Huckabee the Encourager, is the ONLY candidate able to pull the States back to “United!” His growing number of supporters see a rock-solid candidate standing up with confidence and conviction against the slow deterioration of values. Huckabee and his supporters see a future that won’t be wasted with regretful hindsight. We need to take our beloved country to where Life, Marriage, Families and Liberty Prevail!

I was poking round here, and found a reference to him.

But seriously, P Jacobs, this is parody, right? I mean, in my book, Huckabee’s Wayne Dumond parole* flushes any quuestion of Huckabee’s values right down the toilet. Murray Waas in the Arkansas Times looks at the record:

New sources, including an advisor to Gov. Mike Huckabee, have told the Arkansas Times that Huckabee and a senior member of his staff exerted behind-the-scenes influence to bring about the parole of rapist Wayne Dumond, who Missouri authorities say raped and killed a woman there shortly after his parole.

Gene Lyons:

Huckabee came into office talking about pardoning DuMond, citing “serious questions as to the legitimacy of his guilt.” He did that without consulting the prosecutor, who described the case as one of the strongest he’d ever tried. If nothing else, what were the odds that the victim would have identified, purely by chance, a perp with an extensive rap sheet? DuMond’s criminal history included arrests for murder and assault as well as other allegations of rape. He’d beaten the murder rap by testifying against two accomplices he’d helped beat a soldier to death with a claw hammer. The rape cases never came to trial. Young Ashley Stevens’ courageous eyewitness testimony, however, sent him to the penitentiary. After Stevens went public in 1997, Huckabee relented somewhat. Instead of pardoning DuMond, he held an improper closed-door meeting with the state’s parole board, which subsequently reversed itself, paroling DuMond to Missouri. Huckabee claimed the board brought up DuMond; some board members insisted that he did. Huckabee wrote a “Dear Wayne” letter, stating, “My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction into society to take place.”

In June 2001, DuMond was charged with the murder of a Kansas City area woman, exactly as some of us predicted. Police found his DNA under the victim’s fingernails. Stevens said that when she heard the news on her car radio, she had to pull off the highway until she’d cried herself out. Convicted of first-degree murder, Du-Mond died in prison in 2005. No sooner was his Missouri arrest announced than Huckabee began blaming everybody in Arkansas except himself.

Lovely.

Digby has been all over this.

Naturally, our famously free Villagers will be all over this story. Not.

UPDATE * Originally, I wrote “pardon,” not “parole.” It’s Bush who pardons the criminals on his staff, not Huckabee. Not to imply that Dumond was on Huckabee’s staff.

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Dear Wayne Dumond,

My desire is that you be released from prison.

I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction into society to take place”.

The Beginning of the letter Mike Huckabee wrote to convicted rapist Wayne Dumond, before he sexually assaulted and killed a 39 year old woman in Kansas City.

It’s Not only about Wayne.
It’s about OVER 1,000 Pardon’s.

12 OF THOSE MURDERERS.