Mike Huckabee & The Dog Killing Cover Up

4:21 am EST December 16th, 2007 | News | 3 Comments

First Mitt Romney terrorizes his family dog, now this. What’s with these Republicans and their pooches?

One issue likely to get attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. It also prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by a national animal-rights group—to write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed. 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.

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3 Responses to “Mike Huckabee & The Dog Killing Cover Up”

  1. Benny says:
    December 16, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    OMG, I hope someone retitles the blog Dogs Against Romney and Huckabee. This is disgusting. Who in their right mind would want to channel Michael Vick and his ilk?

  2. Benny says:
    December 16, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    What’s this about? Did Huckabee really think he could get away with this cover-up after what Michael Vick did?

    This is the war on terror–on animals–that we should fight.

  3. midderpidge says:
    December 16, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    Psychopath. He hung the dog by the neck, slit its throat and stoned it to death.