re: University of Alabama employees paid high salaries through secretive Systems Office

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Paying a lobbyist 100k a year isn't much of a black eye for the university, really. Assuming that's what the payments were for.

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No, there isn't. Problem is that Flowers isn't a registered lobbyist. There are only a few plausible explanations for paying him. He was an unofficial lobbyist (which would mean he was committing a felony), he was being paid to write stories without acknowledging the relationship (unethical), or it was a do-nothing appointment by someone in power to simply funnel money to a buddy (again, possibly illegal and certainly unethical).

Plain and simple, it's a deserved bad look for the university.