Lakewood widow describes ‘the real Mike Huckabee’

Mike Huckabee made a stop during his presidential election campaign to support Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Releated: Huckabee supports Kentucky clerk Kim Davis

Another woman named Kim, in Washington state, is on a mission to make sure Huckabee will never make it to the White House.

“Mike Huckabee, what a joke, stands up on that stage, glad-handing people, trying to get money for his super PAC,” said KIRO Radio’s Don O’Neill. “He’ll never be president because of people like Kim Renninger.”

Don has gotten to know Renninger over the past few years after her husband, Lakewood Police Officer Mark Renninger, was murdered while on the job. On Nov. 29, 2009 Maurice Clemmons walked into a Lakewood coffee shop where Mark and three other officers were sitting. Clemmons gunned down each officer.

Two days later, Clemmons would be tracked down in South Seattle where he was fatally shot by a Seattle police officer.

But what does Mike Huckabee have to do with any of this?

Clemmons previously resided in Arkansas, where he had five felony convictions. Clemmons was serving a 95-year prison sentence for aggravated robbery in 2000 when then Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee commuted his sentence. After Clemmons was freed, he moved to Washington where he was charged with eight felonies, including rape of a child and third-degree assault on a police officer. And, eventually, he murdered four police officers.

Now, Kim Renninger is making sure people know about Huckabee’s connection to Clemmons. She authored a letter, published in the Arkansas Times.

Don said, “This is something that Kim has written and she has told me personally that she will make sure that Mike Huckabee will never become President of the United States because a lot of people do not know this story about him.”

“The thing that I saw yesterday that really angered me, is [Kim] took a picture of her little boy going to school,” Don said. “I know with that particular picture, I know she would have loved for her husband to have been there standing next to her son. It was really upsetting to me that it did not happen. The reason that didn’t happen was because of Mike Huckabee. That is why Mark is not here.”

“(The letter) is a good read,” Don said. “That’s the real Mike Huckabee.”

Here’s an excerpt:

We never heard a word from Governor Huckabee, but we did get notes and calls from many other governors and high ranking officials. The closest Mike Huckabee ever came to remorse was this comment in a radio interview, “It’s not something I’m happy about at this particular moment.”

Well, Governor Huckabee I am not particularly happy at this particular moment to see you fawn over Kim Davis for breaking the law and never, ever showing one ounce of compassion about the worst mass killing of police officers by a lone assailant in this country’s history.