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Judi Lynn

(160,609 posts) Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:19 AM Mar 2016

Fallout from Alabama sex tape scandal hits woman first: GOP governor refuses to resign after top aid

Source: Salon

Thursday, Mar 31, 2016 09:58 AM CDT

Fallout from Alabama sex tape scandal hits woman first: GOP governor refuses to resign after top aide forced out

Gov. Bentley's senior political adviser has resigned, but Bentley insists their affair wasn't “all that egregious"

Sophia Tesfaye

The Alabama Republican Assembly is calling for Republican Governor Robert Bentley’s resignation. A Republican state representative is moving to start impeachment hearings against the embattled governor. And the Alabama Ethics Commission is investigating Bentley’s relationship with a top aide who resigned on Wednesday after audio tapes of Bentley making sexually suggestive comments to her were published — but the governor refuses to budge.

“I have no intentions of resigning,” Bentley said on Wednesday, reacting to news of senior political adviser, Rebekah Caldwell Mason’s, resignation. While the right-wing conservative admitted to letting people down with his “inappropriate” relationship with Mason, the 73-year-old governor said his only “intentions are to try and make this state better.”

“Have I made mistakes? Yes I have,” Bentley said during an interview with New York Times, hoping to brush aside the scandal. “I admit those but we have addressed those.”

“As far as my situation is concerned, it is really just a shock to people, and, you know, I understand that,” Bentley admitted to the Times, before complaining that there remained “a lot of errors and misconceptions and opinions.”

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/31/fallout_from_alabama_sex_tape_scandal_hits_woman_first_gop_governor_refuses_to_resign_after_top_aide_forced_out/

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Fallout from Alabama sex tape scandal hits woman first: GOP governor refuses to resign after top aid (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2016 OP

He'll be gone soon. They all say they won't resign. brush Mar 2016 #1

Too bad the Appalachian Trail doesn't run through Alabama. yellowcanine Mar 2016 #2

I think it might stretch into Northern Alabama. Darb Mar 2016 #7

Nope, southern end of the AT is in north Georgia. klook Mar 2016 #8

But the Trail of Tears goes through Alabama LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2016 #12

who are Republicans planning to replace Bently with? Sunlei Mar 2016 #3

Kay Ivey, Lt. Governor. trof Mar 2016 #6

Why did she quit if he didn't? n/t jtuck004 Mar 2016 #4

Funny you should ask.... dixiegrrrrl Mar 2016 #10

Typical. Republicans always avoid responsibility, blame others. AxionExcel Mar 2016 #5

Good. Let him stay so we can point to him the entire election cycle as an example of GOP TeamPooka Mar 2016 #9

another example of Do as we say, not as we Do. LiberalLovinLug Mar 2016 #11

Hey, who caused Adam to sin? Eve! ChairmanAgnostic Mar 2016 #13

brush

(53,841 posts)

1. He'll be gone soon. They all say they won't resign.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:25 AM

Mar 2016

yellowcanine

(35,701 posts)

2. Too bad the Appalachian Trail doesn't run through Alabama.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:28 AM

Mar 2016

Now would be a good time for Gov. Bentley to take a couple days off for a hike.

Darb

(2,807 posts)

7. I think it might stretch into Northern Alabama.

Reply to yellowcanine (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 12:11 PM

Mar 2016

Could be wrong.

klook

(12,165 posts)

8. Nope, southern end of the AT is in north Georgia.

Reply to Darb (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 01:19 PM

Mar 2016

http://appalachiantrail.org/home/explore-the-trail/

However, I think it may be about time for the Alabama governor to take a hike...

LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(12,591 posts)

12. But the Trail of Tears goes through Alabama

Reply to klook (Reply #8)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 04:18 PM

Mar 2016

and in some ways that's more appropriate.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

3. who are Republicans planning to replace Bently with?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:29 AM

Mar 2016

trof

(54,256 posts)

6. Kay Ivey, Lt. Governor.

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:48 AM

Mar 2016

Not much better.

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

4. Why did she quit if he didn't? n/t

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:38 AM

Mar 2016

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

10. Funny you should ask....

Reply to jtuck004 (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 02:36 PM

Mar 2016

Turns out, there is now official investigation into the several shell companies that she and her husband had set up.
Her husband was and is making 91,000 bucks a year in some program out of the Gov. office plus the Univ. of Ala is paying him
thousands but no one can find exactly what he does to earn it.
He and she have both created companies that funnel money to themselves, but seem to not have any actual business besides the Governor.

So, her quitting does not endanger her husband's various income schemes.

The Gov.is 2 years into his second term, he will be out in 2 more years and may be tempted to ride the term out for the benefits.