The Huckabee Dog Killing Cover-up
What do these two men have in common?
It certainly is not a sub 4.3 forty-yard dash and the ability to elude top NFL defenders.
Actually, it appears both these men have abused and killed a dog. While you probably recognize Michael Vick, the other person pictured above is David Huckabee, son of presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. According to Newsweek:
As Mike Huckabee gains in the polls, the former Arkansas governor is finding that his record in office is getting more scrutiny. 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.
I normally consider issues like these involving family members of the candidates as being strictly off limits, but there are allegations here that Gov. Huckabee may have used his power to prevent an investigation from moving forward. If these allegations prove to be true, it would be a disgusting abuse of power.
Let me be clear here. David Huckabee’s action on its own should not disqualify Mike Huckabee from being president. It’s Mike Huckabee’s attempt to prevent his son from being investigated by the state police that should rule him out of contention for the Republican nomination.
It also makes me wish that Michael Vick’s dad was the Governor of Virginia. Maybe if that was the case the Falcons would be well on their way to making the playoffs.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:30 am
I don’t think Huckabee’s son financed a DOG FIGHTING ring out of his home and personally executed numerous dogs
Idiotic comparison and a desperate political attack
Your boy is going down in Iowa and then things will start to fall apart
December 19th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
This is just sad. Is this what you are reporting now on Huckabee. It is like a lie a day here. Could you be anymore in the Romney campaign back pocket.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Thanks. We love you too.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Everyone knows that The Shot is with Romney. Just like Palmetto Scoop is with McCain. Take it for what its worth. These guys seem to just be having fun.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Rumor,
Are you saying it’s okay if you only kill one dog?
Beside it’s not the not the fact his son killed the dog. It’s the fact Huckabee halted a police investigation into his son.
Lair,
Are you saying Newsweek just made this story up? We’re just sharing what THEY reported.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
We need a first familey that is an example to be looked up to by the youth of the nation. I am not inspired by Mike Huckabee”s Famley or record.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:18 am
This dog killing in front of impressionable younger children, appears to have been unnecessarily cruel. You have to assume these kids lured the dog over to them in order to capture him for the hanging. Continuing to cover it up and rationalize this act as merely putting the dog out its misery demonstrates another character flaw, in addition to letting rapists and murders go free.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Perhaps call this “Huckleberry-Hound-Gate”.
December 21st, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Hanging, abusing and killing dogs is wrong no matter how you look at it. I hope David Huckabee got some mental health help. And while I disagree with Mike Huckabee interfering in his sons behalf, I can’t blame him. But still I think he Mike might have stepped over the line here.
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Mitt Romney’s blog says the boys hanged the dog, slit his throat, and finally stoned the poor animal to death. So apparently Newsweek downplayed the incident somewhat.
I am not even a Republican, OK, so I’m not for Romney. This is so sickening it is beyond belief.
I googled “David Huckabee” to see if the story was anywhere else in the media besides Newsweek.
We have a real problem in this country when we hold athletes who do horrible sickening things to higher standards than government officials who do horrible sickening things or who permit and cover up and fire a guy who wouldn’t join in the coverup.
That poor, poor dog. What makes people so sick they do things like that?
December 26th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Did anyone happen to know the dogs name?
December 27th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
In a related story, Dr. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) great-grandchild has been reported to have been naughty and sent to bed early. News at 11.
December 30th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
A miscarriage of justice and an appalling abuse of power. Down with Huckabee.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:23 am
How sad that the Religious Wrong wants to make the USA into a religious state. We’ll be no better, or different, from the Islamic countries. A tragic end to the USA. The Bible Thumpers are squarely in *uckabee’s pocket, for which they should be damned to hell.
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Never mind the cover-up, I’m a longtime Scouter, I’m more alarmed that this happened at a Scout Camp and that his son still made Eagle.
That’s an insult to the scouting movement and everyone that wears an Eagle badge. He should have it stripped immediately, and anyone that might still be in uniform from those days needs to be called to account.
January 7th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
What? Cruel psychopaths want power? Say it ain’t so!a
January 11th, 2008 at 4:07 am
It does my heart good to see Republicans beating up on each other. Let’s face it, the Bush crime family has given the White House to Democrats for the next twenty years. Thank God
January 14th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
It may be a political attack, so what. It takes a sick kid to do a thing like that, especially a kid who is a 17 year old camp counselor. What kind of family values does that speak of…we already have some twisted individuals in the White House, I don’t want any more.
January 14th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
now.. the scary thing.. isn’t that he committed such horrendous acts, and it isn’t that Mike Huckabee raised such a kid - it’s that Mike Huckabee used his political office to try to cover it up. What would he do in the White House?
And what’s worse is there are loads of other scandals surrounding Huckabee that the media hasn’t touched yet.
http://opposehuckabee.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page