SLATE – Haley Barbour’s Bizarre Pardon Record

Haley Barbour’s Bizarre Pardon Record

Mike Huckabee took a beating from his conservative brethren last month after Maurice Clemmons, a man whose sentence the former Arkansas governor commuted in 2000, shot and killed four police officers in Lakewood, Wash. The scuttlebutt on the right suggested that Clemmons’ release may doom Huckabee’s chances of winning the Republican nomination for president in 2012. I happen to think Huckabee’s getting a raw deal on the Clemmons case; instead, we should be talking about the truly bizarre pardon record of one of Huckabee’s possible competitors for the nomination, Haley Barbour.

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12/17/9