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18 Things to Love About Alabama: Sugah, the Luv Guv kept us laughing and cringing

HEY, SUGAH!

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In the end, he went out with a whimper, not a bang...not even a slowly-crooned, sexy drawl on Facetime.

An arrest for two campaign-related charges — failure to file campaign disclosures and failure to disclose economic interests; a $600 bond; and then a resignation. In so doing, Tuscaloosa dermatologist/evangelist-turned governor Dr. Robert Bentley joined the long list of Alabama’s indicted, arrested, and ignominiously-resigning politicians.

In the past 25 years, Alabama has been a who’s who of cartoonishly crooked, hayseed Bond villains.