A real scandal

[Kaos]

The text messages are hilarious and sad.  This article has more info from several others who are spilling it. 

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/04/hidden_gems_in_3000-page_bentl.html#incart_most-read_news_article

What's even more salacious than the governor's lust for Rebekah, though?  The long, slow, bama loving strokes that John Archibald gives John Hannah repeatedly in this piece.  His true Bammer colors are flying here and it informs the remainder of his alleged "neutrality." 

[WiregrassTiger]

Just think about how much the gov could make posing nude. He's a sexy old man.

Makes me so proud to be an Alabamian.

[The Prowler]

WOTS is that he is "negotiating" his resignation.

Gonna finally happen on Wednesday.

[GH2001]

Gonna finally happen on Wednesday.

It's for the best to be honest. He and this whole thing is just a huge distraction right now and is affecting things.

Real story (not nearly as cool as a BIL STORY) - I attended a luncheon last summer with Bentley. He was in my area speaking about economic development and what not. A good friend of mine is the mayor in phenix city and invited me to tag along. Sure. Why not. Long story short - Bentley was a horses ass. Smug, no wit or charm or personality about him. He was just as kaos described. He was very cold. I didn't see him speak to one person. In fact he got up from the event about halfway through and left, and hopped back on his helicopter or jet to head back to Montgomery. I just thought he was extremely douchey in general. He didn't even try to rub elbows or press the flesh with anyone. Not a very inspiring guy at all.

[Snaggletiger]

Hearing Bentley is being booked in teh Hooskows.

[WiregrassTiger]

It's for the best to be honestly. He and this whole thing is just a huge distraction right now and is affecting things.

Real story (not nearly as cool as a BIL STORY) - I attended a luncheon last summer with Bentley. He was in my area speaking about economic development and what not. A good friend of mine is the mayor in phenix city and invited me to tag along. Sure. Why not. Long story short - Bentley was a horses ass. Smug, no wit or charm or personality about him. He was just as kaos described. He was very cold. I didn't see him speak to one person. In fact he got up from the event about halfway through and left, and hopped back on his helicopter or jet to head back to Montgomery. I just thought he was extremely douchey in general. He didn't even try to rub elbows or press the flesh with anyone. Not a very inspiring guy at all.

Sounds like Snags at an xgate.

[GH2001]

Sounds like Snags at an xgate.

No way. I'm not that full of shit. Snags adds extra pizzaz to his BIL stories. I don't have his level of talent in that dept.

[AUChizad]

http://www.cw.ua.edu/article/2017/04/governor-bentley-impeachment-report-contains-ties-to-the-university?platform=hootsuite

Governor Bentley impeachment report contains ties to the University

The Governor Bentley scandal saga took a dramatic turn last Friday in a report that includes several connections to The University of Alabama.

The submission of the special counsel investigating allegations of improper conduct by Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley contains 131 pages of investigative reports on the actions of Gov. Bentley in relation to his affair with Rebekah Caldwell-Mason. In the report, issued by the House Judiciary Committee of the Alabama House of Representatives, events included detail Gov. Bentley’s use of career law enforcement and state funds to hide his alleged affair.

According to investigators, both Bentley and Caldwell-Mason attempted to obstruct the investigation.

"Governor Bentley directed law enforcement to advance his personal interests and, in a process characterized by increasing obsession and paranoia, subjected career law enforcement officers to tasks intended to protect his reputation," states the report, which was obtained through AL.com.

Cooper Shattuck, former General Counsel for The University of Alabama and former Chief Legal Adviser for Gov. Bentley, was mentioned in the investigation due to his role as a legal adviser; a role which investigators claimed he continued to serve in after going to serve as General Counsel at The University of Alabama.

Shattuck sent emails to the press regarding the Alabama Council for Excellent Government, which was allegedly used to distribute money to Caldwell-Mason’s consulting firm.

In emails obtained by investigators, comments by Shattuck concerning individuals and entities paid by ACEGov to the press were heavily redacted, as were many communications that Bentley’s administration provided for the investigation. Shattuck was involved with Bentley’s office from 2012-2016, while also serving on The University of Alabama Gulf Improvement Project.

Additionally, Bryant-Denny Stadium itself was caught up in the scandal. At the Republican Primary victory party on June 3, 2014, hosted in Bryant-Denny Stadium, Ray Lewis of Gov. Bentley’s staff and Heather Hannah of Mrs. Bentley’s staff discussed the existence of tapes proving the existence of Gov. Bentley’s affair.

Hannah had testified in front of the Ethics Committee stating that she felt Gov. Bentley attempted to intimidate her after discovering the existence of the tapes, which he blamed partially on her.
Their conversation took place in the parking lot of the stadium, where Lewis told Hannah to destroy the tapes.

“I was told that if I had access to [the tapes] to destroy them, get rid of them, make sure they weren’t on my computer, make sure I had no access to them because I could ultimately be in trouble and be punished for having those," Hannah testified. "They felt that I was going to be harmed if I had it. However, as the conversation progressed, I felt that it was more out of protection and loyalty to the governor and less out of protection and concern for me.”

The same day as that conversation, Lewis reportedly told Gov. Bentley that Hannah was “his problem,” a statement which he later told the investigators he made in an attempt to bring the governor out of his obsession with the tapes.

The impeachment report also mentions that Gov. Bentley directed staff at his disposal, including law enforcement, to hide evidence of the affair. The report stated that impeachment served as a check against chief executives whose prior actions had displayed unfit behavior for office.

Gov. Bentley has not yet responded to request for comment on the release of the investigative report.

[GH2001]

 And an auburn gal just took his place no?

[WiregrassTiger]

No way. I'm not that full of shit. Snags adds extra pizzaz to his BIL stories. I don't have his level of talent in that dept.

Well, yeah. But that's all he's got. BIL stories galore. Anything more is like the gov acted.

[Kaos]

Way back when my daughter was in elementary school we went to see Bentley. She was allergic to chocolate and he treated her for that.

[WiregrassTiger]

Way back when my daughter was in elementary school we went to see Bentley. She was allergic to chocolate and he treated her for that.

I didn't know that you could see the governor about that. What about a nut sack rash?

[The Six]

Screw that Bammer philandering asshole.

War Eagle, Kay Ivey.

[Buzz Killington]

I saw you, Lyn Stuart!  Just after the swearing in was over, Stuart hugged Governor Ivey and whispered a War Eagle! in her ear!

That.  Was.  AUsome!

[bottomfeeder]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

[bottomfeeder]

I saw you, Lyn Stuart!  Just after the swearing in was over, Stuart hugged Governor Ivey and whispered a War Eagle! in her ear!

That.  Was.  AUsome!

http://www.telemundoamarillo.com/clip/13238948/kay-ivey-sworn-in-as-54th-governor-of-alabama

[War Eagle!!!]

[Kaos]

I didn't know that you could see the governor about that. What about a nut sack rash?

Why do you think he hired Bekah?

FWIW?  I knew her peripherally too.  She used to be a field reporter at the same tv station where Mason was a weekend weatherman.  She was married.  Or maybe he was.  Or maybe both were. Their affair was not discreet and it caused problems at the station. Unless I'm misremembering the "fuck you" openness of it led to them both getting canned. Made them both unhireable. 

Grossly enough she latched on to Bentley at the baptist church they both attended. She is a straight up manipulative gold digger. 

It would not surprise me in the least to find out that all she did was tease old bob and never went farther than showing him the goodies and whispering about what could one day be his. Using their godliness as the sheild of course.

[Buzz Killington]

Why do you think he hired Bekah?

FWIW?  I knew her peripherally too.  She used to be a field reporter at the same tv station where Mason was a weekend weatherman.  She was married.  Or maybe he was.  Or maybe both were. Their affair was not discreet and it caused problems at the station. Unless I'm misremembering the "fudge you" openness of it led to them both getting canned. Made them both unhireable. 

Grossly enough she latched on to Bentley at the baptist church they both attended. She is a straight up manipulative gold digger. 

It would not surprise me in the least to find out that all she did was tease old bob and never went farther than showing him the goodies and whispering about what could one day be his. Using their godliness as the sheild of course.

I am 99.998% sure that is all that really happened.  Maybe she let him feel her boobies a couple of times...nothing more.  That's going to turn out to be the saddest part of it all.

[GH2001]

I am 99.998% sure that is all that really happened.  Maybe she let him feel her boobies a couple of times...nothing more.  That's going to turn out to be the saddest part of it all.

Vicky valencourt showed me her boobies. And I liked them too.