Alabama governor getting divorced ... at age 72

The look on his face after she hung up was priceless.

 

Ah, gotcha!

 

Submitted without further comment: In the comments section of the Al.com story regarding the governor's pending divorce, any mention of Rebekah Mason, former communication director for Bentley and now of RCM Communications is being immediately deleted. She looks a good bit better than the Lt. Governor does.

 

"Thank you, Phyllis."

 

This story is going to blow wide open very shortly. This is a quote from a Facebook post by Donald Watkins, longtime attorney and confidante of former Birmingham mayor Richard Arrington:


"Bentley is having a love affair with a well-known married paramour. We will be publishing articles about this paramour soon. We have an investigative news team looking into the details of this ongoing affair. The results thus far are mind-blowing and far-reaching.

Our future articles will: (a) identify the Governor's paramour, (b) detail how the romance started, (c) expose who knew about the secret love affair inside of Bentley's inner circle, and when they knew it, (d) describe the use of taxpayers' dollars to provide the breathtaking and scenic ambience for the romance between the Governor and his paramour, and (f) disclose the real reason why a state trooper/bodyguard assigned to the Governor was paid nearly one million dollars in base salary and overtime pay and given a questionable promotion to facilitate and hid Bentley's secret love affair."


The bodyguard being paid close to a million dollars was already out there, but the state lege is about to go to a second special session to try to fix a state budget with a $200m budget shortfall. Bentley cannot be re-elected but he's about to catch hell on this one.

Then there's this from the first article - "In today's filing, Dianne Bentley asks for the governor to pay for all debts the couple incurred during the marriage, as well as her attorney fees. She also seeks sole ownership of all property they acquired during their marriage." They've been married fifty years. She worked to help put him through med school. This isn't going to be pretty for the governor.

 

Dr. Dr. gimme the news, I got a bad case of loving you.

 

I started to post yesterday wondering if this was related to the trooper who made out like a bandit with OT pay.

Gov. Robert Bentley protector was paid big, promoted over more qualified troopers

That first emerged when John Archibald noticed that Bentley was flying somewhere an average of 2.5 times per week in a not-particularly-large state.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley soars across the globe, and so do collateral costs

 

6.
Just 'cause there's snow on the roof don't mean there ain't fire in the furnace.

 

Oh. My.

 

Clearly you've never heard her talk. And even if Bentley did anything to earn impeachment, she's the reason it won't happen.

 

Well... Rick Stain would.