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Auditor Gets Budget Cut in the Senate

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, March 23, the State Senate gave final approval Wednesday to the 2017 State General Fund (SGF) budget, SB125, passed earlier by the State House. The SGF budget now goes to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R), who can sign it into law or veto it, sending it back to … Continued
March 24, 2016

Vindictive Bill Gutting Auditor’s Office Passes out of Senate Committee headed to Senate Floor

  By Brandon Moseley Alabama Politcal Reporter On Monday, September 14 HB1 (sponsored by House Ways & Means General Fund Chairman Steve Clouse (R from Ozark)), received a favorable report by the Senate Finance & Taxation General Fund Committee Monday. Senate Finance & Taxation General Fund Committee Chairman Arthur Orr (R from Decatur) said, “We … Continued
September 15, 2015

State Auditor Claims He Is Being Punished for Outspoken Conservatism

  By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Friday, September 11, the Alabama House of Representatives passed a budget which raises taxes in order to continue to feed the troubled Medicaid program and avoid the specter of a federal takeover of the long neglected Alabama Corrections System. Most other General Fund agencies took modest cuts … Continued
September 14, 2015

Agencies Describe Dire Consequences of Budget Cuts

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Taking a page from the Gipper’s playbook on Tuesday evening, Gov. Robert Bentley released a memo that outlined the impact of the Orr/Clouse General Fund Budget.(See memo here.) Ronald Reagan once said, “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” For months Bentley has … Continued
April 23, 2015

House Committee Passes Rescheduling of ATF Repayment

By Susan Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee gave a favorable voice vote to HB490. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Steve Clouse (R-Ozark), proposes the 2016 repayment from the Alabama General Fund to the Alabama Trust Fund (ATF) to be skipped, moving the final payment date from September 30, … Continued
April 23, 2015

Candidate Parker Griffith Throws Down Gauntlet After Clouse Revelation

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter HUNTSVILLE—Just hours after the Alabama Political Reporter released a report in which House Ways & Means Chair Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, broke with the Bentley Administration on expanding Medicaid under the ACA better known as Obamacare, gubernatorial candidate, Parker Griffith, released a scathing assault on Bentley and the ALGOP leadership. … Continued
May 23, 2014

Clouse Favors Medicaid Expansion, Says ACA Saved AL Money

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter Chairman of the Alabama House of Representatives Ways and Means General Fund Committee, Representative Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, has recently told media outlets that he favors the expansion of Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more widely known as Obamacare, as long as Alabama’s share of funding … Continued
May 23, 2014

Rep. Clouse Spotted at Lee County Courthouse

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—At least two individuals identified Rep. Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, as being at the Lee County Courthouse on Tuesday. It can be surmised that Clouse was there to either give testimony or speak with Special White Collar Crimes Prosecutor Matt Hart of the Attorney General’s Office. His appearance at the … Continued
May 14, 2014

Who Knew What And When: Wren’s Statement of Facts

 By Bill BrittAlabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY— An investigation of a major political scandal asks the same set of questions: “Who knew what and when.” When considering the recent arrest, conviction and plea agreement of disgraced lawmaker, Greg Wren R-Montgomery, the questions to ask are, “Who knew about the plan to place language into the 2013 House General … Continued
April 28, 2014

Wren Tells Sunday School Class He Will be Indicted

By Bill BrittAlabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—On Sunday, State Representative Greg Wren (R-Montgomery) confessed to his Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church of Montgomery that he would soon be indicted on criminal charges by the State’s Attorney General’s Office, according to sources with intimate knowledge of the events. Wren’s pending indictment may be tied … Continued
March 31, 2014