Troy, Roy - Good Ol’ Boys
Troy King has served up a hanging curveball for Alabama Dems.
Who’d have thunk that in the entirety of the two year college scandal that the highest ranking official to be ensnared would be the Republican Attorney General?
Now no matter what happens to individual Democratic legislators or other peripheral figures, the Democrats can point to the bipartisan nature of the scandal. King’s blunder of monumental proportions has single-handedly diffused the biggest and widest spread scandal to hit the Alabama legislature in a generation.
Now of course King is probably not in any legal jeopardy over this and it’s understandable that when trying to find a job for someone, you’d go where the jobs are. But cronyism and favoritism are two issues that cut right to the core of the two-year scandal and to have the Republican AG now mired in this has to make other Republicans nauseous.
Democrats of course can’t be too noisy about the Troy/Roy connection since it’s very possible that veteran Democratic legislator X and Y might be under the gun sooner rather than later. But no matter what happens in the future, King has successfully prevented the AL GOP from wielding the “Democrat scandal” club against the other side.
And on a side note, what happens if this comes out two weeks before the elections instead of two weeks after? Attorney General – elect Tyson?
