Anti-Huckabee Group To Air Ads In South Carolina Tonight

Victim's Voice, which describes itself as a group organized under section 527 of the tax code, is airing a television ad in South Carolina featuring the mother of a woman killed by released murderer Wayne DuMond.

The tag line: "If not for Mike Huckabee, my daughter would be alive today."

Victim's Voice's executive director is Keith Emis; here's some background; it's not clear who is paying for these ads.

Here's a look at the ad, first run in Iowa:

Comments

This commercial is laughable. Mike Huckabee has no say in parole, and even if the parole board was swayed by the sheer corruption of the whole issue around Dumond's arrest, it was JIM GUY TUCKER who reduced the sentence of Dumond so that he could even be paroled.

Arkansas police had been accused of castrating Dumond before he even had a trial. The young cheerleader in question was a distant relative of President Clinton. There were many problems with the whole process, and to blame Huckabee for any of them is irresponsible.

Posted by Darren | January 10, 2008 5:16 PM

By Law, Huckabee was not allowed to Parole Dumond. Dumond WAS Pardoned by the parole board (put in place by the Clintons and Guy) Huckabee did not let Dumond out. The Parole Board Did!

Posted by Paula Jacobs | January 10, 2008 7:37 PM

The Governor appoints the parole board. The Parole Board understands very well that they're dependent on Gov. Huckabee for re-appointment.

They voted to deny parole. Then Huck personally lobbied them, and they promptly voted to parole Dumond.

Huck wrote a letter to Dumond, starting with the chummy "Dear Wayne" in which he wrote that he felt parole was appropriate.

Huck wanted parole. Huck got parole. To pretend that it was the Parole Board and not the Governor is to forget that the Cossacks work for the Czar.

It was a dumb call. He paroled a rapist who went on to commit at least one more murder, and he did it because a bunch of idiot wingnuts hate Bill Clinton.

Poor judgement. The man shouldn't be dog catcher, much less Governor.

Posted by Laertes | January 10, 2008 11:40 PM

Huckabee IS NOT TRUST WORTHY.

Huckabee had 14 ethnical violations brought against him relating to finances as governor. Shortly before announcing his candidacy for the
President of the United States, Huckabee ordered that the drives of 83 computers and 4 servers be destroyed during his transition phase in leaving office, what a crooked CEO would do when he leaves a company. Remember Enron!

He raised taxes 21 times and granted clemency to 1033 convicted felons, 12 murderers and numerous rapists. Try to improve his tough on crime image with Chuck Norris. (Give me a break! If they were selling weight lose machine it would be more convincing!)

He has a 2 1/2 year of religious higher education and as a minister selling religion for a living with people's donation for 12 years. How can anyone believes this man can revive our economy?

Posted by John Noble | January 11, 2008 1:34 AM

Yep, the Parole Board did it! The first two comments remind me of nothing so much as my fellow Southerners who maintain that the Civil War was not about slavery. The evidence against Mike Huckabee is as damning as can be. Not that that will cause him trouble in certain circles. After all, the victim that got him into so much trouble was a distant relative of Bill Clinton! That explains everything.

Posted by Wildcat | January 11, 2008 9:45 AM

From what I've read, it sounds as though Huckabee
told the parole board to grant parole, else he would
pardon Dumond (or, as Huckabee addressed him,
"Dear Wayne") thus letting him out completely
unsupervised).

Definitely an issue that Huckabee would prefer
to remain unexamined.

Posted by Richard Cownie | January 11, 2008 10:08 AM

Huckabee had 14 ethnical violations

I thought those were taken off the books in Arkansas after Loving v. Virginia?

Posted by Anderson | January 11, 2008 4:51 PM

Mike Huckabee loves rapists (especially if they rape young relatives of Bill Clinton) which is the reason I voted against him in the primary.

Posted by Aaron | January 11, 2008 10:07 PM

Richard is correct. The parole board acted against their better judgment, and only because Huckabee was prepared to issue a pardon, and had already made the preliminary findings for one. By granting parole, more control over Dumont was possible than if he were pardoned, so the parole board did the right thing. The murder and rapes that Dumond subsequently committed are on Huckabee, and on the entire Clinton-hating movement. Dumond was known to have committed at least two rapes and one murder; he would never have been considered for parole except that one of his victims was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton, and that made him a hero for the right wing nutjob crowd.

Posted by Alex | January 14, 2008 5:05 AM