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Mike Huckabee Files Bar Complaint Against Twitter Critic Over Beach Feud

Lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder joked that Huckabee’s Secret Service code name should be “beach thief.”

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has filed a bar complaint against a Florida lawyer who’s used his minor Twitter presence to poke fun at him, south Florida’s Sun-Sentinel reports. Huckabee and lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder were already at odds over Huckabee’s $7 million Florida beach home, which is part of an ongoing fight over public beach access. Uhlfelder, a beach access advocate, has mocked Huckabee on Twitter and shared political cartoons that depict Huckabee as a beach hog. In his bar complaint, Huckabee accuses Uhlfelder, who has a mere 422 Twitter followers, of disparagement. The complaint points to a tweet in which Uhlfelder joked that Huckabee’s Secret Service code name should be “beach thief.” “He accused me of theft, a crime of moral turpitude,” Huckabee’s complaint reads.