Politics

Huckabee, Meadows coming to Harry's & Piggy's

By Bill Moss, Published: June 25, 2015

Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will greet voters at Harry's and Piggy's restaurant and ice cream parlor from 2:30 to 4 p.m. on Monday afternoon.

U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, who was catapulted into the national spotlight last week when he was fired and then reinstated as a committee chair after defying the House leadership on the trade bill, will accompany Huckabee. When news broke that House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz had ousted Meadows as chair of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, Huckabee was the first presidential candidate to come to Meadows' defense.

"I salute Congressman Mark Meadows for his backbone, courage and commitment to North Carolina workers," the former Arkansas governor said. "President Obama can't be trusted to negotiate a deal on a fishing rod at a flea market, let alone a multi-trillion dollar trade agreement with Asia that could cost North Carolina thousands of jobs.  If the trade bill is going to create so many jobs, why did Congress add a provision to help all who will lose their jobs because of it?"