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Posted on 12/06/2009 10:29:58 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
The Mike Huckabee body count continues to rise.
During his 10 years as Arkansas governor, Huckabee commuted the sentences of 1,033 convicted criminals. He knowingly released more than a few rapists and murderers and sometimes mocked or attacked prosecutors who pleaded with him to keep violent offenders behind bars.
While Huckabee was governor, the parole board released convicted rapist Wayne Dumont. Huckabee had publicly argued for Dumont's release, and parole board members said he pressured them to let the rapist out. Eleven months after his release, Dumont raped and killed a woman.
In 2000, Huckabee granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons, who was sentenced to nearly a century behind bars for multiple felony convictions. Clemmons, suspected of murdering four Lakewood, Wash., police officers Monday morning, was shot dead on Tuesday by a Seattle officer. He was found with a gun stolen from one of the murdered officers and a gunshot wound consistent with the wound witnesses said the killer suffered while fleeing.
Those are just two of the 1,033 convicts Huckabee released. How many other victims, present and future, are out there?
(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...
Great article.
You know, people can differ on clemency issues.
But that smart-@$$ letter to the prosecutor is absolutely, positively beyond the pale.
I'm not sure who or what Huckabee thinks he is. But that letter does it for me. I was never a supporter of his, but now I am an implacable, broken-glass opponent. And when I get fired up about something like that, the recipient is generally very, very sorry.
When he got his tv show on FOX it broke my heart.
“But that smart-@$$ letter to the prosecutor is absolutely, positively beyond the pale.”
Seems Huckabee is as arrogant as our current leader.
And let’s make sure Mitt Romney gets the chair too, for being responsible for thousands of innocent babies being aborted through his state government run healthcare program and 50 dollar co-pay abortions.
“His appalling record on clemencies, combined with his cowardly blame-shifting, ought to disqualify him from serious consideration for the presidency.”
Yes, it should... but will it?
That old letter was from 2004, not 2001. It had nothing to do with the Clemmons case. Since we don’t know the details about the correspondence it’s useless to keep putting this on Free Republic threads over and over again, at length, ad nauseum.
He’ll be lucky if that survives.
Is this on the level?!?
“That old letter was from 2004, not 2001. It had nothing to do with the Clemmons case.”
Wrong. Did you even read the letter?
More info here:
http://documents.nytimes.com/01huckabee/page/28#p=28
Ooops! This kind of kills Huck’s attempts to claim the prosecutor didn’t object to his releasing felons.
This is the 1st time this has been posted. Rather then mindlessly cling to your worship of Huckabee, how about you finally try learning the facts about the man?
Getting tough for you Huck supporters, isn’t it? First you try to change the subject to Romney, then 2 posts later, you claim the date of the prosecutor’s letter makes it irrelevant.
He can still endorse DemoCRAPs.
And I don't really care which clemency issue it relates to. It's clearly a response to the 2004 letter immediately above.
ANY governor's office that would let a rude, silly letter like that get past the office wastepaper basket is crazy.
You're not at WAR with your prosecuting attorneys. You don't mock them for attempting to communicate regarding clemency petitions. Especially since they're elected by the people of their county or district to prosecute criminals on behalf of the state.
Even if that prosecutor was crazy as a bedbug, he was the elected representative of the people. His letter, however, does not appear to be particularly crazy and contains a facially reasonable request. The response shows a complete lack of courtesy and good judgment, regardless of the particular clemency request in question.
You don't disagree with that, do you?
It would seem to me that Huck is guilty of ‘aiding and abbeting’ before the fact.
I think Huckabee makes a great talk-show host. I enjoy his humor, and he seems to really enjoy the gig as well. With a job that enables you to play along with some of the music greats of the country, why would ANYONE want to be president? I think the pardon issue will probably have done in his chances in the primaries, so he’s better off staying with what he obviously enjoys best.
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