The Days of Alabama's 'Luv Guv' Are Numbered
Robert Bentley was booked on a pair of campaign-finance charges Monday afternoon, and resigned soon after.
Updated on April 10 at 7:10 p.m.
The strange, sad saga of Robert Bentley’s governorship of Alabama is over.
The Republican was booked in the Montgomery County jail Monday afternoon on a pair of misdemeanor campaign-finance charges. He pled guilty to both as part of a deal that sidesteps the four felony charges he might have faced. He later resigned, bringing to a close one of the odder sex scandals in recent memory, something like a soft-core porno by Robert Penn Warren.
Impeachment proceedings for the governor were to begin Monday in at a news conference. “If the people want to know if I misused state resources, the answer is simply no. I have not.”
