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Tom and Jerry.
Tweety and Sylvester.
Troy King and Mark Montiel.
In the previous episode, Montiel accuses Attorney General Troy King of “possible criminal violations of the Alabama Fair Campaign Practices Act” and in a letter to Secretary of State Beth Chapman asks for a “full, complete and independent investigation.”
An attorney in Chapman’s office responded “that the office lacks prosecutorial powers.”
In the latest episode, Montiel then wanted the Attorney General’s office to investigate Chapman for her use of her campaign funds, but the AG’s office responded “there does not appear to be a violation of any laws.”
But stay tuned for the next episode.
Montiel said he’s not finished because he is also seeking an investigation by the State Ethics Commission and Montgomery County district attorney.
A Decatur Daily editorial today sums it up:
The incident involving slash-and burn Secretary of State Beth Chapman and Attorney General Troy King and their campaign funds is intriguing, if only for its creativity.
Party gadfly Mark Montiel decided if he couldn’t get Ms. Chapman to investigate Attorney General Troy King he would try to get the attorney general to investigate the secretary of state. All are Republicans.
Previous episodes featured Montiel challenging Troy King in the Republican primary for Attorney General, the two on opposite sides of Montiel’s lawsuit challenging the election of four Democratic state senators, both eager to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the legislature’s community service grants during their AG race, and Montiel calling for a criminal investigation into King’s use of campaign contributions in 2006.
Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
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Which one has the ACME catalog?
I wish Mark could find a paying job.
Troy King and Beth Chapman are more noble individuals than Mark Montiel could ever hope to be.
Ahhhhh Mark Monteil. He received over $90,000 a year lobbying the legislature for the PSC after he had been appointed three times to office only to be denied all four times he ran for office. After all of that his main complaint in life is that people are making too much money off of govt. Got to love Alabama politics.
Montiel was accurately described by the Decatur Daily today as a gadfly and that is profound since the Decatur Daily’s publisher detests King and even supported John Tyson financially and editorially. No wonder King slaughtered Montiel 3 to 1 in the Republican primary. Montiel has become the Shorty Price of Alabama politics and is an embarrassment to his party. His politcial ineptness is exceeded only by his inability (or unwillingness) to understand Alabama’s rather simple campaign and ethics laws.
why is Montiel on a witch hunt? to feather his own nest. the GOP needs to jettison him. he is nothing more than a sore “LOOSER”
I thought Shorty Price WAS the Shorty Price of Alabama Politics?
Oops. The “new” Shorty Price.