Governor Huckabee Defends Gift Registries

Gift registries have been set up to help friends of Arkansas first lady Janet Huckabee choose gifts for the Huckabees' new home as they prepare to leave the governor's mansion. Huckabee leaves office in January after 10 years. The couple purchased a $525,000, 7,000-square-foot home in North Little Rock this year, and friends of the first lady are giving her a housewarming party, Huckabee spokeswoman Alice Stewart said.

Huckabee said the gift registries were put together by his wife's friends for a housewarming party. "Tell me what she can do for somebody in the last month of her tenure when she's not even an elected official and has no power whatsoever," he told reporters. "Is she not entitled to have some friends that have nothing to do with me?"

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