Huckabee Is A Liberal In Many Ways
By Howard Phillips / The Conservative Caucus
Strategies Bulletin #824—October 31, 2007
Huckabee Apparently Believes
You Are A Bigot If You Oppose Benefits For Illegal Aliens
"On illegal immigration, Huckabee makes George Bush sound like Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.). Huckabee has compared illegal aliens to slaves brought here in chains from Africa, saying, 'I think, frankly, the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before.'
"Toward that end, when an Arkansas legislator introduced a bill that would prevent illegal aliens from voting and receiving state benefits, Huckabee denounced the bill, saying it would rile up 'those who are racist and bigots.'
"He also made the insane point that companies such as Toyota would not invest in Arkansas if the state didn't allow non-citizens to vote, because it would 'send the message that, essentially, "If you don't look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we don’t want you."'
"Like all the (other) Democratic candidates for President, he supports a federal law to ban smoking – unless you're an illegal alien smoking at a Toyota plant." Source: Ann Coulter, Human Events, 10/15/07, p. 6
Huckabee, Like Dukakis, Has A Willie Horton
"If Huckabee does get some traction, The Boston Globe's Susan Milligan has details of a little-remembered aspect of his record as governor: when he paroled convicted rapist Wayne Dumond, Milligan writes, 'Huckabee, whose self-deprecating humor and easy candor have charmed many on the campaign trail, bristles when asked about the case, in which Dumond – now dead – was paroled from an Arkansas prison, with then-governor Huckabee's endorsement, only to sexually assault and kill a woman in Missouri... . If Huckabee, who is creeping upward in the polls, gains more momentum, the case is certain to become an issue.'" Source:
http://abcnews.go.com, 10/15/07
Wayne Dumond Should Have Been Executed, Not Paroled
"Dumond's case is notorious in Arkansas. In 1984, he raped a 17-year-old girl. While awaiting trial at his home, he was castrated by, he said, masked intruders. Later, after Dumond went to prison for life, some people in Arkansas saw the sentence as excessive, especially given his mutilation.
"Huckabee was one, and, after becoming governor in 1996, he announced his desire to commute Dumond’s sentence. Dumond's rape victim, Ashley Stevens, saw it differently.
"Stevens, now 40 and living in the western United States, said she tried to persuade Huckabee not to shorten the sentence for Dumond.
"'I told [Huckabee]: If you ever let him out, he's going to do it again,' she said in an interview."
Huckabee Ignored Rape Victim's Plea
"She was able to get a meeting with the governor – who, she said, had not spoken to her before announcing his intention to commute Dumond’s sentence – but realized Huckabee had 'made up his mind.' So Stevens stood up, she said, walked over to Huckabee, who was seated on a sofa, squatted down and thrust her face inches from his.
"'I said, "This is how close I was to Dumond's face for an hour,"' Stevens recalled. '"I'll never forget his face, and you'll never forget mine."'
"The parole board – following a closed meeting with Huckabee – decided to let Dumond go. The following year, Dumond committed the Missouri slaying. He died in prison in 2005."
Even Bill Clinton Was Tougher On Crime Than Huckabee
"If Huckabee, who is creeping upward in the polls, gains more momentum, the case is certain to become an issue. Stevens said she is prepared to campaign actively against him if he becomes a serious [candidate] for president or vice president.
"Bloggers have already dubbed the matter 'Huckabee's Willie Horton,' referring to the case of a Massachusetts man who was paroled during Michael Dukakis’s tenure as Massachusetts governor, and then raped a Maryland woman and terrorized her fiancé. The episode tainted the onetime Democratic presidential nominee's campaign even though Dukakis had not personally intervened on Horton's behalf. ...
"[Huckabee] also has had a running feud with the Club for Growth – which he calls 'the Club for Greed' – which ran ads attacking him for raising taxes to improve schools.
"And the Dumond case is likely to reemerge, dredging up not only the gruesome details of the attacks but the complicated political connections. Stevens, the rape victim, is a distant cousin of Bill Clinton. When he was Arkansas governor, Clinton refused requests to reduce Dumond's sentence. But while Clinton was off campaigning for president in 1992, his lieutenant governor, Jim Guy Tucker, commuted Dumond's sentence to 39½ years, making Dumond eligible for parole." Source: Susan Milligan, The Boston Globe, 10/14/07
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Posted by Editor at November 2, 2007 03:09 AM
