Alabama Gov. sex scandal getting more and more interesting.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1.

1. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and his top advisor, Rebekah Mason, with whom he admitted having inappropriate sexual conversations, no longer attend First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa, according to a statement from the pastor.

"While church discipline is a church family matter, both Governor Robert Bentley and Mrs. Rebekah Mason are no longer members of First Baptist Church Tuscaloosa," Senior Pastor Gil McKee told Christian News Network on Friday

http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2016/03/gov_bentley_rebekah_mason_no_l.html#incart_river_index_topics

Hmmmm..sounds like they were booted out. Baptists can be pretty severe.
his supporters are NOT gonna be happy about that.

2. Her husband is sounding more like he was bought off to look the other way.

Jon Mason also collects a state paycheck, serving as executive director of the governor's Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, also known as Serve Alabama.

The scandal currently rocking Montgomery has generated serious concerns about Rebekah Mason's high-power position in the Bentley administration and about hundreds of thousands of dollars Bentley's campaign paid to a company owned by the couple, RCM Communications, during the 2014 campaign.

It also raises the question of why Jon Mason, who worked as a weatherman before joining the Bentley administration, was chosen to head up an important taxpayer-funded state agency that controls millions of dollars and is overseen by the governor's office.

The state paid Jon Mason an annual salary of $91,400.08 in fiscal years 2014 and 2015 for his service as head of Serve Alabama, according to the state Department of Finance. He received an 18.7 percent raise between fiscal 2013 – when he was paid a salary of $76,999.92 – and fiscal 2014. He also received $76,999.92 in fiscal 2012, his first full fiscal year working for the state.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/why_does_rebekah_caldwell_maso.html#incart_river_index_topics

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And then there is this:

Rebekah Mason is listed in official filings as the lone officer of RCM Communications, which was paid more than $400,000 by the Bentley campaign between RCM's formation in July 2013 and November 2014 for consulting and polling work, according to state campaign finance records.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/why_does_rebekah_caldwell_maso.html#incart_river_index_topics

[Skittles]

1. family values

hypocrites

[Initech]

2. Governors gone wild! Holy crap!

[rurallib]

3. got to wonder if all those other folks Bentley said he loves

made out as well as these two.
Bet they didn't

[OriginalGeek]

4. "...Baptists can be pretty severe. ..."

True dat. My mom and stepfather couldn't get married in the baptist church we attended. They wouldn't perform a ceremony for divorced people. But after they visited the JotP and got it legalized, the church welcomed them and their 10% tithe checks back.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Shades of Nevada's Senator

Ensign and his Personal Aide and how his Lead Staffer was paid via his Mommie and Daddy to shut his face once a local Reporter broke the story of his affair.

[bamademo]

6. And they have a safety deposit box together.

I wonder what they keep in there?!


[link:http://yellowhammernews.com/politics-2/uncovered-bentley-and-mason-share-secret-safe-deposit-box-in-montgomery/|

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. OH my oh my.....

Thanks for that site!

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. BREAKING: Ethics Commission assigns special agent to investigate Bentley and Rebekah Caldwell

Just came over Twitter.

[bamademo]

9. Alabama has an Ethics Commitee? :-)

He hasn't fired them yet?

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Add that to his screw ups...

Note to Republicans....fire your watch dogs before you act like dogs.

( but the internet will always find out)

[nolabear]

10. Man, the skeev factor in those tapes is off the charts.

[bamademo]

11. Here in Alabama he's known as Guv-nuh Skelator.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Hearing his voice on the tapes is extra plus skeevy.

Guy is 73 and he sounds totally besotted.
No explanation how the tapes came to be, which I find quite interesting.

[LannyDeVaney]

18. His wife recorded them with her cell phone ...

She recently filed for divorce.

Also, there is much more, and much worse. He will resign before it all comes out.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. So it is HER recordings that have been leaked?

Oh wow. Esp. since the divorce papers have been sealed.
I suddenly realize that it is to his advantage to have them sealed, not as much to hers. ( altho proper Southern ladies do not want stuff like that being common knowledge).
Wonder how much it cost him.....

[Wounded Bear]

13. "Interesting" is probably the wrong word....

I'll buy complicated. But not really very interesting. GOPers have a habit of surviving this kind of shit.

They're followers are quite forgiving of their own assholes.

[bdwker]

14. They make a lovely couple.

[bdwker]

15. How old is Mason? How old is Bentley ?

nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. He is 73. she is ...44. Her husband is 44 also. n/t

[vanlassie]

20. Ewwwww.

[bdwker]

30. How can an old guy like that satisfy a woman 30 years younger ?

Picture that in your head.

[msanthrope]

31. It's possible, if the governor is willing to perform acts recently illegal in Alabama. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Maybe the question is how can a woman that much younger use an old guy like that who is a Governor?

As for the age and sex difference, when you are a little older, you may understand .

[BernieforPres2016]

33. She makes about $400K per year being what some are calling the "de facto Governor"

Basically all access to the governor goes through her. She commutes 2 hours each way from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery and is not a state employee. She is compensated as a consultant through some campaign slush fund. Her husband, a former meterologist, is making $90K overseeing some kind of state organization with a paltry $4 million annual budget.

Talk about emasculating!

[LannyDeVaney]

19. Little known fact that tells you a bit about this sleeze ball ...

he had his first name legally changed to Doctor, so it would appear on the ballot.

[bamademo]

21. He is a dermotologist. He's a legit MD and unfortunately attended UA

Ex wife recorded them talking ("his advisor&quot at their beach house while she went for a walk down the beach on her cell. Divorced after almost 50 years. She is a nice lady. Vagina, it's undefeated.

[LannyDeVaney]

22. I know he is a doctor...

but he had his named changed so it appeared as Doctor on the ballots ... Dr. Doctor if you will.

The term Dr. wouldn't show on a ballot. For kicks, read the other name changes in my link. "Judge Roy Moore"

[link:http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/04/state_gop_rules_out_nicknames.html|

[bamademo]

24. They indicted the only good governor we had, Siegleman.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. The committee also rejected requests by gubernatorial candidate Roy Moore

to have his name listed as Judge Roy Moore and agriculture commission candidate Dale Peterson to be listed as "Cowboy" Peterson --
even though Peterson showed up at the meeting in a cowboy hat.

[bamademo]

26. Huntsville, where I live used to be the Capital. I wish they would move it back here.

Munt-gumphrey is a cesspool of corruption.

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. It is 2 hours NE of me, luckily the winds are usually from the SW.

[Elwood P Dowd]

28. Just republicans being republicans

and practicing their good ole' faith based religious freedom......discrimination against minorities, tax breaks for the rich, cheat on their wives, and steal tax payer money for themselves and their billionaire owners.

Let us not forget the Alabama Speaker of The House, Mike Hubbard, is currently awaiting trial for about a dozen felony counts.

[Octafish]

29. Meanwhile, a perfectly good Alabama Governor rots in prison, Don Siegelman.

And he REALLY didn't do anything wrong.

[BernieforPres2016]

34. Also, Bentley's wife of 50 years filed for divorce in 2015

They are now divorced and the records are sealed.