AL Gov. Riley dodging Siegelman & Rove questions gets caught in a LIE!

[L. Coyote]

Run time: 04:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZQWiEkU-0w   Posted on YouTube: June 12, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 12, 2008 By DU Member: L. Coyote Views on DU: 1302

 
Parsing the truth and cleverly dodging the questions with non-denials.

He talked to Karl Rove and Rove told him he would testify, "He told me he would" and
he says he has talked to noone and has not talked to Karl for two years.

Well two years ago was before anyone asked Karl to testify,

Riley just caught himself in his own lies! Either that, or I'm going senile!!!!

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Deja DU: Abramoff and Kark Rove Linked to Prosecution of Ex-Alabama Governor and Campaign Finances
Jun-01-07 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1023111

Choctaws spent $13 million to elect Riley, Senate reports
Phillip Rawls - http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060629/riley.shtml


MONTGOMERY — A U.S. Senate committee reported that disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff told a tribal leader that the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians spent $13 million to elect Gov. Bob Riley in 2002.

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee issued a lengthy report that quotes William Worfel, former vice chairman of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, as saying that Abramoff told him that Mississippi Choctaw Chief Phillip Martin had spent the money "to get the governor of Alabama elected ....."

"It just obviously can't be true," said Jeff Emerson, Riley's communications director. .... $13 million would have represented nearly every dollar that Riley reported raising and spending ...

Riley's opponent this year, Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley, said ... "Thirteen million dollars of Indian gambling money illegally funded into an Alabama governor's race sounds like corruption of the highest level ..." ...

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PAC Gives $300K to Riley, After Getting $50 Million State Contract

Friday, January 27, 2006
PAC Gives $300K to Riley, After Getting $50 Million State Contract
http://alelections.blogspot.com/2006/01/pac-gives-300k-...

Eddie Curran at the Mobile Register has a revelatory piece about Bob Riley's re-election fundraising. According to filings with the Sec of State, a PAC called Alabamians for Technology donated $300,000 in December to Riley's re-election campaign.

There doesn't seem to be any speculation that anything illegal took place, but there sure are a lot of unseemly details.

-- The PAC was formed, and largely bankrolled, by executives who benefited from a $50 million state contract.
-- The PAC was formed on Dec 16, 2005 and just three days later gave the $300K to Riley.
-- The PAC had taken $325K which means the $300K given to Riley accounts for over 92% of the PAC's monies.

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Culture of Corruption Rules!
Hatched by Dafydd - http://www.biglizards.net/blog/archives/2006/06/

Former Gov. Don E. Siegelman of Alabama was convicted yesterday of bribery, according to the New York Times:

After twice telling a judge it was deadlocked, a federal jury on Thursday convicted former Gov. Don E. Siegelman and a former HealthSouth chief executive, Richard M. Scrushy, on charges that they conspired in a bribery scheme seven years ago. ......

At a news conference after the verdict Thursday, the acting United States attorney, Louis Franklin, praised the jurors for holding Mr. Siegelman and Mr. Scrushy "accountable for what they did." ..........

Yup, sounds good. Darned Republicans and their corrupt culture! Will their perfidy never cease? But still, there was that nagging feeling that it was a little odd ........

Having held most of the state's executive offices, Mr. Siegelman once cast himself as Alabama's first "New South" governor. Considered progressive, he was elected governor in 1998 on the promise to pay college tuition for Alabama students with an education lottery.

... the lottery was a huge bust ... a ballot initiative, the ... campaign cost at least $2 million... which Siegelman personally guaranteed. -- defeated,... by a counter-campaign by religious conservatives ... Siegelman found himself suddenly having to cought up a couple of million bucks......

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Therein lies the problem. Helping Siegelman recoup the cost of the lottery campaign was prosecuted as a crime on the premise that a favor was returned. Now return to the top of this post and start a new prosecution.

[raystorm7]

1. Lol...what a slimey jackass.

[masshole]

2. well he did say he "read it in the paper"

right after quoting Rove as saying he would testify and saying he hadn't spoke to him in 2 years, so he's got an out.

Still makes me want to :puke: watching him speak.

[L. Coyote]

5. Quoting Gov. Riley, "He's told me he would" (testify) .... then he hedges

And he quickly back tracks, having already asserted he never talked to
anyone (actually, only that he said such to Don Siegelman years before,
so actually a non-denial in that he may have lied to Don Siegelman).

He only says he never talked to "a prosecutor" about Siegelman.
He said nothing about a prosecutor's husband, i.e. Bill Canary!

This is a classic case study in avoiding the truth!
The truth is between the lines and the not-so-clever parsing.

[Pharaoh]

3. It boggles the mind...........

K&R.......

[bamacrat]

4. Ah my governor, what a wonderous state it is.

Im really not sure as to what extent Riley knows much, Rove and the RNC knew Siegelman had national aspirations and at the height of his term as governor he seemed like a second coming of Bill Clinton; southern accent, charismatic and good at politics. i think Riley was(is) a pawn. I don't understand this state, we are way too poor to ever elect a republicon.

[MelissaB]

7. It's all about religion and abortion in north Ala.

Nothing else matters...

[L. Coyote]

8. Catch 22! Is that why they attacked education funding?

[lala_rawraw]

6. kick and rec

[L. Coyote]

9. "I have made a point for 6 years to not comment on anything regarding that case..."

Hello Governor! "Six years" ago is when Siegelman won the election, and woke up to discover the votes had been switched!

There was no case 6 years ago, unless, of course, the recent accusations are true!!