re: Bentley free way to be

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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.

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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.