A Son's Past Deeds Come Back to Bite

For God's sake, I thought Huckabee was a minister. Where does the animal cruelty come from? Mike Huckabee boasted at the NRA Convention that "in heaven, every bullet hits the "name any critter" target. I will never forget his cold heartedness. It says so much about him. His dark side is far darker than his
phoney sunny demeanor depicts.
By Michael Isikoff and Holly Bailey | NEWSWEEK
Did Huckabee help his son avoid prosecution for animal cruelty?
That's the questioned examined by an article in the latest issue of Newsweek, which reports on allegations that the former Arkansas governor's son David was involved in the hanging death of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The younger Huckabee, who was 17 at the time, was fired from his job as a camp counselor over the incident but never faced a criminal investigation. John Bailey, then the director of the Arkansas state police, tells the magazine that the governor's chief of staff and personal lawyer pressured him to write a letter denying a local prosecutor's request for help in determining whether any animal cruelty laws were broken. Read entire story here.