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Foster Friess |
Foster Friess -- a financial backer of Karl Rove's Crossroads America, Rick Santorum's political campaigns, and the Daily Caller Web site -- finished second to state treasurer Mark Gordon, who will face Democrat Mary Throne in November's general election.
How has Friess possibly contributed to corruption in Alabama? That would be through the National Bloggers Club (NBC), an umbrella group for mostly obscure right-wing bloggers. Ali Akbar, a felon who went on a six-year spree of crime and fraud, somehow became head of the NBC -- and that largely explains Friess' unsavory impact on Alabama's already toxic political and legal environment.
How did Akbar, with multiple criminal convictions and a documented taste for seeking gay sex via the Grindr geosocial networking app, come to represent those hallowed GOP family values? Perhaps Foster Friess asks himself that question from time to time, as he counts his billions. (Note: Akbar seems to be in the process of changing his name to Ali (Akbar) Alexander. That might be a wise move for a convicted felon and Grinder devotee, who has expressed a desire to run for public office.)
For now, our interest is in Akbar's apparent connections to two attacks on Alabama progressives:
(1) My kidnapping and five-month incarceration in 2013-14 for the "crime" of blogging about mostly GOP-related corruption in Alabama's legal and political arenas;
(2) False allegations of misconduct (related mostly to a serious neck injury) against whistle blower, opposition researcher, and retired attorney Dana Jill Simpson, which caused her to be placed on inactive/disability status with the Alabama State Bar.
What makes Akbar (and perhaps the NBC) a suspect in these two instances. We are still researching the specifics, but we know this much:
(1) Akbar threatened Simpson, bragging online that he was going to come to Alabama, "dine with the Governor and then spend the afternoon cashing in favors with Alabama lawyers."
(2) Akbar was pissed at Simpson because she had written a letter to Obama campaign counsel Robert Bauer, in which she revealed Akbar's homosexual relationship with GOP guru Karl Rove.
(3) Akbar was pissed at me for reporting on the Simpson letter, and threatened a baseless lawsuit, via a Montgomery attorney and radio host named Baron Coleman.
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Ali (Akbar) Alexander, Foster Friess, and Robert Stacy McCain |
(5) As already noted, Akbar has used the legal services of Baron Coleman. Tripp Vickers, assistant general counsel with the State Bar, once worked with Coleman at the Montgomery law firm of Sasser, Sefton, and Brown.
(6) Vickers directed the dubious process that brought Simpson's legal career to a halt. As for me (and my wife, Carol), evidence we've collected so far indicates Vickers was involved in interfering with at least one of our pending federal lawsuits, per a statement from Fultondale attorney Greg Morris.
We still are gathering facts on all of this, which could lead to a RICO lawsuit. This much seems clear: Foster Friess might never become governor of Wyoming, but he soon could have reason for concern about events in Alabama. It seems someone has used Friess' financial resources to conduct some seriously underhanded business.
15 comments:
You mean a right-wing billionaire can't buy an election in Wyoming? Sheesh!
Aren't there more cows than voters in Wyoming?
Foster Friess must be all hat and no cattle.
Ali Akbar is an arrogant little prick.
Sounds like a Donald Trump endorsement is about as valuable as a warm cup of spit right now.
Ali Akbar's mouth is going to get him in trouble.
@10:50 --
Maybe the cows voted -- and they don't like Trump.
If Friess invested in a right-wing bloggers club, led by a convicted felon, he's too stupid to be governor of any state, even Wyoming.
@11:04 --
Cows obviously are smarter than people.
@11:04 --
Given Ali's ties to Grindr, I kind of hate to think where his mouth has been.
Hell, Friess probably wins if he doesn't get the last-minute endorsement from the Trumpster Fire.
What's the point of being a billionaire if you can't buy an election in Wyoming?
You lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. Looks like the wannabe gov. didn't have a good look at where he was spending his billions. Perhaps he could spend some of it with Habitat for Humanity and do some good in the world instead of trying to prop up not so ethical Republicans.
This primary did demonstrate you may be able to buy love but not the governorship in Wyoming
He looks like one of the dudes I was talking to at the restaurant in Laramie last November who asked me how in the world Doug Jones got elected in Republican Alabama! They said they were going to start spending money in Alabama to put Jones out of office because he could mess up their ranching & mining interests with “Liberal” environmental regulations.
Thanks for sharing, Rob. Funny story. Heck, it might have been Friess, especially being a guy who keeps up with politics like that.
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