Shields' mother, Lois Davidson, blames Huckabee for her daughter's murder.
The National Review Article mentioned in the story can be found here.
Posted on 12/05/2007 1:16:54 PM PST by Zakeet
New Republican presidential frontrunner Mike Huckabee is "categorically" denying that while governor of Arkansas he tried to pressure the parole board to release a convicted rapist who later went on to rape and murder a Missouri woman.
Huckabee, who is surging in recent primary polls, has been called on to defend his record, following reports that he played an active role in seeking the release of prisoner Wayne Dumond.
"No. I did not. Let me categorically say that I did not," Huckabee said Tuesday, adding that while governor he denied a request for Dumond's commutation.
Huckabee acknowledged that shortly after becoming governor in 1996 he did visit the parole board — all appointees of his predecessors, Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker — so he could offer his views on crime and parole in general, and the Dumond case came up during that meeting.
Huckabee also reportedly wrote a letter to the convict expressing his wish that he be paroled.
“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," Huckabee wrote in the 1996 letter obtained by National Review Online.
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Shields' mother, Lois Davidson, blames Huckabee for her daughter's murder.
The National Review Article mentioned in the story can be found here.
There is no defense, except sappy sentimentality overriding common sense.
Didn't I read that he had recently re-appointed some of them? If so, the characterization that they're all from his predecessors is a bit dishonest.
“No. I did not. Let me categorically say that I did not,” Huckabee said Tuesday, adding that while governor he denied a request for Dumond’s commutation.
Well there are 4 parole board members that say you did. And the circumstantial evidence tends to support their account.
You personally wrote to the man, Mike.
Just admit you ****** up, big time, and tell people that you are now older and wiser.
Ummm....am I confusing this with Willie Horten or is this a coinkidink?
If the letter is true, expect Giuliani to start running the 2008 version of the Willie Horton ads...
Its amazing how many people on the right will believe and propagate a lie, if it doesn’t fit their political agenda. No different then the left, who they constantly castigate for doing the same thing.
GUILTY!
Guilty of being a bleeding heart dumb ass who had more compassion for the perp than the innocent citizen he went on to RAPE and MURDER after being released..
Huckabee has jumped his shark -— there is NO defense for this action or MANY of his other positions on important issues like Illegal Immigration, 1st Amendment rights and taxes...
I’m beginning to think this is just more slippery Arkansas politics. By never doing anything in an official capacity to get the guy out of jail, he can deny it. All he did was express a desire to see him freed.
Please identify the "lie" being propagated and by whom....
To quote Sen. McCain. "Words have consequences"
Goodbye Huckababy!
Huckster is at a huge disadvantage: Dumond is white.
I think this is a blatant lie.
“Huckabee also reportedly wrote a letter to the convict expressing his wish that he be paroled.”
This letter has been mentioned elsewhere. He wrote the guy and said he didn’t want to release him officially, but that he expected he would be paroled. Then he leaned on the parole board.
If he said he didn’t know that Dumond would kill again, at least that would be some excuse. Instead, he’s lying and covering up. This really is the last straw, as far as I’m concerned. He is OUT of it. He joins McCain and Giuliani as people I wouldn’t vote for even to stop hillary, because he would really set the party back fifty years.
“Its amazing how many people on the right will believe and propagate a lie, if it doesn’t fit their political agenda. No different then the left, who they constantly castigate for doing the same thing.”
And exactly what is “the lie”
Harry Truman said, “The buck stops here.” Huckster, OTOH, has learned well from Slick and the Witch; he does his best to make the buck disappear entirely.
Oh well...one less candidate to look into now.
Whether this story takes Huckabee down or not remains to be seen.
But it’s certainly no breaking new revelation as some here are treating it.
He was asked about it weeks ago at one of the earlier debates. And he was reelected as governor against an opponent who tried to make this a major issue.
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