Accusation: Rove Targeted Siegelman

By TChris, Section Corruption Cases
Posted on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 01:18:36 PM EST
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The prosecution and conviction of former Alabama Governor Don Siegleman, a Democrat, is believed by many to be a hatchet job that sent Siegleman to prison based on trumped up charges orchestrated by the Republican Party. Adding fuel to that fire is this new revelation:

A Republican "opposition researcher" told CBS former White House aide Karl Rove asked her in 2001 to get compromising pictures of Alabama's Democratic governor. In an interview with "60 Minutes," Jill Simpson suggested there was a campaign to discredit Don Siegelman, the governor at the time who was eventually convicted of bribery. ...
"I haven't seen a case with this many red flags on it that pointed towards a real injustice being done," Grant Woods, a former Arizona attorney general of Arizona and a Republican, told "60 Minutes." "I personally believe that what happened here is that they targeted Don Siegelman because they could not beat him fair and square."

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The fishy smell (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by oldpro on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 01:42:02 PM EST

is getting stronger.

What's to be done?

That's exactly what they did (5.00 / 2) (#2)
by Paladin on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 01:44:32 PM EST

with Bill Clinton (impeachment) and Gray Davis of CA (recall) - abuse the system to rid pols they can't beat. It's a strategy.

Proud of Tammy Baldwin (5.00 / 1) (#3)
by Cream City on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 02:26:43 PM EST

first Congresswoman from Wisconsin, for being one of the first to fight for an investigation of this. And for more background on Siegelman and his record in and agenda for Alabama, see Wikipedia entry.

this is so totally scary to me (5.00 / 2) (#4)
by athyrio on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 02:45:11 PM EST

and my main reason for supporting Hillary Clinton as she is tough enough to fight them...

Scott Horton of Harper's (5.00 / 1) (#5)
by kmblue on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 02:58:37 PM EST

has written extensively on this subject.
Link below:

http://www.harpers.org/subjects/NoComment

That's not all... (5.00 / 1) (#6)
by Lora on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 09:10:21 PM EST

Siegelman believes his election was stolen in 2002:

He describes having gone to bed on Election Night after having been declared the victor by 6,000 votes following the publicly-counted results. But then, he was then awoken at about 4:30am with the shocking news that the numbers had magically been flipped after the all-Republican Election Board in Baldwin County had "re-counted" the results, illegally, by themselves, after midnight.

The price is wrong (1.00 / 0) (#7)
by jimakaPPJ on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 10:31:24 PM EST

"I personally believe that what happened here is that they targeted Don Siegelman because they could not beat him fair and square."

Actually, Alabama wouldn't be worth it.