Alabama Senate is rotten at the top
There is something terribly wrong when two influential senators can lie, cheat and defraud the people without retribution.
As the Scottish novelist Walter Scott wrote over 200 years ago, “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!”
During the last Legislative Session, Republican State Sens. Greg Albritton and Arthur Orr moved to pass bills that seemed at their core to be intentionally deceptive.
Over the course of the 2019 Regular Session, Orr introduced legislation that would have raided the nascent gas tax fund while Albritton sponsored a bill to gut the state’s ethics laws and another one to create a lottery that was a corrupt bargain from the beginning.
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