Rove in Alabama

A email from former Alabama governor Don Siegelman:

Subject: The Real Report on the Karl Rove Apperance in Birmingham
From: don.siegelman@gmail.com
Date: Sat, May 1, 2010 12:36 pm
To: "***************"
Priority: Normal

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN ROVE RETURNED TO ALABAMA

Dear *********,

Please read the story that the main stream media will not print about Rove's tuesday
book signing in Birmingham, Alabama. Glynn Wilson of the Locust Fork Journal was on
the scene reporting.

Thanks
Don Siegelman

**by Glynn Wilson**

About 20 people showed up at the Brookwood Mall Books-A-Million in Birmingham
Tuesday to get a signed copy of former Bush political aide Karl Rove’s book, Courage
and Consequence, a memoir of his time in the White House designed to try and repair
the legacy of a president some scholars are already calling about the worst in
American history.

The most prominent person to show up for a signed copy was none other than William
“Bill” Pryor, the former Alabama attorney general who first started trying to
investigate then-Governor Don Siegelman in 1998.

....**Yes, that’s the same Bill Pryor Rove tried to deny knowing before the House
Judiciary Committee**, although Rove’s political consulting company ran his campaign
for attorney general in 1998. _When Pryor walked up and Rove_ _saw him, he smiled
real big and said, “Hey, Bud!”_

Outside the mall and across the street, about the same number of people, about 20 by
my count, showed up to protest Rove’s visit, sporting T-shirts with the slogan “Free
Don Siegelman” and carrying signs ... Frank Mathews, a former radio talk show host
and aide to jailed Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford, led the protest with his group
the Outcast Voters League.

Inside, reporters were allowed to take pictures and ask questions for about 10
minutes before Rove started the book signing.

A broadcast reporter for WAKA in Montgomery asked a question about Siegelman and got
a fairly lengthy non-answer from Rove... denying any knowledge of the Siegelman
prosecution and saying the former governor should make his claims under oath.

Siegelman is out of federal prison on an appeal bond awaiting word on a motion for a
new trial in Montgomery and to find out whether the U.S. Supreme Court will take up
the appeal.