Following up on yesterday’s report that Iowa-based pastors supporting Mike Huckabee are receiving anonymous threats about losing their tax exempt status, the Associated Press gets a few of the pastors on record. It also has this response from the Huckabee camp:

Jim Harris, a Huckabee spokesman in Little Rock, Ark., said the campaign was aware of the letters but did not know how many pastors have received them or whether they were just being sent in Iowa.

“We are gathering more information even as we speak,” Harris said. “I would not rule out that we would ask for a criminal investigation, and people who would send such threatening letters to ministers for purely political purposes are cowardly and reek of desperation.”

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