
Michael G. Hubbard, the speaker of the Alabama House, in 2014. He was indicted that year on a charge of violating an ethics law, accused of using his positions as speaker and party chairman to solicit work and investments.
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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA — In the state capital these days, anybody who is anybody is either being investigated or being questioned about someone who is.
The chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court has been hit with ethics charges for defying federal courts on same-sex marriage, and could be removed from his seat. The governor, caught on tape engaging in salacious banter, apparently with […]
I lived in Montgomery, Alabama almost 20 years ago and the “joke” was that we elected governors to 6-year terms; 4 years in office and 2 years in the state penitentiary. I see, unfortunately, not much has changed.