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Huck's little rapist/murderer problem

by: Pam Spaulding

Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 09:00:00 AM EST


UPDATE: It gets worse. Huckabee wrote a joyous letter to Dumond about his  release -- "My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place." Dumond then went out and raped and murdered two women. (H/t Americablog)

His rise in the polls isn't the only ink GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is receiving these days. Murray Waas at The Huffington Post has obtained docs illuminating the former Arkansas governor's role in release of a serial rapist, Wayne Dumond.

While on the campaign trail, Huckabee has claimed that he supported the 1999 release of Wayne Dumond because, at the time, he had no good reason to believe that the man represented a further threat to the public. Thanks to Huckabee's intervention, conducted in concert with a right-wing tabloid campaign on Dumond's behalf, Dumond was let out of prison 25 years before his sentence would have ended.

"There's nothing any of us could ever do," Huckabee said Sunday on CNN when asked to reflect on the horrific outcome caused by the prisoner's release. "None of us could've predicted what [Dumond] could've done when he got out."

But the confidential files obtained by the Huffington Post show that Huckabee was provided letters from several women who had been sexually assaulted by Dumond and who indeed predicted that he would rape again - and perhaps murder - if released.

In a letter that has never before been made public, one of Dumond's victims warned: "I feel that if he is released it is only a matter of time before he commits another crime and fear that he will not leave a witness to testify against him the next time." Before Dumond was granted parole at Huckabee's urging, records show that Huckabee's office received a copy of this letter from Arkansas' parole board.

Even worse, Baptist minister Huckabee and his minions -- lied about receiving any letters from the rape victims of Dumond.
Huckabee kept these and other documents secret because they were politically damaging, according to a former aide who worked for him in Arkansas. The aide has made the records available to the Huffington Post, deeply troubled by Huckabee's repeated claims that he had no reason to believe Dumond would commit other violent crimes upon his release from prison. The aide also believes that Huckabee, for political reasons, has deliberately attempted to cover up his knowledge of Dumond's other sexual assaults.

"There were no letters sent to the governor's office from any rape victims," Huckabee campaign spokesperson Alice Stewart said on Tuesday when contacted by the Huffington Post.

Subsequently, however, the campaign provided a former senior aide of Huckabee's who did remember reading at least one of the letters.

In fact, since Huckabee is so public about his faith and courts the bible-beating vote, his treatment of these victims is particularly damaging. Read on after the jump.
Pam Spaulding :: Huck's little rapist/murderer problem
What the public never knew, however, was that other women who had been sexually assaulted by Dumond had privately written Huckabee about their anguish. Their very private attempts at changing Huckabee's mind, they later told the Huffington Post, were based on concerns that speaking out publicly would have been too painful and traumatizing.

One such letter was from the daughter of a Dumond rape victim:

   When you ran for office, one of the reasons I voted for you was the fact you are/were a Baptist preacher. I come from a very strong Baptist background... [O]ne of my grandfathers is also a preacher. I have always been a faithful church member where I am the choir director, yet this is one event that is not so easily forgiven.

   I have prayed about these feelings, but once someone hurts your mother, or daughter the way this man hurt my mother I believe that you would feel the same...

   Please understand that this letter is coming from my heart.... I would love to have the chance to talk to you about this matter as a daughter of a surviving rape victim.

The woman provided Huckabee with her personal phone number in hopes that he or at least someone on his staff would call. She says that she never heard back.
Go read the rest of the piece; it makes your stomach turn.

Here are links to the confidential files Huff Post obtained:
* Letter From Rape Victim, Sept. 1996
* Letter From Rape Victim's Daughter, Sept. 1996
* Letter From Rape Victim, Sept. 1999

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I don't know what to think about Huck but he does scare me

He seems good natured enough but now that their digging the bones out of the closet he just seems scarier and scarier.  I almost want him to win the nomination to galvanize support from our side to not allow another "true" fundie in the WH.  But then again it could galvanize the fundies as well.

He's a scary character that is even more regressive than Bush but he's a true bible belter through and through.  He's managed to combine populism and Jesus in a more realistic way than Bush could even dream of.  Bush represents the populism in manner.  Huckabee (good plans or not) really seems as if he does want to help.

And on that manner after seeing all of the corporate dems, one almost seems inclined to give him a shot but the reactionary nature of the reminder is something truly terrifying to behold.  He's a tough nut to crack with the good humor of Clinton mixed with the zeal of Falwell and the comeback story to revial that of "alcoholic to sober" Bush or "rags to riches" Obama.  He's definitely something different but the more I see of him the more horrified I become.

I mean when he was on Colbert I actually was like "hmmmm not bad for a crazy fundie" but all the populism in the world can't mask the sheer monstrosity of his religiousness.  I've been watching him a bit before he was on that show and I'm absolutely staying tuned to his campaign.



Huck as Prez is truly terrifying

The problem I have with many of these religious leaders is that that they are extremely charismatic which allows them to manipulate people easily. They come across as very affable and personable and likeable all the while pulling the wool over your eyes.

The 20th century has one very well known historic figure whose charisma let him rise in power to lead a nation into some of the most heinous crimes against humanity. He went by the name Adolf Hitler.

Charisma can blind us to a person's true nature.



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Many sociopaths have charisma.


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Populist Message + Extremist Social Agenda = Disaster

Damn someone said what I was going for but fear speaking.  Hasn't every awful leader seemingly  purposefully pulsed with populism but always had that hidden social agenda.  There was the swipe by Bush with his call for moderation and then a reversal but the thing about him is that I don't think he truly believes in anything just being rich and dumb.  Huck actually believes his madness.  Wasn't Hitler one of Time's People of the Year?  Not that he is or anything, I'm just noting the reactionary consistencies.

At least he isn't a racist (well toward immigrants) b/c if he had that too the parallels would be much clearer.  We'll see what comes from this one.  It'll be interesting.



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Huckabee Duckabee Dock
Another thing that scares me about Huckabee is that he's a recovered fatty.  Seriously.  Nobody is more vitriolic about condemning other's vices than one who has overcome an addiction to that vice.  Former smokers are the most vigilant about anti-smoking campaigns, former drunks are often intolerant of social drinkers, former dopers are hardest on the occassional joint-puffer, former strippers and prostitutes are the first ones who want to shut down pornography, Born-Again™ Christians are the most bellicose evangelizers, etc.

There could be some good from that.  We are too fat as a nation, and perhaps the former Arkansas governor who lost 100 pounds would enact some positive policies, like mandatory PE in schools, eliminating junk food in cafeterias, and better nutritional education.

But would he go too far?  Would he enact "sin" taxes on fast food, for example?  Would he mandate certain nutritional requirements for restaurants?  How would he stand on efforts to end discrimination against the obese?  Would certain food makers go out of business because of his overregulation?

Damn anybody who'd get the government in between me and my Krispy Kreme!

(OK, even I'm not buying my own argument here.  There are plenty better reasons to worry about Huckabee.  The whole creationism thing, releasing rapists for political revenge, the fact he's a Republican.  Besides, isn't there a limit to the number of former Arkansas governors who become president in my lifetime?)

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson


Put down that brush!

Gosh.  Talk about painting with a broad brush.  Or of shunning the use of qualifiers.  Or whatever figure of speech I'm grasping after.  Anyway, I quit reading after the first paragraph.  Maybe I'll come back and finish your piece later.  Do you see in color, too, or only in black and white?

It is almost shocking to see clips of Huck in his "before" appearance.  I might not have recognized him had it not been labeled with his name.  I wonder if he would have considered his presidential campaign had he not lost all that weight?



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Why do they always say this?

'None of us could've predicted'

 It's gotten to the point when I hear that I automatically am left trying to decide if they didn't think they would get caught or didn't care if they did.  There isn't a question in my mind anymore that they knew it was possible or even actually going to happen.



Be nice to see the dems go after him
I'd like to see them go after him like those people that hit what's his name? Dukakis? Huck I think could too easily become a consensus candidate for them, best knock him off now and get giuliani orromney up there to split the vote.  

Did you have to link to Americablog?
Isn't there another place talking on this that could have linked to?  

sorry, but the coverage is good
John and Joe have been working this hard, and doing a good job of rounding up the pertinent facts.

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I just lost a lot of respect for him
I'm still hurt by his views on ENDA. Anything he does or reports now doesn't have the same impact it might have before. His creditability on most stuff has been hurt with a lot of people based off that. I was attacked there by him for standing up for Transgender alike.  

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