David Bronner on Don Siegelman:

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If you don't live in Alabama you probably never heard of David J. Bronner.
As CEO of Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), he is one of the most powerful men in the state. He's responsible for investing the pension money of every state employee, including all teachers/public education employees, and judges.
We're talking over 30 BILLION dollars in assets.

So when an unelected official with this much clout weighs in on Siegelman, I pay attention.
Especially when he's NOT one of Siegelman's buddies.

" I am not a buddy of former Gov Don Siegelman's staff, who did
their best to harm the RSA and me......"I am convinced that if Scrushy had
been convicted in the Birmingham trial (2002), the case involving the ex-Gov would
never have seen the light of day.

In regards to the others involved with this trial, I have the utmost respect
for U.S. Prosecutor Steve Feaga (I have not met the other prosecutors), as
my son is a prosecutor for the Dist Atty of NYC. On the other hand, I do not
like U.S. Dist Judge Fuller nor does he like me. The RSA had to go through
the entire state court system to prevent Fuller's buddy from ripping off the
RSA. Shortly thereafter, Judge Fuller tried to sandbag the RSA by
preventing our claim (by doing nothing) against the ultimate crook -
Enron!.....Fortunately RSA prevailed....

Siegelman was no different than any other Gov I have worked with or
against! When Feago worked with the state, he allowed former Gov Guy Hunt
to remain out of prison, even though he was convicted of putting dollars in
his pocket. In comparison, Siegelman put nothing in his pocket from
contributions to the lottery campaign. I do not know of any Governor who
did not have third parties pay for TV, radio and newspaper ads on
constitutional issue brought before the voters.

When comparing Alabama to other parts of America, Gov Siegelman was given 88
months (7 yrs, 4 months), while U.S.Congressman, Bob Ney from Ohio received
30 months for bribery, Super Washington, D,C, crook, Jack Abramoff, only
received six years. Politics is a serious full-contact sport in Alabama,
yet I hope the highly respected 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will quickly
restore reasonableness to Alabama."

http://www.rsa.state.al.us/Advisor/2007/Aug07Advisor.pdf

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1. "restore reasonableness to Alabama"

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