Governor Robert Bentley
Hopefully this guy will be voted out as Governor. He is responsible for everything in his state and allowing a district in his state is go bankrupt is just awful.
Kind of out of touch over there in Italy, huh? I didn't vote for Bentley in the primary, but did in the general. He's only been in office six months. He's a republican and despite some missteps he's doing a fair job so far. He signed the new illegal immigrant law (stronger than Arizona's) that has the liberals up in arms.
Jefferson County's sewer debt problem has been developing for many years. It was initiated by EPA, upheld by a federal judge, and exacerbated by greedy, corrupt and incompetant politicians who saw a chance to skim a few pennies while allowing greedy, corrupt and very competant Wall Street bankers to suck the county dry.
Probably the biggest mistake was made by Larry Langford (now in federal prison for a different crime) while he was president of the county commision. He engineered a swap of fixed rate bonds for variable interest bonds which wound up resetting to a much higher rate.