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Stingy Bush pardons more often favor Texans

President Bush issued 14 pardons yesterday, including for three Texans, and commuted two more sentences on drug convictions. That makes him the stingiest among modern Presidents regarding clemency. At 171 total, he's pardoned less than half the number of people as Bill Clinton during his two terms, with a disproportionate number of those coming from Texas.The Houston Chronicle profiled one of the Texans' pardoned: Daniel Pue, convicted of a felony for illegal dumping of sludge in a ditch in East Texas. The pardon of Fort Worth's Brenda Jean Dolenz-Helmer was for a relatively minor offense- covering up for her father when he was accused of a crime.The third case may wind up having some Bush family conntections: William Hoyle McCright, Jr., was convicted of bank fraud when he served as executive vice president of the First National Bank of Midland from 1978-1982...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).