Posted by Birmingham News – Testimony shows Rainsville attorney had link to Siegelman before her affidavit alleging political involvement in prosecution.
Birmingham News – Testimony before congressional staffers by Rainsville attorney varies from earlier statements.
Birmingham News – Chancellor proposes criminal background checks on community colleges administrators, faculty.
Birmingham News – The Birmingham News calls for federal prosecutors to show that allegations by witness in Siegelman trial that he also provided illegal contributions to GOP candidates “were properly investigated or that they didn’t merit any attention.”
Mobile Press-Register – New suit filed challenging state’s method of execution as unconstitutional.
Mobile Press-Register – Chief Justice calls for actions to streamline domestic violence cases.
Huntsville Times – Audit reveals that president of Drake State Technical College had to repay funds for tuition waivers granted to daughter, son-in-law.
Tuscaloosa News – Internal report shows “nothing wrong” with two-year college foundation.
Anniston Star – The Anniston Star reviews allegations of misconduct in Siegelman prosecution, calls for congressional committees to “get to the bottom of this.”
Decatur Daily – Troy University to get Confucius Institute.
Daily Mountain Eagle – Nauvoo medical technologist challenges Aderholt for 4th Congressional District.
Why not a streamlined “Crimes Against Persons” docket? Or are we headed for a system of multiple court dockets, specialized judges and staff, prosecutors, defense attorneys and volunteers for every type of crime?
Political corruption in Alabama has gotten out of control. Out of the Millions of dollars of Mississippi Choctaw money that Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon laundered and sent to AL. to defeat Siegelman’s HOPE Lottery in 1999, to elect Bob Riley in 2002 and for Riley to oppress the AL. Poarch Indians. Not a single person got investigated by the ABI or FBI under direction of the offices of the AL. A.G. or the U.S. Attorneys.
Every article written on the 2002 Governors election verifies that the numbers published indicates that Electronic ballot stuffing was involved in Baldwin County to transfer votes from Siegelman to Riley. Siegelman was the winner that evening; however, Dan Gans (Riley’s voting machine software guru) said that Siegelman had too may votes in Bay Minette so during the night a voting adjustment was made that put Riley in the lead. I believe that Siegelman was blackmailed because he didn’t put up a fight when votes were swapped and the election was taken from him. No one knew why he conceded to Riley until the Judicial Committee released Attorney Jill Simpson‘s testimony this week. The Democratic Party issued petitions in all 67 counties asking for recounts (not all counties used optical scanning machines), but in Baldwin County in particular, they actually asked for a manual recount (of the paper ballots); however, Alabama Attorney General William Pryor ordered that throughout the state that all votes be sealed. He told the county canvassing boards that under penalty of law they did not have the authority to break the seals on the ballots and machines under section 17-9-31 of the constitution to do a recount. This 2002 election fraud didn’t get investigated by the ABI or FBI or the offices of the U.S. Attorneys or the Alabama Attorney General.
Big surprise here that Brett Blackledge, Alabama’s white knight, wrote a piece attempting to discredit any story opposed to the Riley Regime.
Go Brett! Keep up the fair and balanced high wire act. Let’s see where it lands you.
From Scott Horton at Harpers Magazine.
Alabamians need to think of this matter not in terms of Don Siegelman and Bob Riley, but in terms of their institutions and whether they will create a state worthy of its citizens and worthy of future generations. The demand for justice cannot and should not be muted by partisan politics. Right now there are many in the inner circles of the state’s Republican machine who know the truth about how power has been shamelessly corrupted. They need to step forward, tell the truth and bring this absurd cover-up to an end. And I have every confidence that several of them will do exactly that.