Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome Schools An Erroneous Mike Huckabee

Gavin Newsome

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has a new line in his support for rogue county clerk Kim Davis.

Huckabee compares Davis to Lt. Governor Gavin Newsome of California for issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples for a short period of time back when he was Mayor of San Francisco.

Huckabee asserted on ABC’s “This Week” that Davis should obey the law “if it’s right,” comparing her decision to withhold marriage licenses to same-sex couples to Newsome's defiance of Proposition 22.

“It is that the ruling class has thumbed their nose at the the very Constitution,” Huckabee said. “You’ve got Democrats who ignored the law when it was the law to have traditional marriage, Gavin Newsom in San Francisco as major, performed same-sex weddings even though it was illegal. Did he ever get put in jail? He most certainly did not."

The difference, of course, is because when a court ordered Newsome to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples - he did.

The California Lt. Governor was not having any of Hucky's trolling.

Check out Newsome's tweets to the Huckster:

. @GovMikeHuckabee you are dead wrong on the Kim Davis issue -- we issued marriage licenses because we believed the law at that time

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 7, 2015

violated equal protection clause of constitution @GovMikeHuckabee. Once the CA Supreme Court (they interpret the constitution) ᐧ

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 7, 2015

Once the court ordered me to stop, I did. I was never in contempt of court -- unlike Kim Davis. Get your facts right @GovMikeHuckabee

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 7, 2015