See the Arkansas Times article for details.
From the article:
Brownlee then had the board go into executive session, Chastain said. “The governor commented that Wayne Dumond had received, from his perspective, a raw deal, that he was someone from the wrong side of the tracks … and that he had received what he thought was too long a sentence for that type of crime.”
Looks like Governor Huckabee have forgotten that Ashley Stevens had the raw deal, and by his decision to help parole Dumond, Carol Sue Shields, and Sara Andrasek has received raw deals.
This reminded me of the infamous Bush/Quayle ad regarding Dukakis and the furlough programme:
Does “Willie Horton” ring a bell? Let’s see how the Governor responds to that.