Bob Riley’s war on gambling reached a bizarre climax early this morning when the Alabama Governor’s anti-gambling task force dispatched more than 100 state troopers to raid computer gaming centers at the Victoryland Dogtrack in Shorter, Alabama, and Country Crossing in Dothan near the Florida state line.

According to early morning television news reports, the line of state troopers “was more than a mile long,” but they were stopped at the gates of the country music entertainment compound in Dothan when they failed to produce a search warrant.

Today’s raid is just the latest in the gambling wars in the state that made national news recently when Alabama’s godfather of legal gambling, Milton McGregor, was accused of crossing a legal line when he hired a private detective to follow former task force leader David Barber to an Indian casino in Mississippi, where Barber was spotted winning $2,300.

When that information was disclosed in the media, Barber resigned, so Riley named Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. to lead the task force.

What has not been widely reported by the mainstream media is that Riley has received as much as $13 million in campaign donations from Indian casinos in Mississippi, and that family members and former staff have gotten work through those casinos, which would obviously raise questions about a conflict of interest on Riley’s part.

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Riley Caught on Tape Threatening the Press and Political Opponents

Bob Riley, the Republican Governor of Alabama who fantasized about Senator John McCain picking him for vice president and now has delusions of running for president, was caught in a recording making direct threats to anyone who might expose anymore of his corruption. He also makes a threat against anyone who “gets too close” to his family.

Some of the highlights:

Bob Riley is a political thug, according to the committee to impeach Riley, and has been a threat to Alabama since he took office 7 years ago.

Why doesn’t he want anyone to get close to his families?

-Son In Law Bob Campbell Law Firm Bradley Arant, before Riley took office, billed the State of Alabama just under $7,000. Since Riley has been in office they have billed the State of Alabama more than $4 million.

-His Son In Law Bob Campbell represents both the Indians and the Task Force to shut down gambling and has already spent $1 million of our tax dollars.

-His son Rob also got a $25 Million NO BID contract from Alabama to represent the state in a lawsuit vs. ExxonMobile, which was found guilty by a jury of ripping off the taxpayers by millions of dollars in oil and gas royalties for wells in the Gulf of Mexico.