Posted on 12/16/2007 12:53:50 AM PST by gpapa
It’s just like old times. National reporters are again scouring Arkansas. Except this time it is Republican Mike Huckabee’s record, not Democrat Bill Clinton’s, that is the subject of interest.
Over the course of more than a decade as governor, Huckabee granted over 1,000 commutations and pardons, and they’re currently being examined closely by journalists. The latest to draw national attention is a commutation of Eugene Fields, who had multiple drunk-driving convictions.
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Like termites coming out of wood...... this will never end.
Cloth out of thin air. More war stories from Baghdad for the National Review. Look at the tagline. Written jointly with NBC. What’s up with that?
Good question on NBC + NR....David J. Sanders is a columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau 9(???). Sanders BRIEFLY collaborated (WTH does BRIEFLY collaborated mean???) with an NBC producer on this story.
The Huckster is too soft on crime. We don’t need someone who’s policy is basically ‘catch and release.’ Criminals must love him. I doubt that the victims their families, or the police and courts appreciate his ‘open door’ policy. He’s very naive when it comes to judging the person he’s negotiating with. He’d be too dangerous to trust in dealing with Islam. He’d probably want an open border policy for them too.
The question is if there was there a connection between his wife Glenda Fields’s five-figure political donations and Huckabee’s action. On April 14, 2004, then-Gov. Huckabee commuted the sentence of Mr. Fields — then a four-time driving-while-intoxicated offender — granting him early release from prison. Fields, a resident of the western Arkansas town of Van Buren, was a habitual offender. He had already been convicted of DWIs in 1996, 1998, and 2000, but his 2001 felony-DWI conviction resulted in the maximum six-year prison sentence and a $5,000 fine.
The political contributions by the Fields family — large by Arkansas standards — went unreported at the time Huckabee granted Eugene Fields executive clemency. The size of the donations places the Fields family in the top tier of the state GOP’s donors, alongside Arkansas aristocracy like the scions of the Fords and Stephens families. Both Scott Ford, CEO of Alltel, and Warren Stephens, CEO of Stephens, Inc., gave the Arkansas Republican party $10,000 in 2003.
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Huckabee SOLD clemencies in Arkansas.
BTTT.
Ping - The extent of Huckabee’s corruption is much more than many can even imagine.
Duncan Hunter is my choice. If everyone has the same attitude as you do, then Duncan will not win. We wonder why we keep being stuck with the lessor of two evils, and THAT is the exact reason why. Instead of standing behind the man of God who has integrity, we settle for something like the Huckster, who IMO, would make a much worse President than Hillary. He is a BIG joke! Only, I am certainly not laughing!
In answer to the question on your profile. UBL would vote for the Huckster. On the other hand, I do believe if God Himself were voting in this election, He would vote for Duncan Hunter.
I’m hoping some how Duncan Hunter makes it. I have his bumper sticker on my vehicle and am handing out his information on him eventho we can’t even write him in in Arkansas (it won’t be counted if we do).
We just have to keep trying.
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