Bentley Scandal in Washington Post

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“She just said things like called me a ‘blogger’, and said you are the most respected columnist in the state you shouldn’t refer to his personal life. I said he’s a public official, I can’t just ignore it.”

Political analyst Steve Flowers recalls what Rebekah Mason said after calling him into the governor’s office last December. He had written a couple months before after the Bentleys’ divorce.

“She took over and berated me for about 15 minutes about it. I felt sorry for him. He was talking bad to me too, but I looked back to see what the column was about. All I said was he may be sorry he ran for governor, and I said ‘he may look older than he is, but he may be sprier than you think’… is all I had written,” said Flowers.

He also says the rumors around the Capitol were already pointing to what we now know. The governor did have an inappropriate relationship with Rebekah Mason. He says lawmakers have lost respect for the governor, and now that the Bentley scandal is playing out in the national spotlight, Flowers says the Washington Post just points out there is even more reasons to poke fun at the state.

“You’ve got a Speaker of the House that would actually preside over a trial who’s got 23 ethics violations, presiding over an impeachment trial over a guy who simply had a relationship with his top political adviser. And you’ve got Roy Moore, who has been kicked out of office for disobeying a Supreme Court ruling saying you can’t put a 10,000 pound monument in the judicial building. They were just kind of making fun of Alabama,” said Flowers.