WASHINGTON -- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is to hold a rally Tuesday afternoon in support of a Kentucky county clerk who has been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage.
The Republican presidential candidate will hold the event outside the Carter County jail in Grayson, Ky., to protest the imprisonment of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Bunning held Davis in contempt of court for refusing to issue marriage licenses and ordered her jailed without bail. Davis has said her religious beliefs preclude her from issuing the licenses.
"This is a reckless, appalling, out-of-control decision that undermines the Constitution of the United States and our fundamental right to religious liberty. Having Kim Davis in federal custody removes all doubt of the criminalization of Christianity in our country. We must defend religious liberty and never surrender to judicial tyranny," Huckabee said in a news release.
2016 CANDIDATES
On Wednesday and Thursday, Huckabee made campaign stops in South Carolina. He is to speak at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's 15th annual Family Banquet and Presidential Forum on Sept. 19.
On Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participated in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and spoke about health care in Puerto Rico.
The Democratic candidate for president visited New Hampshire on Saturday to be endorsed by U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and attend the kickoff event for New Hampshire Women for Hillary in Portsmouth.
Today and Monday she was scheduled to attend events in Iowa.
LAST WEEK OFF
Arkansas' all-Republican delegation returns to Washington this week after the August recess.
On Monday, U.S. Rep. Steve Womack attended a pro-Israel lunch at Cross Church in Rogers. On Tuesday, he met with Northwest Arkansas Council mayors and Chamber of Commerce executives in Springdale.
He also toured Mercy Home Health at the Center for Non-Profits at St. Mary's, a new Rogers fire station and Debbie's Family Pharmacy in Rogers. On Wednesday, he visited East Pointe Elementary and East Hills Middle School in Greenwood, and toured the Donald W. Reynolds Crisis Intervention Center in Fort Smith.
On Thursday, he attended the annual Ducommun Inc. employee barbecue and toured Christian T-shirt company Kerusso.
He toured the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System clinic in Russellville on Friday.
On Saturday, Womack was to take his 2-year-old grandson, Kaden, to the Washington County Fair.
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman started the week by touring National Park Community College in Hot Springs on Monday, and speaking about Congress and civics to an American government class. He met with management officials at Pilgrim's Pride in De Queen and toured Nidec Motor Corp. in Mena.
On Tuesday, Westerman toured Henderson State and Ouachita Baptist universities in Arkadelphia, had lunch with Arkadelphia Chamber of Commerce officials, and visited Georgia Pacific in Gurdon.
On Wednesday, he toured the Mid-America Science Museum, and put on a brown UPS uniform to ride along with a UPS driver on part of the driver's route in Hot Springs.
On Monday, U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford met with a focus group in Carlisle to discuss the future of drone use in agriculture.
On Tuesday he gave a guest lecture to an Arkansas State University agriculture policy class in Jonesboro.
On Thursday, Crawford attended a ribbon-cutting for a new education program at Cross County School District.
U.S. Rep. French Hill on Monday visited the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce; and toured Snell Prosthetic and Orthotic Laboratory, and DaVita Kidney Care, both in Little Rock.
On Tuesday, he presented the Frank Mitchell Intermediate School in Vilonia with a flag that had flown over the U.S. Capitol and went to the Museum of Veterans and Military in Vilonia before speaking to the Rotary Club of Little Rock.
U.S. Sen. John Boozman visited Cree Fayetteville (formerly Arkansas Power Electronics International) on Monday, and met with area chamber executives and mayors at the Northwest Arkansas Council office.
He also spoke at the Rogers Rotary Club lunch and met with Arkansas World Trade Center President Dan Hendrix.
On Friday, Boozman and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, toured the National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson in Jefferson County. Moran is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies, the committee that determines funding for the center.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton visited Israel last week and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Tuesday.
He also visited the northern border with Syria on Wednesday.
COTTON STAFF MEMBER
Cotton's deputy legislative director John Martin left Washington last week to become senior health care policy adviser to Gov. Asa Hutchinson in Little Rock.
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