Alabama AG under investigation

Another little idiot is in the fight of his political life, and we're none too surprised.

Troy King, a Republican, is Alabama's Attorney General. King is a major purveyor of the new Rockefeller drug laws against pseudoephedrine, and he also pushed new voter ID requirements designed to suppress turnout and intimidate voters.

King got interested in politics when he was 10 because he thought it was Jimmy Carter's fault his family couldn't go on vacation. Which is bullshit, because he turned 10 in one of the few years that my family went on vacation twice.

My family didn't get to go on vacation the year I turned 10, because of Reagan's recession. So we're even, Troy. In fact, I know folks my age who probably didn't leave the Tri-State basic trading area once during the '80s, thanks to Reagan's excuse for an economy.

In 2007, it was discovered that King had accepted free tickets, food, and skybox access to an Atlanta Braves game from Alabama Power Company. The utility hadn't reported these "gifts" to ethics agencies until a newspaper asked about it. The obvious conflict is that King's job is supposed to be to represent his state's residents, many of whom are Alabama Power customers.

Oops.

A former investigator with Troy King's office later claimed King had ordered a politically motivated probe of a judge.

Now King is under a federal investigation.

It's unclear exactly what the investigation is about, but 6 former members of his staff were questioned by a grand jury last week about their connections to King allies (including one who admitted involvement in a bribery scandal).

Troy King is an attorney general who has consistently proven that he does the bidding of Big Business, not the people of his state. So it's hard for me to trust a word he says.

Of course, his apologists are crying that the probe against him is politically motivated. They really do want me to use the sore loser symbol again, don't they?

(Source: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/03/alabama_ag_reportedly_under_fe.html)