Wayne Dumond at Brave New Filmshttp://bravenewfilms.org/topics/wayne-dumond2008-10-21T21:29:53ZMike Huckabee Sweats Over The Rapist He Set Freehttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/20663-mike-huckabee-sweats-over-the-rapist-he-set-free2008-10-21T21:29:53ZPaddy
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<p><p>Murray Waas (and one of your old staffers) seem to disagree with you there Mike-</p><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/huckabee-rapist-murder">Former Aide Contradicts Huckabee Defense Of Rapist's Release</a></p><p><strong>Directly contradicting Mike Huckabee's claims, his former senior aide tells the Huffington Post that, as governor of Arkansas, Huckabee indeed told the state's parole board that he supported the release of a convicted rapist.</strong></p><p><strong>The senior aide, Olan W. "Butch" Reeves, personally attended a controversial parole board meeting with Huckabee in Oct. 1996.</strong></p><p><strong>"The clear impression that I came away with from the meeting was that he favored Dumond's release," Reeves said, referring to convicted rapist Wayne Dumond. "And I can understand why board members would believe that to be the case."</strong></p><p><strong>This stands in stark contrast to Huckabee's assertion, repeated at a press conference today that he "did not ask [the board] to do anything." When asked directly about trying to influence the board, Huckabee responded: "No. I did not. Let me categorically say that I did not."</strong></p><p><strong>But, according to Reeves, Huckabee actually told the parole board members that the prison sentence meted out to Dumond for his rape conviction was "outlandish" and "way out of bounds for his crime." Huckabee believed there "was something nefarious" about the how the state's criminal justice system had treated Dumond, Reeves said.</strong></p></blockquote><p>Murray Waas's thorough and devastating work on this subject from back in 2002 can be found <a href="http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419">here.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/"><em>Video via TPM.</em></a></p><p> </p><p> </p></p>
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Mike Huckabee Responds to Wayne Dumond Storyhttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/20609-mike-huckabee-responds-to-wayne-dumond-story2008-10-21T21:30:00ZVeracifier
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<p>CNN's Situation Room, December 5, 2007</p>
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