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'Bama Gov's Son Plans His Own Affidavit
Republican lawyer Dana Jill Simpson's affidavit implicating Karl Rove in the decision to prosecute Gov. Don Siegelman (D-AL) has taken center stage so far in the ongoing story. But now it looks like it might get some competition.
Son of Gov. Bob Riley (R-AL), Rob Riley, told the Times Daily he plans to sign his own sworn affidavit, countering Simpson's claims.
According to Simpson's sworn statement, Rob Riley participated in a 2002 campaign call where a local Republican operative, Bill Canary, said Rove had been in touch with the Justice Department about a Siegelman investigation. Simpson recently told House investigators that three years later Riley told her Rove had gone directly to DOJ's Public Integrity Section, presumably in 2004, in an effort to stymie Siegelman's 2005 campaign.
Comments (9)
Anonymous wrote on October 11, 2007 12:52 PM:Hint. Time to look at the Alabama State election contributions records from 2002-2006. Pay close attention to PAC activity.
Anonymous wrote on October 11, 2007 1:41 PM:Hey "Hint", are you referring to Abromoff PACs to Riley?
moondancer wrote on October 11, 2007 2:47 PM:Sworn affidavit? As in when we find out you lied it's perjury? Cool.
dixiegrl wrote on October 11, 2007 4:58 PM:Mobile Press Register has been reporting on the Seigleman/rove mix up for some time, and given good coverage on how Rove, way back when, early 90's I think, helped Republicans pack the Alabama State Supreme Court.
anon wrote on October 11, 2007 5:35 PM:Rove has been very active in Alabama, was behind the Justice Dept. attacking the Democratic Sec. of State during the election that was 'won" by Bob Riley, who also had been given power to certify the vote results.
Rove's 2nd wife is from Mobile, Ala. btw...
...given good coverage on how Rove...
News to me. Are we talking about the same Mobile Register? Do you have links to any of their articles that mention Rove? (Other than a couple of wire stories from the last year or so and a couple of snitty editorals saying the Dems should lay off Rove.)
Anonymous wrote on October 12, 2007 5:24 PM:Amen to what Moondancer said! Perjury
bushit wrote on October 14, 2007 2:09 AM:would be an excellent development for
the little p.o.s. Riley boy.
Anyone claiming that the Mobile Press, Birmingham News of the Huntsville times which are all owned by one family-Newhouse- has published anything about karl rove as dixgirl claims...is lying.
BoyChimp wrote on October 14, 2007 2:14 AM:For the last seven years ( against best America's Interest ) Republicans have voted in jackboot lockstep with Bush, voted with him 90+ percent of the time, rubber-stamping every intimate wish, such as giving more and more and more tax cuts to the 1/10th of 1% of the richest Americans at the people's expense, doing nothing while Bush ran the most criminal administration in history, and utterly failing to fight obvious and horrendous crime and corrpution in their own ranks, I'm sure Americans will forget all about that in the voting booth and happily vote for more Flag Waving Draft Evading Bible Thumping Anti-American Republicans in 2008.
When will the bush crime family be held accountable for the murder and pillage they unleased.
benny bushater wrote on October 14, 2007 2:16 AM:For the last seven years ( against best America's Interest ) Republicans have voted in jackboot lockstep with Bush, voted with him 90+ percent of the time, rubber-stamping every intimate wish, such as giving more and more and more tax cuts to the 1/10th of 1% of the richest Americans at the people's expense, doing nothing while Bush ran the most criminal administration in history, and utterly failing to fight obvious and horrendous crime and corrpution in their own ranks, I'm sure Americans will forget all about that in the voting booth and happily vote for more Bible Thumping Anti-American Republicans in 2008.