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Tankersley Exit Interview Part 1: Success, collusion, and dismay

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter As a soldier, physician, and man of faith, Dr. Stewart Hill Tankersley holds firm to his beliefs on right and wrong. As he ends his five-year service on the State’s Ethics Commission, he’s convinced there has been progress, but there are still many obstacles to restoring public confidence in … Continued
July 31, 2017

Ivey Administration waylaid by privateers and scalawags

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter Over the past 18 months, political upheaval in Alabama has ruined lives, shattered faith in our institutions and still the stench of corruption hangs around the neck of the body politic like a rotting corpse. Russell Kirk, one of the founders of the traditional conservative movement in America in … Continued
May 8, 2017

New Ethics Chief Has Close Ties to Hubbard

  By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY— There are growing concerns that new Ethics Chief Tom Albritton’s close ties to Speaker Mike Hubbard’s wife’s family, may have figured into his appointment as Ethics Director, and also led to the opinion that would provide reasonable doubt in the upcoming Hubbard trial. A sea of controversy … Continued
September 16, 2015

Hubbard Lobbying Governor Tied to $78 Million Dollar RSA Loan

By Bill BrittAlabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—In Count 13 of the State’s felony criminal indictments against Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, he is accused of representing Robert Abrams d/b/a CV Holdings, LLC., before Gov. Bentley. State Ethics Law, Section 36-25-1.5 prohibits a legislator from representing any person, firm, corporation or other business entity before … Continued
November 11, 2014

The Nexus of Big Business and the Hubbard Affair

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, has been charged with 23 felony counts of public corruption. Many of the indictments stem from Hubbard receiving significant quantities of cash from some of the State’s largest business owners. The indictments issued by the Special Lee County Grand Jury, name Gov. … Continued
October 27, 2014

Hubbard’s Consulting Contract May Be Subject of Grand Jury Investigation

By Bill BrittAlabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—In April 2013, the Alabama Political Reporter, exposed the lucrative consulting contract Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn held with the Southeast Alabama Gas District (SEAGD). Recently, Mayor Mike Schmitz of Dothan and Mayor Billy Blackwell of Ozark both provided testimony to the Lee County Grand Jury regarding their respective consecutive … Continued
May 28, 2014

Hubbard Accepted a Bribe, But Continues to Spin

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter In April, Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard said that he was going on the offense. Beyond his usual blaming everyone from the nonexistent liberal special interests, to the Attorney General Luther Strange and a vast, political prosecution, a la Hillary Clinton, Hubbard is not so much on the … Continued
May 5, 2014

Hubbard: Keeping It In The Family

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Between January, 2012, and September, 2014, Speaker Mike Hubbard received  $12,000.00 a month in compensation from the Southeast Alabama Gas District (SEAGD) for his economic development services. In announcing Hubbard’s position, the company said, the “Board Retains Auburn Network and Mike Hubbard to help market [the] region to site … Continued
December 11, 2013

Hubbard Voted to Pass Bill Guaranteeing His Business Client Millions in Medicaid Funds

By Bill BrittAlabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Speaker Mike Hubbard cast repeated votes in favor of House versions of a bill giving exclusive rights to manage Alabama’s Medicaid prescription drug purchasing to a company that employs Hubbard under a lucrative public relations contract. In a series of eleven YES votes cast on April 23rd on state House … Continued
June 11, 2013

Ethics Chief Approves Speaker Contract

By Bill BrittAlabama Political Reporter Alabama Ethics Commission Director James L. Sumner approved a lucrative contract between House Speaker Mike Hubbard and a company seeking favorable Medicaid legislation, even though Sumner never saw the contract and relied entirely on Hubbard’s verbal characterization of the business arrangement. According to Sumner, Hubbard informed him after-the-fact of a … Continued
June 10, 2013