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The Tennessee Stalker!
A Tennessee lawmaker was arrested over the weekend in a dispute with a neighbor, several weeks after he was arrested for public intoxication.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/tennessee-lawmaker-arrested-again-this-time-for-stalking-and-threatening-neighbor/
Let's hear it for Republican Family Values!
snooper2
(30,151 posts)progressoid
(49,825 posts)If Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Nixon, et. al. still count, so does this guy.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)"OPELIKA Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard is getting ready for his possible arrest in a state corruption probe. Lee County records show Hubbard and his lawyer visited the sheriff's office in Opelika on Friday."
Apparently this investigation has already led to one guilty plea and one other indictment.
Of course, I won't be happy until our Felon-in-Chief Scott Walker's the one in cuffs.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)spanone
(135,632 posts)OPELIKA, Ala. Powerful Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard has been arrested on felony ethics charges, accused of using public office for personal gain. Hubbard was indicted by a grand jury on 23 charges accusing him of misusing his office as speaker and his previous post as chairman of the Alabama Republican Party.
Acting Attorney General Van Davis announced the indictment Monday.
Hubbard says the charges, weeks before the November vote in which he's favored for re-election, constitute "a political witch hunt."
If convicted, Hubbard faces from two to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $300,000 on each count. The charges are latest corruption allegations against Alabama politicians to make headlines. The 52-year-old Republican led the GOP's takeover of the Legislature in 2010, ending 136 years of Democratic control.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-house-speaker-arrested-23-felony-charges-n230216