Don Siegelman
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"Don Eugene Siegelman" is an American Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party politician who held numerous offices in Alabama. He was the List of Governors of Alabama/51st Governor of Alabama for one term from 1999 to 2003, and to date is the last member of the Democratic Party to hold that office. Siegelman is also the only person in the history of Alabama to be elected to serve in all four of the top statewide elected offices: Secretary of State of Alabama/Secretary of State, Alabama Attorney General/Attorney General, List of Lieutenant Governors of Alabama/Lieutenant Governor and Governor. He served in Alabama politics for 26 years.

In 2006 Siegelman was convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to seven years in prison. Various former attorneys general and officials have contended that his prosecution was intentionally wrongful. On March 6, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit/11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld key bribery, conspiracy and obstruction counts against Siegelman and refused his request for a new trial. Siegelman is currently serving a 6.5 year sentence.

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It's like somebody wrapped up sticks of dynamite and just blew these homes into little tiny pieces.

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Today I am directing state agencies to work closely with each other and local governments and to make every effort possible to prevent the spread of the West Nile virus.

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Either way, it comes down to just 3,000 votes out of approximately 1,360,000 votes cast, ... That's just two-tenths of 1 percent of the total vote cast in this election. Such a small margin would have already triggered a recount in 12 states.

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A lot of the momentum we started, he has allowed to flounder.

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I think the people deserve another vote.

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I think the people of Alabama now realize that they would rather have Don's lottery than Bob and Lucy's taxes.

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I ask for a statewide recount of every vote in this election -- a recount of every vote in every precinct, of every vote in every county, ... Let's recount all of the votes and discover once and for all who was the legitimate winner of Tuesday's election.

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[But Siegelman tells a different story:] Sometime after midnight, after the poll watchers were sent home, a small group there decided to recount the votes a third time, ... No watchers legally entitled to be present were notified -- and then a different total was established.

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My announcement is going to be about getting Alabama back on track. We are going to go through and highlight the things that I've done and highlight the things that Gov. Riley has not done.

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