Heh. But I didn’t exactly say that I didn’t want a helicopter used. My precise words were … “get it to me NOW if you have to FLY IT!”. Maybe.
He seriously couldn’t find someone who’d trust him to repay a twenty buck loan? Maybe one of the state troopers that spends all day standing next to him? Some aide?
But who takes cash without ID?
This isn’t surprising based on the fact that he’s already been criticized for how much he’s flown on private planes.
“I requested a cup of Colombian coffee. I had no idea that they were going to deliver it by private jet! (Though I did specify it needed to be freshly brewed in Colombia and served piping hot.)”
The head of the governor’s security detail – a state trooper – has made so much overtime watching after Bentley that he raked in more money last year than the director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety.
See, this just reinforces my point that one of the guv’s state troopers could have afforded to loan the guv $20 - or in this guy’s case $50 - and then there’s no need to arrange a rescue mission for the guv’s wallet.
I had to have money. I had to buy something to eat.
But you? You on the other hand
You have to have identification.
You have to have your wallet for security reasons.
I believe we have now confirmed that he keeps the launch codes for Alabama’s nuclear arsenal in his wallet. What if Mississippi started making threatening noises while he was on vacation?
Gee, I wonder if he’s a Republican or Democrat? Ha! Just kidding. Of course he’s a Republican, just like Chris Cristy, who commandeered a NJ State Police helicopter so he could get to his son’s baseball game, then refused to reimburse the state for it.
How anyone can still belong to this party, boggles the mind. Doesn’t matter, though. I doubt if it will even exist in 10 years.
Hey, at least as a Republican, with their famous hatred of big government he didn’t get a C130 & fighter escort to get it, so at least there’s that…
I’d say the ratio is about 10 to 1. Then you get to add in the hypocrisy of claiming to be the fiscally responsible, small government, family values party.
Oh, I do that all the time, but in all fairness I send an entire detail of Seal Team 6 to do my bidding.
In Alabama getting the Governorship basically means you get to be boss of the corrupt graft machine until the felony counts come in, but this was the case when they had Dem. governors too (last two Dem. govs. were convicted), the state’s governance has been a model of corrupt dysfunction forever.
Maybe he needed it because he carries his lucky condom in his wallet.
“…over an unrelated sex scandal.” Not entirely unrelated, unless this occurred multiple times–reporting I’ve seen elsewhere reported that he stormed out of the house in a rush (and without his wallet) because he was fleeing an argument with his wife over the affair at the center of that scandal.
Uh huh. I don’t know much about Don Siegelman - maybe he’s cartoonishly awful for all I know - but I have read up on the investigation, prosecution, and conviction of Don Siegelman, and they were ludicrously corrupt and unjust, and nakedly partisan. He was, in the end, prosecuted by the wife of his opponent’s campaign manager, and convicted of having reappointed to a fourth term on the state hospital regulatory board a rich political donor who had, in this instance, donated to a referendum campaign intended to funnel state lottery revenue to the poor.
Here, read Wikipedia on the subject. Obviously, other sources are less carefully evenhanded on the subject.
also… trickle down economy at work!
I have family there, though I don’t pay close attention, maybe it was a setup since there certainly was a lot of partisanship in nailing him. But he was found guilty of trading political favors for money and obstruction of justice, which has been the status quo for governors in Alabama from time immemorial, regardless of political party (the Dems. in Alabama are members of the party, but tend more towards being fairly regressive and fairly conservative Dixiecrats). I was mostly commenting on the fact that political party doesn’t indicate virtue, and that Alabama’s always been run by bribery, graft, kickbacks, and corruption.
