The fact is Kay Ivey likely would not have been touchable at all this election cycle by anyone in the state; her popularity is just that high. People were so ready for Governor Robert Bentley to be gone by the time he finally resigned that Ivey’s quiet and calm demeanor have been a God-send. His failures, personally and professionally, made her one lucky woman who slipped into the governor’s race with ease.
Her luck continued when her primary race was anything but a race. That luck for her however might have cost the rest of us. If she had drawn a true challenge, if her primary opponents had taken the time to do the same level of opposition research that Walt Maddox has started pushing out in the last two weeks then maybe she could have been forced into a debate or at least some have a reason to rethink the direction of her office, the way its been run since her days as Lt. Governor and the way it is being run now.
- Did Ivey and her staff lie to the media and public about her Colorado hospitalization?
- Did Ivey and her Chief of Staff Steve Pelham have a state trooper reassigned for his refusal to lie and/or cover up the events of Colorado?
- Did the governor and her staff purposefully evade public records laws by using personal email addresses for state business while she was LG?
- Are they still using these email addresses?
- Who set up the governor’s fake (alias) email address and when and how much state business has been conducted using said email?
- What budget transfers have been made beyond the transportation to court diversions that the Maddox campaign highlighted today?
