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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 08:53 AM Apr 2017

Alabama Luv Guv's Impeachment Probe Reveals Political Motivation Behind DMV Closures

Source: Talking Points Memo


By TIERNEY SNEED Published APRIL 11, 2017, 6:00 AM EDT

The impeachment investigation that led to Alabama’s Republican Gov. Robert Bentley’s resignation, arrest and conviction Monday surfaced more than just the alleged misuse of public funds to hide his affair with a top political aide, the cringe-y texts to his paramour, and the threats lobbed towards those who stood ready to expose their tryst.

The report released Friday shed light on another controversy that dogged his tenure: his administration’s decision to close 31 driver’s license offices, many in African-American-heavy counties, prompting a national outcry over how the closures would affect voting rights in the state, which requires a photo ID to vote.

The impeachment investigation report – which was compiled by a special counsel appointed by the legislature – concluded that the driver’s license office closures were politically motivated and ordained by the aide at the center of the scandal, Rebekah Mason, as a way to pressure state legislators into getting in line in support of the governor’s funding legislation.

Former Alabama Law Enforcement Agency head Spencer Collier, who oversaw the operations of the offices, told the impeachment investigators “that Mason proposed closing multiple driver’s license offices throughout the State and asked ALEA to put together a plan,” according to the report. “It was Collier’s understanding that Mason intended the plan to be rolled out in a way that had limited impact on Governor Bentley’s political allies,” the report continued.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alabama-luv-guvs-impeachment-probe-reveals-political-motivation-behind-dmv-closures

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Alabama Luv Guv's Impeachment Probe Reveals Political Motivation Behind DMV Closures (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2017 OP
Still can't believe she would sleep with that wrinkled up old creep LOL snooper2 Apr 2017 #1
Yeah, she earned every penny, didn't she? QC Apr 2017 #3
Fucking racist voter ID laws jpak Apr 2017 #2
Voter Suppression good. Sex bad. Marcuse Apr 2017 #4
 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
1. Still can't believe she would sleep with that wrinkled up old creep LOL
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 09:08 AM
Apr 2017

She is pretty decent looking, like you had to get in bed with skeletor LOL

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