Impeachment hearings, ethics probe dog Alabama governor

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Kim Chandler and Anthony Izaguirre, Associated Press

Updated 6:18 pm, Thursday, April 6, 2017



MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley's political troubles mounted Thursday as lawmakers vowed to move forward with impeachment hearings and one influential Republican urged him to step down.

The developments came a day after the state Ethics Commission found probable cause that the Republican governor broke state ethics and campaign finance laws, accusations that Bentley denies.


"I hope the governor does what is best for the state and seriously considers stepping down," state Senate Pro Tem Del Marsh said Thursday. "I don't think it does us any good to have the House go through these impeachment proceedings."

Bentley said Thursday that he does not intend to resign.





Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Impeachment-hearings-ethics-probe-dog-Alabama-11056010.php

[yallerdawg]

1. I emailed Bentley and told him...

if he would expand Medicaid and switch parties, he wouldn't have to worry about impeachment!

"Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line."

He'd be much better off in our Big Tent!

Of course, now they're impeaching him. They never listen to me.

[Langkous]

2. De-Nile

is not just a river in Egypt

Is there a name (or do you have suggestions) for hippocrits who make rules for others, yet feel themselves N/A ??

Please, I really need to know

[tenorly]

3. Don Siegelman finally free - and Bob Bentley looking at possible jail time.

"The arc of the moral universe is long," Martin Luther King, jr. famously said. "But it bends toward justice."

[mpcamb]

4. I suspect he's working on a no-jail-time, no-pay-back deal before he resigns.