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Robert Bentley
2022 midterms
Apr. 12, 2021
Sex, Trump, and Insurrection: Alabama Republicans Are at It Again
With Mo Brooks winning Trump’s endorsement and John Merrill imploding in a sex scandal, Alabama’s 2022 Senate primary is off to a fine start.
By
Ed Kilgore
politics
Mar. 15, 2021
Will Public Support Save Andrew Cuomo?
He’s fairly popular now, but the record shows men like him don’t easily recover.
By
Ed Kilgore
2020 alabama senate race
June 20, 2019
Judge Roy Moore Rides Again Into a 2020 Senate Race
Everybody’s favorite theocrat and alleged mall creeper is again threatening to wreak havoc on his party’s Senate prospects in Alabama.
By
Ed Kilgore
Apr. 19, 2018
Why Conservative Politicians Love Defending the Confederate Flag
The movement to protect the Lost Cause’s symbols and memorials shows that old neo-Confederate habits still live, from Alabama to the White House.
By
Ed Kilgore
Dec. 15, 2017
Alabama’s Christian Right Has Been Doubly Disgraced in 2017
In Roy Moore and former governor Bentley, the state’s conservative Evangelicals have backed two bad apples from the same basket.
By
Ed Kilgore
Sept. 27, 2017
Democrat Doug Jones Has a Slim — But Real — Chance of Upsetting Roy Moore
It will depend on convincing Alabamians that Moore will embarrass their state.
By
Ed Kilgore
Aug. 14, 2017
Alabama GOP Senate Primary Getting Strange-er After Trump Intervention
Alabama GOP voters likely to vault the wheezing campaign of Trump’s endorsee Luther Strange into a runoff with the grim celebrity theocrat Roy Moore.
By
Ed Kilgore
July 10, 2017
Will Trump Jump Into Alabama’s Crazy Senate Primary?
He could tap McConnell’s favorite Luther Strange or Hannity’s favorite Mo Brooks. Theocrat Roy Moore’s in the mix, too.
By
Ed Kilgore
Apr. 27, 2017
Alabama’s ‘Ten Commandments Judge’ Is Running for Senate
After a bizarre career, famed theocrat Roy Moore wants to go to D.C.
By
Ed Kilgore
scandals
Apr. 11, 2017
Alabama Governor Resigns Over Sex Scandal, Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanors
Kay Ivey has been sworn in as the second female governor in state history.
By
Margaret Hartmann
Apr. 10, 2017
Alabama’s Governor Expected to Resign After Protracted Sex Scandal
Besieged by the legislature and the state ethics commission, Robert Bentley will probably cut a deal to avoid the slammer.
By
Ed Kilgore
Jan. 10, 2017
Jeff Sessions’s Promotion Stirs Pot in Alabama Governor’s Sex Scandal
Governor Robert Bentley could appoint the man who has been investigating his sex-and-corruption case to Sessions’s seat.
By
Ed Kilgore
the south
Jan. 20, 2011
Alabama Governor Apologizes
He didn’t mean to disenfranchise people who don’t believe in Jesus.
By
Dan Amira
jerks
Jan. 19, 2011
Alabama Governor Insults All Seven or So Non-Christian Alabamans
They are not his brothers and sisters, he informs them.
By
Dan Amira
early and awkward
June 25, 2010
Another Candidate Jumps on the Lucrative Vietnam-Misrepresentation Bandwagon
Alabama’s candidate for governor is being criticized for a vague TV ad.
By
Dan Amira