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 Posted by Danny, on May 12th, 2011, at 10:16 amHere is this week’s ruling (in a .pdf file) from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Scrushy and Siegelman for those who want the details. Yesterday’s AP story is here. Short version: two bribery convictions against Siegelman and Scrushy are thrown out. Five convictions against Siegelman and four against Scrushy stand. [...] Posted by Danny, on May 9th, 2011, at 7:07 amDid you see the story near the end of last week with Gov. Robert Bentley rebuking state Sen. Brian Taylor (R – Montgomery) last week for Taylor’s proposal to move the Alabama Bureau of Investigation to the Attorney General’s control? The proposal also allowed the Attorney General to take control of the Alabama [...] Posted by Danny, on April 8th, 2011, at 11:42 am
Alabama pays its Governor $112,895 annually (if he’s even accepting the pay), according to data from Stateline this week. Thirty-four pay more, 15 less. That’s almost $18,000 less than the U.S. average of $130,595. Alabama’s compensation is lower than any of its neighbors. Mississippi pays its chief executive $122,160, Tennessee $170,340, Georgia [...] Posted by Danny, on April 7th, 2011, at 12:52 pmJust three months in, Michael Ciamarra is out as the Governor’s Policy Director. Posted by waltm, on March 7th, 2011, at 3:51 pmThe Legislative Fiscal Office has released in pdf format, a comparison of the Governor’s proposed 2012 Education and General Fund recommendations to the current budget.. What follows is from a quick once over. The more eye balls reviewing these numbers and letting their Legislators know what they think, the better. From a [...] Posted by waltm, on March 2nd, 2011, at 8:29 amLast night, Gov Bentley gave the State of the State address, video and text at the Governor’s office. Wide debridement and vacuum assisted closure of the state budget seems the best summation. House Minority Leader, Craig Ford, gave the Democratic Party response, the text of which can be found at WHNT, (BTW, [...] Posted by waltm, on February 10th, 2011, at 10:17 amBest summation of the recent testimony of confessed influence peddler, Jarrod Massey, I can think of. During a recent hearing, Massey admitted to paying then state Rep. Terry Spicer, from about 2002/2003 to 2009 for assistance in obtaining business. Some of the business included contracts from the junior college where Spicer was assistant [...] Posted by Danny, on January 20th, 2011, at 4:55 pm
Governor Bentley has apologized for remarks made at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church after his inauguration but the reverberation echoes on. This email is reprinted with the sender’s permission:
Posted by Danny, on January 19th, 2011, at 4:27 pm
New Lt. Governor Kay Ivey took the gavel for the first time to preside over the Senate yesterday. Kay Ivey’s first day in the Senate was the last in the Senate for long-time Secretary of the Senate McDowell Lee who is retiring before the Senate meets again on March 1. The only matters of business for the day involved reports from the Committee on Assignments regarding minor changes to committee membership
Click on a picture to see it enlarged. Posted by Danny, on January 18th, 2011, at 7:17 am
I am glad to be able to pass these pictures along from the inauguration festivities yesterday, thanks to a most helpful reader. Click on a picture to see it enlarged. Posted by Danny, on January 17th, 2011, at 5:46 am
If you’re headed to the big festivities in Montgomery today, don’t forget your tickets! If you have pictures from the day that you’ll share with us, send them via email to inaugpics@politicalparlor.net. I hope to be able to pass some good ones along. Posted by Danny, on January 13th, 2011, at 3:56 pm
Change at the Supreme Court will allow outgoing Governor Bob Riley the opportunity to put his imprint on a 2012 election at the Court. Parlor friends who keep a close eye on the Supreme Court tell me that we should look for Justice Champ Lyons to resign before Monday and for outgoing Governor [...] Posted by waltm, on December 16th, 2010, at 1:20 pmThe Legislature has adjourned sine die this AM and sent its passed bills to the Governor which means no executive amendments. We do have a ban on PAC to PAC transfers, clarification of what donations are for and how they are used (HB9), a ban on pass thru pork (HB 10), [...] Posted by Danny, on December 13th, 2010, at 6:16 pm
Folks close to the situation tell the Parlor that the Riley administration hopes to persuade Kelli Wise to step down a few days early from the Court of Criminal Appeals. As my email inbox explains, Riley would “then be able to appoint Judge Wise’s successor on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, rather than [...] Posted by Danny, on December 10th, 2010, at 11:34 am
Here is the actual text of Governor Riley’s call for a special session in a .pdf file. The significance of the particulars is that the special session may not consider any other legislation not mentioned in the call – unless two-thirds of the legislature agrees to do so. |
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