004, Mr Huntsman ran his family’s multi-billion dollar chemical manufacturing company.
He is the second Mormon candidate to join the race, along with Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor currently seen as the Republican front-runner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_Corporation
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this guy is mormon royalty nearly..from a billionaire family and with the weirdest name..the huntsman spider comes quickly to mind..dont like his “symbol” either..2 pillars..pillars of what?
cousin to romney as well..i have a post you will see tomorrow and it discusses the mormon moment..that moment is now..
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I should probably know more about Huntsman that I do. His dad Huntsman senior I heard speak once in college and I really think he’s an alright guy, but his son I’m not too sure about. Something about him I just don’t quite trust completely. My in-laws have been on a bike trip with him and say he’s a really nice guy but quite often nice people make really bad decisions. I think the terrible logic goes something like ” in order to do good you have to do some evil” or “the ends justify the means”. I hope Hunstman Jr. is a good person but it’s kind of hard to tell. I guess he’s definitely someone I’ll have to keep an eye on.
He’s a member of the Republicrat party and therefore guilty of mass murder and mass child rape. Period and end of story. Absolutely ZERO excuse for his 100% voluntary behavior.
Thx hart