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AL governor Bentley resigns, reaches plea deal of 100 hours community service

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Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has won a delay in impeachment hearings that were due to start next week in the state legislature.

He's been fighting in court to avoid facing embarrassing charges that he misused his office to cover up an alleged affair.

Lawyers for the two-term Republican have won a temporary restraining order delaying impeachment proceedings that were set to begin Monday in the Alabama House Judiciary Committee. A Montgomery circuit judge granted Bentley more time to respond to the allegations.

The last-minute legal maneuvers come amid a damaging report released by the panel's special counsel, Jack Sharman. It lays out in sometimes sordid detail an extra-marital relationship between the 74-year-old Bentley and political advisor Rebekah Caldwell Mason.

The report accuses him of using state resources, including law enforcement, to hide the affair and protect his reputation, "in a process characterized by increasing obsession and paranoia."

"Governor Bentley's loyalty shifted from the State of Alabama to himself," Sharman wrote in an executive summary. He said Bentley "encouraged an atmosphere of intimidation" to ensure the silence of his staff.
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Earlier Friday, Bentley appeared in a hastily called news conference on the steps of the Alabama Capitol. He apologized for letting the people of Alabama down, but rejected calls from GOP legislative leaders to step down.

"I do not plan to resign," he said. "I have done nothing illegal."

Political pressure for him to resign has been growing since tape recordings were released in 2016 of him making sexually suggestive comments to Mason. Both were married at the time.

Dianne Bentley later filed for divorce. The report says her suspicions of an affair were confirmed when Bentley mistakenly sent his wife a text that read "I love you Rebekah" with a red-rose emoji.
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Savitar

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So was he one of those cheating Republicans who claimed he ran for moral beliefs and to be a good pure Christian with family values, I swear it's always them.
 
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Brakke

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Bentley mistakenly sent his wife a text that read "I love you Rebekah" with a red-rose emoji.​

Aww. Old people can keep up with the times.

I hope his whole text history gets revealed and we find some eggplants.
 
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Cimarron

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"I love you Rebekah" with a red-rose emoji.
🤣

This reminds me of the Mass Effect gamerpoop.

I love you Ash. Miranda. Dammit!
 
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Vanillalite

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Brakke said:
Bentley mistakenly sent his wife a text that read "I love you Rebekah" with a red-rose emoji.​

Aww. Old people can keep up with the times.

I hope his whole text history gets revealed and we find some eggplants.
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When you have to bring home flowers to your wife cause you accidentally texted her instead of your side bae.

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But Friday’s 112-page report plus exhibits, commissioned by the state’s House Judiciary Committee, was so chock full of gems it practically overwhelmed the state’s newspaper sites and political blogs, which brimmed with examples of the technologically inept governor’s forgetting to use his “Rebekah phone” instead of his government-issue device and more than once sending his wife, Dianne, text messages filigreed with rose emojis saying “I love you, Rebekah.” There were even ready-for-primetime memes: “Bless our hearts. And other parts.”
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/alabama-governor-bentley-scandal-coverup-215010
 
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Mason, a former Miss Alabama contestant, ex-television reporter and communications consultant, resigned last year. But her husband of nearly 20 years, Jon Mason, still has his job as director of Bentley’s Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives. Both accompanied Bentley to President Trump’s inauguration in January.
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Ooof.
 
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Random Painted HIghway

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The most bizarre aspect for me is how the husband of the mistress went to the trump inauguration with both of them. Have some self respect dude. Unless this is an open relationship that heretofore even the luv gov won't admit to screwing his mistress.
 
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Savitar said:
So was he one of those cheating Republicans who claimed he ran for moral beliefs and to be a good pure Christian with family values, I swear it's always them.
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Of course he was. He's also one of those "I won't take a salary" types but then funneled like $400,000 to his mistress.

Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, indeed.
 
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Atomic Playboy

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I love you Rebekah.
Who's Rebekah?
Sorry, damn autocorrect! I was trying to type turtledove.
And those pictures of your penis?
Autocorrect.
 
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norm9

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her suspicions of an affair were confirmed when Bentley mistakenly sent his wife a text that read "I love you Rebekah" with a red-rose emoji.
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Measure twice before you cut, you old dog.
 
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bndadm

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Local WAFF reported he has resigned. No idea if this means he gets away with all that taxpayer fund fraud. Probably will. Good riddance useless sob.
 
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GhaleonEB

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Stinkles said:
Take a shot for every time he mentioned jesus and personal responsibility.
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Already too late.

Bentley, a former Baptist deacon, used the language of his religion during his Friday public appearance, acknowledging "personal struggles" and asking for prayer.

"I asked God to take these struggles and to help me carry these burdens," he said. "And I found freedom in that."
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Rentahamster

Rentahamster

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Good thing god's around to bail out any personal moral problems and prevent any further self introspection! Isn't this the same dude who said he wouldn't vote for Trump because of Tump's moral failure? That's hilarious.
 
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norm9

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God is an evil mofo. Makes you do stupid ass shit and then you look to him for guidance afterwards. Like one of my childhood best friends always getting me in trouble.
 
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Lonestar

I joined for Erin Brockovich discussion
Wasn't sure if there was a topic on all of this, but lulz

A nice breakdown of all the hidden little gems from 3000 pages of evidence

I think my favorite bit, is where he didn't like using an ipad for speeches (rather have paper), so he gave his Ipad to his (now ex)wife. He doesn't even realize the Cloud pushes all text's to the accounts devices, so little love texts to the mistress on his iphone gets pushed to the Ipad his wife has. :lol
 
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BoogieWoogie

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"Our governor has been arrested for corruption and is currently bringing shame to our state....better keep voting Republican though."
 
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Borgnine

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I honestly didn't know it was possible for a 74 year old man to have an affair. Was it like just an emoji affair?
 
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