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Posted on 4/10/17 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 4/10/17 at 8:52 pm
Alabama residents, we are finally free of possibly the worst governor in alabama history.
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Posted on 4/10/17 at 9:33 pm to AUlock54
Bout fricking time. I was shocked when he got reelected. I knew he was a piece of shite 6 years ago when at a press conference a couple days after the April tornadoes in 2011 the only people he thanked for volunteering with the clean up was "the Baptists"
Posted on 4/10/17 at 9:38 pm to AUlock54
I opened this hoping somebody got a free one of these
Looks like it comes in Tulane green
Looks like it comes in Tulane green
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:29 pm to BowlJackson
He may be a piece of shite as a human being, but he wasn't a half bad governor by southern standards.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 12:09 am to Evolved Simian
He was terrible
Posted on 4/11/17 at 8:09 am to Evolved Simian
Tennessee has mostly good governors lately.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:50 am to GnashRebel
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Tennessee has mostly good governors lately.
Key word being lately. Tennessee has had some historically bad ones as well.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 10:11 am to Evolved Simian
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He may be a piece of shite as a human being, but he wasn't a half bad governor by southern standards
By what standard? What things did he do to make the State better?
This post was edited on 4/11/17 at 10:14 am
Posted on 4/11/17 at 10:30 am to Evolved Simian
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He may be a piece of shite as a human being, but he wasn't a half bad governor by southern standards.
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He was terrible
He was neither. He was simply irrelevant.
He utterly and completely lacked any leadership skill and thus everyone from the legislature on down simply ignored him. His party had a supermajority in the legislature and yet he often had trouble finding sponsors for his bills.
Contrast that with Riley, who had a legislature controlled by the other party and yet got things done or Siegleman, who spent most of his term under federal investigation and still got things done.
He was just a sad old man who, through a combination of luck and a secret pact with AEA, found himself in a position well beyond his ability level. Sadly for him and the state, rather than realizing it, he started believing he was something more than the back row legislator he'd been his whole life and tried to be a player.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 11:35 am to JustGetItRight
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He was neither. He was simply irrelevant.
He utterly and completely lacked any leadership skill and thus everyone from the legislature on down simply ignored him. His party had a supermajority in the legislature and yet he often had trouble finding sponsors for his bills.
Contrast that with Riley, who had a legislature controlled by the other party and yet got things done or Siegleman, who spent most of his term under federal investigation and still got things done.
He was just a sad old man who, through a combination of luck and a secret pact with AEA, found himself in a position well beyond his ability level. Sadly for him and the state, rather than realizing it, he started believing he was something more than the back row legislator he'd been his whole life and tried to be a player.
Great Post. He was irrelevant and ineffective.
Bentley never should've been governor to begin with. Nothing in his background suggested he was going to be an effective governor yet he lucked his way into office.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 11:44 am to FairhopeTider
It wasn't just luck. Those AEA hit smear ads hurt Bradley Byrne very badly and nobody knew Bentley was complicit until after the election.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 12:17 pm to JustGetItRight
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It wasn't just luck
Bentley beat James by 200 votes to get into the runoff with Byrne. If Finebaum doesn't spend 2-3 days talking about James' quip about raising Saban's salary, I have no doubt James makes up that margin. The James voters weren't going to vote for Byrne so they consolidated behind Bentley. Bentley never had to run a serious campaign after that.
What you said is certainly true, but there was some luck involved.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 4:56 pm to BowlJackson
It doesn't surprise me to find out that this corrupt politician went to alabama.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 5:43 pm to AUlock54
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It doesn't surprise me to find out that this corrupt politician went to alabama.
Just like it doesn't surprise anyone that a former Auburn SID, as well as former owner of Auburn sports media rights left his job as House Speaker for a prison cell.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 5:46 pm to AUlock54
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Alabama residents, we are finally free of possibly the worst governor in alabama history.
There's mile long list of worst Govnas in Alabama, don't know why Bentley would be the worst of the worst. But I'll go out on a limb and say Guy Hunt or Fob James or George Wallace or Big Jim.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 5:48 pm to JustGetItRight
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e was neither. He was simply irrelevant.
He utterly and completely lacked any leadership skill and thus everyone from the legislature on down simply ignored him. His party had a supermajority in the legislature and yet he often had trouble finding sponsors for his bills.
Contrast that with Riley, who had a legislature controlled by the other party and yet got things done or Siegleman, who spent most of his term under federal investigation and still got things done.
He was just a sad old man who, through a combination of luck and a secret pact with AEA, found himself in a position well beyond his ability level. Sadly for him and the state, rather than realizing it, he started believing he was something more than the back row legislator he'd been his whole life and tried to be a player.
VERY WELL SAID!
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