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Governor Stood Up to Arkansas Board in Hale Clemency
NewsMax.com
Thursday, June 7, 2001
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee rejected advice from a state board in
supporting clemency for Whitewater figure David Hale.
The Post Prison Transfer Board recommended in February that the
governor deny Hale's request for clemency, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
reported Wednesday.
Huckabee told the newspaper that he seldom contradicted the board but
that it made no sense to imprison the ailing Hale, convicted in 1999 of
state insurance fraud.
"As an inmate, [the state] assumes liability for his medical expenses,"
Huckabee said. "There's not a point to be made at this time to put him
in prison for 21 days. We're not letting him off. We're letting the
taxpayers off. When you look at a 21-day sentence, what is the point?"
Hale served 24 months in prison for conspiracy and mail fraud in the
federal Whitewater case. He was the main witness in the 1996 trial of
Democrat Gov. Jim Guy Tucker. After Tucker's conviction, Huckabee, a
Republican and then lieutenant governor, became governor.
"To my knowledge, David Hale is a huge Democrat. I'm not doing some
favor for somebody who's done me a favor, to my knowledge. I don't know
the guy. I haven't run in his circles," Huckabee told the
Democrat-Gazette.
Tucker, a consultant for Acrossasia Multimedia in Hong Kong, told the
newspaper: "The commutation and pardon power is part of the power of a
chief executive. It should be used when the governor thinks it's
appropriate."
Hale's attorney, David Bowden of Little Rock, has said the state charge
was brought by Democrats solely to punish Hale for testifying against
Tucker and cooperating in the Whitewater investigation.
"I'm gratified Gov. Huckabee has decided to take a look at it," Bowden
said. "He's a Christian and compassionate man."
During his state trial, a tearful Hale testified: "I had a wife and two
kids, and the federal government had seized everything we owned. We had
to sell sheets from our house just to pay the bills."
NewsMax.com readers flooded Huckabee with pleas for clemency for Hale,
who blew the whistle on Bill and Hillary Clinton in the probe of the
Whitewater land deal.
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