Monday, August 11, 2008

Alabama Attorney General In Gay Affair?

So with all the chatter about John Edwards, maybe it's time to pull out the heavy ammunition? Take Troy King, Attorney General of the great state of Alabama. This Republican official has made numerous comments on how bad sex toys were and how having a "gay-lesbian alliance" on the campus of the the University of Alabama was an "affront to the entire citizenry of the state".

Well mr/ King apparently has a fondness for gay things in private. According to Huffington Post columnist David Fiderer the story about Kings affair with a young intern consistantly draws "no comment" from King. One can only assure it's a tacit admission of guilt. and consider this in an interview with a local radio show host.

Dale Jackson asked the questions, including one about the 2006 homecoming king of Troy University, King's alma mater. (You can't make this stuff up.) More specifically, Jackson, an Alabama radio talk show host, asked King about the meteoric rise in the career of John Godwin, who started working for King as an intern in 2007, when he was a 23-year-old senior majoring in broadcast journalism.

"Soon, he was on the payroll at $10 an hour, and he quickly advanced from there. As early as July 2007, Godwin was named a special administrative assistant earning more than $39,000 a year. Within nine months of arriving as an intern, Godwin was King's executive assistant, drawing more than $57,000 a year - close to what entry-level lawyers earn in the office." The Birmingham News, July 29, 2008
Read the full story in Huffington Post.

An additional note, Both King and Godwin are seen regularly together at the local YMCA.

1 comment:

Schnitzel_Republic said...

The amusing thing is that most of the nightly news anchors of big "four" towns in Bama...make less than this "chief exec". This chief exec isn't even 25 years old yet (at least from I can tell), and no one is rightly sure what this guy does...that makes him worth mid-50 salary.