In 1997 Wayne Dumond raped a high school cheerleader, who was a distant relative of Bill Clinton. Before his trial Dumond was assaulted, castrated, and left for dead. Despite the attack Dumond was sentenced to life plus twenty years. Huckabee would later claim that Dumond had no prior record, which was either a lie on Huckabee's part or demonstrates how little Huckabee knew about the case.

Dumond had become the darling for some Christian radio celebrities who are close to Huckabee. It may be that public pressure that caused Democratic governor Jim Guy Tucker commute Dumond's sentence to 39 years, which was a real gift. But that commutation that wasn't good enough for the new Governor Huckabee. Initially Huckabee considered a pardon, but public outcry and the victim's outrage was such that Huckabee withdrew that plan. Instead he lobbied the parole board to release Dumond, although he wasn't to be considered for such a release for years. The parole board is appointed by the governor, almost all admit that they took the extraordinary step to benefit Dumond because Huckabee pressured them to do it, but Huckabee lies about his role.

From the link above:

Only six weeks after Dumond moved to Missouri, Carol Sue Shields, of Parkville, Mo., was found murdered in a friend’s home. She had been sexually assaulted and suffocated.

In late June 2001, Missouri authorities charged Dumond with the first-degree murder of Shields. The Clay County, Mo., prosecutor’s office asserted that skin found under Shield’s fingernails, the result of an apparent struggle with her murderer, contained DNA that matched Dumond’s. Missouri authorities also say that Dumond is the leading suspect in the rape and murder of a second woman, Sara Andrasek, of Platte County, Mo., though he has not yet been charged with that crime. Andrasek was 23. Like Shields, Andrasek had her brassiere cut from her body; Dumond cut Stevens’ bra off before he raped her. "It’s as if he wanted to leave us his calling card," a Missouri law enforcement officer said.

These stories a just the tip of the Huckabee iceberg. Although this is about his family, it is sufficiently creepy to be included anyway. David Huckabee, while his father was governor, was kicked out of Boy Scout camp when he and a buddy caputred a stray dog, hanged it from a tree, then tortured it to death. That same son was recently arrested at the airport in Little Rock when he attempted to carry a gun and ammunition onto a plane.

This could go on forever, there is quite a bit more for those interested. Google "Huckabee gifts" "Huckabee ethics complaints," "Huckabee light fixtures," "Huckabee office furniture," "and "Huckabee gift registry" for more. The point is the man is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. The bottom line is that Huckabee is a temperamental, lying, crook, who may sincerely feel a Christian obligation to help the poor.