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<h3 align="center" style="text-align: left; margin: 3pt 0in; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">=</h3><div><p style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"> trio of reporters at Raw Story has just published <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_Permanent_Republican_Majority_Part_III_1216.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 187); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">further details</a> relating to the involvement of Karl Rove in the campaign of Alabama Governor Bob Riley and in the effort to eliminate his chief rival, former Governor Don E. Siegelman, through a criminal prosecution. The story traces Rove’s involvement, largely via his long-time friend William Canary, in the 2002 Alabama gubernatorial race. Canary had initially advised the campaign of Lieutenant Governor Steve Windom, and only after his primary defeat turned to the Riley campaign. Raw Story reports:<blockquote style="quotes: none; font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 60px 15px; line-height: 22px;"><p style="border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 22px;">According to the Alabama RNC source, Rove met regularly with operatives for the Riley campaign. The source’s allegations are confirmed in part by campaign disclosure forms, which show that Windom paid Canary as a consultant between 1999 and early 2001 and later received large contributions from Canary’s business partner, a pattern that is duplicated with Riley and Canary.<p style="border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 22px;">According to public records, Windom paid Canary’s firm $38,022 for consulting and polling between 1999 and 2001. At the same time, PACs associated with Canary’s business partner, Patrick McWhorter, donated heavily to Windom’s campaign, contributing $149,000 in 2001 and another $75,000 in 2002.<p style="border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 22px;">After Windom lost the primary, PACs associated with McWhorter and Canary switched their donations to Bob Riley, giving him $85,000 in the days immediately preceding the November election. After the election victory, Windom emerged immediately as a close confidant of Riley’s, advising him on the appointment of a new Insurance Commissioner, Walter A. Bell, and other matters. Canary also emerged as a key Riley advisor.<p style="border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 22px;">Public records also show that at the same time Canary was consulting for Bob Riley’s campaign, his lobbying group, the Business Council for Alabama, donated $678,000 to the campaign of his client. This was the third largest donation the campaign received, exceeded only by those from the Republican National State Elections Committee, for $2,475,000, and from Bob Riley himself, who contributed $1,070,000 to his own campaign.</blockquote><p style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Rove’s linkage to this campaign has been reported before and belongs to the insider’s account of Alabama politics—but Raw Story brings in considerable additional detail. The Rove involvement is unfolded with a flow chart showing the complex relationships. As Dan Abrams noted on his MSNBC report recently, Rove’s extensive campaign dealings in Alabama involve a large team, and the central figure in the process is certainly William Canary, the husband of the U.S. Attorney who brought the Siegelman prosecution. Rove and Canary go way back, certainly to Canary’s days on the Republican National Committee. Canary’s move down to Alabama seems to have been one of the factors that led Karl Rove to become much more deeply engaged in Alabama politics.<img class="size-full wp-image-1940" src="http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/rovecanary.gif" alt="rovecanary" title="rovecanary" width="" style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 15px 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /><p style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">A great deal of this article lines up with what I have learned in six months of research on the Siegelman matter. For instance, two well-known Alabama Republicans described to me Rove’s involvement in the campaign to elect Perry Hooper to a judgeship. One of them detailed to me a meeting at which Hooper and Rove were present along with several Alabama G.O.P. operatives, including Mark Fuller (later to become the Siegelman judge), at which some very aggressive campaign tactics were discussed . . . but I’ll be reporting more on this later. Rove’s mastery of the Alabama political landscape was described as comprehensive and detailed. And a large part of Rove’s work consisted of advising his clients how to approach out-of-state funders. He believed that tort reform was the pivotal issue and that manufacturers’ associations would bring in the needed cash to fuel elections. On this as on so many electoral issues, Karl Rove was spot-on. His strategy worked, and the current Alabama Supreme Court, with 8 Republicans and 1 Democrat is proof of that. The Raw Story article also opens up the floorboards on some of this operation, especially as it unfolded into the time of the 2002 gubernatorial election, but this is a complex story yet to be fully unraveled. One thing certainly emerges both from this account and from the Senate probe headed by Senator McCain: Jack Abramoff and former Riley advisor Michael Scanlon, both now convicted felons, and both figures with ample connections to Rove, are right in the middle of it.<p style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Today a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/17/visitor.logs/" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 187); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">federal judge directed that White House visitors’ logs</a> were public records and could be turned-over. The White House is certain to challenge this ruling. Public access to visitors’ records has been a hotly contested issue for a number of reasons, and one of them is that Jack Abramoff claims to have paid hundreds of visits to the White House. President Bush has had a failure of memory with respect to Abramoff visits, but Time magazine says it has viewed a portfolio of portrait-style photographs with Abramoff and the President. Others in the White House have confirmed that Abramoff was a regular visitor. In law-enforcement interviews, Abramoff is said to have confirmed that he frequently met with Karl Rove outside of the White House so as to avoid being recorded in the visitors’ log. The Raw Story account details other meetings that Rove arranged outside the White House so as to avoid detection. <fn>Sources I have interviewed in studying the Siegelman story also place meetings with Rove in the offices of the Federalist Group and on street corners.</fn><p style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">The Raw Story piece provides further detail of Rove’s involvement in the Riley campaign, as one of its chief strategists. One key element of that campaign was the use of a bogus federal criminal prosecution, undertaken by Leura Canary—the wife of Rove’s key connection, William Canary—and timed perfectly to match the election cycle. Republican operatives have now linked Rove directly to arrangements for that prosecution.<p style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Still open to question: the details of Karl Rove’s dealings with prosecutors and Justice Department officials to arrange the political prosecution of Don Siegelman. Does anyone at this point seriously question why the White House and the Justice Department are pursuing a scorched-earth policy to block Congress’s requests for documents relating to this case and to records showing Karl Rove’s communications? They would almost certainly provide further evidence of what the external facts demonstrate.<p style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">But there is substantial additional evidence which will be shortly presented which will help to show why this prosecution was a complete farce from the beginning. Stay tuned, as the truth continues to seep out.<p style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Update
Mark Crispin Miller has just put up a <a href="http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2007/12/siegelman-speaks-ex-gov-calls-02.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 187); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">fascinating interview with Governor Siegelman</a>in which he explains his grudge match with Karl Rove, the involvement of Karl Rove’s client, William Pryor in the theft of the 2002 Alabama gubernatorial election and how the Republicans launched a criminal prosecution to block him from seeking re-election</div><div></div><div>Robert Renfroe "Bob" Riley (born October 3, 1944) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician" title="Politician" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">politician</a> in the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican Party</a>. He was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Alabama" title="List of Governors of Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">52nd</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Alabama" title="Governor of Alabama" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Governor</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alabama</a>, first elected in 2002, and re-elected in 2006.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; font-size: 12px; display: inline-block; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; display: inline;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#Early_life.2C_education_and_early_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 Early life, education and early career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 U.S. House of Representatives</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#Governor_of_Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3 Governor of Alabama</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#2002_election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3.1 2002 election</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#First_term" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3.2 First term</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#2006_election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3.3 2006 election</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#Second_term" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3.4 Second term</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#2012_presidential_speculation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 2012 presidential speculation</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5 Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">6 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19.200000762939453px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Early life, education and early career<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education and early career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&veaction=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education and early career" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h2>Riley was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashland,Alabama" title="Ashland, Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ashland, Alabama</a>, a small town in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_County,Alabama" title="Clay County, Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Clay County</a> where his family ranched and farmed for six generations. Riley attended the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama" title="University of Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of Alabama</a>,where he was a brother of Phi Kappa Sigma International Fraternity and graduated with a degree in business administration.<h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19.200000762939453px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">U.S. House of Representatives<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&veaction=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h2>Riley was first elected to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. House of Representatives</a> in 1996, defeating his Democratic opponent, State Senator T.D. "Ted" Little (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn,Alabama" title="Auburn, Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Auburn, Ala.</a>) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Libertarian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sophocleus" title="John Sophocleus" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Sophocleus</a>. Riley served as a representative of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alabama</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives,Alabama_District_3" title="United States House of Representatives, Alabama District 3" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3rd congressional district</a>from 1997 to 2003.<h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19.200000762939453px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Governor of Alabama<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Governor of Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&veaction=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Governor of Alabama" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h2><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 16.799999237060547px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">2002 election<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2002 election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&veaction=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2002 election" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_gubernatorial_election,2002" title="Alabama gubernatorial election, 2002" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alabama gubernatorial election, 2002</a></div>Riley did not run for re-election to the House in November 2002 (as a supporter of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_limits" title="Term limits" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">term limits</a>, he imposed a three-term limit on himself), instead running for Governor of Alabama and defeating the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" title="United States Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democratic</a> incumbent by approximately 3,000 votes - the narrowest margin in the state's history for a gubernatorial race. The result was controversial, as the initial election night count showed a 2,000-plus vote victory for Riley's opponent, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Siegelman" title="Don Siegelman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Don Siegelman</a>.<table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.200000762939453px; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><th colspan="6">Alabama gubernatorial election, 2002</th></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><th colspan="2" style="width: 130px;">Party</th><th style="width: 17em;">Candidate</th><th style="width: 5em;">Votes</th><th style="width: 3.5em;">%</th><th style="width: 3.5em;">±%</th></tr><tr class="vcard"><th style="background-color: rgb(255, 51, 51); width: 5px;" /><td class="org" style="width: 130px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(US)" title="Republican Party (US)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican</a></td><td class="fn">Bob Riley</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">672,225</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">49.2</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">+8.1</td></tr><tr class="vcard"><th style="background-color: rgb(51, 51, 255); width: 5px;" /><td class="org" style="width: 130px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(US)" title="Democratic Party (US)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democratic</a></td><td class="fn"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Siegelman" title="Don Siegelman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Don Siegelman</a> (Incumbent)</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">669,105</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">48.9</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">-8.1</td></tr><tr class="vcard"><th style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); width: 5px;" /><td class="org" style="width: 130px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party(US)" title="Libertarian Party (US)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Libertarian</a></td><td class="fn">John Sophocleus</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">23,272</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">1.7</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">--</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 16.799999237060547px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">First term<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: First term" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&veaction=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: First term" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; 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background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a> Analysis of this increase seems to indicate that it may be attributed to the public’s perception of Riley’s response to Hurricane Katrina. By February 14, 2006, Riley's approval ratings had slightly decreased, with 52% approving and 43% disapproving of his job as governor.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a> As of August, 2006, his approval rating is at 62% with a disapproval rating of 35%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Supreme Court</dt></dl>In 2003, Alabama state politics gained national attention when the chief justice of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Supreme_Court" title="Alabama Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alabama Supreme Court</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore" title="Roy Moore" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Roy Moore</a>, refused to remove a monument of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ten Commandments</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotunda(architecture)" title="Rotunda (architecture)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">rotunda</a> of the court building. Riley reportedly supported Moore, but ultimately did not play a large role in the dispute. Riley stated there was nothing he could do to prevent Moore from being removed from office by a judicial ethics panel. Moore challenged Riley in the June 6, 2006 GOP primary.<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Property Taxes</dt></dl>Property tax appraisals became a major campaign issue with Riley's opponents claiming that Riley, acting through his revenue commissioner, ordered that property tax appraisals be made annually, rather than the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quadrennial&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Quadrennial (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">quadrennial</a> reappraisals that were established practice. Because property values tend to increase over time, making appraisals more frequent has the indirect effect of increasing the taxes paid by property owners. Riley's opponents claimed that by doing so, he raised taxes without a vote of either the Legislature or the people.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a> Riley claims he is merely following the language of the law, and the advice of his<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a> attorneys.<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Amendment One</dt></dl>In the first year of his administration, Riley proposed "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_State_Constitution" title="Alabama State Constitution" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Amendment One</a>", which would have made swift changes to the state's tax system. The plan essentially consisted of income tax breaks for lower brackets, offset by various tax hikes on consumption, property and income from higher brackets. Part of the problem that this plan sought to address was the strong dependence the Alabama tax system placed upon sales tax, which makes the state budget dependent upon the economy in the state. The plan was estimated to yield an overall state revenue increase of $1.2 billion per year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a> The plan also included accountability reforms, including changes to teacher tenure policies, accountability for school systems, and bans on pass-through pork. This plan also included provisions for a scholarship program for Alabama students to attend college and funding of other education initiatives.Support as well as opposition for this plan came from traditionally opposing forces in Alabama, crossing party lines. This included support from pro-business organizations, including the Business Council of Alabama and many Chambers of Commerce, as well as prominent education organizations, including the Alabama Education Association. Other progressively-minded non-profit groups supported this plan, including many organizations that had sought changes in the Alabama tax system for many years. These organizations saw this as an opportunity for Alabama to invest in the future of the state through investments in education and governmental reforms. Riley also presented this plan using Christian terms, building upon language already present in the state to argue that the Alabama tax system placed the heaviest burden upon the poorest citizens of the state. Opponents to the plan included the Alabama chapter of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Coalition_of_America" title="Christian Coalition of America" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Christian Coalition</a> (splitting with the national Christian Coalition who endorsed the plan), and the Alabama Farmers Federation (ALFA). A number of the people who opposed this plan, included both organizations mentioned, had strongly supported Riley for Governor in 2002. These opponents based a campaign upon a criticism of the state legislature and used the complexity of the plans to claim that taxes would go up on people in the state. While proponents had pointed to studies of the plan showing the majority of Alabamians seeing a lower overall tax burden, polls indicated that most citizens - likely influenced by the proposed property tax increase - believed their personal taxes would be higher under the plan.Amendment One was rejected by voters on September 9, 2003, with 68 percent opposed. While Riley's Amendment One was soundly rejected by Alabama voters, it did gain him national recognition. For his leadership in addressing the state’s fiscal crisis, Governor Riley was named the “Public Official of the Year” by Governing magazine<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a> in 2003, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Time magazine</a> hailed him for being one of the nation’s “most courageous politicians.”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a>The overwhelming rejection of this plan forced Riley to mend fences within his own base and seek to do some reforms without the broad tax increases that Amendment One sought. Some parts of the proposal have been enacted, such as efforts to raise the minimum tax threshold in Alabama.<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Industrial development</dt></dl>Riley has claimed credit for helping to spur economic development in Alabama. Riley points to the opening of an aeronautics engineering facility in Mobile by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EADS" title="EADS" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">EADS</a>, the parent company of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus" title="Airbus" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Airbus</a>, which may ripen into an aircraft assembly plant if EADS secures future contracts.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a> Riley's critics have pointed out that Riley has failed to emulate the success of predecessors, such as Siegelman – during whose administration the Hyundai plant was successfully recruited<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a> – and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Folsom,Jr." title="Jim Folsom, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jim Folsom, Jr.</a>, in securing automotive manufacturing plants. Specifically, when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Motors" title="Kia Motors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Kia</a> announced in March 2006 it would build a maunfucturing plant in Georgia,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a> Riley was criticized by Siegelman,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a> for Alabama's failure to mount a serious bid for the plant.Under Riley's administration, unemployment in Alabama fell from 5.3% in January, 2003 when Riley took office to 3.3% in March, 2006.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a> This rate was the lowest ever recorded since statistics began being tracked in 1976 and was among the nations lowest.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hurricanes</dt></dl>In 2005, Governor Riley was criticized by some Mobile County residents after issuing that area of the state a "mandatory" evacuation order in advance of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dennis" title="Hurricane Dennis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hurricane Dennis</a>' landfall. Residents felt the issue was better addressed during Hurricane Katrina using a layered approach with sections of the county evacuated instead of the entire county.On August 28, 2005, Governor Riley declared a state of emergency for the approaching <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hurricane Katrina</a>. On the same day, he requested president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George W. Bush</a> to declare "expedited major disaster declaration" for six counties of south Alabama, which was approved by the evening of August 29. 350 national guardsmen were called on duty as of August 30.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Aruba local government</dt></dl>On November 9, 2005 Riley called for a citizens' boycott of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Aruba</a>, alleging that the local government was engaged in a cover-up of the disappearance of Alabama native <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalee_Holloway" title="Natalee Holloway" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Natalee Holloway</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[19]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[20]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Abramoff scandal</dt></dl>In November 2005, Riley was linked to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Jack Abramoff</a> scandal when his former Congressional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_secretary" title="Press secretary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">press secretary</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scanlon" title="Michael Scanlon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Michael Scanlon</a>, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the matter. It further emerged that, as a Congressman, Riley signed a letter on behalf of the U.S. Family Network, opposing expansion of casino gambling in Alabama.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[21]</a> The U.S. Family Network was revealed to be an Abramoff front, funded by the Mississippi Band of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Choctaw</a> Indians, which operated competing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino" title="Casino" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">casinos</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[22]</a> Riley has denied knowing the source of this funding.<h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 16.799999237060547px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">2006 election<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2006 election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&veaction=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2006 election" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_gubernatorial_election,2006" title="Alabama gubernatorial election, 2006" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alabama gubernatorial election, 2006</a></div>Riley defeated Democrat Lieutenant Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Baxley" title="Lucy Baxley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lucy Baxley</a> easily as his approval ratings made a comeback.<table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.200000762939453px; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><th colspan="6">Alabama gubernatorial election, 2006</th></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><th colspan="2" style="width: 130px;">Party</th><th style="width: 17em;">Candidate</th><th style="width: 5em;">Votes</th><th style="width: 3.5em;">%</th><th style="width: 3.5em;">±%</th></tr><tr class="vcard"><th style="background-color: rgb(255, 51, 51); width: 5px;" /><td class="org" style="width: 130px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(US)" title="Republican Party (US)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican</a></td><td class="fn">Bob Riley (Incumbent)</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">717,287</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">58.03</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">+8.83</td></tr><tr class="vcard"><th style="background-color: rgb(51, 51, 255); width: 5px;" /><td class="org" style="width: 130px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(US)" title="Democratic Party (US)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democratic</a></td><td class="fn"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Baxley" title="Lucy Baxley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lucy Baxley</a></td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">518,750</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">41.97</td><td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em;">-6.93</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="background-image: none; 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Economy</dt></dl>In April 2007 the unemployment rate once again reached 3.3 percent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[23]</a> However, recent labor statistics provided by the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations indicate that under Governor Riley, Alabama's unemployment nearly tripled to a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.4% in February 2009. The rates for seasonally adjusted and unadjusted range from 7.8 to 8.9 percent for January and February 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[24]</a>Under Governor Riley, Alabama's unemployment has continued to climb, and Alabama Department of Industrial Relations Director Tom Surtees issued a press release dated 19 June 2009, which indicated that Alabama’s unemployment rate for May rose to 9.8%, an increase from April’s rate of 9.0%, and is Alabama's highest unemployment rate in 25 years.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[25]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[26]</a>Critics have claimed that recent developments are a consequence of national economic recovery and pointed to the loss of thousands of Alabama's historic textile jobs under Riley. Nevertheless, the state under Riley's administration was recognized as "State of the Year" bySouthern Business and Development magazine four years in a row and received other awards for competitiveness, job creation and economic development.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[27]</a>Among other honors, Worldwide Interactive Network named the Alabama Office of Workforce Development the No. 1 U.S. employee development agency and Expansion Management magazine has ranked Alabama Industrial Development Training No. 1 among workforce training programs.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[28]</a> Riley's Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel received the National Council of State Tourism Directors' annual Mercury Award recognizing its "Year of Alabama Food" as the nation's top tourism campaign.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[29]</a>In May 2007, Riley announced that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp" title="ThyssenKrupp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ThyssenKrupp</a> would build a $4.2 billion state-of-the-art steel mill north of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile,Alabama" title="Mobile, Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mobile, Alabama</a>, the largest economic announcement in Alabama's history, and largest corporate project in U.S. history. The mill, now in operation, employs 2,700 workers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[30]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Transparency</dt></dl>As part of his plan to provide open government, Riley has posted on the Governor's website the monthly expenditures from the Governor's Contingency Fund and the quarterly flight logs from all state airplanes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[31]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Death Penalty</dt></dl>As Governor, Riley oversaw 15 executions in Alabama, more than any of his predecessors since 1983 (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Alabama" title="Capital punishment in Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Capital punishment in Alabama</a>).<h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19.200000762939453px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">2012 presidential speculation<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2012 presidential speculation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&veaction=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2012 presidential speculation" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h2>An editorial by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Times" title="Washington Times" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Washington Times</a> and separate piece in the paper on August 13, 2009, in what was deemed to be an open endorsement of Bob Riley as a potential <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012" title="United States presidential election, 2012" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2012 presidential candidate</a> instantly threw the governor's name into the political field of possible nominees as state and national media jumped on the story. Governor Riley during an interview the same day denied he was considering a future presidential run. On February 2, 2011 both the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_News" title="Birmingham News" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Birmingham News</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decatur_Daily" title="Decatur Daily" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Decatur Daily</a> also ran stories speculating that Riley was considering running for President.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[33]</a> In the end, Riley did not run.<h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19.200000762939453px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Personal life<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&veaction=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h2>Riley is married to the former Patsy Adams, also from Clay County. The Rileys have four children, Rob, Jenice, Minda and Krisalyn. Jenice, the Rileys' first daughter and the campaign's fundraiser, died in August 2001. The Rileys have three granddaughters and three grandsons. He is an alumni brother of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_Kappa_Sigma" title="Phi Kappa Sigma" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Phi Kappa Sigma</a>.On June 26, 2011, Riley was on a cross-country trip on his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson" title="Harley-Davidson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Harley-Davidson</a> motorcycle when he crashed on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Highway" title="Dalton Highway" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dalton Highway</a> in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alaska</a> and sustained serious injuries.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[34]</a><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19.200000762939453px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">References<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Riley&veaction=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">editbeta</a>]</h2><div class="reflist references-column-count references-column-count-2" style="font-size: 11.199999809265137px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-column-count: 2; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov06/0,4670,ELNSouthGlance,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"A Glance at the South's Election Results"</a>. Fox News. 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Retrieved November 3, 2010.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.atitle=A+Glance+at+the+South%27s+Election+Results&rft.date=November+6%2C+2006&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fwires%2F2006Nov06%2F0%2C4670%2CELNSouthGlance%2C00.html&rft.jtitle=Fox+News&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.surveyusa.com/50governorsrated051005.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Approval Ratings of All 50 Governors as of 5/10/05"</a>. Survey USA. 2005-05-10. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Approval+Ratings+of+All+50+Governors+as+of+5%2F10%2F05&rft.date=2005-05-10&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveyusa.com%2F50governorsrated051005.htm&rft.pub=Survey+USA&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2005/50StateGovernorApproval0905SortedbyState.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Approval Ratings of All 50 Governors as of 9/20/05"</a>. Survey USA. 2006-09-20. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Approval+Ratings+of+All+50+Governors+as+of+9%2F20%2F05&rft.date=2006-09-20&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveyusa.com%2F50State2005%2F50StateGovernorApproval0905SortedbyState.htm&rft.pub=Survey+USA&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2006/50StateGovernor060214State.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Approval Ratings of All 50 Governors as of 9/20/05"</a>. Survey USA. 2006-02-14. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Approval+Ratings+of+All+50+Governors+as+of+9%2F20%2F05&rft.date=2006-02-14&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveyusa.com%2F50State2006%2F50StateGovernor060214State.htm&rft.pub=Survey+USA&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollTrack.aspx?g=8cff2ad1-8645-4f49-b1ae-f329b62c6bcd" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Poll Tracker"</a>. Survey USA. 2006-09-18. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Poll+Tracker&rft.date=2006-09-18&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveyusa.com%2Fclient%2FPollTrack.aspx%3Fg%3D8cff2ad1-8645-4f49-b1ae-f329b62c6bcd&rft.pub=Survey+USA&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1147598726219070.xml&coll=2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Appraisals a weapon in race for governor"</a>. The Birmingham News. 2006-05-14. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Appraisals+a+weapon+in+race+for+governor&rft.date=2006-05-14&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.al.com%2Fnews%2Fbirminghamnews%2Findex.ssf%3F%2Fbase%2Fnews%2F1147598726219070.xml%26coll%3D2&rft.pub=The+Birmingham+News&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.madisoncountyrecord.com/articles/2005/11/17/opinion/oped2.txt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Siegelman shows political stamina"</a>. Madison Record. 2005-11-17. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Siegelman+shows+political+stamina&rft.date=2005-11-17&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.madisoncountyrecord.com%2Farticles%2F2005%2F11%2F17%2Fopinion%2Foped2.txt&rft.pub=Madison+Record&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">dead link</a>]</li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Jeremy Lewis (2004-10-01). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fs.huntingdon.edu/jlewis/AL/ALtaxReform03arts.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"AL tax Reform '03 articles"</a>. Fs.huntingdon.edu. Retrieved 2010-06-06.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.au=Jeremy+Lewis&rft.aulast=Jeremy+Lewis&rft.btitle=AL+tax+Reform+%2703+articles&rft.date=2004-10-01&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ffs.huntingdon.edu%2Fjlewis%2FAL%2FALtaxReform03arts.htm&rft.pub=Fs.huntingdon.edu&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.governing.com/poy/2003/intro.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Public Officials of the Year"</a>. Governing Magazine. 2003-11-01. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Public+Officials+of+the+Year&rft.date=2003-11-01&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.governing.com%2Fpoy%2F2003%2Fintro.htm&rft.pub=Governing+Magazine&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Frank, Mitch (2003-08-15). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/columnist/frank/article/0,9565,476249,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Alabama's Most Courageous Politician"</a>. Time Magazine. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.aufirst=Mitch&rft.au=Frank%2C+Mitch&rft.aulast=Frank&rft.btitle=Alabama%27s+Most+Courageous+Politician&rft.date=2003-08-15&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fcolumnist%2Ffrank%2Farticle%2F0%2C9565%2C476249%2C00.html&rft.pub=Time+Magazine&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.al.com/business/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/business/114811664853990.xml&coll=3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Mobile, state win economic accolades"</a>. AL.com. 2006-05-20. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Mobile%2C+state+win+economic+accolades&rft.date=2006-05-20&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.al.com%2Fbusiness%2Fmobileregister%2Findex.ssf%3F%2Fbase%2Fbusiness%2F114811664853990.xml%26coll%3D3&rft.pub=AL.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040701064703/http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/specialreports/hyundai/060802_hyundai.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Governor speaks in South Korea"</a>. Montgomery Advertiser. 2002-06-08. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/specialreports/hyundai/060802_hyundai.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">the original</a> on July 1, 2004. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Governor+speaks+in+South+Korea&rft.date=2002-06-08&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.montgomeryadvertiser.com%2Fspecialreports%2Fhyundai%2F060802_hyundai.html&rft.pub=Montgomery+Advertiser&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060315113400/http://www.hyundainews.com/hyundainews/corporat31.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Hyundai Moto Company Announces it Will Build"</a>. Press Release. Hyundai Motor America. 2002-04-02. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hyundainews.com/hyundainews/corporat31.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">the original</a> on March 15, 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.atitle=Hyundai+Moto+Company+Announces+it+Will+Build&rft.date=2002-04-02&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hyundainews.com%2Fhyundainews%2Fcorporat31.htm&rft.jtitle=Press+Release&rft.pub=Hyundai+Motor+America&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/12/business/main1391772.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=Business_1391772" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Kia Motors To Open Plant In Georgia"</a>. CBS News. 2006-03-12. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Kia+Motors+To+Open+Plant+In+Georgia&rft.date=2006-03-12&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2006%2F03%2F12%2Fbusiness%2Fmain1391772.shtml%3FCMP%3DOTC-RSSFeed%26source%3DRSS%26attr%3DBusiness_1391772&rft.pub=CBS+News&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oanow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=OAN/MGArticle/OAN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137835645927&path=!news!localnews" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"With trial set to start Monday, Siegelman campaigns in a hurry"</a>. Opelika-Auburn News. 2006-04-28. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=With+trial+set+to+start+Monday%2C+Siegelman+campaigns+in+a+hurry&rft.date=2006-04-28&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oanow.com%2Fservlet%2FSatellite%3Fpagename%3DOAN%2FMGArticle%2FOAN_BasicArticle%26c%3DMGArticle%26cid%3D1137835645927%26path%3D%21news%21localnews&rft.pub=Opelika-Auburn+News&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070127182554/http://www.econstats.com/BLS/blsla/blsla_cn_1_m1.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Alabama Econstats"</a>. Econstats.com. 2006-06-01. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.econstats.com/BLS/blsla/blsla_cn_1_m1.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">the original</a> on January 27, 2007. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Alabama+Econstats&rft.date=2006-06-01&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.econstats.com%2FBLS%2Fblsla%2Fblsla_cn_1_m1.htm&rft.pub=Econstats.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stories/2006/04/17/daily31.html?from_rss=1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Alabama unemployment rate last month was among nation's lowest"</a>. Birmingham Business Journal. 2006-04-12. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Alabama+unemployment+rate+last+month+was+among+nation%27s+lowest&rft.date=2006-04-12&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizjournals.com%2Fbirmingham%2Fstories%2F2006%2F04%2F17%2Fdaily31.html%3Ffrom_rss%3D1&rft.pub=Birmingham+Business+Journal&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3775450" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Riley declares state of emergency due to Katrina threat"</a>. KATC, WorldNow. 2005. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Riley+declares+state+of+emergency+due+to+Katrina+threat&rft.date=2005&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.katc.com%2FGlobal%2Fstory.asp%3FS%3D3775450&rft.pub=KATC%2C+WorldNow&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174934,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Ala. Governor Calls for Aruba Boycott Over Holloway Case"</a>. FoxNews, AP. 2005-11-08. 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CNN.com. 2005-11-08. Retrieved 2006-10-08.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=The+Situation+Room+transcript&rft.date=2005-11-08&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftranscripts.cnn.com%2FTRANSCRIPTS%2F0511%2F08%2Fsitroom.03.html&rft.pub=CNN.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Smith, R. Jeffrey (2005-12-31). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001480_pf.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Washington Post</a>. 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SFGate.com. 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Retrieved 2010-06-06.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=State+of+Alabama+-+Office+of+the+Governor+Bob+Riley+-+Press+Releases&rft.date=2007-05-18&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.governorpress.alabama.gov%2Fpr%2Fpr-2007-05-18-01-unemployment_rate_falls.asp&rft.pub=Governorpress.alabama.gov&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.dir.state.al.us/LAUS/CLF/ALUS.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Alabama Unemployment Statistics"</a>. State of Alabama, Department of Industrial Relations. Retrieved 2009-04-15.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABob+Riley&rft.btitle=Alabama+Unemployment+Statistics&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.dir.state.al.us%2FLAUS%2FCLF%2FALUS.aspx&rft.pub=State+of+Alabama%2C+Department+of+Industrial+Relations&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Riley#cite_ref-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.dir.state.al.us/LAUS/CLF/ALUS.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Alabama Unemployment Data, Seasonally Adjusted, 2009"</a>. 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State of Alabama, Department of Industrial Relations. 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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.2pt; text-align: left;">It is very important to note, Many Good Republican Americans despise the evil and corruption presently displayed by some of its party members. Neither party is perfect, and we all fall short of perfection.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Curious as to the exact dates in late 1998 when Georgia's Ralph Reed, Jr. huddled with Washington and Alabama's Norquist, Rove, Abramoff and Canary. Was the meeting in Baldwin County? And the date of Leura Canary's appointment? In Kentucky, Steve Pence was appointed and took office as U.S. Attorney just after 911, soon to become Lt. Governor, under the first Kentucky Republican Governorship in many years. Georgia's Ralph Reed, Jr. was very well connected with the Strategum Group, who suffered three fatalities last August in a double murder/suicide, Orlando, Florida and the killer was connected to North Carolina. Political consultants, Strategum also handled several Alabama campaigns, including Alabama's Attorney General, Troy King. You may find a list of Strategum's clients further in this blog, or you can go to http://www.strategumusa.com.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Reader's input and investigations are extremely valuable in uncovering the truth, and again, many thanks to all my contributors:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.2pt; text-align: left;">........"I don’t know of anyone in the history of the United States who has had the constitution torn up and thrown in their face, by all levels of the federal government like Siegelman has.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">......the three largest newspapers in his own state have been a big part of this conspiracy. The newspapers are owned by the media giant, Advance Publications Inc.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In late 1998 Karl Rove and William Canary arranged money laundering operations with Ralph Reed and Glover Norquist, and worked a deal with Bush's campaign financier and Rove's good friend lobbyist Jack Abramoff to finance Alabama campaign financing of GOP candidates in return for political favors. Canary and Rove were working closely with Republican Attorney General William Pryor ...........</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In 1999 Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon funneled millions of dollars from the Mississippi Choctaw Indians to be laundered by Ralph Reed's Christian Coalition........</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In 2001 Bush appointed William Canary's wife as U.S. Attorney of Middle Alabama. Her prior job was working for Al. A.G. William Pryor.........</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In 2002, Mark Fuller who was the district attorney for Coffee County was appointed By Bush to be U.S. federal judge in middle Alabama. His successor who was appointed by Siegelman found that Fuller had falsified the county payroll for his investigators who had been doing work for him on the side. Fuller who owed one senior investigator several thousand dollars attempted to falsify his income so that he could retire and draw an additional $1,000 a month for the rest of his life.........</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Fuller owns 47% and is/was president of Doss Aviation of Colorado, Springs, CO. He was working both jobs. His uncle Everett Terry serves on several Congressional Defense Committees and made his nephew Mark Everett Fuller a wealthy man through military contracts.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Campaign Summer of 2002, Bob Riley used Goff's personal plane to fly to Washington to meet with Karl Rove to get a quick course in wearing $3,000 alligator boots and how to project himself as the Marlboro man riding a horse in his campaign ads.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Scanlon used to work for Riley before he went to work for Congressman Delay.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">They [Scanlon, Rove, Abramoff] agreed to use scare tactics on the Indian Casinos making them pay large sums of money to block so called legislation to keep their casinos from having to pay taxes.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The money would be laundered by the National Republican associations. Scanlon created sham companies one of which was setup in Europe from which over a million dollars came.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">2002 election night. All the polls had reported in and Siegelman won by over 6,000 votes.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">2002 election night. All the polls had reported in and Siegelman won by over 6,000 votes. Dan Gans, who had programming, computer system administration training and trained to work on the Diebold Election Systems Inc and the ES&S central voting tabulator was about to be fired by Bob Riley when he decide to get online with Bay Minette located in Baldwin County, Al. He made several attempts to take votes from Siegelman’s total vote count and switch them to Riley’s; however, there was a third candidate that was running for governor that he forgot about. Gans had trouble making the total votes equal the number of voters that had voted. There was a count of the paper ballots which still showed Siegelman as the winner. So as a cover up, all the votes was sealed by AL AG William Pryor who issued a warning that he would prosecute anyone who attempted to break the seals. Siegelman tried to get a court order to have a recount but the Republican Judges wouldn’t issue one. Siegelman filed charges with the attorney general’s office attorney Troy King and talked with the FBI to no avail.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The FCC Chairman Kevin Martin who was appointed by Bush is attempting to allow large media companies to be able to acquire FCC licenses so that it would be possible for one media giant to own all media in a given city, county, etc.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The GOP under the Bush administration has managed to gain control of large communication and publishing companies through government contracts, appointments</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The three corrupt newspapers in Alabama ran full page articles portraying him [Siegelman] as a modern day Al Capone.......</div><div style="text-align: left;">He was shamefully shackled and paraded....</div><div style="text-align: left;">........ended up being placed in a prison over 600 miles from his family.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The prison has been ordered by the U.S. Court In Montgomery. Al. to keep him isolated and to deny him interviews by 60 minutes and local news medias.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">He [Siegelman] is Alabama's most respected lawyer, politician and lobbyist, because of his work ethics and the ability to communicate with working class and the poor.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Political corruption in Alabama has gotten totally out of control.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Out of the Millions of dollars of Mississippi Choctaw money that Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon laundered and sent to AL. to defeat Siegelman’s Education Lottery in 1999, to elect Bob Riley in 2002 and for Riley to oppress the AL. Poarch Indians, “not a single person has gotten investigated by the ABI or FBI under direction of the offices of the Alabama Attorney General or the U.S. Attorneys.”</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Every article written on the 2002 Governors election verifies that the numbers published indicates that Electronic ballot stuffing was involved in Baldwin County to transfer votes from Siegelman to Riley.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Alabama Attorney General William Pryor ordered that throughout the state that all votes be sealed.</div>