Posted on 01/12/2008 11:19:07 AM PST by Right in Wisconsin
Post #18 is the right count.
The only count Huckabee leads is the number of killers and felons he let out of jail.
http://holycoast.blogspot.com/2007/12/huckabee-was-commutation-and-pardon.html
If you’re wondering how Gov. Huckabee’s hundreds of clemencies compare with neighboring states, get ready for a shocker.
___ Huckabee leads the pack.
___ He has issued more commutations and pardons than all of the six neighboring states combined.
___Governors seldom reduce sentences in other states – and almost never for murderers serving life without parole or for rapists or for habitual drunk drivers, while in Arkansas it’s a regular habit with Huckabee.
___ Other governors use their clemency power only rarely, while Huckabee has made it routine. As we’ve told you before, he has issued more than 700 pardons and commutations during his eight years in office – more than 137 this year alone – and more than his three predecessors combined.
___ 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.
There’s got to be more to these AP numbers than leaving out Iowa. Huck has only one 1 NH delegate other than the 3 superdelegates from AR (and sorry to the good folks of Alaska for crediting you those three in my prior post, my bad). If you take out Iowa how does Huck get to 31 and for that matter Mitt get to 29 by their count? I wonder if they are counting many additional superdelegates, but I don’t find those details at the article’s link.
Obama has more delegates than Hillary?
To quote Eliza Doolittle in “MY FAIR LADY”...
“Just you wait ‘Enry ‘Iggins; just you wait.”
Give me a break. Why don’t we call the Super Bowl winner after the first two minutes of play. That should be enough to indicate who’s going to win.
That’s no excuse-only kidding:)
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