WOW. This Is The 5th Leadership Position In Alabama And Bob Riley's Top Buddy

Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Sep 11 2015 11:17 PM

It is obvious now why Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard wanted motions and documents in his ongoing corruption case sealed.

They are embarrassing.

Or they ought to be.

Hubbard, who has publicly praised ethics reforms Republicans used to usher themselves to power – including those that prevented public officials from lobbying -- asked Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob A. Walker III to dismiss charges against him on a claim that the much ballyhooed ethics law is unconstitutional, and that he, as a public official, has a constitutional right to lobby for money.

Even from his powerful position in the Legislature. Even as an elected representative of the people of Alabama.

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And then the Alabama Legislature is attempting to gut Hubbard/Riley ethics law;

Let's just lay it all out there.

No. 1: Alabama has been named one of the most corrupt states in America by researchers at Harvard University.

No. 2: Alabama's speaker of the house is currently under indictment for 23 felony violations of the ethics law, including illegally lobbying for a fee.

No 3: The Alabama Legislature is now considering a bill that would strike out the language in the law banning public officials from lobbying at all – which some say guts ethics reform and in essence makes it ok for  politicians to sell their influence to the highest bidder.

No. 4: That bill – by Rep. Jack Williams, a Republican from Vestavia Hills -- also would proclaim that contributions to politicians' legal defense funds are not "things of value" under the ethics law, allowing them to solicit money directly from those who would attempt to influence them.

No. 5: The idea of ethics in Alabama may not be dead, but it is gasping for air.

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