"Gentlemen....gentlemen.....Affairs of State must take precedence over the....uh....the affairs of state."
Posted on 04/12/2016 8:27:31 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
Mmmmm,mmmmmm,mmmmmmm. Wow.
"Gentlemen....gentlemen.....Affairs of State must take precedence over the....uh....the affairs of state."
LOL!
Why must we imagine he has an old college buddy with a few thousand dollars cash in his pocket at the beach with him?
We don’t have to imagine any such thing. One could as easily be required to imagine that he already asked everyone within a mile radius for that thousand dollar loan, couldn’t we?
Would someone please answer the question - what was he supposed to do? Calling his personal transportation to pick him up would be fine, right? Taking him to his wallet, still fine, right? taking him back to the beach, fine. That is 3 trips. Asking the chopper to bring his wallet to him (assuming the chopper is at home) could be done in such a way as to not waste a trip, since he will be calling for it to pick him up and return him home, eventually. If the chopper is at the beach, then it is a round-trip if he goes along or not.
The chopper is provided for his personal transportation. He is entitled to use it for his convenience. Nothing wrong, in my opinion, with this story.
Finally conceded and read the article - I hate giving “hits” to such poor and yellow “journalism”.
He drove his pickup to the beach house. The chopper was a Law Enforcement aircraft, not his assigned transportation - this puts it in a different light, more like Clinton using a state trooper to drive him around to his trysts.
So, I agree, it was a rather high-handed way to handle the matter, but still not one that gets my knickers twisted. However, his affair bothers me. But there was no mention of his mistress being at the beach house. It is a stretch to make the claim that he misused government property in pursuit of his affair, based on this story. Possible misuse for his own personal convenience (I think asking state police to serve as personal servants is right next door to ordering military personnel to do so.). But I don’t see where the mistress plays a role in the story, other than being the subject of the argument.
I would think he would need his wallet whether his mistress was with him or not.
Yes, one does, if one has the access. Again, if it was provided for his personal transportation, it would be perfectly fine, as a Law Enforcement chopper, I am more negatively inclined. However, I am not outraged like many seem to be.
My outrage is with the affair, and I see no connection of the chopper to the affair - which is the peg they are trying to hang this hat on.
Good grief...one does not summon a friend for a thousand dollar loan simply to address a simple forgotten wallet. You assume the issue was money. One (at least I do) keeps more than money in their wallet.
It seems rather odd to me, that you assume the trappings of wealth and power when it comes to borrowing the money, but you are outraged at the same exercise of wealth and power when summoning the helicopter. It is illogical.
You really have no idea what he needed his wallet for, do you?
My point - that you continue to ignore in your self-righteous indignation - is nobody would care if he had called the chopper to take him home and back.
I would be saying the same had it been Bill Clinton doing it.
Here is what I can’t believe...he was having an affair, and your indignation is directed at how he retrieved his wallet!
I am not pretending that I know. You are the one getting al bent, without knowing particulars, not me.
I don’t know what the laws of his state allow or do not allow....do you? You act like you do.
This whole story was presented as proof of inappropriate spending in pursuit of his affair. There is zero evidence that it had anything to do with the affair.
Would you be as upset had he simply rode the chopper home to get his wallet and back?
Actually the chopper is provided for state business, not spending $4000 to take Bentley his wallet while he’s hiding out with his mistress.
Thanks for tagging me though!
I feel sort of cheated in all this because I voted for Bentley and thought he was a good person!
I see I was wrong.
There is just so much corruption in all this mess.
I can buy that it is for state business...but what defines state business? Someone could argue that getting the governor’s wallet to him is state business - I don’t make that argument - but “state business” is a somewhat vague term.
I never saw that he was hiding out with his mistress - that is certainly implied, but I never saw a mention that she was at the beach house.
The money spent on politicians anywhere is ridiculous; and the money spend on chief executives at all levels is more so. I just do not think the journalist makes the case they claim to make.
It’s a little out of touch for a so-called conservative to be in a fight with his wife over his mistress and have his wallet flown to his beach house.
Just sayin’....
He’s in more hot water than that though. He’s got big financial irregularities with his campaign coming to light with money funneled to mistress, including money for private planes that the campaign paid for, to fly her to him.
Revealed this week that mistresses husband had been paid hundreds of thousands via Paypal from the University of Alabama. He also holds a grace and favor sort of position in the government as the director of some agency that Bentley created. Previously he was a weatherman at a very small college station.
Like I’ve said, my disgust is with his extra-marital affair. But this article promises something it doesn’t deliver. It does not connect the dots from the mistress to the helicopter. I am disappointed that so many here on FR get distracted by the helicopter/wallet thing. To me, it all comes down to the question I’ve repeatedly asked: Would anybody even notice if he just had the chopper fly him home and back? I think not - and there is no difference in flying him to the wallet, or flying the wallet to him, so why outrage over one but not the other? Frankly, I don’t think he can even be labeled a “so called” conservative - he doesn’t seem to possess any conservative values.
Governor Bentley could have had the wallet overnighted to him for $29.00 (delivery by 10:30 am) without using a $2000.00/hour helicopter. It’s not the wallet...it is the misuse of expensive hardware for personal reasons.
You never hear of overnight delivery or having a flunky drive it down?
Any idea fuel and upkeep and pilot cost for all that?
7000 minimum is my guess
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