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| Troy King sworn in as Attorney General by Gov. Bob Riley as his wife Paige looks on… |
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
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What a Flamer
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.
Where is the beef its been a long time since the 9th.
Good question. Still waiting…
May do Finebaum’s show Friday…
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?
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.
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.”
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.
Also, for background, here’s a link to an archive of a lot of the gay Republican sex scandals:
Republican Sex Scandals
Yes, yes, yes!! I have googled “2004 Troy U Homecoming King” and the only hit I got was Daniel Steinberg. Is there a link for his employees with bios?
You might want to try that search again, and look at it closer. I’m not going to post the goody here just yet : )
curiouser and curiouser
Troy King is the latest joke of Alabama politics. It is time that he face the techno music and learn what it is like to be discriminated againest; Lord knows he railed againest gays in that UA newspaper from his law school days. Troy being gay doesn’t bother me but his seemingly vitriolic hate for gays, cheating on his wife, and smarmy attitude fires me up. I hope Troy gets banished to the same wasteland where Bill Clinton, Don Imus, Michael Richards, and Eliot Spitzer now roam. Not only does this show his character, so does his lack-luster performance as AG, his overturning a ruling that would have aided the parents of handicap children, and the whole sex toy embarassment.
Have a nice life Troy, and don’t let the door of your office hit you in the ass, your lover will do that later!
…try 2006 Homecoming King at Troy U.
From the beginning, Christians have been persecuted. You people should keep your big,stupid mouths shut. He is a good Christian man and I fully support him. GOD is in control and the truth shall set you free!
I know it’s mean-spirited, but I hope that the Troy King rumors are true. It’s so much fun to see hypocrites go down in flames. What a hateful little man.
But to y’all giving his wife a hard time for being the same size as most of us Alabama gals? Come on, people! How nasty can you get?! As if she and the kids aren’t having a tough enough time right now. Hypocritical politicians deserve whatever they get, but not their families. Be nicer!
I get how some of the comments on here can be made, Troy King lives a publicized life, but some of these things are uncalled for.
“What a hateful little man.”
K Murphy, have you ever actually met T. King?
(besides a random hand-shake at a political event)
I have been following this story on the blogs and the radio stations and internet forums. I am just a member of the public, but I do want to add that in addition to the internet the rumors have been swirling around the state for years that King was gay. (I found out from my friend who works as a bagger at a grocery store and he heard some customers discussing it) I don’t care if he is gay or not, but this affliction toward being gay and surpressing it appears to have affected the legal community in a number of ways.
1. King is very much into “getting” anyone he feels crosses him – even if they didn’t. King seems to be holding some deep-seated anger that is being exerted against anyone that enters into his path. Is the fact that he is unable to be openly gay bothering him?
2. King only employs/hires males or females with a certain look or demeanor. Now, it is great that he also does hire females, but I am told that all of his high level people (with the exception of his deputy) are under 40, thin, brown to blonde hair, light eyes and with a certain naivete that most young males do not have. Evidenced by the following:
Solicitor General – C. Maze (bar states graduated 2003)
Family Affairs division chief – R. Payne (bar states graduated 2004 or 2005)
Executive Assistant – JW Godwin (former Homecoming King)(graduated 2007 or 2008)
Consitutuent director – Peter ? (AG website states he was hired in 2006 or 2007)
Is the Alabama State ethics commission not holding the AG accountable for the people he hires? Shouldn’t the people he place in high level positions have more than good looks padding their resume’?
I don’t know if this story is true or not, but personal revenge and using the merit system to reward your friends and potential love interests should be against somebody’s law. Where is the ethics commission when you need them?
I sat back in August 2007 and listen to this man raise his right hand and swear to tell the truth “so help me God” and lied like a dog. I said then that something was going to happen to this man. Even if it is not true he is going to know how it feels to be lied on and falsely accused. He is so quick to point his skinny little finger at others well he may have four pointing back at him. He deserves whatever falls on him.
So, it is confirmed that Troy is getting a divorce? Anyone have access to the court files to see the reasons?
http://www.troy.edu/news/photogallery/2006/november/04_homecoming/
I saw it. Did you notice the cutline?
If this rumor is true, that caption in incredibly accurate.
Jimmy Evans-gay? That is sooo funny! Do you people have no shame! If you have a problem with Troy King’s policies or the way he conducts business as Attorney General, then stick to facts. Do you really think that if anyone in the media, tv or print, had any evidence or facts, they wouldn’t print it. You say WSFA said they would not air the AG’s personal life? Yeah right! If it would boost ratings they will air it. But the bottom line there is no evidence of this. Troy King’s wife attended church with him 2 weeks ago as well as yesterday. They went to vote in the run-off election together. There is no truth to this.
Just wishful thinking on behalf of those who are mad on other issues.
Brilliant!
From another website…
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6325
Reportedly from the B’ham Ruse…
Godwin started working in the attorneys general office as an unpaid intern last summer, when he was a senior at Troy University. Shortly after arriving in Kings office, Godwin was put on the payroll at $10 an hour. Over the next nine months, Godwin rapidly ascended the ladder. In July 2007, King appointed him as a special administrative assistant earning $39,456 a year. He completed his degree in broadcast journalism in December, and on March 27 was named to his current title of executive assistant, a job paying $57,504 annually, according to state records. “J.W. is an exceptional young man who is the chief aide to the attorney general and who is almost indispens able in terms of the many functions he carries out in this office,” Bence said. Bence said Godwins duties include policy research and constituent relations, and he serves as a liaison between the attorney general and the staff. Godwin travels with King as part of his duties, such as accompanying him to this years National Association of Attorneys General Conference.
If he’s not Troy’s Boy Toy, this sure makes him look guilty.