Mike Huckabee Showcases Katrina Record on 10th Anniversary

Trying to catch businessman Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., used the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to showcase his handling of 75,000 evacuees who headed to Arkansas during the storm. 

Huckabee, who moved to Florida following his 2008 presidential bid, was named as "Public Official of the Year" by Governing magazine due to his marshaling of churches and charities to handle the evacuees. 

Former Arkansas First Lady Janet Huckabee narrates a new Web video the Huckabee campaign launched on Friday.  

"For Katrina, our state inherited 75,000 people in just a few days,” Janet Huckabee says in the ad. “And Mike instantly said, 'I want all my faith leaders to come forward. Your summer is over.'  Any domination that had a camp, for instance, where they already had beds, they already had playgrounds, they already had cafeterias. He said, 'I need you to open-up. We're going to put these new residents that we have into your camps.' And every camp became another little town.  They loved them, they took them in, so much so that some people didn't want to leave.  The whole thing was as Mike said, 'People first, paperwork later. Don't treat these people like boxes.'"