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Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) took a dig at his opponent Dr. Ben Carson, who is under scrutiny amid the suggestion of discrepancies in the details of his past. Co-host Mika Brzezinski asked, “So just curious, I mentioned Ben Carson because we’ve focused a lot on him this morning and some of the discrepancies that have come out of his memoir. I’m wondering if any of the books you’ve written were put under the same scrutiny, would they find voids and holes and does that matter in terms of character and honesty?”...

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee is facing real problems if he should seek the GOP Nomination for President in 2012 after word is out tonight that a man he granted clemency in Arkansas in 2000 is now being sought in the shooting deaths of four police officers near Tacoma, Washington today. . . . This is not the first time Huckabee's seeming bent toward leniency on convicted criminals has resulted in tragedy. Another man granted clemency by Huckabee went on to rape and murder a young woman in Missouri. That man's name was Wayne Dumond. Listen to the ad below which...

The Real Mike Huckabee [posted online on January 11, 2008] Of all the right-wing figures who have promoted Mike Huckabee's extraordinary political rise from a backwater church to the national pulpit of a presidential campaign--and there are many--perhaps none know the former Arkansas governor and current Republican presidential front-runner better than Jay Cole. A Baptist minister based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with a right-wing radio talk show of his own, Cole has been instrumental in inspiring Huckabee's rise over more than two decades. Indeed, when Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, it was Cole who persuaded him to arrange the release...

IN 1996, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee reportedly pressured a parole board to release a sexual predator from jail. Wayne DuMond had 25 years left on his sentence for the 1984 rape of a teenager. His claim to have found God apparently helped open the prison doors. A Baptist minister, Huckabee wrote DuMond a letter: “Dear Wayne, My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.” A free man, DuMond proceeded to murder a woman in Missouri. Huckabee has put pastoral credentials high on his...

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From "Right Smart" http://rightsmart.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-on-case-of-wayne-dumond.html All would agree the Wayne Dumond case ended in tragedy. Unfortunately, this case has been turned into a political hatchet job by Arkansas Democrats and possibly by GOP rivals to Huckabee. Consider the following evidence... In 1997, Parole Board member Charles Chastain said Huckabee did not lobby him regarding Dumond: "Dr. Charles Chastain voted against the parole last week. Chastain said Huckabee talked to board members about Dumond last fall, but the governor's office didn't lobby him to vote for parole." Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 1/23/97 The next day, Parole Board member Deborah Suttlar concurred with Chastain...

Absolutely brutal YouTube video regarding Mike Huckabee's advocating for the release of convicted rapist Wayne DuMond who went on to rape again and murder. Mike DukakabeeNational Review has the full story behind all this.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's advocacy for the release of convicted rapist Wayne DuMond and DuMond's subsequent rapes and murders following his release should give every Republican pause before they vote for a candidate with a Mike Dukakis-problem. Watch the full video here. More information on this twisted case can be found here: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTcyMTM5YzRiMzVjMjA3MGEwMjUwM2Y3NGJiMzM1YWY=&w=MA== http://lesliecarbone.blogspot.com/2007/11/governor-and-murderer.html http://lesliecarbone.blogspot.com/2007/12/dear-wayne.html

The Village Voice News write to the editor | email a friend | print article | comment The Castration of Wayne DuMond A Pardon That Clinton Didn’t Grant by Ward Harkavy March 7 - 13, 2001 Guilty or innocent, DuMond didn't have a chance at justice. As Wayne DuMond listened last week to billionaire fugitive Marc Rich's explanation that Bill Clinton pardoned him for "humanitarian" reasons, he couldn't help but darkly snicker. DuMond had been accused of raping a Clinton cousin in 1984 and was hog-tied and castrated before he even went to trial. He used to be enraged about...

For some reason it used to bother me when people would ask me. “Is there any Democrat you would vote for if the GOP ran [Obnoxious Fill-In-The-Blank]?” It bothered me because my honest answer was generally no, not this election. I guess I was brainwashed into thinking I should be somewhat bipartisan, but my common sense told me these Democrats were all morons. In 1992, Pat Buchanan rode to the rescue, at least until Paul Tsongas lost the nomination fight to Bill Clinton. If I had been asked to choose between Buchanan and Clinton, I might have replied that Canada...

DuMond sentenced to life without parole for Missouri murder LIBERTY, Mo. — Wayne DuMond, silent during his twoweek trial in November, denied killing Carol Shields and complained Friday about his attorney before being sentenced to life in prison for the Missouri woman’s September 2000 murder. The 54-year-old castrated rapist spoke about 30 minutes during the sentencing hearing for his first-degree murder conviction in Shields ’ death. Afterward, Circuit Judge Larry Harman rejected DuMond’s complaints that Public Defender Anthony Cardarella mishandled his case. And after listening to testimony from relatives of the 39-year-old victim about how they were affected by...

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) - A paroled Arkansas rapist was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday for suffocating a woman in her lover's apartment three years ago. Wayne DuMond, 54, will receive a life sentence without parole for the slaying of Carol Sue Shields, a 39-year-old married mother. Her body had been left bound and nude on a bed in the apartment of a man with whom she had been having an affair. DuMond was arrested in June 2001, several months after Shields' death, when material under the woman's fingernails was matched to his DNA, which was in a national database. DuMond...

LIBERTY, Mo. — The first day of Wayne DuMond’s murder trial was difficult for the mother of the 39-year-old Missouri woman he is accused of killing three years ago. Lois Davidson heard prosecutors tell jurors that her daughter, Carol Shields, was leading a "secret double life" when someone suffocated her on Sept. 20, 2000. Much of the testimony in DuMond’s trial in Clay County Circuit Court touched on an extramarital affair that led Shields to the Kansas City apartment in which her body was found. "It was hard to sit through," Davidson said. "It was like she was on...