Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is being sued by the co-writer of the song "Eye of the Tiger" after the song was used at a rally that the former governor spoke at when Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis was released from jail back in September. Davis spent a week in jail after refusing a judge's order to issue marriage licenses, including to same-sex couples.
“The lawsuit makes it sound like I went and picked out music to say 'hey, play this song,' and obviously that didn’t happen," Huckabee said.
Huckabee said his campaign made an effort to avoid the lawsuit, but believes the plaintiff in the suit, Rude Music Inc., which is owned by the guitarist Frankie Sullivan of the band "Survivor," is trying to get publicity off of this.