More Information of the Wayne Dumond Story from Huckabee Website:
November 09, 2007
It has been reported that Governor Huckabee released, pardoned, or granted parole to convicted rapist Wayne Dumond. That is not true. It's interesting that Wayne Dumond's name only surfaces during an election year for Governor Huckabee. In 2002, his Democrat opponent in the midst of the general election made a political issue out the entire thing. Arkansas voters didn't buy this false attack from the Democrat in 2002 and re-elected Governor Huckabee to another term as Governor of Arkansas. Here are the facts of the Dumond case:
Governor Jim Guy Tucker gave executive clemency to Wayne DuMond, and commuted his sentence to 39.5 years. This action made Wayne DuMond immediately eligible for parole.
The parole board was made up entirely of Democrats appointed by Democrat Governors Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker (who was later convicted on federal charges and removed from office). Not one member of the board was appointed by Huckabee.
Governor Huckabee never took action in the DuMond case that made him parole eligible.
Governor Huckabee either denied Wayne DuMond's clemency request, or took no action (which is the same as a denial) on four separate occasions.
Governor Huckabee did not parole Wayne Dumond. Governor Huckabee had no authority to do that. Governors in Arkansas don't grant parole-the parole board does.
The fact remains that Governor Huckabee didn't commutate, pardon, parole or grant any form of clemency to Wayne DuMond.
It looks like the Clinton News Network’s attempt to draw criticism away from Huckabee during the YouTube debate (and thus thrust the weakest candidate to the front of the national pack) is working just like Hillary! hoped it would.
The pimping of Huckabee, will it ever end?
Did Huckabee meet with the Parole Board on this person, and did he write the letter to Dumont ?
I had to read this several times to understand it. In this sentence, it seems to mean that the "victim" was Dumond, as in victim of the castration. Not being familiar with the case, is this the meaning? are they calling the rapist/murderer a "victim"? or am I reading it wrong?.......
Not to be graphic but how does someone nutless commit rape anyway, unless it was symbolic ?
Spin it like a new top but this cannot be refuted. Slickerbee is documented as wanting this convicted rapist set free as stated in his own words in his own letter, and against the state-wide howls of protests by us Arkansans. As a result, another woman was raped and murdered by this released convict. Dumond is the Huckster's Willie Horton.
Clinton Deja Vue?
Huckabee met in a closed door session with the parole board and members who were present are quoted in this article. The only reason Dumont got out of prison was because of Huckabee. He is a bleeding heart, a worm, and now a liar.
He has become as frightening a prospect as HClinton. We don’t need another Liar from Hope, Arkansas in the White House.
"I did originally support a parole, but Governors don't parole anybody"
Don't cha just love the smell of mendacity in the morning?
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When some industrious young reporter finds someone from the parole board that confirms that pressure WAS put on them by Huckabee to parole Dumond it will be all over but the cryin.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
That is all anyone needs to know about this sorry mess, the huckster, feel good liberal that he is, put himself above the jury and law in this case, And people died because of it.
BTW, I live in the shadow of West Memphis, Ark. The facts as you have presented them are exactly as I remember them.
“’My only official action was to deny his clemency,’ Huckabee told me in Iowa.”
F***-you, governor.
Be a man and take responsibility for what you did. You encouraged the machinery of the state government to free this man. Good decision or bad, own up to it.
Your unwillingness to man-up makes me think you really are the political reincarnation of the Bent One.
First of all, this election’s version of the Dumond story is initiated by (ta-daa) The National Review, that longstanding bastion of conservatism. Strike one.
Secondly, its re-emergence happens to coincide with the rising of Mike Huckabee’s fortunes (Iowans have a funny habit of actually LISTENING to what a candidate has to say in order to decide for themselves what he stands for). Strike two.
Finally, AT THE VERY WORST, all one could lay at the feet of Huckabee is a Carter-like belief that bad men can reform. No dirty dealings, no payoffs and no secret police. Strike three.
Sorry Mrs. Clinton, your highly-paid muckrakers are going to have to try something else.
(Note to the Clinton operatives who are posing as Freepers in this thread: it ain’t working, dbags)
Consider the source obviously, but this appears to be a thorough, devastating article about the entire sorry episode:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html