Huckabee's Jonesboro book still rankles

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After two middle-school boys in full camouflage gear shot and killed four of their classmates and a teacher here, leaving 10 others wounded and a community shattered, it seemed inevitable that someone would see opportunity in the tragedy for a book deal.

Indeed, within days a publisher agreed to pay $25,000 to an Arkansas writer to produce a book on youth violence.

Victims' family members were outraged. They called the payment blood money and said the author was cashing in on their pain. They demanded that the money go to the school, the victims' families or for scholarships for the wounded, not to the writer's personal bank account. He refused.

That the author was Mike Huckabee, Arkansas' governor at the time, made their resentment all the stronger.

"He took advantage of us," said Pam Herring, whose daughter, Paige Ann, had just turned 12 when she was shot to death.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-huckabee26jan26,0,34828.story

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1. The two killers are now walking the streets as free men

Oh and parole for Wayne "Soprano" Dumond

Mike Huckabee on crime

[RamboLiberal]

2. And the Huckster couldn't be bothered to attend the memorial service

But Huckabee was not among the 9,000 people who attended a memorial service a week later at the Arkansas State University Convention Center in Jonesboro. Aides said he was on a planned family vacation in the Caribbean. He did send a letter, quoting the Bible that man is saved by God and not the laws he enacts.

Remind you of Vacationer in Chief?