Posted on 11/13/2014 8:34:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
No wonder Arkansas is turning Republican.
Democratic Arkansas governor Mike Beebe decided to wrap up his second term by pardoning his own son for a drug offense. Forced out by term limits, Beebe had been discussed as a potential Dem presidential candidate in the New York Times, but he finally made national headlines for the wrong reason.
Not content to simply pardon his son, Beebe went through the farce of releasing his son’s request for a “second chance” letter, as if the son of an Arkansas governor needs a second chance or has to write a letter to his father asking for a pardon.
Beebe had maintained reasonably good popularity ratings, and considering how badly Dems had lost the south, the party might have considered him, but this act of blatant corruption will end any shot he had at that.
Not that calling opponents of subsidies for wind towers “Un-American” won him any national points.
doesn’t really matter
Why should he get any special consideration at all, period?
But he would for dealing two keys of coke - which is why I wanted to know just what he was convicted of.
He only got three years probation back in 2003 for this. Pardon? Probably more like expunged from his record.
White is a color...
He’ll just get caught again.
And presumably, unlike a former Arkansas governor, no money exchanged hands in the decision process.
Pardoning power should be limited by nepotism rules--it shouldn't be legal to pardon a member of your immediate family.
Has he been measured for a body bag yet?
"Discussed," yeah, but they passed on him.
It was more of a "Why nobody is talking about running this guy" than "Hey, this guy should be president."
In some of his photos he does look uncannily like Bill Clinton.
I think it's the hair, but as noted on the other thread, those Rockefellers really got around in the 40s.
I’m from Arkansas and so is my wife. The Beebe family is full of delusional midgets.
No, he’s a Beebe. All of them are pure scum. The last of the old Arkansas’ Dem families. Now they and the Pryors are gone.
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