A blog entry in the Huffington Post recently made some serious allegations against Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee, claiming Huckabee pressured a parole board to release Wayne Dumond, who was convicted of the rape and murder of an Arkansas woman. He was orginally sentenced to life plus 20 years, and later had his sentence reduced, made parole, and moved to Missouri and raped and killed two other women.
In reality, Huckabee had absolutely nothing to do with the case. All of the members of the parole board were appointed by Fmr. Gov. Bill Clinton and his Lieutenant Gov. Jim Guy Tucker. Huckabee was asked to review Dumond's case, and decided not to grant him clemency, but the media is using the story against him just because Dumond was released while he was governor. Here is a video of Huckabee defending himself on MSNBC's Scarborough Country. Watch it here.
It is really my hope that the American people do a little research on this for themselves if other candidates come out with ads about this. It would be really sad if a candidate as great as Huckabee has his shot at the presidency killed by sheer lies such as this. Huckabee is currently leading in some national polls for the Republican nomination, and I hope his momentum and up-front campaigning style will carry him to the White House in 2008.
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