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To: unspun

He has a whole big fat record of being soft on criminals:

___ 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.


97 posted on 02/17/2008 1:38:06 PM PST by rbmillerjr (Big Government Evangelicals.....leading conservatives to Landslide 2012)
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To: rbmillerjr
Here are the figures for neighboring states since 1996, when Huckabee took office

Other states have more aggressive and automatic policies for commuting prison sentences. In Arkansas, it depends much more on the governor's office.

99 posted on 02/17/2008 6:05:30 PM PST by unspun (Mike Huckabee: Government's job is "protect us, not have to provide for us." Duncan Hunter knows.)
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