Alabama Attorney General Troy King Prepares to Resign?
July 9th, 2008 |
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A spokesperson for Alabama Governor Bob Riley denied that Attorney General Troy King is preparing to resign in the wake of a massive rumor campaign that has yet to be fully confirmed. The word is, according to multiple sources in Montgomery and elsewhere, that King was recently caught by his wife in a gay affair with a male aide and banished from his home.
According to Tara Hutchison in the executive office of the governor they have heard of no plans in the works for King’s resignation. She said she had not heard that he had been kicked out of his home because of a gay affair.
Governor Bob Riley’s press office had refused to return multiple phone calls from this independent press outlet even though some sources accuse Riley of perpetrating the leak. The attorney general’s press office also declined to return phone calls seeking comment.
The Locust Fork News and Journal heard about this a couple of weeks ago from a Montgomery lawyer, and have had numerous contacts with people trying to confirm the truth of the rumor.
Troy Robin King, according to his profile on Wikipedia, previously served as an Assistant Attorney General. He was appointed by Governor Bob Riley in 2004, when William Pryor resigned to accept a federal judgeship on an appointment from President George W. Bushy. He then defeated Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson, Jr. in the 2006 election by a margin of 54-46 percent.
King was born on August 22, 1968, in Elba, Alabama. He is currently married to Paige King with whom he has three children; Briggs, Colden, and Asher. He is a Baptist. King received his undergraduate degree from Troy University and is a 1994 graduate of the University of Alabama law school.
During the 2005 legislative session, King made headlines by wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet of the kind used by parolees and others under judicial monitoring. King promised to wear the bracelet until the legislature passed tougher monitoring laws for parolees and convicted sex offenders, and removed it when such laws were passed.
King has made opposition to gambling a central theme of his administration. In 2006, King asked the United States Department of the Interior to deny an application by the Poarch Creek Band of Indians to expand their gaming operations in Alabama. King later filed a lawsuit against the Department to keep it from pressuring Alabama to permit video gaming on Alabama reservations.
King is also a staunch proponent of the death penalty, a position that has subjected him to criticism from death penalty opponents. When many states voluntarily suspended executions during U.S. Supreme Court litigation over lethal injection, King continued to seek the setting of execution dates in Alabama.
King’s support of the death penalty created a controversy when, in 2007, a district attorney in suburban Birmingham supported commutation of the death sentence of an accomplice, in a case where the actual shooter had escaped the death penalty because he was a juvenile. King sought to block the district attorney’s testimony to that effect, and criticized the district attorney. The incident led a wide, bipartisan coalition of local district attorneys, as well as newspaper editorials, to criticize King.
In late 2006, King was forced to recuse his entire office from the ongoing investigation of abuses in the Alabama community college system, when it emerged that he had asked community college chancellor Roy Johnson to hire the mother of one of King’s employees. This request was made while King knew Johnson to be a target of the ongoing investigation. It later emerged that King had, also during the investigation, asked Johnson for community college system financial support for Victims of Crime and Leniency, an advocacy group politically supportive of King. The investigation eventually resulted in a guilty plea by Johnson in the related federal investigation.
In early 2007, an investigation revealed that King had accepted free tickets, food, and skybox access to an Atlanta Braves baseball game from Alabama Power Company the preceding season. Alabama Power had not reported the gifts to appropriate ethics agencies as required, until contacted by a local newspaper. King attended the game in question with his family and family friends. The food bill for the outing was over $1,200, and the skybox normally rented for $2,400 a day.
Because King, as Attorney General, was legally responsible for representing Alabama Power customers before the Alabama Public Service Commission and other agencies, he was widely criticized for accepting the gifts. King reimbursed Alabama Power for $486 for his family’s food, but did not reimburse it for food eaten by his family’s guests. King denied wrongdoing in the matter.
Later in 2007, Anthony Castaldo, formerly an investigator with the Attorney General’s office, submitted an affidavit stating that King had ordered him to investigate a Birmingham-area judge for political reasons, and later punished Castaldo when a year-long investigation showed no evidence of wrongdoing.
After other investigators took over the case, King secured an indictment against the judge, but the charges were later dismissed.
King was an early supporter of the 2008 presidential campaign of Arizona Senator John McCain. King’s name had been mentioned as a possible gubernatorial candidate in 2010, but we suppose that’s out now…
King was also known for his fight against the sex toy shops in Montgomery. Looks like Shakespeare was right … whoever cries the loudest…
Posted by Loretta Nall
Bob Kincaid has been keeping up with the Sex Toys for Troy King and the erotic asphyxiation death of Reverend Gary Aldridge and he put together this song called “Latex in Montgomery’. It is done to the tune of “Angel from Montgomery” by John Prine and Iris DeMent.
If I’d a knowed that I’d a sent Troy King a Blow-Up Boar Hawg
July 9th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I think this will be the opening of the floodgates for gay Alabama. Everyone down there knows much of the intolerance that state is famous for comes from self-loathing and this is yet another proof. Soon, perhaps a day will come when there will be no elected officials without disclosure of how many times they cheated on their wifes and with what gender. I think this could be a momentous opening of the new gay South! I think all those wackos should come out of the closet with how they have been fucking the people of Alabama up the ass for many years!
July 9th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
I think that you guys are nuts for presenting this kind of crap. I don’t like Troy King either, but we can cry foul for the way Don S was treated and stoop to the same level! We should not be smearing we should be opposing on the issues.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Thank you, Glynn. It has been obvious since Troy “Boy Toy” was in college writing “hate gays” articles for newspapers that he was gay.
He has used his position to kill and to destroy the lives and hopes and futures of an awful lot of people. He has earned his fate!
The big question remains: why did Bob Riley appoint this little rat, who had never tried a case as a prosecutor (if my info is correct) to this high position? (All satire seems inappropriate).
The Locust Fork News has proven again to be the best news souce in Alabama!!!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I called WSFA-TV and asked them if they would be airing a story tonight on Troy King. The person I talked to said that Troy King was getting a divorce and that they would not run a story on a personal issue such as that.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Exposing gay Republican hypocrites is not quite “stooping to the same level” as turning the Justice Department into the political arm of the White House and throwing a former governor in jail, is it Davis?
Besides, wait until you see Thursday’s Montgomery Advertiser and Tuscaloosa News. The question is: What will the Alabama bureau of AP do now?
As I have said before and will say again, it’s a war and no one is safe.
Since they destroyed the Fourth Amendment today in Washington, let them have something interesting to spy on today. If I can’t convince one DC blogger to crash the telecom lobbyist party, maybe someone should be crashing the hog roast at the ATandT headquarters in downtown Birmingham.
If we can’t get the Democrats in Congress to impeach Bush, and since the American press corps only cares about a scandal if it involves sex and reads like a tabloid story, well here it is, boys and girls. Have at it. Juicy as it comes…
Oh, and don’t worry. We’ll get to the Karl Rove story later on, and certainly on Thursday. I’m being told there will be no arrest, but maybe some grandstanding by Conyers at the House Judiciary Committee…
It’s all news to me : )
July 10th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Somebody should fill a law suit because King, as Attorney General, was legally responsible for representing Alabama Power customers before the Alabama Public Service Commission and other agencies, he was widely criticized for accepting the gifts. King reimbursed Alabama Power for $486 for his family’s food, but did not reimburse it for food eaten by his family’s guests. King denied wrongdoing in the matter.
Resignation is an understatement, maybe its not true. I beleived John Tyson, Don Seigleman and the other hunders of Alabama criminal should be the lead people leading this charge. This is a clear example that it is time for change. My first thought is that he will get off or get off the hook if his wife stands on his side. The same thing happened with Spitzer. Enough is enough!
mavd@bellsouth.net
July 10th, 2008 at 12:29 am
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July 10th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Just a note on why Riley might be pushing this rumor. He has always wanted his son to replace him when he leaves the governor’s office. Given the role Rob Riley plays in his daddy’s work, he could be the one pushing the rumor. What is it about the Republicans and the idea of dynasty? Think we will see Jeb as McCain’s VP?
July 10th, 2008 at 8:31 am
He who cries the loudest.
At the University of Alabama (which King graduated law school in 1994), an issue arose during 1992 or 93 over whether the SGA could or should legally withhhold funding from a gay student organization. King wrote a few letters to the school newspaper, the Crimson & White, goading the gay students about the fact that an organization should not receive such funds based on an association of persons who had abnormal sexual inclinations. He ended at least one of the letters with a particularly snide jab: “We’ll see y’all down at the Cracker Barrel.” Obviously a biting reference to the restaurant’s recent well-publicized and criticized (by gays and civil rights advocates) implementation of a policy requiring that employees display “normal heterosexual values which have been the foundation of families in our society.”
I’m surprised that no one in the media has picked up on this prior conduct by King in his early years.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Hey Glynn - It’s THURSDAY…No stories from the Montgomery Advertiser, no stories from the ‘NEWS’, just you. I sure hope that you have your sources to back you up. Political figures are entitled to just about anything and you can say just about anything, but not outright lies that you cannot back up. Check the court cases on line actual malice certainly seems to be what you have posted. Can you say, uh-oh :)
July 10th, 2008 at 9:51 am
The newspapers in Alabama are family affairs and, just like the Montgomery TV news station, may not want to report this until they have to - like now that the rumors that have been circulating for weeks are now out in the open. It may take a national news outlet to get this out all the way.
As for your anonymous knowledge of “actual malice,” you might want to defer to someone who has studied communications law in a BA, MA and Ph.D. program. I have no malice whatsoever against King - or gay people.
And did anyone ever sue Karl Rove for using gay allegations against every opponent in every race he ever ran? Remember Ann Richards in Texas? That’s what the Riley campaign wanted Jill Simpson to dig up on Don Siegelman. In that case, it made no difference if it was true. The rumor was enough.
In this case, there is way too much smoke not to be fire, but in point of fact, I didn’t report that it was true. I reported that it was denied.
If it’s not true, and he’s not getting a divorce because of it, then let him hold a press conference and deny it. Do you think that will happen today? I’d bet the full 12-pack of Yuengling that it won’t happen, because it appears to be true.
I’ve been told a number of reporters have known about this for some time. Let them do their jobs and report it.
Oh, and BTW, have you forgotten that the Republicans tried to impeach Bill Clinton because he got a blowjob from a willing intern? It wasn’t sexual harassment or gay sex.
I should add, in case you don’t get it, that this is not a “family newspaper.” I realize some people in Alabama live in an isolated Baptist world and have never read a national magazine that uses the word fuck and never watch the R-rated channels on cable TV where they say “bad words” and show people in the nude.
Here, we don’t worry too much about offending the sensibilities of those kinds of people. Let them watch Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network. Oh, but on there, they just advocate the assassination of people like the president of Venezuela. Killing innocent people is OK, I guess, but talking about sex is not.
Mark my word. We will get more traffic and comments from this little scandal story than all the interesting work we’ve done here for the past three years. That should tell you what people are interested in, even if they don’t like it…
So no, I am not shaking in my boots this morning saying “uh-oh.”
Watch it play out…
July 10th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Thank you, Glynn. Reporting Troy King’s hypocrisy is most certainly not to “stoop to the same level.” The mindset of standing by with heads bowed and eyes closed has allowed the destruction of our state and country and the dismantling of our rights. This is not an exaggeration; we are no longer free. The people who did this to us must be held accountable–stealing elections, persecuting innocent people, going to war against a country that did nothing to us, using disasters like Hurricane Katrina to refuse to help the helpless and this governmental inaction setting the example to cause our hearts to harden against each other, or voting to confirm that it’s okay to spy on us. These are but a few of the results of our standing by and doing nothing, choosing to look the other way.
Taking advantage of poetic license: “Me always thought Troy didth protest too much.” No surprise here, just another hypocrite brought into the light of day. I do not care if he’s gay–I care deeply about all the gay bashing and other evil deeds the little twit does every day of his life.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Still no call back and denial from Troy King’s press secretary. That speaks volumes. They can’t say I didn’t give them a chance to comment.
July 10th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Also, on a blog policy note, we are not going to publish comments from people who fail to provide a real e-mail address. You can hide your identity for publication if you must, but if you provide a fake e-mail address, that will be deleted as spam…
July 10th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Funny!!! Gay Republican. What hipocrites. Why is that all politicians that are gay are REPUBLICAN!!!
July 10th, 2008 at 11:39 am
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July 10th, 2008 at 11:50 am
I have a neighbor who said to me not long after I moved back to Alabama in recent years that, “There’s no such thing as a gay Republican.”
I had to point out to him that there is an entire caucus in Washington called the “Log Cabin Republicans,” made up of, you guessed it, gay Republicans.
Here’s the link to part of our old blog archives on
Gannongate.
I realize it takes awhile for information to trickle down to the South and Alabama, but maybe it’s time…
July 10th, 2008 at 11:53 am
The gay-hating agenda pushed by right-wing, sex-starved weirdos makes a possible homosexual affair had by an Alabama Attorney General fit for the headlines. I mean, OMG, remember Bill Clinton. Blogs tend to get the 411 before the MSM. I’m waiting for the press conference. “I’m not gay. I never have been gay.”
July 10th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I’m waiting for the “I have an alcohol problem and need rehab” defensive statement that is usually used by busted republicans..that is only if the article is true.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
From Common Sense at Left in Alabama
Montgomery Advertiser yet to confirm story
Sources at the Montgomery Advertiser say that they have been sitting on the story for a couple of weeks. They’re working the story fast and furiously but won’t run until they get official confirmation due to possible exposure to a lawsuit from King. Their sources tell them that Troy King was caught in a compromising situation with a male aide at King’s home by his wife. The Montgomery Advertiser is trying to determine who King would submit his resignation to - is it Gov. Bob Riley? A press release from King’s office stated that he was supposed to be in Mobile yesterday (Wednesday). The Mobile-Register is working the story as well. Other sources say that he’s at Point Clear in Fairhope attending the District Attorney’s conference.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Keep it coming…
I’ve got to head out to the local Thursday Farmer’s Market for some more of that Viagra water melon - before they sell out of it : )
Just posted a comment at the Daily Kos. Apparently, they can’t find out who I am from whois, when my contact links are all over this site. I don’t hide…
July 10th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
AL.COM message boards are lighting up on this. It can’t be long.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
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July 10th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Let them scramble. Maybe the Birmingham Ruse can put that departing Pulitzer boy on it. It would give him a Republican to investigate so he can show up in Washington with some credibility…
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July 10th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Are there any straight Republicans?
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July 11th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Another hypocritical “values” type? I’m shocked, just shocked to DEATH…
July 11th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Been to Daytona Beach for Spring Break for years….meet many of so-called str8 male college students from Alabama only too willing to get it on with another guy, mainly on the beach at night….these guys tell me man-to-man sex is common at their schools but nobody talks about it. Of course good looks and some budweiser lead to these hot times easier! (My first was an “experiment.”) Get over it.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I always thought that Troy King had a gay mouth. And his wife Paige is a real big girl. And all that cellulite is so unsexy. So I can understand how Troy would want to get him some Brokeback style loving from a dude.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:20 am
It is unfair to blame Troy’s anal adventures on his wife’s obesity. I imagine when Troy resigns “to spend more time with his family” his plus-size wife will be at the press conference wearing a red dress.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Troy is so unattractive. He has the whole weak chin thing going on. And his wife does look like a Jenny Craig poster child. Usually gay men have better taste in sexual partners. I really believe these man-on-man-action rumor is the truth.
July 11th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I am shocked at the comments on this page. No matter what you think about this situation please remember there are children involved here.
If you are all going to talk about his wife’s weight, post your own photos. I’m willing to bet one or two of you could use Jenny Craig yourselves. I don’t need her services. (5′8″ and weigh 122) I’ll put my stats out there.
Talking about his appearance won’t do any good either. Instead of trashing a couple we all know nothing about, why not send up a prayer for a family in crisis?
As a member of the media, one thing I’ve leared in my career, 99 percent of what you hear is a flat out lie. The rest all comes out in the wash. Can I go digging in your closet for “dirt”? I sure dont’ want anyone digging in mine.
Yes he is a public figure and a member of the state legislature, therefore held to a high standard. But at this point everything is speculation. Wait until something more concrete comes out before you form an opinion.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Jack Zylman, satire may SEEM innappropriate, but it is very appropriate nonetheless. How do you propose we clown on people who are making a complete mockery of honesty and the justice system in this country?
He probably learned well from Mr. George McMillan.
Even if the allegations or rumors are unfounded, it seems appropriate that ANYONE who discriminates should be paraded, tried and true Butthole Surfer or not.
Down with hate,
BPB
July 11th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
When Troy started working for Jimmy Evans there were rumors running wild that Troy wasa boy toy for Jimmy. It was a long held belief (or common knolwedge) that Jimmy Evans was gay and Troy was his homecoming king. Ah, how the circle completes itself.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Alabama Native, you need to get out more often. Nothing that has been said about Troy & his wife compares to the politics of abomination which calls for capital punishment for homosexual behavior which he has publicly advocated. His wife is a fat beard, & his kids will be scarred for life because of his hypocrisy, not because of this blog and the comments. It’s the closet, Native, not the outing that does the true damage.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Okey-doke! I’ve sent up “a prayer for a family in crisis.” Everything better now? No? Dang! Too bad! It would appear that my prayers weren’t what was needed.
What’s needed is for Troy King to stop lying to himself, his wife and his family (not to mention the people of the Great State of Alabama). That’s where the crisis came from in the first place: his lies about others, about himself. The siutation is only detrimental to his family because he, himself, helped create it with what the lawyers might call “fraud in the inducement.” A lot less praying and a lot more of that “puhsnul reeesponseebilty” the Repiglickins are all the time talking about (but never practicing) might be a good place for Troy to start. With a little disinfecting sunshine, the family will be Just Fine. After all, it’s not like Daddy’s got cancer. Daddy’s just gay. Lots of people are. What they’ll have to deal with isn’t Daddy’s gayness, but Daddy’s hypocrisy.
Is Troy King’s sexuality his fault? Heck, no! Some folks are born homosexual, some are born heterosexual, some are born bi-sexual, some are born transsexual and even others are born asexual. The fault lies in his inabilty to be honest with himself, goaded on by a religion industry that loves to deny science and insists on one-size-fits-all sexuality in a world just chock-full of half-sizes.
The trouble comes, the hypocrisy comes, when Troy’s reality butts (oh, dear: probably shouldn’t have phrased it that way, but oh, well) up against his superimposed hyper-religiosity and mammoth ambition. THAT’S what makes him a pig.
P.S. For the poster above with a fascination for details, I’m a 6′2″, 240 pound blonde, blue-eyed Hillbilly Elitist, recovering Southern Baptist. And I dearly love to satirize hypocrites like Troy King; so much so, in fact, that there’s a brand-spankin’ new Troy King parody I wrote about him over at Loretta Nall’s site right this hyeah minute. M’kay?
July 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
It will be interesting to attend church at First Baptist Montgomery on Sunday as Troy King and his family attend there along with many other Republican (and Democrat)state politicians/candidates for upcoming run-off and primary elections.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
And if all these rumors turn out to be completely false, what then? Will you still stand on your soap-boxes and continue to slam King, or anyone else for that matter in the same situation? Trust me, I’m more out in this world than you sweet pea (and I don’t mean my sexuality).
Who cares what he does in the privacy of his own home? I’m sure your neighbor didn’t make a stink about you and that goat you were with last weekend.
Every indication NOW is that nothing happened in his office. Why would you give a crap? And show me a politician, any party, any state, who doesn’t lie, and I’ll kiss that 6′2″/240 pound FAT BUTT you think is cute! The only reason I posted my stats is because I knew the first thing someone would do is question my appearance; saying I must be overweight or whatever.
Get some education, grab a side of compassion, and please, for all that is good in this world, stop justifying the state of Alabama the “Redneck Capital” nickname it now has. You may have to jump down off your cousin long enough to do it, but I’m sure you could manage.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
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July 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Please give us a report from the church, GumpGal : )
Meanwhile, for anyone who may be “shocked, shocked” at this story or the nature of the comments, I must say this again since there are obviously a bunch of new readers here because of this salacious story, as I predicted.
This is NOT a “family” newspaper. It is not the Hallmark channel. If you have never watched a premium channel on cable TV or read a national magazine like Rolling Stone or visited a Website other than the corporate, chain family news outlets, I can see where some Baptists in Alabama might be shocked. My mother would be shocked. She watches the Hallmark channel and avoids the pay cable and reads mostly Christian books.
But if you really think about it, I’m sure some of these same people watch day time soap operas on network TV. My mom does. I am sometimes shocked at the content she puts up with there. They say “dammit” and “hell” all the time, and some character is always being tied up in a bar somewhere in scenes that can only be described as sadomasochism.
Maybe that’s where Boy Toy Troy goes his ideas? Who knows, but anyone who is shocked at this is living in a naive little la-la-land. I understand why some people want to live there, but sorry, it ain’t the real world. This is it…
July 11th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Well, lookee who’s hollering about appearances! Did I say I was cute or did you think it? Hmmmm? Inquiring minds want to know! I only offered details because you set up the challenge. I didn’t inquire into your motives. For all I know, you’re typing with one hand at this very minute.
Compassion is for the compassionate. Best go back and read that Bible some more. Show me some examples of Troy King’s compassion. As far as I can tell, he’s made a public career out of salivating to execute Alabamians, the majority of whom happen to be African-American people; out of excoriating an entire segment of Alabama’s population for how it has sex; out of pandering to the mouth-breathing, knuckle-walking Religion Industry. I seem to recall Yeshua the Brown-skinned Palestinian Carpenter saying something about repentance being a prerequisite to forgiveness. Did I miss that “forgive me, I have SINNED against you” Swaggart-style press conference Troy held, or did it only happen in the thin, grey settlings between your ears that pass for brains wherever you come from?
Apparently you got too many drool smears on your monitor to read what I wrote: Troy King’s hypocrisy is the trouble, not his sexuality. Do your lips move while you read, too? Or did you have someone read the posts to you?
Look at you with your claims of journalistic credibility citing to an “indication” to support your claims of TroyBoy’s lilly-white sinlessness! Whoo-wee! That’s some integurty, Sparky! Didjew hafta go to journeylizm skewl fer that, or did you just mail in the back of a matchbook, like most of Alabama’s For-Profit Media?
Ain’t it cute: Repiglickins ALWAYS want compassion when it’s one of theirs with the barb under the hide. They trot around squealing that “they’re all like that.” The GHP’s been singing that ditty since Watergate, and they’re still flattin’ the notes.
Since you read slowly, I’ll type this last slowly for you, Alabama Native: I don’t give a tinker’s dam how Troy King or anyone else has sex. His hypocrisy and hate, however, earn him every last bit of scorn heaped on him.
Clear enough for you this time?
July 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Native, it matters because he is the AG and has tremendous power over the lives of Alabama’s citizens. He has promoted a viciously blue-nosed agenda for the rest of us, which it appears he doesn’t apply to himself, whether this particular allegation is true or not. It shouldn’t have taken this to bring him down. Taking money and favors from businesses he might have to prosecute won’t affect the loyalty of this state’s “moral” voters, but this will.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
No Mr. Kincaid, not clear enough. Where does all this anger you seem to have come from I wonder? Are you a repressed homosexual yourself? If you don’t like what King does in office, do something to change it. Campaign to stop his being put back into office, anything other than sit at a computer keyboard and throw insults at him and anyone who fails to share your opinion. I never said I supported Troy King. ON THIS ISSUE, I SUPPORT HIS RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
QUOTE…”As far as I can tell, he’s made a public career out of salivating to execute Alabamians, the majority of whom happen to be African-American people;” END QUOTE
Since King took over the AG office, 10 executions have been carried out in Alabama. Of those 10, 8 were white, 2 were black, and I couldn’t immediately locate the race of one prisoner.
Might want to think (or research) before you speak. “Ind Ize didnz needz-me none of then thare jewrnilizm edjewkatin fer that… jewst a lillel intrenetter.”
And as for flattering yourself into thinking I am at all concerned what YOU look like? Please dear, you offered that, I never asked.
This has been fun though.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Glad y’all are having fun. But check the news page Regional Political Roundup. Roger Shuler got fired from UAB for blogging about the Siegelman case. As I said, it is a war and no one is safe.
I will be writing a column this weekend about Karl Rove’s escape and another about how the telecom immunity spying bill was not about lawsuits. It was about Bush’s friends and funders in corporate land want to take over the Web for their political purposes and the profit motive.
Unfortunately, the newspapers are on the wrong side of this fight. I urge everyone here to call their local newspaper and beg them to join the fight to save our First Amendment rights. Bloggers and craigslist.org are NOT their primary enemy. The enemy is ATandT and the cable companies who want to not only spy on you for the prez, but control what Web sites you get to read.
Now that they know they will not be sued for their illegal participation in spying on us all, it is just a matter of time before they shut this site down.
They have already tried and tried. They broke into my former programmer’s office twice, just like they did Siegelman’s office, and have now gotten to him either with threats or money or both.
I was the one who encouraged Shuler to blog. But I also told him of the risks. The sheriff in Shelby County actually tried to auction off his house because of his criticism of the US attorneys office in Birmingham.
There is way more to this story than Troy King’s sexual preferences. I have no malice toward him and certainly not gay people. I am a liberal-minded long-time journalist who relishes in the freedom of the Web, at least for now.
I am not naive enough to think this will last forever. There are too many powerful people compiling too much money who do not believe in this kind of freedom. I’ve been writing about this for more than three years now, but now the world is finally about to figure this out. I hope it is not to late.
If the site goes down anytime soon, you will know why…
They may try to put me in jail like they did Don Siegelman and Richard Scrushy. They may just try to run me off the road like they did to Jill Simpson.
In any event, thanks for visiting the site and please consider supporting it in some small way. We need all the help we can get to keep up the good fight - whether Troy King is gay or not…
July 11th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
So, Alabama Native, you went from Zero to GayBaiting in precisely two posts. Nice! You’re really letting your bigotry flag fly. Then you use the classic Repiglickin tack of accusing me of “hate.” You must have all the right-wing blowhards tuned right in on your electrick radio box! That’s almost as typically Repiglickin as your Nixonian “they all do it argument.”
By your own admission, it’s still not clear to you why Troy King’s hypocrisy would be fair game. Not his sexuality; his HYPOCRISY.
At the risk of casting pearls before swine, I’ll put it this way for you: what right to privacy does Troy King have? Remember: he’s a Repiglickin. Repiglickins, especially of the Troy King variety, don’t even acknowledge a constitutional right to privacy. That right to privacy arises from Griswold v. Connecticut, which Troy and his ilk all despise for what it led to in Roe. The absence of a right to privacy lies at the heart of his truly bizarre stance (wide?) on the sex toy ban. As such, one can only wonder why you’d argue a right to privacy for a person who says it doesn’t exist. ‘Tis a puzzlement.
Nice to know that Alabama’s getting around to equalizing the state-sponsored murder numbers. Care to address my original point, to-wit: the number of African-American inmates on Alabama’s Death Row and TroyBoy’s odd hunger to get it on with the killing? Otherwise, a nice attempt at deflection.
Sure you asked about appearances. You did it in the form of a challenge, declaring your appearance and defying others to do the same. I followed your lead, for whatever reason you did it. Then you used “cute” in regard to me and “sweetpea” in reference to an indeterminate commenter with whom you disagree (apparently SundaySchoolTeacher), along with references to incest and bestiality. Might want some Astroglide on those closet hinges! That or Gorilla Glue. Not sure which.
It’s OK, Alabama Native. Your brain’s a-swirl with goat sex and cute boys and cousin-humpin’. We get it. You feel sorry for Troy’s predickament. And we know why.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
[...] This time in Alabama? [...]
July 11th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
[...] naturally, he’s on the verge of resigning while rumors swirl around the state that his wife has kicked him out of their home after she caught him schtupping a male aid. Wait, they were in a bed in a house, not a brothel or a public restroom or an alley behind an [...]
July 11th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Ms. Wilson, rather than deferring to someone who has a BA, MA and PhD in communications law you should consider deferring to someone who has a JD. Who like actually practices law.
Chill out. I’m not a fan of Troy but moreover I dislike liberal fanatics who use crude language and lousy arguments to attack their opponents. Have some class, lady.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Your politicians seem to have strong opinions, beliefs and are above the moral majority - but sometimes their sex-scandals are even bigger! Please explain.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Please stop all of this. The olny thing I have to say is we all have secrets in our closet. We all will pay for what we do that is wrong. He is a man, just like the rest of us. Leave it alone and let nature take its course. I believe what you to to others will come back to you. That is wrong or right. We are living in the last days, this is not helping the situtations. Anytime anyone gets a job in Alabama it is about who you know and not what you know. He got the job because of who he knew. His sins are his to pay for. Move on and move forward. If it is true we should be writting letters to get a AG elected that knows his job and will do his job.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Michael, here in America we have these deviant things called “Republicans.” They inveigh against everyone else’s morality, politics and sexuality and then engage in everything they, themselves, condemn.
They proclaim they stand for patriotism and national security and then ignore warnings about terrorist attacks, start wars of aggression and actively work to make America less secure. They laud our Constitution and then work everyday to undermine its civil liberties.
Their fundamentalist churches preach pure unmitigated hatred and spout nonsense about “the end times.”
They call hard-hit Americans who lose their jobs and homes to the so-called “global” economy “whiners,” and work tirelessly to drag women back to the stone age.
When these “family values” Republicans get caught with their pants down, the plead for “privacy” and “compassion,” while at the same time casting their sights about for the next target of their hypocritical outrage.
In short, Republicans are the biggest part of what’s wrong with America.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Michael from Berlin:
To explain that would take a long time. Unless you will accept the fact that the big American contradiction is our Puritanism on one hand, and our inherent perversity bread into us by the combined forces of organized religion and organized corporate capitalism on the other, which have combined and completely taken over the government here.
King Bush, in other words, is sort of like King Henry VIII - only without the guillotine…
July 11th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Oh, and if there are any other lawyers listening, The Nation magazine just joined the ACLU lawsuit against the US on the new FISA bill. The Locust Fork News and Journal would like to join that case, if we could find a lawyer from here to consider it. Whatley-Drake turned it down a couple of years ago. We have already been in touch with EFF in the civil case. They have their named plaintiffs, but as The Nation, we would join that action.
Any takers?
July 11th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Whom ever broke this story at least had the gumption to do so. You think the Birmingham News would have? NO.
And Mr. King is a Baptist- Even Better.
There is a lot of issues to address in Alabama, specifically Jeffco.
Kudos to Locust Fork journalist- this is about our state motto which is
We Dare Defend Rights!. Its time for the legal eagles and lawyers take note of the motto. This has more to do with abuse of power than Gay Rights.
Maybe Troy King should call Sirote & Permutt for representation!
July 11th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Rabid homophobes have no right to privacy if they are caught. Particularly after they use the power with which they were entrusted to harass and demonize people who were simply born different. It’s the thuggery and the hypocrisy that’s on trial here, period, end of story.
Normally I don’t want to know what consenting adults do in private. But when they set themselves as arbiters of what’s “acceptable” sexual behavior (particularly with vicious abandon), they’ve painted a big ol’ bullseye on themselves. Particularly when they get caught violating their own standards. That’s the behavior of a sociopath, and sociopaths should not have any say whatsoever in the lives of others.
So save us your hand-wringing about the children and the “we’re all sinners” bull$#!+. Most sinners I know aren’t haters. If ridicule burst his bubble and forces him to finally look in the mirror, it’ll probably be the best thing that happened to him.
(Completely unrelated persnicketiness: Mr. Wilson: The guillotine wasn’t invented until the 1700s–as a “humane” alternative to botched beheadings. (e.g. it took three strokes of the axe to finish Mary Queen of Scots…blech.) Henry’s executioners used a good old fashioned block. Sorry…)
July 11th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
[...] I have sources too, although probably not as very reliable as those of Glynn Wilson. I can’t verify with anything more than “people I trust have told me,” but it [...]
July 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Restored Comments:
Melissa said:
The Troy Homecoming King and the male aide are the same guy, J.W. Godwin.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
So….was Troy King at church with his family today?
July 13th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
No word from GumpGirl yet. The streets are all quite in Montgomery : )
July 13th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Some comments were deleted accidentally in the process of getting rid of spam … if you saved any of them in e-mail, please e-mail them back to me. Thanks.
Also, the policy here is you have to provide a real e-mail address, or your note will be deleted as spam. We also sometimes edit and delete comments that are a bit off the charts in terms of raunchiness. We don’t necessarily want to get banned by the public libraries of America in thier filtering systems : )
July 13th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Restored comment:
What a bunch of C**p about Troy King. This is the same type smear job the trial lawyers did on Steve Windom. In fact, I hear it is all coming from the trial lawyers.
Come on, do you all really believe this? It is more of “the politics of personal destruction” and it stinks.
Joe
July 13th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Restored comment:
I’m in awe of these posts. I want tickets to the A.Native v. Kincaid smackdown. Sure we have all the same issues here in Utah, Larry Craig is in the next state, but you just cant get mormons to fight like this. If you catch a mormon acting up against us homos all you have to do th shut them up is suggest they are being impolite. They blanch and shut right up, ot stutter and try to explain they don’t have anything against…. Good luck Glynn. As far as I’m concerend you do have a family paper here ans We Are Family, sister.
Rikard
July 13th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
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Skorn said:
I hate guys like this who don’t know how to live in their own skin.
How dare he has a career in politics. How can someone say whats right for the people when he dosen’t know whwats right for himself. Maybe now he’ll get himself a boyfriend and start living. What a dope.
July 13th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Not sure what to say about this one, via Google alerts. Could this be one of Boy Toy Troy’s friends?
Flickr Photos: Troy King
July 14th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Kudos for having the gumption to print this. I heard it from a current Asst AG on Friday at a wine tasting, and we huddled around a TV at 5pm, hoping WSFA would have a story. So far, nobody is willing to step out, but let me tell ya, the Gump is buzzing. All my lawyer friends say it’s true, but we shall see if anyone other than Perez Hilton will print it.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Will they bring back Eddie Curran to do the deed of saying it’s not true? Where’s Brett Blackledge when they need him?
Will he deny it all and try to keep his job?
Will he resign for “personal reasons?”
Stay tuned. You can’t get this kind of information - or entertainment - on TV : )
July 14th, 2008 at 12:49 am
[...] February 2008 King a Queen? July 14, 2008, 4:48 am Filed under: Politics | Tags: 2010, Alabama, Angel From Montgomery, Attorney General, Crimson White, Gay, Homosexual, John Prine, John Tyson, Latex in Montgomery, Locust Fork Journal, Troy King, Wonkette So in further proof that I have successfully stopped obsessing over politics so much, I’ve totally missed this story. Apparently the rumor mill on Goat Hill is churning ahead at full speed. According to various sources on the internets, Alabama Attorney General Troy King is in the middle of a James McGreevey style homosexual scandal. One source says that his wife found him in the throes with a dude and kicked him out of his home. [...]
July 14th, 2008 at 1:35 am
[...] the September 11 attacks were actually a government conspiracy, and Troy King is actually gay. The Locust Fork recently said, as a justification for his original post, that the rumor mill predates the Internet, [...]
July 14th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Edit: One of the Birmingham talk radio stations just called and I will be on the radio at about 10:15-10:30 to talk about this. The producer talked so fast I didn’t catch which one. I can’t pick up any of them here, so I don’t listen. I’ll put a link up once I figure this out…
What I will say is basically that the newspapers and TV news stations in this state have the responsibility to investigate this story, and that King’s office has a responsibility to tell the truth and respond in an honest way.
The producer who called said King’s office is now denying the story. Not sure if that means he is denying being caught in a gay affair or denying that he will resign or both, but it looks like we may be able to bring this entire affair to a head today…
Makes no difference to me one way or another. We are all about a search for the truth here.
But we should remind people that Senator Larry Craig still denies that he is gay, even though he pleaded guilty for his actions in that airport rest room.
A denial does not mean it’s not true. The producer said King’s office just wanted the story to go away, but that’s not going to happen considering how far and wide the story has now traveled. Anyone with basic training in public relations should know that.
Also, since my earlier comment on this was accidentally deleted, I will say again, for the newbies who are “shocked, shocked” at this story, that blogs did not invent the rumor mill. Yellow journalism was the order of the day in the newspapers themselves in the 1800s. Tabloid and gossip columns have been around as long as the printing press. Even before that, the rumor mill in the monarchies of Europe led to beheadings. Watch “The Tudors” on Showtime.
Even before blogging software, newspaper Websites had Web forums. Check al.com to see a lively discussion of this, even if no reporter there has done a story one way or the other.
Radio and tabloid TV shows do gossip all the time. And you must keep in mind one fact. King is a public official and a public figure under the law.
Maybe the trial lawyers and certain Riley Republicans both want King to go. They certainly wanted this story out…
July 14th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Also, I should point out that the whisper campaign may have been an Alabama invention. The Wallace crowd used it a long time ago, and a gay rumor is most likely largely responsible for Wallace’s win over George McMillan in 1982. I know this because I heard the rumor myself in the Baldwin County courthouse, and discussed it with then Birmingham News managing editor Tom Bailey.
And, George W. Bush and Karl Rove learned about the whisper campaign as long ago as 1972 when Bush was here working on Red Blount’s campaign against John Sparkman. Rove perfected the practice by calling Ann Richards a lesbian and getting Bush elected governor there.
Any sanctimonious hand-wringing about this by the Christian conservative crowd should be seen as suspect, considering the rumor mill on Barack Obama. But his campaign knows you can’t go track down every blog on the Web and e-mail list on the Net that passes it around. He just went on TV and denied being a Muslim. Perhaps King should just step down, or do the same.
Hey, I just had a thought. Perhaps this is just another Karl Rove dirty trick? Maybe there is someone Bush wanted King to prosecute and he refused?
July 14th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Which radio station are you going to be on? On my blog you said WAPI but here you said WBRC…a web address please…
July 14th, 2008 at 11:20 am
WERC 960 AM - about to be on now…
July 14th, 2008 at 11:22 am
WERC 960 AM
July 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am
It’s Clear Channel, ’nuff said…
July 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I missed the first part of it. What did they say King’s office had said in response?
July 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am
The news guy said he had a source in the AG’s office who said none of it was true, that King is still living at home.
But it was obvious they haven’t done anything to check this story out except to read the blogs and call me.
How did we get to be the most influential news organization in this state? By fiat, I suppose, since the paper’s are all dying.
And, they have made it clear they only investigate Democrats, not Republicans.
If the radio heads want us to believe they are somehow being “responsible journalists” and we don’t know what we are doing here in blogland, let them get on down to Montgomery and talk to King’s wife? Is she standing beside him today?
And, if King’s office wants to deny it officially, they have my numbers. They’ve had them since last week when I called two days in a row.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
And where are the reporters in the Montgomery press corps on this today?
Check the news page under the regional news to see that the New York Times regional newspaper reporter in Montgomery was off chasing my ivory-billed woodpecker story today, for the Gadsden Times : )
July 14th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
That anonymous political parlor blog where all the Alabama Republicans go to comment anonymously is now “reporting” that King had planned a press conference today in the wake of a planned Birmingham News story for Sunday, according to a Google alert, a story which never materialized.
Do tell…
July 14th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Maybe this whole thing is an orchestrated attempt to take the attention off the story that Karl Rove failed to show up last week to testify in the Siegelman investigation?
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least. I have no plans to do another post or story on this until some news organization in Montgomery does their job to get to the bottom of it - or if King calls me himself to deny it. I will print any statement he wants to make in a new story.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
On the restroom wall in a bar on Chartre Street in New Orleans was written “Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse”. Sounds like hypocrisy can be a pain in the rear. Say it ain’t so.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Sounds like one of those Christians trying to force his ‘beliefs’ on everyone to me. Hypocrite!
July 14th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Just a reminder this the same Troy King who just aweek ago denied that the United Nations REPORT ON ALABAMA Prisons and Justice System were wrong and unjust IT JUST GOES TO SHOW JUST HYPOCRITICAL ONE CAN BE…
July 14th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I should have known all along. He fits the bill. His theory appears to be “Do as I say, not as I do”. GREAT — he will not step down even in the mist of his gay social life with the Repubs backing him wholeheartedly. He has hurt a lot of people with his actions and his party. But strange - the media in some places are supporting him by not allowing something of this nature to be printed. I was told many, many years ago that the same thing happened to GW,Jr.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Your report mentioned on Frank Matthews show on WATV-900AM.
Please check in with Frank at 205-741-WATV. Radio show time:
6:00PM to 7:30PM, M-F.
Neil Vickers at WERC gets confused.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
No, my report didn’t mention it, but Frank should have my number. I have no intention of becoming the radio voice for the cause that “Troy King is gay,” if that’s what y’all want to ask about. If you need a little educatin’ on how the Web and the Net work and what constitutes “responsible journalism,” I’ll talk to you.
WAPI is talking to me now…
While I work on the story of Roger Shuler, let go from UAB for political reasons for blogging about the Siegelman case. Just did a long interview with him for an upcoming story…
It’s a war, and no one is safe : )
Batten down the hatches, Betty. Life will be an interesting ride from now to November, and then January, when perhaps we can start moving this ship of state in a better direction…
July 14th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Talk about a set up job by conservative talk radio by someone who admits he’s not a journalist and doesn’t know what the check list is for sourcing…
The Matt Murphy Show is a joke…
BTW: I was told by the producer, Jonathon Durough, that they wanted to talk to me as a Web publishing expert on how information gets out on the blogs and then into the mainstream news media. Instead he bashed Troy King for all kinds of things, and then bashed me too : )
July 14th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Got a call into Finebaum…
July 14th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
How’s this for a followup?
Other blogs are now reporting that the King press conference to deny the rumors is off, and that his people think the story will run it’s course and die.
But, the blog bench is wide and deep. This just in:
Troy King, Allegedly Outed McCain State Chairman, Was Client of Gay GOP Consultant Killed in Double-Murder Suicide Last Year
July 14th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I’m reminded of a line from the movie “All The President’s Men.” You remember what Ben Bradlee said to Bob Woodward and Karl Bernstein about the truth?
“We don’t print the truth. We print what they tell us…”
So, tell us something, Mr. King…
July 14th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Well, we almost made it to 100 comments here, so it will be interesting to see where this goes in the morning. For now, I’m closing the book on it and saying if he won’t even issue a press release denying it, then the only choice we have is to assume that it’s true.
So sorry to the kids, you know, but that’s politics…
July 14th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Just heard form a couple of new sources on this. It’s all true. Riley knows it. He helped spread the story to make way for Rob Riley, his son, to be Attorney General.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
So the word from Troy Town is, he has a statement prepared, but he thinks releasing it will just give every newspaper and TV station an easy ride to do a story.
If the daily reporters who actually cover this beat have solid sources of information and know it to be true, then a denial would blow up in his face, like it did for Larry Craig.
He thinks he can ignore it and show us that blogs are insignificant, which makes the press even more insignificant if they can’t find a way to do some story on it.
Apparently he was able to get to a certain radio talk show host in Birmingham today and he thinks he can win this on the radio? Without even releasing a press release? By the ultimate rumor mongers who admit they are not journalists and have never read a journalism textbook? Who go on what they “believe,” as opposed to what the evidence shows? Without even reading the blogs they purport to criticize?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Is Matt Murphy like John McCain? He can’t use a computer and has never been on the Internet or the Web? They just print a few things out for him to read in the bathroom?
July 14th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
OK, now I’m told King will hold a press conference at 8 a.m., followed by a one-on-one TV interview on WSFA in Montgomery. Should be a hell of a show.
“I am not now nor have I ever been gay.”
July 14th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Just kidding. Rove defended himself. Check the news page. It’s Yuengling time…
July 15th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Still no denial, and the Republicans in Washington know what that means. It’s true and King is through…
Meanwhile, Bush is trying to hold a press conference, melting down as usual…
July 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
If he’s gay and closeted and in denial, it’s merely his problem. But if he’s gay, closeted, in denial, and using his political clout to dump on gay and lesbian citizens, it’s a public problem.
And, BTW, his wife’s weight is irrelevant to the story, unless she runs for office and uses her position to heap scorn on overweight people.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Agreed. But sort of like talk radio, the comments on a blog fall under the category of entertainment, although news is sometimes broken…
July 15th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
http://www.myspace.com/troykingalabamaqueen
July 15th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
What a Flamer
July 16th, 2008 at 12:04 am
For what it is worth, this could be a rumor started by Sherrie Phillips supporters in Andalusia. King recently brought a Felony case against the Democratic Probate judge of Covington County.
Do a search.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:46 am
[...] under the umbrella of morality. This can be summed up in one word….. schizophrenia. LOL. Article is here. __________________ Jack Kevorkian for President’s Physician: [...]
July 16th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Where is the beef its been a long time since the 9th.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Good question. Still waiting…
May do Finebaum’s show Friday…
July 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
[...] a secret gay tryst with a top aide. Looks like Shakespeare was right
July 16th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Check out the “Sex Police” this week on 20/20. It will feature some of the ridiculous actions taken by this office for the last 10 years. Finally the nation will see what is really happening in this state, hope we all can agree, it’s time to catch up with the rest of the world.
If Troy is guilty wouldn’t his super conservative ethics have him stand in front of a news conference and admit his actions? Or at least deny them?
July 16th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
One would think. Thanks for the tip.
Check the Regional section of the Locust Fork World News page now under Editorials, Columns and Blogs of note for a story in the Lagniappe alternative newspaper out of Mobile. The headline: Media Frenzy on Troy King: The ‘New Journalism’…
The NYT regional newspaper reporters spent the last four days working on it, but of course they can’t say what they are going to report - or even if they are going to report anything at all. It’s policy.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:12 am
There’s a big fight going on over at Wikipedia on the Troy King story. A Montgomery investigator just sent in this link and said to check it often for updates.
The quote from e-mail, not anonymous, but a real name and e-mail?
“Best I can tell, this guy likes boys.”
“There are several other big players in the political scene that will fall soon. One Judge, one running for office, and a couple more. Look for either indictments, or bow outs.”
July 17th, 2008 at 11:28 am
A “Former Reporter” was trying to post the following to the Troy list, but kept getting error messages
One commenter said:
“Way back up there, ‘Think of This’ reported that Troy King was hired by AG Jimmy Evans, who was rumored to be gay.”
Actually, Gov. Fob James hired Troy in his legal office, not Evans. But this does bring up an historical perspective - that EVERY Alabama Attorney General for the past 30 years has been rumored to be homosexual/pedophilic.
The last known hetero in the office was Bill Baxley, and his problems lay on the other side of the spectrum.
BTW, has anybody reported the name of the former roommate/Asst. AG who was spurned by Troy?
Trial lawyers did not author this scandal, but it certainly is true that all lawyers are more focused on what goes on in the AG’s office than say, machinists or beauticians.