This Love is Real - by Donald V. Watkins
The call came late this morning. Robert Bentley’s inner circle has privately conceded that the love affair reported in Part 1 of “Forbidden Love – Robert Bentley’s Secret Love Affair” is real and deep. There will be no demand for a retraction of the facts our Facebook news team reported surrounding the Governor’s illicit love affair with Rebekah Mason. Neither the Governor, nor Rebekah Mason, wants to undergo a sworn deposition regarding their hot and heavy romance.
On the eve of tomorrow’s second special session of the Alabama Legislature, the Governor’s attention is not on the $200 million in new revenues needed to cover the deficit in the general fund budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year. Bentley’s primary focus for the moment is on whether he should publicly admit or deny his love for Rebekah Mason.
When caught, the Governor privately admitted his love for Mason to First Lady Dianne Bentley. Mrs. Bentley was devastated by his admission.
The only question for Bentley now is whether he will come clean with the public. Yesterday, the Birmingham News called on Bentley to do so.
Meanwhile, Bentley’s chief legal advisor David Byrne and other minions are running around trying to find and use every possible technique to cover-up the evidence of the Governor’s marital infidelity. This juvenile effort to conceal the affair is too little, too late.
The Governor has already decided that he will not allow his evangelical Christian base of supporters to influence his love for Rebekah Mason. By his public silence in the face of a growing infidelity scandal, the Governor has implicitly told these supporters to “Go to Hell”.
Bentley is prepared to sacrifice everything in the name of love - his marriage, his relationship with his sons, his religious tenets, and his long-time close friendships with people like Paul Bryant, Jr., and others who thought they were close to Bentley.
No matter who questions Bentley, 72, about his love for his 43-year old married paramour, he will not deny it, privately or publicly. This May-December love affair is real.
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