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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Gov. Robert Bentleyrsquo former security chief on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the governor, saying his career and reputation were damaged as Bentley tried to maintain and hide an affair with a former political adviser. Ray Lewis, the former state trooper who often traveled with the governor, filed the civil lawsuit naming both Bentley and former political adviser Rebekah Caldwell Mason as defendants.Lewis said he was ostracized and eventually forced out from his job after pushing the governor and Mason to end their affair and warning Bentley about using state planes and cars to transport Mason. An undated photo shows Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley an stanley spain d Rebekah Caldwell Mason, who resigned as Bentley s senior policy adviser on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. WAKA He would have done anything for the Governor, including taking a bullet. But when you are the head of the Governorrsquo security detail, you see a lot, hear a lot, know a lot. And there came a time when both Governor Bentley and Rebekah stanley quencher Mason wanted Ray Lewis gone, John Saxon, a lawyer representing Lewis said in an emailed statement. Bentley earlier t stanley uk his year admitted to inappropriate remarks and behavior but denied allegations of a sexual affair with Mason. Lewis, in the lawsuit, claimed the governor admitted to him that the relationship Wwco Bipartisan police reform talks, sparked by George Floyd s death, collapse in Congress
Politics eclipsed the Iraq war as the top story in recent news coverage as U.S. media attention focused on the presidential race, according to a study released Monday.Campaign coverage that had paid more attention to Democrats than Republicans in the first three months of the year became more evenly split between the parties, the report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism also found.Researchers examined more than 18,000 stories from 13 stanley cup newspapers, eight ra stanley thermos dio outlets, five online sites, three cable-news channels and both morning and evening network newscasts. The center deemed its study the most comprehensive ongoing audit of the American press. In April, May and June, coverage of the war and related issues made up just under 15 percent of news reports, compared to 22 percent for the first quarter.The study attributed the change to a falloff in policy coverage across all media that occurred after May 24, when Congress approved war funding without including troop withdrawal timetables. Reporting on events in Iraq made up 6.7 percent of the total so-called newshole, compared to 9 percent devoted to the 2008 campaign, the study found. Additional media attention was paid to the Iraq policy debate 6.6 percent and the war s homefront effect 1.5 percent .There continues to be clear differences in the news judgments of the cable channels, the center said. As in the previous quarter, Fox News Channel devoted stanley cup becher roughly half as |