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Alabama governor resigns, pleads guilty to charges tied to to cover up of affair with a top aide
WaPo ^ | 04-10-2017 | staff

Posted on 04/10/2017 3:27:12 PM PDT by NRx

Gov. Robert Bentley (R) stepped down after being charged with two campaign and ethics violations on the same day that state lawmakers opened impeachment hearings against him. Bentley has fought for more than a year against allegations that he used public resources to carry out and conceal an affair with his former top aide.

According to the state's attorney general office, Bentley pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges related to covering up the alleged affair, one for failing to file a major contribution report and another for knowingly converting campaign contributions to personal use. This is a developing story. It will be updated.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: affair; alabama; bentley; governor; republican
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To: dynachrome

She will have to.

Bentley’s wife divorced him.


21 posted on 04/10/2017 3:47:30 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: wiseprince

That occurred the moment Sessions resigned. The replacement was sworn in the same day.


22 posted on 04/10/2017 3:47:49 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: boycott

Bentley looks just like that cartoon! LOL


23 posted on 04/10/2017 3:49:15 PM PDT by dforest
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run
If he were a democrat, he wouldn’t be resigning or even be asked by the demturds to do so.

Instead he would be announcing his candidacy for President!

24 posted on 04/10/2017 3:50:37 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: A CA Guy

In this case, he needed to resign. He was no different than a RAT anyway.


25 posted on 04/10/2017 3:52:05 PM PDT by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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To: NRx

SHOCKED the title didn’t include “Republican” or “GOP’ governor!


26 posted on 04/10/2017 4:06:04 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: boycott

Cartoon character looks better than the governor, who is no prize. Yuk to having an affair, or even an encounter with him.


27 posted on 04/10/2017 4:10:16 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: NRx

28 posted on 04/10/2017 4:12:35 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

A local blogger broke this story and the “reporters” attacked the blogger and covered up for the Gov and his mistress.

He’s a lefty, (the blogger) but he broke the story when no one else would touch it.


29 posted on 04/10/2017 4:17:13 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (https://medium.com/@Cernovich/here-is-the-full-60-minutes-interview-transcript-with-mike-cernovich-a)
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To: wiseprince

Gov. Bentley picked the man who was in charge on investigating him, Big Luther Strange.


30 posted on 04/10/2017 4:18:23 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (https://medium.com/@Cernovich/here-is-the-full-60-minutes-interview-transcript-with-mike-cernovich-a)
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To: tennmountainman



Arrogant Bentley took Rebekah and her husband to Trump's inauguration

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/jon_rebekah_mason_paying_for_o.html
31 posted on 04/10/2017 4:18:23 PM PDT by salmon76
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To: NRx

Congratulations Governor Kay Ivey!!


32 posted on 04/10/2017 4:19:20 PM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: Impy

Ping


33 posted on 04/10/2017 4:20:21 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: NRx

Sweet home Alabama
Where the sky’s are so blue
And the Governors, false?


34 posted on 04/10/2017 4:38:50 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Is this the old loft with the paint pealng off it?)
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To: NRx; Pelham; Mr. Mojo

Family social media and texting can connect to each other on Apple

Very common

A business friend of mine texted me extolling the talents and delectably of his also married mistress he had just traveled to the Bahamas with

My wife knows his wife and so on

He did not realize wifeys phone and mine are connected via my iPad and her Mini

Man...I am so glad I had not yet responded and said something like go get em or she’s hot or high five or whatever

Wifey walks in while I’m in the tub

She say very matter of fact glaring me down with cobra eyes

I won’t bust him for the sake of both of their kids but his shadow will NEVER darken our door again

Do you understand me honey?

And that’s not honey used in a good way

And that was that

Bentley should know better


35 posted on 04/10/2017 4:42:16 PM PDT by wardaddy (We're gonna have to kill a lot of them eventually which is hard to fathom)
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To: darkangel82

Mark Sanford is a Congressman now.


36 posted on 04/10/2017 4:46:34 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

... he were a democrat, he wouldn’t be resigning or even be asked by the demturds to do so...

If he were a Democrat, this would be a resume enhancer.


37 posted on 04/10/2017 4:49:17 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: Angels27

Yep...this is a flyspeck in the ocean compared to their heinous crimes


38 posted on 04/10/2017 4:56:52 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: NRx

WaPo cheerfully prints this story, but isn’t it odd, they ignore any stories that back up Trump or conservatives?


39 posted on 04/10/2017 5:02:07 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative
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To: NRx
He should have made her Listen to this song.
40 posted on 04/10/2017 5:02:35 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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