When it comes to gaming expansion, Democratic leaders say no progress will be made until the GOP loses its strong majority.\u00a0That likely won’t come anytime soon. Republicans control 72 of the House’s 105 seats, and 26 of the Senate’s 35 positions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Kay hasn’t expressed any public positions when it comes to a potential lottery or gaming expansion, though she’s only been in office for 48 hours. However, as a former treasurer of Alabama, Kay is more than aware of the state’s mounting fiscal problem.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump certainly won’t be mourning Bentley’s ousting. During the 2016 campaign, the former governor said he wasn’t going to vote for his party’s candidate in the presidential election due to Trump’s “hot mic” comments made during a taping of “Access Hollywood” in 2005.<\/p>\n
\n“I don’t have a pattern of being derogatory and degrading women,” Bentley said last fall. “I just don’t have that attitude and I don’t think the leader of this country ought to have that attitude.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nBentley later jumped aboard the Trump train after he defeated challenger Hillary Clinton. Bentley attended the 45th president’s inauguration in DC in January, with his alleged mistress Rebekah Caldwell Mason and her husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alabama gaming expansion efforts face a steeper uphill battle following Governor Robert Bentley’s (R) resignation, a staunch supporter of authorizing a state lottery and reducing gaming restrictions. Amid a public scandal that included allegations of an affair with a senior advisor and the misuse of state funds, Bentley, aka the “Luv Guv,” stepped down from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":48280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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