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<\/p>\nHomophobic, Family Values Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to Resign Over Extramarital Affair Cover-Up<\/b><\/p>\n
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Alabama Governor Robert Bentley is expected to resign today in order to avoid impeachment over his\u00a0affair with aide Rebekah Mason and his attempts to cover it up.<\/p>\n
The AP reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n The mild-mannered 74-year-old Republican and one-time Baptist deacon was at peace with the decision and planned to announce it during a Cabinet meeting Monday afternoon, according to the person, who was not authorized to release the information and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n The sex<\/a>-tinged scandal gathered force over the past few days and legislators turned up the pressure by opening impeachment hearings Monday. Bentley had steadfastly refused to resign, even though it appeared he had practically no support in the GOP-controlled Legislature.<\/p>\n Rachel Maddow pointed out his sick\u00a0hypocrisy last year<\/a>:<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t just a personal story. Governor Bentley ran for this office that he holds on the grounds that he was a family values candidate\u2014a God fearing family man<\/a>\u2014whose campaign ads featured him talking about the Bible while posing with his wife and all of his grandkids. he ran as a man<\/a> who so believes in the sanctity of traditional marriage that he would fight same-sex<\/a> marriage with every fiber of his being. His administration filed a Supreme Court brief that said marriages between same-sex<\/a> couples<\/a> should not even be thought of as marriages, they should be seen as social experiments.<\/p>\n Nobody\u2019s love life is a political matter. Unless you as a politician make your love life and your personal life a political matter. And Robert Bentley, the Governor of Alabama, has done that. He has been a crusading family values politician who has campaigned on the superior morality of his own marriage, his own family and his own family values, and how he\u2019s going to save Alabama from other people\u2019s terrible, immoral family choices because his values and his family are superior.<\/p>\n Talking Points Memo reports that Bentley\u2019s wife watched his affair unspool on the iPad he had gifted to her, which was still connected to his iCloud account<\/a>:<\/p>\n Unbeknownst to the governor and Mason, the frequent romantic texts they exchanged were all visible to Dianne Bentley. The governor\u2019s state-issued cell phone\u2019s cloud was linked to his state-issued iPad, which he had gifted to his then-wife, allowing her to watch the rumored affair unfold in real time.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m so in love with you,\u201d Bentley wrote to Mason in one text<\/a>, along with two heart-eye emojis. \u201cWe are pitiful.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPoor Robert. Poor Rebekah,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cYes\u2026 Bless our hearts\u2026 And other parts,\u201d Mason wrote back.<\/p>\n \u201cMagnetic,\u201d Bentley replied.<\/p>\n The device oversight was only one of Bentley\u2019s errors.<\/p>\n In spring 2014, he mistakenly sent a text to his wife reading, \u201cI love you Rebekah,\u201d along with an emoji of a red rose.<\/p>\n The post Homophobic, Family Values Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to Resign Over Extramarital Affair Cover-Up<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n