Kay Ivey has been officially sworn in as Alabama’s governor and the websites have all officially changed over to Kay Ivey. View it here: http://governor.alabama.gov/
View Robert Bentley’s full resignation speech below.
Robert Bentley has been booked into the Montgomery County Jail.
All of this comes after the Alabama Ethics Commission said last week that they had found reason to believe he committed four crimes, all felonies. On April 28, 2016, twenty-three members of the Alabama House of Representatives introduced HR367 which proposed two articles of impeachment against Governor Robert Bentley. Proposed Article I (“Willful Neglect of Duty”) states that Governor Bentley has “willfully neglected his duty as Governor by failing to faithfully execute the laws of this state and by refusing to perform his constitutional and statutory duties.” Proposed Article II (“Corruption in Office”) states that Governor Bentley has “unlawfully misused state property, misappropriated state resources, and consistently acted in violation of law to promote is own personal agenda.”
