Robert Bentley Proven One of Two LIAR or DUMB AS DIRT

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Mar 17 2015 9:45 AM

MONTGOMERY:     This article is written from my airpad while sitting in the courtroom. The article is from AL.com, but from my airpad I do not know how to hyperlink article. But credit for article is AL.com

RICKEY STOKES COMMENTS BEFORE I POST ARTICLE

Students were at the Alabama State Capital from UAB. And the reason was the decision to discontinue the football team. When talking with Governor Bentley he asked, according to the article, if they had a football team.

This is the same man, Robert Bentley, which lied at Dobb's BBQ about voting on electronic bingo in order to get elected.

This is the same man, Robert Bentley, which lied in 2014 to get re-elected. Bentley's campaign billboard read NO NEW TAXES. Then 30 days from being sworn in a massive tax increase proposal.

Robert Bentley, it is clear: (1) you are a LIAR, or (2) you are dumb as dirt.

What a insult to the students of UAB for you to ask a stupid question as Governor of Alabama and the controversy surronding the football program.

AL.com Article

How loud must UAB yell to be heard? Depends on who's listening

How loud does UAB have to yell to be heard?

Last Wednesday, nursing students from across the state met with Gov. Robert Bentley in Montgomery, with students wearing their school colors. Bentley asked the folks wearing green where they were from.

UAB, they said.

"Do y'all have a football team up there?" he asked, to immediate boos.

Now, Rep. Jack Williams is asking the governor for an apology. He said this week that the governor's comments were typical of the kind of bullying UAB has seen from the university trustees that are supposed to represent it. As governor, Bentley serves on the UA board.

"Governor, I have known you for a long time and I do not believe you are a malicious or meanspirited person - but that remark was way out of line and our students were offended," Williams wrote in the letter. "The students from UAB did not go to Montgomery to be ridiculed by the Governor. I am certain many of them would have stayed home had they known their Governor would make them the butt of a cruel joke."

Even before the 2015 legislative session started, Williams had taken up the mantle for UAB in Montgomery, and this week he intends to propose new legislation to ensure the school gets fair treatment.

With backing from UAB boosters, Williams recently commissioned a poll in the Birmingham media market to test the region's attitudes since UAB president Ray Watts terminated the football program.

That decision touched off blowback from UAB supporters. Watts and the University of Alabama Board of Trustees have since spent a sizable chunk of money trying to rehabilitate their images in the wake of the controversy.

Williams' poll shows pretty conclusively that the public relations campaign has failed.

You can see most of the results in the slideshow above, but here are some of the key findings:

More than 42 percent of the respondents had an unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of Watts.

A majority of the respondents believed that trustees had a hand in the decision to end the football program and that the decision was a mistake.

Strong majorities said UAB should have its own board of trustees and should be allowed to reinstate football.

Perhaps most importantly, more than 80 percent of the respondents agreed that the UAB controversy is about more than football.

So what's the takeaway? Given, the poll was paid for by folks who are all but overjoyed with its findings. But it has all the markers of a legit measurement, and it shows that Watts and the trustees are losing the public relations fight.

Throughout the Conference USA tournament last week, UAB fans repeatedly burst out into chants of "Fire Ray Watts."

They're being heard, even if the governor and the other trustees are being tone deaf. 

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