Helicopter was sent to fetch Alabama governor's wallet: "I had to buy something to eat"

[Dave_Pease]

I did not request a helicopter. I merely told my staff

Left my wallet in Tuscaloosa
Left my wallet in Tuscaloosa
Left my wallet in Tuscaloosa
You gotta get, you got-got ta get it

[robulus]

@SteampunkBanana

But who takes cash without ID?

Maybe he needed to vote?

[GulliverFoyle]

@robulus

Maybe he needed to vote?

In fairness, though, you can hardly pay for hookers and blow without cash.

[paxsimius]

I miss the old school Republicans. Bill Clements was a Republican governor of Texas from '79 - '83 and again '87 - 91. He drove himself around in a station wagon. He’d oftentimes decide he was done with his work in Austin, load up the car and drive home to Dallas, without telling staff. Sometimes, on the way to Dallas, if he was hungry, he’d stop at a Dairy Queen for a burger. No big deal.

In '95 George W. Bush comes along, and it’s motorcades of black SUV’s. Same with Rick Perry.

I’m sure if Clements forgot his wallet on the way to Dallas, he’d either turn the station wagon around and go get it, or skip the burger and fix himself a ham & cheese sandwich when he got home.

[Nelsie]

His wife is lucky the police didn’t elect to send in a SWAT squad to retrieve it.

[SamWinston]

Alabama already has one former Governor in prison. (A democrat…with a dirty trick Karl Rove connection). And another one republican one that resigned before things got too heavy on the investigation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Guy_Hunt

[nickpheas]

I’m assuming he’s a Demmycrat, rather than a fine upstanding representative of the party of fiscal responsibility?

[KathyPartdeux]

You should never assume.

He’s a Repuke

And a Baptist Deacon.

“Bentley was the 2009 recipient of the Christian Coalition of Alabama’s Statesmanship Award.”

Don’t these things kinda write themselves?

[AnthonyC]

How lucky can it be if it is still there?

[David_Witt]

Maybe he was heading to Flora-Bama for the Interstate Mullet Toss and was afraid he’d be carded?

[anon61221983]

Thank god that Alabama is around to make GA look good. Add SC into the mix, and we look positively progressive (well, as long as you ignore the NW corner of the metro area and much of the rest of the state!).

[NickSay]

It’s good to know we can always count on republicans for moral guidance and fiscal responsibility

[ChickieD]

Oh Alabama, I never regret the day I left you forever

[Trogdor]

Why did the BBC describe the wallet as “lost”? From the context of the article it sounds like he merely left it at home.

[Radoncat]

Looks like Alabama and Illinois have something in common - governors in jail. Four out of our last seven governors has ended up in jail. We also have a recent Speaker of the Illinois House (Dennis Hastert) who has been convicted of illegally moving money between bank accounts which was done to pay off someone he had molested while Hastert was a wrestling coach. Fortunately, he now “acknowledges his transgressions”. There are a lot of really evil bastards in the world