Governor Security Guy $ 153,000 This Year - Republican State Rep. Calls For Answers
Rickey StokesViewed: 6323
Posted by: RStokes
Date: Aug 31 2015 8:42 PM
ALABAMA: Like John Archibald wrote, there is a lot of smoke surrounding Governor Bentley. For months there has been Montgomery rumors the Governor has been having an affair with a staffer. Several months I wrote an article that Viagra was affecting the Governor's thought process. That was because of the rumors.
Well the bomb shell dropped by Alabama First Lady when she filed for the divorce has caused a lot more smoke.
Now I do not have the proof. But like these articles read below, Alabama deserves answers. The citizens can accept a logical reason for the divorce. The citizens will not accept that Governor Bentley has a staffer and her husband on payroll for him to have an affair.
AL.com article about the Governor Security Detail
The head of Gov. Robert Bentley's security detail made $16,918 in August, thanks to overtime he earned following the governor across the globe.
At that rate Wendell Ray Lewis would pull in $203,000 a year, or about $112,000 more than his annual salary as a state trooper. It pushes his actual pay so far this fiscal year to $153,000, with a month still to go. It's almost fifty grand more than the colonel who runs the Department of Public Safety made in the same time period.
WSFA Article calling for answers
BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) -
The records in Governor Bentley's divorce case have been sealed, and Bentley told his cabinet on Monday that his political enemies are taking shots at him.
Although Bentley didn't directly mention the divorce, he said he won't let "distractions" get in the way of business.
Meanwhile, a state representative from Jefferson County is demanding the governor address rumors surrounding his divorce.
McCalla representative Allen Farley, a conservative Republican who calls Bentley his friend, says the governor must address these allegations so that voters and taxpayers can determine if anything was done improperly by their governor.
AL.com John Archibald
I wish I could tell you the dirty details of a sordid gubernatorial affair.
That would be explosive.
Or I wish I could tell you all the details of a gubernatorial affair have simply been invented by the dirty tricks of powerful Alabamians who want to discredit the governor to hold him political hostage.
That would be explosive, too.
But I can't. There have been claims that both of those things are true. There has been talk for months behind the scenes, on the comments beneath stories, on Internet threads and in bars and coffee shops.
But that's all.
Until today.
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