Newly minted Alabama Gov Ivey gets props for accepting the resignation of the husband whose wife was having an affair with the previous Gov. Question now, did the guy have the job as payoff to keep quiet? PB/TK
Gov. Kay Ivey saves Alabama $90K a year on first day – Brian Lyman April 12 2017
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The husband of a consultant whose relationship with now-former Gov. Robert Bentley led to his resignation was dismissed Tuesday from state government.
In her first full day on the job, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey accepted the resignation of Jon Mason, Bentley’s director of faith-based services.
Mason’s Cabinet-level agency coordinates volunteers and donations for disaster aid and is the liaison for faith- and community-based nonprofits. In the most recent fiscal year ending Sept. 30, Mason was paid $91,000, according to the state Comptroller’s Office; he received almost $550,000 in salary and expenses since he first was appointed.
His agency, called ServeAlabama, was established in 2004 during President George W. Bush’s administration. Mason, previously a meteorologist at WVUA-TV, Tuscaloosa, Ala., was hired in January 2011 as director after Bentley was inaugurated.
The newly installed governor is “evaluating all staff, and all Cabinet members who will stay, (and) who will go,” said Eileen Jones, Ivey’s spokeswoman. “The governor has asked members of the staff to turn in letters of resignation; his was accepted
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