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Alabama Is In Leadership Limbo, And There Doesn’t Seem To Be A Way Out
So, once again, a special session of the Alabama Legislature is a failure. Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars down the drain.
That should come as no surprise. Most Alabama legislative sessions are a failure, and have been for years.
Heck, even former Alabama Speaker Mike Hubbard, a convicted felon now, would say the first special session in 2010 after Republicans won a supermajority in both the House and Senate is a failure.
Hubbard didn’t at the time, of course. He and other Republicans lauded that special session for passing tougher new ethics laws.
Read more: http://www.alreporter.com/alabama-is-in-leadership-limbo-and-there-doesnt-seem-to-be-a-way-out/