AL Senator McClain goes on trial
2009 January 13
As pointed out by regular reader Therm earlier this week, Alabama Senator E. B. McClain (D) goes on trial this week in Birmingham. The charges against McClain are that he, as a legislator, steered money to a charity and worked out an agreement with the charity that allowed him to pocket about half the money.
I presume that if he is convicted he won’t be allowed to serve in the senate, but you never know with those guys. If he gets the boot it will leave the Democrats three members shy of where they were just a few months ago and will even out the partisan ranks at 16 a piece (assuming the “dissident Democrats” continue to side with the GOP).
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A dollar will get you a doughnut that Senator Hinton Mitchem decides NOT to resign as Senate President pro tem. No election of a new pro tem and no chance that the Republicans and the contra Dems will be able to take over.
It takes 18 out of 35 to elect the pro tem and set the Senate rules. It takes 21 out of 35 to change the rules adopted by a vote of 18 to 35 and it takes 24 out of 35 to remove the pro tem who was elected by 18 out of 35.
Sounds like Martian Algebra to me!
Similar math is used in the state’s account books, I believe.