Representative Paul Lee, Donnie Chesteen, Steve Clouse - WHY ARE YOU IGNORING THE MIKE HUBBARD SITUATION?

Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Mar 02 2015 11:33 AM

MONTGOMERY:    A very important question to the local delegation of the Alabama Legislature - are you going to begin the Alabama Legislative Session with Mike Hubbard as Speaker of the House?

That question is to Representative Paul Lee, Donnie Chesteen, Steve Clouse and Dexter Grimsley.

This Friday the prosecution, which is not to be trusted, filed with the Lee County Circuit Clerk a series of emails reported to be from Speaker Mike Hubbard. Those emails paint a large shadow of dishonesty on Speaker Hubbard. Those emails also point to a partner in crime, former Alabama Governor Bob Riley.

I stand firm that the persons associated with the prosecution like former FBI Agent Keith Baker is not to be trusted. Baker was the lead investigator in the federal bingo trials and is listed as Chief Prosecutor against Hubbard. However, the emails cast a great shadow on Speaker Hubbard and those "yes" men who follow him. Those "yes" men include Lee, Close, and Chesteen.

These men owe the people of this state a honest Speaker of the House, if there is such in politics. The emails case a dishonesty cloud on Hubbard.

On al.com, the following article reads:   jury this fall will determine if Hubbard broke the law. But I do not need the determination of a Lee County jury to tell me that Hubbard has broken the trust of members of the House of Representatives and, more importantly, the trust of Alabamians.

CHARLES DEAN OPINION ON AL.com

Speaker Mike Hubbard: An emperor with no clothes who must step aside

And I do not need a jury to tell me that the time has come for Hubbard to surrender the gravel of the office of speaker and step aside.

One cannot read the stunning series of emails between Hubbard and various powerful and influential individuals - including a former governor of Alabama - and not conclude that Hubbard is not fit to wield the speaker's gavel.

The emails were filed in Lee County by prosecutors who believe they show a man who acted repeatedly in violations of the state's ethics law in an attempt to use his office to make money.

But I don't care about that right now. The jury will sort out if the law was broken. But there is no doubt after wading through those emails that Hubbard lacks the moral and ethical compass to lead the Alabama House.

Time and again the emails show a man who has lost his way ethically. They show a man seeking to trade on his office and its influence for jobs and money. They show a man who helped pass in 2010 a tougher ethics law later lament what he did and in fact cynically scoff at that new law.

And most importantly it shows a man who cannot be trusted to put the interest of the people ahead of his own.

And Hubbard cannot claim that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong, that he could not pursue political power - his well-known ambition to governor -- and dollars at the same time. The man who warned him was once his mentor: Gov. Bob Riley.

"The question now is DO YOU 'WANT' to be Gov. - or - make a lot of money: good thing is you could do either but I am not sure it's possible to do both." Riley wrote Hubbard in a returned email.

Hubbard should have heeded the warning and chosen one or the other. Instead he pursued both.

The irony is that he now stands to lose both.

Many news outlets are now reporting that Hubbard should step aside. Those members who elected Hubbard, Lee, Clouse and Chesteen, should be required to answer to their respective districts why they are ignoring the situation.

NOTE:   Grimsley is a Democrat and not in the majority. In fact, he is probably laughing at the Republican's.

Also Paul Lee works for WDHN. He is normally in the TV station where he sells advertising for WDHN. If Ken Curtis wanted, but he is to scared, he would put Lee on the spot

Is Janie and Charlie Flatt stopping Ken Curtis from asking? Maybe when they all finish lunch at Hunt's today, where they are celebrating Janie's birthday, Ken might man up and ask!!!

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