December 15, 2007
Huckabee Son Hangs Dog, Father Fires Cop
A Son’s Past Deeds Come Back To Bite Huckabee
Dogged: An incident involving his son David could hurt Huckabee
By Michael Isikoff and Holly Bailey | NEWSWEEK
Dec 24, 2007 Issue | Updated: 2:51 p.m. ET Dec 15, 2007“……..But John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas’s state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee’s chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor’s request. Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed chief by Huckabee’s Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer’s intervention as improper and terminated the conversation. Seven months later, he was called into Huckabee’s office and fired. “I’ve lost confidence in your ability to do your job,” Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason Huckabee cited was “I couldn’t get you to help me with my son when I had that problem,” according to Bailey. “Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son,” says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a “courageous” and “very solid” professional…..
…….The details of the incident remain murky. The Animal Legal Defense Fund got an anonymous fax that summer alleging that David Huckabee and another youth had been involved in the hanging of a stray dog at the camp on July 11. A local animal-rights activist, Joyce Hillard, later contacted the camp director. Notes of Hillard’s report to the defense fund read, “Boys confessed & were fired. Dir. is making excuses, saying dog was sic & boys were putting him out of his misery…….” full article: newsweek.com
Rat Says: What is it about Arklansas Governors? They never take responsibility for anything, always putting out shifty excuses. Huckabee (Gomer) Jr didn’t like the emaciated stray dog with mange so… hey, let’s HANG IT? And for his dad to lie about it and all the other things like being a fake pastor or letting a rapist out free to rape and murder again. Enough with this guy….. YOU’RE FIRED GOMER!
Geez, enough with the animal cruelty people, Michael Vick, Huckabee Jr and Mitt strapping his dog to the roof of the family station wagon for a 12 hour road trip, all sociopaths in my book.
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