Scandal-Plagued Alabama Gov Has ‘No Intentions Of Resigning’

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley speaks during the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce Legislative Lunch, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/AL.com, Mike Brantley)
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Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) has “no intentions of resigning” from office, despite the growing outcry from state officials over his admittedly “inappropriate” relationship with his former top aide.

“My intentions are to try to make this state better,” Bentley said in a Wednesday interview with The New York Times. “My intentions are to try to work through all the difficulties that we’re going through.”

The embattled governor apologized in a tense press conference last week for making “inappropriate” comments to his former chief adviser, Rebekah Mason. Bentley insisted that he and Mason did not engage in any “sexual activity,” however.

Mason stepped down on Wednesday, saying that she wanted to spend more time with her family.

The affair allegations now have prompted an investigation by the State Ethics Committee, according to the Times. State Rep. Ed Henry (R) said this week that he plans to move forward with a resolution to impeach Bentley, too.

The 73-year-old governor acknowledged to the Times that the revelations were “a shock to people,” but said his conduct has not been “all that egregious.” Bentley suggested that a fuller account of his relationship with Mason, which he has thus far been reluctant to share, would assuage Alabamans’ concerns.

“I still feel that, in time, all of this will come out, and everything will be exposed,”
Bentley said.

“All I can say is that I think I let people down, and that disturbs me more than anything else,” he continued.

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  1. “I still feel that, in time, all of this will come out, and everything will be exposed," Bentley said. He added; ‘Until then, my thin little lips are sealed. Welp, back to screwing my subordinates!’

  2. Bye bye Guv.

  3. Oh for Christ sakes…I don’t WANT him to resign. I want him to stand RIGHT THERE as a shining example of GOP hypocrisy that I can cite over and over and over and over and over and over and over whenever I hear that Family Values horseshit.

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