Huckabee Baiting: "None of us could've predicted what [Dumond] could've done when he got out." Edition
I am going to start out with the LINK and give you a chance to read it before I move on.
So, as governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee "aggressively pushed" for the release of Wayne Dumond. He raped a women. Than Huckabee let him out of jail 25 years before his sentence was up. He than went on to rape and murder another women.
Since then, Hukabee as said over and over that:
"None of us could've predicted what [Dumond] could've done when he got out."
Turns out Huckabee was wrong. And today a staffer leaked a a file containing letters from other women that claimed Dumond raped them. So, this could mean two things.
1) Huckabee is a strong believe the power of the prison system to reform criminals. or
2) Huckabee does not believe that rape is real. The women were asking for it.
This is the best part. After Huckabee was elected in 1997 there was a lot of pressure being put on him from religious right and other right wing intrests.
In 1996, as a newly elected governor who had received strong support from the Christian right, Huckabee was under intense pressure from conservative activists to pardon Dumond or commute his sentence. The activists claimed that Dumond's initial imprisonment and various other travails were due to the fact that Ashley Stevens, the high school cheerleader he had raped, was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton, and the daughter of a major Clinton campaign contributor.
The case for Dumond's innocence was championed in Arkansas by Jay Cole, a Baptist minister and radio host who was a close friend of the Huckabee family. It also became a cause for New York Post columnist Steve Dunleavy, who repeatedly argued for Dumond's release, calling his conviction "a travesty of justice." On Sept. 21, 1999, Dunleavy wrote a column headlined "Clinton's Biggest Crime - Left Innocent Man In Jail For 14 Years":
"Dumond, now 52, was given conditional parole yesterday in Arkansas after having being sentenced to 50 years in jail for the rape of Clinton's cousin," Dunleavy wrote. "That rape never happened."
This fucker was let out of jail because the woman he raped was the daughter of a Clinton supporter and her family had donated money to the Clinton campain.
How nice.
Huckabee sucks.
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Huckabee was on Wolf Blitzer's stupid show this afternoon talking about this. He denied pretty much all involvement.
I assume the video will be up later. First person who finds it ought to link it.
Not the video, but close enough.
Truth: Governor Huckabee did not pardon Dumond. He never took action in the DuMond case that made him parole eligible. He either denied the clemency request, or took no action (which is the same as a denial) on four separate occasions.
He also did not parole Wayne Dumond for he had no authority to do that. Governors in Arkansas don't grant parole-the parole board does. The fact remains that Governor Huckabee didn't commutate, pardon, parole or grant any form of clemency to Wayne DuMond.
True?
he also took no action to stop it. He also denies being aware of all this information, the letters from other women etcs
he also took no action to stop it.
Is the governor of that state supposed to oversee the decisions of parole hearings?
Taking no action to stop something does not somehow place blame for that something on an individual.
That's my thought.
Ignoring letters? Sure.
But he didn't go into the prison and unlock the guy's cell.
I dunno.
he may have had no political power to do anything.
however, he probably could have done something.
but for that matter, I could/should have done something and am therefore just as much to blame as Huckabee in this matter.
anyway, im not voting for him based on his political views.
Health care will not "fix itself"
Health Care will fix itself if it knows what is good for it.
If it doesn't fix itself? We're going to break its leg-benders. And it doesn't have healthcare.
"anyway, im not voting for him based on his political views."
Then why are you voting for him?
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