Monday, December 10, 2007
Mike Huckabee is a Fucking Liar. Here's Proof.
Lie #1. Huckabee has said that in supporting Dumond's parole he was merely following the judgment of the board. But just one month earlier the board had voted 4-to-1 against Dumond's parole.
Lie #2. Huckabee has said that there was no way anyone could have predicted Dumond’s violent behavior upon release. In October 1996, Huckabee solicited the advise of local doctors to determine whether Dumond, whose testicles had been cut off before his arrest (perhaps by himself), could rape again. His office refused to reveal the findings.
Lie #3. Huckabee has said that he didn’t pressure the parole board to release Dumond. Former parole board members have come forward to say that Huckabee did pressure them to release Dumond. When Mike Huckabee became governor, he supported the release of DuMond, with one state official stating "The problem with the governor is that he listens to Jay Cole and reads Steve Dunleavy and believes them ... without doing other substantiative work."[8] Huckabee, addressing DuMond as "Dear Wayne," wrote to DuMond in January 1997: "My desire is that you be released from prison," and had to be persuaded not to commute his sentence in October 1996.[11]
The details of how much assistance Huckabee provided to DuMond remain uncertain, in part because the governor met in "executive session" with the parole board to discuss the issue, and the administrator who normally took notes was removed from the room. This a violation of Arkansas law as such secret "executive" sessions are limited by statute to discussions regarding personnel decisions, specifically to avoid the appearance of undue influence from the Governor's office.
ThreeBoard Members — Charles Chastain, Deborah Suttlar, and Ermer Pondexter — have stated on the record that Huckabee used the private session to strongly advocate DuMond's parole.[12][13][14] A fourth parole board member confirmed this story anonymously in 2002 and has not yet been identified by name in the 2007 news cycle.[8
