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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlabama’s ‘Family Values’ Governor Might Get Impeached Over An Extramarital Affair
A high-ranking American politician is at risk of losing everything over an alleged extramarital affair and no, its not Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz.
Its Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley. Like Cruz, Bentley is a Republican who has campaigned heavily on so-called family values. A God-fearing Christian, Bentley has spoken often about the sanctity of marriage, pledging to fight tooth-and-nail against same-sex couples who want to have marriages of their own.
Now, Bentley has found his own crumbling marriage under scrutiny (his wife, Dianne Bentley, filed for divorce last year). Last week, the 73-year-old governor admitted to having sexually suggestive conversations with his senior political advisor, 44-year old Rebekah Mason, who is also married. The conversations took place in 2014, before Bentleys divorce proceedings began.
But Bentley didnt have to admit to the conversations. Recordings of the conversations reportedly taken by Dianne were made public by AL.com.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/31/3764800/alabama-robert-bentley-governor-sex-scandal-family-values/
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Alabama’s ‘Family Values’ Governor Might Get Impeached Over An Extramarital Affair (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Mar 2016
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SheilaT
(23,156 posts)1. Don't you just love the hypocrisy?
raccoon
(31,110 posts)3. So many people who profess to be Xian commit adultery
right and left. They make me sick.
And then they act like they think they're better than other non-Xian people.
Initech
(100,070 posts)4. But........ family values! And stuff!
Skittles
(153,160 posts)5. I honestly believe your private life is your own
but if you're preaching "family values", you better damn well be living them
malaise
(268,993 posts)6. That simple
That creep couldn't touch my toenails
Skittles
(153,160 posts)9. I put "family values" in quotes when referring to conservatives
because I believe those creeps have a seriously demented view of what FAMILY VALUES truly means
Scumbags on steroids
LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)7. At least for the time being, he is safe ...
the Lt. Gov (who would take his place), has her own issues and he's not going anywhere until they move her out of succession first. If that wasn't the case, he would have already resigned just to keep anymore recordings from being made public.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)8. I hope his wife squeezes him hard for assets after
this humiliation at this time of their lives.