Parole officials: Huckabee pushed rapist's release

LA Times ^ | Dec 8,2007 | Richard A. Serrano

[AmericanMade1776]

‘DEAR WAYNE’: GOP presidential hopeful Mick Huckabee wrote to Wayne DuMond. “My desire is that you be released from prison,” the governor wrote. ““I feel now that parole is the best way."

Pastor Jay D. Cole had two close friends. One was an inmate in the Arkansas state penitentiary. There, the minister would sit with Wayne DuMond "and pray and read the Bible." For a while, the prisoner's wife even lived in Cole's home.

Cole's friendship with Mike Huckabee ran deeper, back to when Huckabee was the youngest-ever head of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. The two men produced Bible lessons on videotape. "We worked heavily with him when he got politically involved too," Cole said. l now that parole is the best way."

[AmericanMade1776]

WAYNE DuMOND: The rapist was released from prison in 1999. Within a year he suffocated a mother of six, and police believe he killed another woman. (Shane Keyser / The Kansas City Star)

[AmericanMade1776]

Huckabee Was a Commutation and Pardon Machine

___ Here are the figures for neighboring states since 1996, when Huckabee took office (and keep in mind the population of these states is nearly 20 times ours):
___ >> Louisiana – 213.
___ >> Mississippi – 24.
___ >> Missouri – 79.
___ >> Oklahoma – 178.
___ >> Tennessee – 32.
___ >> Texas – 98 (in-cludes 36 inmates released because they were convicted on drug charges with planted evidence).

___ Total: 624 vs. Huckabee’s 703.

___ Governors in neighboring states almost never grant killers clemency, while Huckabee has commuted the sentences of a dozen murderers.

http://holycoast.blogspot.com/2007/12/huckabee-was-commutation-and-pardon.html

[AmericanMade1776]

Please insert Huckabee's face into this picture

[AmericanMade1776]

Three board members recalled it differently. They said Huckabee raised the issue of DuMond’s release, asking to discuss the matter with them in a closed session. They said his religious beliefs, and the influence of the evangelical community from which he came, drove him.

“We felt pressured by him,” said board member Ermer Pondexter. “I felt compelled to do it. . . . It was a favor for the governor.”

Looking back, she added, “I regret it.”

Parole board member Deborah Springer Suttlar said Huckabee did not mince his feelings about DuMond: “He wanted him out.”
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-huckabee8dec08,0,4343390.story?coll=la-home-center

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Huckabee is all hucked up now!

[AmericanMade1776]

Republican hopeful Huckabee surges in Iowa: poll http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071208/pl_nm/usa_politics_huckabee_dc_1

[org.whodat]

Some huckster poster will be along to cut and past some spin shortly.

LOL

[AmericanMade1776]

Republican US Presidential hopeful Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee laughs while meeting potential supporters over coffee 04 December, 2007. Huckabee's stunning Iowa surge took him to a gaping lead in a new poll Friday, just 27 days before the state holds the first 2008 nominating contest. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Yana Paskova)

[samtheman]

If you like President Clintons pardons, you’ll LOVE President Huckabee.

[AmericanMade1776]

Huckster Posters from the Hillary Camp , please support Huck, do it for a Hillary Win in ‘05

[webschooner]

If you like President Clintons pardons, you’ll LOVE President Huckabee.

So Inquiring Minds want to know, did Huck the Flim Flam Man get paid for his pardons, or is he not as clever than Willie Klintoon?

[dano1]

Truth Alert: More Information of the Wayne Dumond Story from Huckabee Website

November 09, 2007

It has been reported that Governor Huckabee released, pardoned, or granted parole to convicted rapist Wayne Dumond. That is not true. It's interesting that Wayne Dumond's name only surfaces during an election year for Governor Huckabee. In 2002, his Democrat opponent in the midst of the general election made a political issue out the entire thing. Arkansas voters didn't buy this false attack from the Democrat in 2002 and re-elected Governor Huckabee to another term as Governor of Arkansas. Here are the facts of the Dumond case:

Governor Jim Guy Tucker gave executive clemency to Wayne DuMond, and commuted his sentence to 39.5 years. This action made Wayne DuMond immediately eligible for parole.

The parole board was made up entirely of Democrats appointed by Democrat Governors Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker (who was later convicted on federal charges and removed from office). Not one member of the board was appointed by Huckabee.

Governor Huckabee never took action in the DuMond case that made him parole eligible. Governor Huckabee either denied Wayne DuMond's clemency request, or took no action (which is the same as a denial) on four separate occasions. Governor Huckabee did not parole Wayne Dumond. Governor Huckabee 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.

Source: Huckabee's issues website

[Spiff]

Note new tagline.

Huckabee's got a big problem. If this doesn't destroy his chances at the nomination, it should. Why? Because if he succeeds in getting the nomination, the Dems will murder Huckabee in the general election over this thing. They will do everything to get Republicans back for the Willie Horton thing by turning Huckabee's Willie Horton moment into his destruction. And by connection, Free Republic won't go unscathed. Back before DuMond's release, one of his friends was a poster here (his account is still here, by the way) and he had FReepers getting involved, calling for DuMond's release from prison, etc. Like I said, the Democrats will have a field day and there's no way Huckabee would be able to survive it.

[AmericanMade1776]

‘DEAR WAYNE’: GOP presidential hopeful Mick Huckabee wrote to Wayne DuMond. “My desire is that you be released from prison,” the governor wrote. “I feel now that parole is the best way."

[freespirited]

It’s obvious what happened here. Huck wanted DuMond out, but owing to public outrage, realized he needed it done under someone else’s signature. So he scrapped his plans to grant clemency and came up with the idea to get the parole board to do it. Sleazy.

BTW, those numbers on # of pardons probably understate how bad Huck’s record is because they do not put them into perspective. For ex, 98 pardons in a state with 500,000 prisoners is not all that many; 98 pardons in a state with 1,000 prisoners is a lot. That’s why the numbers should be expressed per 1000 prisoners to standardize them.

Since Arkansas is a small state, it probably had fewer prisoners than Texas. I imagine Huck’s record will look far worse if the numbers were standardized.

[AmericanMade1776]

With Cole’s urging, and with DuMond insisting he was “born again,” Huckabee played a key role in setting free a rapist who was supposed to serve many more years, say three of the seven members of the state board that paroled DuMond.

After being released, DuMond moved to Missouri, where less than a year later he suffocated the mother of three in a Kansas City suburb. Police suspect that he killed another woman there as well.

[samtheman]

I have a feeling that Huck is such a nanny-state-I-Know-whats-best-for-you socialist that he just pardoned all those killers and rapists out of the “goodness of his heart” and a sense that the dumbass taxpayers who elected him don’t need to be listened to on any issue, ever.

[RGSpincich]

Mob mentality has taken over. Hide the rope.

[popdonnelly]

A white Willie Horton! I’m offended.

[jim35]

“...that the dumbass taxpayers who elected him don’t need to be listened to on any issue, ever.”

You are pretty much correct. But don’t be too hard on the dumb**s taxpayers who elected him, since here in Arkansas it was pretty much a Hobson’s choice, between the Huckster and someone even worse.

Also, like another candidate from Hope, the Huckster is a great campaigner, who knows how to make himself sound conservative during an election, and follows a victory by becoming a liberal.