’00 Clemency May Be Issue for Huckabee -- Commuted sentence of suspect in Tacoma shooting

[Elmore Furth]

Do I smell a Willy Horton issue here?

Huckleberry may have stepped in it with this clemency.

Wash. shooting re-opens Huckabee's clemency record

By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: November 30, 2009
When Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist minister then serving as governor of Arkansas, granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons nine years ago, he cited his age: Mr. Clemmons was 16 when he began the crime spree for which he was sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.

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Now, Mr. Clemmons is being sought as the suspect in the killing of four uniformed police officers, execution-style, on Sunday as they sat in a coffee shop near Tacoma, Wash., writing reports.

Mr. Huckabee, now a Fox News talk-show host, has been leading the pack of possible Republican contenders for president in 2012. But the killings of the police officers is focusing renewed attention on his long-contentious record of pardoning convicts or commuting their sentences.

’00 Clemency May Be Issue for Huckabee

[MadMaddie]

1. It's worse than Willie Horton

Huckabee has a long track record of commuting sentences of murderers because they found God. Then the murders go out and do what the do....Wayne Dumond was another horrific case....Huckabee went out of his way to release him.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. But but but but......................

He said he accepted Jaysus.

[MadMaddie]

3. We need to make sure the country knows about Huckabees

gut decisions based on religion. I am in Wa and I will work with everyone in WA to make sure the country knows. They still haven't caught the murdering bastard.

[dsc]

4. I thought they had him pinned down in a house

did that fall through somehow.

[ribrepin]

5. Yeah he wasn't in the house.

[question everything]

6. Wasn't this raised during the primaries?

And how does a criminal from Arkansas end up in Washington?

[ChicagoSuz219]

7. There's no 'may be' about it...

...stick a fork in him... he's done!