Wish me luck. We are at the end of the runway. We need lift.
Your many fans join me in wishing you good luck with your
trip and with your case. In a more perfect world, all of this
would not be necessary. The integrity of your case speaks for itself.
The revelations
that Gov. Siegelman mentioned:
He is referring to a post by Roger Shuler, the Legal Schnauzer. In our email conversation last night, Shuler said:
Just last week, an Alabama GOP candidate for governor in 2010 and a former member of Bob Riley's cabinet (Bill Johnson), admitted that Riley received millions of dollars in campaign cash from Mississippi gaming interests in 2002, laundered through Jack Abramoff.
This has long been suspected, but we now have a Riley insider fessing up. It means not only did Siegelman probably have votes stolen overnight in Baldwin County in 2002, but his opponent received millions in illegal campaign cash.
In Shuler's article, he refers to a 2007 post by Scott Horton in Harper's.org that drew a parallel between Gov. Riley and former Gov. Siegelman:
"Moreover, let's compare the allegations against Siegelman with Abramoff's funneling of millions in campaign contributions from Native American tribes in Mississippi into the political coffers of Siegelman's opponentà ‚¬"Alabama Governor Bob Rileyà ‚¬"going on at just this time. In exchange, Riley was expected to intervene to shut down the gambling aspirations of some of his own Alabama constituents. And Riley did just as he was bade to do. Now that's corruption. And what did the U.S. Attorney in Montgomery, who brought the case against Siegelman, do about that? Well, she seems to have actually been a potential actor in connection with the corruption, having secured appointment to a licensing board which would control the question. And her tight links to Siegelman's political nemesis, Riley, are uncontested. She is in fact the wife of one of Karl Rove's bosom buddies, a leading mover in the Alabama GOP, William Canary."
So, how does this all stack up? Shuler explained to me this way:
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