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Sep 14, 2009
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I've been a bit preoccupied with, uh earning a living, so I'm a bit late in mentioning the additional support former Governor Siegelman is getting...91 former Attorneys General of both parties writing a brief on his behalf. It seems that number grows every time a new brief is filed! Wasn't it 40 or 50 former AG's offering their support early this year? They maintain, and I tend to agree, that Siegelman did nothing wrong in appointing Richard Scrushy to the Certificate of Need Review Board.
Here's my next question: if that's correct, then shouldn't folks be screaming for Scrushy to have the charges against him dropped too? (Though he faces other legal difficulties as well, having nothing to do with Siegelman).
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As I've previously and succinctly commented on this issue, similar behaviors (appointment to positions by donors) are exhibited by presidents and other high-level elected officials.
ReplyDeleteThe most egregiously notable, and well-documented examples were in the previous (G.W. Bush) administration.
The SCOTUS has previously ruled equating money with free speech. (Must be the more $$$ you have, the freer you are, eh? In which case, the poor man is up a creek... without a canoe - forget the paddle!)
Of course, "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." So in this case, more squeak, eh?
Yet I remain serious that this case was a politically motivated prosecution, no matter what the now-resigned-former-prosecutor Alice Martin claims.
So... if there was a "quid pro quo" by virtue of donating money, then G.W. Bush and his fiscal cronies ("my base") should be in federal prison too.
Besides... Scrushy (for whom I have little respect anyway) had previously been appointed by other governors to the same board.
Some other recent political prosecutions include Sue Schmitz of Huntsville.
This is but one case in point which exemplifies in the most despicable manner, the same sort of political paranoia from which Richard Nixon suffered. Remember his "enemies list"?
Seems like everything old is new again.
Go figure...
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ReplyDeleteGovenor Siegelman is a fine man and a good citizen. An example; several years ago while exiting the Alabama Veterans Memorial Park on I-459 in Birmingham I was walking a few steps behind him. Immediatly ahead of him an elderly gentleman was pushing a wheel chair containing an elderly lady. The gentleman lost control of the wheel chair and it veered off the walkway. Govenor Siegleman quickly caught the wheel chair and put it back on the walkway. I thought this story ought to be told.
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