Pressure for the release of Dumond from jail began long before Huckabee became governor. For nearly a decade, conservative activists in Arkansas had painted Dumond as a tragic victim of Bill Clinton's power-hungry machinations. Ashley Stevens, Dumond's rape victim, was Clinton's distant cousin. Within Republican circles, the logic was that if they were to regain political power, it would be through lashing out against rulings like Dumond's.
Full story here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/07/how-anticlinton-zealots-p_n_75833.html
Huckleberry, meet your Willie Horton.
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