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Hepburn

(21,054 posts) Mon Oct 20, 2014, 11:44 AM Oct 2014

This Week's Republican Lawmaker Arrest!

The Tennessee Stalker!

A Tennessee lawmaker was arrested over the weekend in a dispute with a neighbor, several weeks after he was arrested for public intoxication.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/tennessee-lawmaker-arrested-again-this-time-for-stalking-and-threatening-neighbor/

Let's hear it for Republican Family Values!

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This Week's Republican Lawmaker Arrest! (Original Post) Hepburn Oct 2014 OP

I don't know if this guy counts since he was defeated in August and resigned- snooper2 Oct 2014 #1

Sure, he counts. progressoid Oct 2014 #2

Don't count the week out yet! AL House Speaker is preparing for arrest too! AleksS Oct 2014 #3

Palin was proof the Republicans should change their mascot to a honey badger. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2014 #4

Hope this becomes a regular DU feature! freshwest Oct 2014 #5

naaw, check out this guy: Alabama House Speaker Arrested on 23 Felony Charges spanone Oct 2014 #6

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

1. I don't know if this guy counts since he was defeated in August and resigned-

Reply to Hepburn (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 11:56 AM

Oct 2014

progressoid

(49,991 posts)

2. Sure, he counts.

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 12:12 PM

Oct 2014

If Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Nixon, et. al. still count, so does this guy.

AleksS

(1,665 posts)

3. Don't count the week out yet! AL House Speaker is preparing for arrest too!

Reply to Hepburn (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:30 PM

Oct 2014

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2014/10/20/house-speaker-mike-hubbard-prepares-for-possible-arrest/17610633/

"OPELIKA — Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard is getting ready for his possible arrest in a state corruption probe. Lee County records show Hubbard and his lawyer visited the sheriff's office in Opelika on Friday."

Apparently this investigation has already led to one guilty plea and one other indictment.

Of course, I won't be happy until our Felon-in-Chief Scott Walker's the one in cuffs.

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

4. Palin was proof the Republicans should change their mascot to a honey badger.

Reply to Hepburn (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:45 PM

Oct 2014

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

5. Hope this becomes a regular DU feature!

Reply to Hepburn (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 10:30 PM

Oct 2014

spanone

(135,844 posts)

6. naaw, check out this guy: Alabama House Speaker Arrested on 23 Felony Charges

Reply to Hepburn (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 10:52 PM

Oct 2014

OPELIKA, Ala. — Powerful Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard has been arrested on felony ethics charges, accused of using public office for personal gain. Hubbard was indicted by a grand jury on 23 charges accusing him of misusing his office as speaker and his previous post as chairman of the Alabama Republican Party.

Acting Attorney General Van Davis announced the indictment Monday.

Hubbard says the charges, weeks before the November vote in which he's favored for re-election, constitute "a political witch hunt."

If convicted, Hubbard faces from two to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $300,000 on each count. The charges are latest corruption allegations against Alabama politicians to make headlines. The 52-year-old Republican led the GOP's takeover of the Legislature in 2010, ending 136 years of Democratic control.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-house-speaker-arrested-23-felony-charges-n230216

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