Comments on: Continuing 2 Year College Investigation

by: SamE

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:14:55 +0000

Does anyone have anything to write on point? Or will we continue the mud fest? It seems there is more than a little evidence that SOMETHING is rotten in Alabama. The court system is a MESS. The Atty. Gen. is proof. Both the one who had to “leave” and the one who remains and who refuses to do his job and clean house. Court orders and orders from the congress to appear must be enforced by our law enforcement officials. They cannot use politics to decide WHO TO PUT under indictment. They can use politics to decide what “type” of crime is more “troublesome” at this time. “Will we fight gun crime or drug crime?”, That is political. That is why you pick your Attn. Gen. But this goes way beyond that. To not see that, is to be blind and to forget the old saying, “ask not for whom the bell tolls…” If this can happen under a government you like to officials you do not like, it is not hard to imagine a time when the tide might turn. A time not too far away.

by: politicsNsausage

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:55:37 +0000

Re Scott Horton — I was curious as to why a NY lawyer was weighing in on the 2-yr system’s woes. I did a Google search and found out he’s an Alabama native who’s mostly pitching a conspiracy theory that every legislator — Democrat or Republican — caught with his/her hand in the till is a victim of a great RIGHTWINGREPUBLICANCONSPIRACY that started with Siegelman’s conviction.
Reminds me of the old days when all the disenfranchised Republicans moaned about the great LIBERALDEMOCRATMEDIACONSPIRACY. As an ex-journalist, that one always made me laugh. AS IF you could herd cats!
One other observation about Mr. Horton: If you do the math on his Harper’s blog count alone, he’s churned out an average of 4 blogs per day, 7 days a week since last April 1. Makes me wonder how he can also be a lawyer, law school professor, author, world traveler, PBS commentator, charitable board executive, and all those other things his bio claims. Is it possible he’s part of a GREATBLOGMACHINE conspiracy that promotes itself prodigiously in the blogosphere and offers itself up as a quotable expert for the mainstream media?

by: GOP Consultant

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:45:45 +0000

Bill Johnson, Riley’s very own libertarian hit man, was that you in number 23?

by: GOP Consultant

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:10:15 +0000

I think they worked on it together then sent it to Joe Reed for review.

by: I am MILTON

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:36:42 +0000

Who wrote that, blogger Scott Horton of the Haskell Slaughter firm or did Milton write that one himself?

by: Indicted Jan 9th, arrested Jan 31st.

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:13:43 +0000

“Nothing in my mind demonstrates quite so clearly the internal corruption at the Justice Department as the massive political campaign operation launched by U.S. Attorney Alice Martin in Birmingham. Martin has lined up ten indictments of prominent Democrats or figures close to the Democrats which she has decided to release bit by bit as needed to help her party in its declared goal of taking over the Alabama legislature by 2010. In a by-election conducted in one lily white, staunchly Republican district just north of Birmingham, the Republicans were intent on a pick-up, but they had their rear ends handed to them when voters went overwhelmingly for a Black Democrat over a carefully selected Republican rising star. Martin had secured her indictment of Democratic legislator and retired civics teacher Sue Schmitz on January 9, and held this indictment in reserve to release at the most opportune moment. The drubbing the Republicans suffered in the race in Cullman County provided just the need, since by arresting Schmitz, she drove the stories about the embarrassing Republican defeat off the front pages and replaced it with a story with her established theme of “corrupt Democrats.” But the fact that an almost purely white constituency in Alabama would send a black man to the legislature is dramatic news. It provides evidence that the traditional politics of race and fear which have had Alabama in their grips since Reconstruction are giving way to something new. There are plenty of other signs too: the odds are strong that Alabama Democrats will support Barack Obama for president in a couple of days, and the new figure emerging as the leader of the party is a black former prosecutor.”

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002301

by: bhmhomeboy

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:47:33 +0000

“This is a political vendetta. Anyone who objects to
what they’re doing will become a target,” one teacher told me.

by: Montgomery

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:24:25 +0000

It is my understanding that Schmitz’ lawyers offered to bring her in and surrender her at the federal courthouse. Given that, why the need for five FBI agents to take her in at 6:15 am?

by: Farmer

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:18:26 +0000

Scott Hooter hasn’t written any articles on the Feds prosecution of Jefferson County Comm. Gary White (R).

He was convicted from an Alice Martin indictment.

by: worth raising

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:41:01 +0000

Like I said in comment 4, AS AN INDEPENDENT, I would feel a whole lot better about this prosecution if Alice Martin weren’t the US Attorney bringing the charges. Schmitz might be guilty, but when a partisan hack is leading the charge it makes me wonder.

Also, IF she is guilty, I’d like a more competent prosecutor handling the case so that she gets convicted and sent to jail.