some interesting stuff about Huckabee

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Subject: Suspect in police killings and Huckabee connection no surprise

You see, most of us here in Arkansas already KNOW Huckabee's bad records on granting amnesties to criminals. Unfortunately for him, now the rest of the country is about to learn all about it.

This other case is quoted from Wikipedia under WAYNE DUMOND

DuMond received his second sexual assault conviction from a rape perpetrated in Arkansas in 1984. The victim, Ashley Stevens, was a 17-year-old cheerleader and a third cousin of then-Governor Bill Clinton.<9> Although she is much younger than Clinton, they share the same set of great-great-grandparents. After Clinton was elected president, a right-wing campaign alleged that Clinton had framed DuMond for rape.

DuMond's case resurfaced during the 2008 Presidential election when questions were raised on the conduct of Republican candidate Mike Huckabee in securing DuMond's parole while Huckabee was governor of Arkansas.

The details of how much assistance Huckabee provided to DuMond remain uncertain, in part because the governor met in "executive session" with five of the seven parole board members to discuss the issue, and the administrator who normally took notes was removed from the room. This is 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.

"The board’s executive session appears to have been a violation of the state’s Freedom of Information Act, which says state boards may meet privately only for the “specific purpose of considering employment, appointment, promotion, demotion, disciplining or resignation of any public officer or employee."<12>

Although minutes would normally be kept of even executive sessions, the office administrator was asked to leave the room, and no record of that session was kept.

"Despite the fact that the meeting was closed, there still should have been a record of it, four former board members and a former staffer say. They say that Sharon Hansberry, the board’s office administrator, ordinarily attends the meeting and takes notes. It was also a common practice around that time, they say, for her to tape record the meetings as well, even though the tapes were often destroyed once the minutes were formalized. Former members of the board say that Hansberry was asked to leave the room when the board went into executive session. A spokesman for the board says that there is no record of what occurred in the executive session — no tape recording of the executive session, or notes, or minutes."<12>

As of December 2007, six of the seven Democrat-appointed board members involved were still living. Two have recently said no comment, or that they don't remember. One has not yet been contacted by the press. Two more of the five members who were present at the closed meeting with Huckabee — Charles Chastain and Deborah Suttlar — have stated on the record that Huckabee used the private session to strongly advocate DuMond's parole.<18><19><20> Huckabee denies their version, though he admits having met with them Following his 1999 parole, DuMond moved to Missouri in August 2000, where he married Terry Sue, a member of a church group who visited him while he was incarcerated in Arkansas. On June 22, 2001, DuMond was arrested and charged with the September 20, 2000, rape and murder of Carol Sue Shields.<22> DuMond was convicted in the summer of 2003.<23>

He was found dead in his cell at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri, on September 1, 2005. DuMond had been suffering from cancer of the vocal cords. At the time of his death, charges were being prepared, but had not yet been filed, for the June 21, 2001, rape and murder of Sara Andrasek, who was in the early stages of pregnancy.<2> Andresek was murdered the day before DuMond's arrest for the murder of Carol Sue Shields.

Mike Curtis
Greenbrier, AR
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Huckabee must have serious mental issues