University of Central Arkansas President and former Head of the Arkansas Dept of Higher Education, Lu Hardin pledged support to Mike Huckabee. Hardin said Huckabee could work better with Congress than Hillary Clinton. Hardin was a former Democrat Arkansas state senatorfor 14 years when Bill Clinton was governor. He was chairman of the Senate Education Committee and also served on the Joint Budget Committee and Legislative Council. He chaired the Arkansas Advisory Council for Vocational Education and served 12 years as a Professor of Legal Studies at Arkansas Tech University. In addition, he was a trial attorney for 10 years. In 1996 he lost a Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate in 1996. Hardin was appointed by Gov. Huckabee as Director of the AR Dept of Higher Educ. for six years, Hardin switched to the Republican Party the year he was appointed to DHE. Hardin has served as UCA president five years.Hardin described Bill Clinton as a "friend of education," but then identified that Mike Huckabee 10 years were marked by successful education reforms. "The SmartStart program for elementary school students was instrumental in improving test scores. Huckabee vigorously advanced expansion of state-funded college scholarships," he added. "Every governor in the history of this nation ... has claimed to be an education governor," Hardin said. "Mike Huckabee, truly, substantively, has been an education governor." Hardin identified that Huckabee isn't a polarizing figure who has high unfavorable ratings in national polls. "If Mike Huckabee were president of the United States, I believe Sen. Reid and others could work with him and talk with him and unify more than divide," Hardin said. [Source: Huckabee Campaign Blogger & Press Conference]
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