Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman has been kept in solitary confinement in a federal prison for the past two months according to his son.
The suspected reason?
Siegelman called a liberal talk radio program in October where he maintained his innocence.
According to the AP, Siegelman’s son- Joe Siegelman claims that his father was sent to a higher security facility where he has been kept in solitary.
“All I know is it’s been eight weeks and he’s still locked in a box,” Joe Siegelman told the AP.
Don Siegelman was convicted in 2006 of seven counts- including bribery, conspiracy, and fraud in a controversial case that many have viewed as being politically motivated.
Siegelman was the last Democrat elected governor in Alabama.
Siegelman was interviewed on the Tom Hartmann in October to promote a film about his case.
During the interview, Siegelman maintained that he was innocent and mentioned the judge who oversaw his case- Mark Fuller.
Fuller has been accused by some that he was influenced by Bush administration officials including former Deputy White House Chief Of Staff Karl Rove.
In an interview I conducted with Fuller as a student reporter in 2012, the judge maintained that he had no connection to the Bush White House during the Siegelman trial.
“No, I was never contacted by anybody,” Fuller said in 2012. “I’ve never met Karl Rove, never spoken to Karl Rove.
“I thought and I believe that I called that case as fairly as I have any other case. I couldn’t live with myself if I thought that I had railroaded somebody, the government or an individual defendant,” Fuller said.
Fuller resigned in 2014 after he was arrested for allegedly beating his wife at an Atlanta hotel.
Siegelman is expected to be released from prison in August of 2017.
LISTEN: Don Siegelman on the Tom Hartmann radio program.
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John Kasich Ad Subtly Compares Donald Trump To Hitler
In a new video by Gov. John Kasich, Donald Trump is subtly compared to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Seriously.
The ad is titled “Trump’s Dangerous Rhetoric” and was paid for by Kasich’s actual presidential campaign and not some sort of shadow Super Pac.
The video features statements from Col. Tom Moe who spoke in favor of Kasich in an Ohio rally earlier in the week. In the speech, Moe paraphrased a well known passage from German pastor Martin Niemöller about how apathy among the general German populace allowed for the rise of the Nazis.
Niemöller’s quote about the rise of Hitler is well known among scholars of World War II and the Holocaust:
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
WATCH: Kasich support Col. Tom Moe compares Trump to Hitler
H/T: Blue Nation Review
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Fort Lauderdale Pizza Hut Won’t Deliver Pizzas To Black Neighborhood At Night
What’s New With This Story:
-A Fort Lauderdale Pizza Hut has a policy to not deliver pizzas to the Sistrunk Boulevard community after 7 PM.
-Sistrunk Boulevard has historically been an African-American community.
– A Pizza Hut manager told the Miami New Times that it was a “corporate policy.”
Ordering pizza while black isn’t easy in one area of South Florida.
At a Fort Lauderdale Pizza Hut located at 1239 S. Federal Hwy, there is a policy to not deliver to a predominantly African-American part of the city after 7 PM.
The discovery was made by locally based journalist Adam Weinstein while he was standing inside the restaurant picking up a pizza.
Weinstein, who is the senior editor of the popular Task&Purpose website snapped two photos of a large notice next to a map of their delivery area declaring “we don’t deliver to northwest (D-4) after 7PM.”
The notice, which refers to Fort Lauderdale’s Sistrunk Boulevard community, was clearly visible to customers.
The Miami New Times called the Pizza Hut and asked a manager for an expiation for the policy.
Photo Credit: Adam Weinstein/ Twitter
The manager said that it was a “corporate policy.”
As the Miami New Times points out, Pizza Hut has a history of not delivering to black neighborhoods in Florida.
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Massive 45 Story Luxury Tower Given Go Ahead Just North Of Miami Shores
Updated: (The original version of this story said that Apeiron at The Jockey Club would be only 40 stories high. In fact, it will be 45 stories high.
Apeiron at The Jockey Club, a planned 45 story luxury tower has just been given an important go ahead, paving the way for the long awaited development to be built.
According to Curbed Miami, the Biscayne Shores Community Council voted 5-0 to approve the project.
While coming in at an impressive 45 stories, it will include 120 residences, a 90-room boutique hotel, a five-acre health and wellness facility, a deep-water marina, and several upgrades to the preexisting Jockey Club site according to Curbed Miami.
The official address for the site is 11111 Biscayne Boulevard.
It is being designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rafael Moneo.
Apeiron at the Jockey Club is Moneo’s first South Florida project.
It will still need additional approvals before construction can begin.
Sales are expected to open in 2018.
According to The Real Deal Miami, the project has been bogged down in litigation over the past few years because of disagreements over whether the developers of Apeiron at the Jockey Club had the right to build on the land.
The Jockey Club currently consists of three buildings built between 1971 and 1982.
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