Son’s deeds bite Huckabee

 

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A Son’s Past Deeds Come Back To Bite Huckabee

By Michael Isikoff and Holly
Bailey | NEWSWEEK

Dec 24, 2007 Issue | Updated: 2:51  p.m. ET
Dec 15, 2007

 

 

 

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. 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.

Huckabee called Bailey’s account “totally untrue”
and described him as a “bitter” exemployee. “I asked him to resign
because he had so alienated the entire state police,” he said. “It
had nothing to do with my son.” Brenda Turner, Huckabee’s then chief of
staff, and Kevin Crass, the Huckabee family lawyer, also disputed Bailey’s
account, although both acknowledged talking to him about the dog killing.
“I asked him, ‘Is it normal for the state police to … investigate
something that happened at a Boy Scout camp?’ ” Turner says. “We
wanted the same treatment that anybody else would get.” (Animal cruelty in
Arkansas is a misdemeanor, not a felony.)

The details of the incident remain murky. The Animal Legal
Defense Fund got an anonymous fax that summer alleging that David Huckabee and
another youth had been involved in the hanging of a stray dog at the camp on
July 11. A local animal-rights activist, Joyce Hillard, later contacted the
camp director. Notes of Hillard’s report to the defense fund read, “Boys
confessed & were fired. Dir. is making excuses, saying dog was sic &
boys were putting him out of his misery.” (The director told NEWSWEEK only
that a stray dog was “put down” and that the counselors were fired
for violating the Scout credo to be “kind.”) The father of the other
counselor was quoted by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in August 1998 as saying
that his son found the dog “hung over a limb and choking.” David
Huckabee did not respond to requests for comment. (In April of this year, he
was arrested—and paid a fine—when he forgot to remove a loaded gun from his
carry-on luggage at Little Rock airport.) His
father told NEWSWEEK that his son did not engage in “intentional
torture.” “There was a dog that apparently had mange and was
absolutely, I guess, emaciated.” A campaign official says David
“regrets” the incident and notes that he later made Eagle Scout.






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