From oanow.com:

Monday was a sad day in Alabama as teams of federal agents fanned out across the state to arrest four sitting lawmakers, several lobbyists and even a merit-system state employee on corruption charges related to gambling legislation.

The arrests and convictions of numerous public officials is happening much too frequently in our state. If the trend continues, Louisiana, with its long history and reputation for political graft and corruption, may soon look to us and say, “Thank goodness for Alabama!”

Republican officials were quick to praise news of the federal effort to clean up our state government, despite the fact that one of the arrested is a former GOP state senator (who was removed from the party for violating our by-laws) and another a recent party-switcher who decided not to seek re-election.

The Alabama Democratic leadership, in their response, ignored both the alleged corruption and the damning evidence in the indictments and chose, instead, to attack federal prosecutors for the timing and nature of the arrests.

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