Huckabee hitpiece on Yahoo

[ne1buthilary]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071128/ap_po/huckabee_record

[ne1buthilary]

oh snap! two of them!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071128/pl_nm/usa_politics_huckabee_dc

[JAYCEE]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Mike Huckabee's presidential rivals are pointing to chinks in his record as Arkansas' governor — from ethics complaints to tax increases to illegal immigration and his support for releasing a rapist who was later convicted of killing a Missouri woman.

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"People are starting to contact us and they're saying we want everything on Mike Huckabee," says Graham Sloan, director of the state's Ethics Commission.

What they'll find is 436 pages of documents chronicling Huckabee's various tangles with a commission he's derided as a political tool of Democrats. It's a panel that has held proceedings 20 times on the former governor and lieutenant governor.

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_Huckabee has consistently understated his role in the parole of rapist Wayne DuMond, who had been convicted in the 1984 rape of a distant cousin of former President Clinton.

Two months after taking office, Huckabee stunned the state by saying he questioned DuMond's guilt and that it was his intention to free the rapist, who had been castrated by masked men while awaiting trial. Huckabee said then he had "serious questions as to the legitimacy of his guilt" and acknowledged later that he had met with DuMond's wife about the case while he was lieutenant governor. Two months after ascending to the governor's office, Huckabee met with the woman again.

The ex-governor now blames his predecessor for making DuMond parole eligible — Jim Guy Tucker commuted a life-plus-20 years sentence to 39 1/2 years — but distances himself from his role in DuMond's release. Huckabee met privately with the state parole board, and two members have said he pressured them for a vote.

"He made it obvious that he thought DuMond had gotten a raw deal and wanted us to take another look at it," former board member Charles Chastain said in 2001. "Some board members who were usually very tough about letting people out ... (later) voted in favor of him, and seemed eager to."

On his campaign Web site, Huckabee says the parole board was made up entirely of Democrats appointed by Clinton and Tucker. It doesn't mention that Huckabee reappointed board member Railey Steele days before he voted with three other members to set DuMond free. DuMond was later convicted of killing a woman in Missouri and died in 2005.

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The DuMond case will be the Huckster's undoing.

Here's more on Huckleberry:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=40988


Here is more info on the rapist freed by the Huckster:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/sexual_assault/severed_penis/7.html

http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419

[evadmurd]

Just posted it on RCP. Vote it up

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/readerarticles/?period=all

[colecrowe]

DIGG:
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Huckabee_tries_to_gloss_over_Ark_record_2

[rodent]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071128/ap_po/huckabee_record

I don't think this will do much. I don't know if the Christians will see past his Jesus-loving. Christians think murdering Muslims is ok as long as someone in their church told them it's ok.[1]


[1] Ok, I am overgeneralizing and know there are good Christians. Just making a point that they'll overlook this stuff because he's a minister.

[evadmurd]

They didn't overlook Jerry Falwell on his "reasons for 9/11" ramblings, or Pat Robertsons mulitple "messages from God." Both of them were toasted by the maistream evangelical right.