Sen. Jeff Sessions Embarrasses Alabama
July 28th, 2005What do you know, folks. The Birmingham Post-Herald finally got around to publishing my letter to the editor yesterday on how Senator Jeff Sessions embarrasses Alabama by kissing up to Karl Rove and George Bush.
It’s the lead letter. When you hit the link, you have to scroll down to where it says Your Views and the headline reads, “Sessions embarrassing to Alabamians.”
I also sent the letter to the Birmingham Snooze, the Montgomery Advertiser, the Mobile Register and a few other corporate chain newspapers in the state, where the letter was apparently ignored completely. So much for free speech and press in Alabama. I guess you have to be a good little professional Christian to get a letter published in a Newhouse or Gannet-owned media property in this DOG forsaken state.
How did I find out they published the letter? They actually took the bait and identified me as the editor and publisher of Locust Fork Publishing and included the domain name, LocustFork.Net. So a reader e-mailed me this morning with the following comment:
Tags: Karl Rove
July 28th, 2005 at 10:41 am
Your letter concerning that redneck fool sessions was right on the mark. He makes me ashamed to be from the state of Alabama.
Sincerely.
Oscar Peterson
P.O Box 173
Kimberly, AL 35091
July 28th, 2005 at 11:32 am
Thank you, thank you, Glynn. It’s going to take people like you who are not afraid to be outspoken with issues like this.
I keep wondering if Sessions has been promised his own oil rig or something for him to be so glued to this administration.
July 28th, 2005 at 12:09 pm
Sessions should never have been elected to the U.S. Senate.
Thanks to former Sen. Howell Heflin, a true Patriot, Sessions was never confirmed by the Senate to a federal judgeship in large part because of his racist comments. Now he sits in the Senate where he can peddle his racist Republican views and pander to the ignorant.
He most likely already has his own oil or gas well, Sharron, since he is from Mobile and does everything he can to help the big oil companies destroy Alabama’s beautiful coastline.
While he was a U.S. attorney in Mobile and the prosecutor in some of the Savings and Loan scandal cases, in the late 1980s, I interviewed him for a story and came away totally convinced that he was corrupt. He lost all the cases against developers who had bilked the taxpayers out of millions of dollars when federal savings and loan banks failed after developers defaulted on big time loans. The thing is, he didn’t seem to feel bad at all about losing the cases.
And FYI: Federal Judge U.W. Clemon was called in to oversee those cases, since most of the federal judiciary in Mobile had to recuse themselves since they apparently got free condos on the beach for looking the other way and allowed all those atrocious condos in Gulf Shores to be built right on top of the dune line. Clemon dropped all the charges agianst the developers, saying the feds could not prove “intent to defraud.”
Does that sound familiar? He did the same thing basically in the case against Don Siegelman. It is a pattern with him.
I had to drop my case against Kitty Kelly for stealing my work on the Bush AWOL story because Justice Clemon was about to rule that online publications do not hold copyright protections under U.S. copyright law.
It is hard to find justice in Alabama. Just ask the shareholders of HealthSouth.