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MSNBC’s Dan Abrams continued, for the third day in a row, on the Don Siegelman beat today. The former Democratic Alabama Governor, who still sits in jail pending an appeal for his non-violent crime, is alleged to have been railroaded by Karl Rove and political operatives in the state while running for re-election in 2006.<\/p>\n
In 2002 he had won his election, according to the announced results on Election Night, only to wake up the next morning to find that a Republican election director claimed to have discovered a “glitch” (sound familiar, regular BRAD BLOG<\/a> readers?) in the electronic vote counts overnight, resulting in Siegelman’s loss. He was never allowed a recount after the vote tallies somehow changed on the electronic voting machines due to the “glitch,” as it was described<\/a> officially, by court probate officers.<\/p>\n In this rarely seen, 2004 video interview with Siegelman<\/a> (see approx. half-way through that linked article<\/i>), he alleges: “Somebody electronically manipulated the election results”\u00a6This election was stolen”\u00a6There is no other kind, or sugar-coated way to say it.”<\/p>\n Neither the 60 Minutes<\/i> report<\/a> on Siegelman from Sunday, nor any of Abrams’ reports so far this week (here’s Tuesday’s<\/a> and Wednesday’s<\/a>) including today’s, as posted at the end of this article, have yet delved, with any depth, into that aspect of what seems clearly to have been a well-run political frame-up — or, yes, a conspiracy<\/i> — to do away with the one Democrat who had been able to win statewide elections in an otherwise very Republican-leaning state.<\/p>\n <\/span>We hope to have more on that aspect of the case soon.<\/p>\n On today’s MSNBC “Bush League Justice” report, Abrams spoke with both Siegelman’s attorney, Vince Kilborn, as well as Grant Woods, the former Republican<\/i> Attorney General from Arizona who has been among the most outspoken of the 52 former Republican and Democratic Attorneys General who have called on Congress for an investigation and a special prosecutor to be named in the case.<\/p>\n Abrams repeated his call, from yesterday, for the immediate release of Siegelman from prison, pending appeal of his case, as would be customary in other similar, non-violent cases. Abrams enumerated his chief concerns about the prosecution and the trial as run by federal judge Mark Fuller, as follows…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Excessive Sentence:<\/strong> Immediately Led Away in Shackles:<\/strong> No Bail Pending Appeal:<\/strong> Transcript Delay:<\/strong> Near the end of the interview with Woods, the former AZ Attorney General notes pointedly:<\/p>\n The video of today’s “Bush League Justice” segment on Siegelman, follows below…<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSiegelman was acquitted of 25 of 32 counts, yet he got seven years and four months. Much more than the norm.<\/p>\n
\nAfter the trial, the former Governor was manacled and taken to jail, like a violent offender. Didn’t get the usual 45 days to report to prison that would be the norm.<\/p>\n
\nNo bail was allowed, even though an appeal for the non-violent crime is pending.<\/p>\n
\nThe appeal is delayed because the court has yet to produce a trial transcript even though the trial was held more than a year and a half ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI hope everybody, Republican or<\/em> Democrat, will just rally around the principle that we gotta do the right thing in this country, and not allow this thing to happen. So, if it did<\/i> happen, it needs to be uncovered. If it didn’t, then let’s investigate it, and call it off.<\/div>\n