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Huckabee's Willie Horton Problem

12.05.07 -- 4:04PM
By David Kurtz

Despite what you might have heard--or thought you heard--about the convicted Arkansas rapist freed while Mike Huckabee was governor who went on to kill two Missouri women, you ought to take a look at Murray Waas' piece today on the case.

There's more to this than first meets the eye, not the least of which is that the case became something of a rallying cry for the anti-Clinton brigades because the perpetrator, Wayne Dumond, was convicted while Clinton was governor and one of Dumond's victims was a distant Clinton cousin. So the political pressures that were brought to bear on Huckabee were different than the usual law and order variety.

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