re: Discussion of the Machine in Alabama which allegedly controls everything

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And Ivey. Making the former Auburn coach the US Senator and an Auburn grad the Governor of Alabama are just tricks by the super, evil-doers in the Machine to hide their misdeeds.

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At the political level, the Alabama-Auburn rivalry doesn’t matter as much.

Kay Ivey is the “lifetime achievement award” accidental Governor. She got her start in the Wallace era, and gradually got promoted beyond her level of incompetence several times. If not for Robert Bentley’s inability to keep it in his pants….or really him pissing off Spencer Collier and getting his mouth running….Ivey would have never been Governor. She is little more than a puppet.

Bentley pales in comparison to Mike Hubbard…who was recorded complaining about the ethics law he championed and later went to prison for violating.

Alabama has been a one party state going back to 1900. By 2010, the controlling part of the party nominally became Republican. They make sure Joe Reed and his cronies still get taken care of, in return for not making too much noise.