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How about some postings about Alabama politics.  An elected republican starts impeachment proceedings against a republican governor. The republican attorney general tables the impeachment proceedings. A republican senator gets the nomination for national attorney general. The republican governor appoints the man who stopped impeachment proceedings against the governor to replace the republican senator. 

Is this business as usual?

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What ever happened to Ray Blanton, Tennessee governor......?

 

Oh yeah, Thirty-one years ago this month, former Tennessee Gov. Leonard Ray Blanton was convicted of mail fraud, conspiracy and extortion for selling liquor licenses. He had been exposed as being part of a scheme that controlled or forced kickbacks from Nashville liquor store owners. His next 22 months would be spent in a federal penitentiary.

While most recalling Blanton today remember his alleged involvement in selling pardons, he was never implicated on charges of that nature — although some of his key advisors were convicted in that scheme. He is also remembered for unceremoniously being removed from office three days early in a move then-Lt. Gov. John Wilder famously called, “Impeachment, Tennessee style.”

Keel Hunt, founder and principal of The Strategy Group, will later this year publish a much-anticipated book about the day that had a seismic impact on Tennessee politics.

In 1978, Hunt left his job as city editor for The Tennessean to join the gubernatorial campaign of Lamar Alexander. After winning, Alexander appointed Hunt to the position of special assistant to the governor for research and planning.

For years, Hunt has looked back to the early departure of Blanton and the rise of Alexander and has been in awe of how decisions were made and party lines faded into a cooperative effort to stabilize Tennessee politics. Hunt eventually acted on his sense of history and has shared with the Post a few tidbits of what has happened to some key figures of that era.

Ray Blanton: After prison, Blanton was employed by a Ford dealership in Henderson, Tenn. He attempted a political comeback in 1988 by running for the U.S. Congressional seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Ed Jones. He garnered only 7 percent of the vote in the Democratic Primary. He died on Nov. 22, 1996, and is buried at Shiloh Church in Hardin County.

http://www.nashvillepost.com/h...ment-tennessee-style

jtdavis posted:

How about some postings about Alabama politics.  An elected republican starts impeachment proceedings against a republican governor. The republican attorney general tables the impeachment proceedings. A republican senator gets the nomination for national attorney general. The republican governor appoints the man who stopped impeachment proceedings against the governor to replace the republican senator. 

Is this business as usual?

Is this business as usual you ask, you aren't really into political
history or daily current events, or you wouldn't have to ask that
question. But correctamundo, that's the usual anywhere you go. 
jtdavis posted:

Editorial, Times Daily, Saturday, Feb 11. Also heard it on other news, among which was Rachel Meadows on MSNBC. They are left wing, but usually accurate

MSNBC is about last in the viewership ratings because they are
mainly inaccurate in reporting the stories, this having to do with
with the fact the truth doesn't serve their agenda, at all.....
You want the lefties to be accurate, they are not, because you've
sold your soul to that cult when mommy and daddy told you.
 
So naturally you shouldn't think any other way, you aren't
alone, with Afghanistan, Germany, France, England or even Cuba
to keep you company.
 

My take on it is that Bentley as well as any other Politician that abuses the law or breaks the law whether Democrat or Republican should be tried and if convicted suffer the penalty.   Our last Democratic Governor wound up in Jail and the one we have now should as well, if found guilty.  Additionally it's gone on far too long for there not to at least be some kind of investigation as to whether or not impeachment is warranted.  

Still though to point out Governor Bentley and seek justice in his case yet not care about what happened with Bill Clinton when he was President is a bit hypocritical because the only reason that Bill Clinton wasn't impeached is that the Democrats controlled the Senate and he knew he could survive it.  Bentley is in a similar situation with his party calling the shots but neither makes it right as both Clinton and Bentley should have suffered account of their actions and both deserved to be or have been impeached.  But that's my own opinion. 

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