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247sports.com Most Valuable Tigers No 23 Nathan King 5–6 minutes We're still in the heart of the college football offseason, more than two weeks removed from spring practice, media days still a month away, and more than two months until the start of the 2023 season, Auburn’s first under Hugh Freeze. So what better time to crank up the rankings? As we do annually this time of year, Auburn Undercover is counting down the top 25 most valuable players for the Tigers' 2023 season. A few notes to set the table: These rankings are based on a player's previous contributions to the team, as well as his assumed impact in 2023 — how important he is expected to be to Auburn's success in both production and the win-loss column. It is not simply Auburn's best players in descending order. If a freshman is included on the list, his positioning is obviously a projection of his talent and significance to his respective position group. Next up is No. 23: North Texas linebacker transfer Larry Nixon III. AS A RECRUIT Hometown: Richland, Texas Class: 2018 247Sports ranking: No. 198 OLB, N/A overall (2-star) (North Texas Athletics) AS A PLAYER If he carves out a significant role in the defense, Nixon would be one of the biggest success stories at Auburn in 2023 in terms of recruiting stature, considering he was ranked as the No. 426 player in the state of Texas alone by 247Sports back in the 2018 class. Nixon redshirted his first season with the Mean Green and had 17 tackles the following year before settling into a primary role in 2020, logging 23 starts over the following three seasons. One of the most productive players in the Group of Five last year, Nixon earned first team All-Conference USA honors after posting 105 tackles with the Mean Green. In four years at North Texas, Nixon compiled 245 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks. Nixon went through spring practice with North Texas under first-year head coach Eric Morris before entering the portal in late April. Three weeks later, he became Auburn’s 18th transfer pickup of the cycle — and he committed to Auburn on the same day as his North Texas teammate, receiver Jyaire Shorter. Nixon chose the Tigers over transfer suitors Miami and West Virginia. 2023 OUTLOOK Nixon becomes one of the Tigers’ most veteran pieces for first-year coordinator Ron Roberts’ defense, after he appeared in 40 games playing for North Texas in his home state. First-year position coach Josh Aldridge said during spring practices that there are a number of players in his room who are versatile enough to play either middle or weakside ‘backer — particularly Cam Riley. Ole Miss transfer Austin Keys has the “perfect Mike build to him,” according to Aldridge, and he and Wesley Steiner shared first-team reps there throughout spring ball. That would seemingly slot Nixon into a role on the weakside, which would be on track with the skill set he displayed at North Texas. According to Pro Football Focus, only 12.7 percent of his snaps last season came at middle linebacker. There, he’ll likely compete with the lengthy and athletic Riley, who started eight games last season. But at the end of the day, as Aldridge and Roberts harped on during the spring, Auburn’s defense wants at least four or five linebackers who can consistently rotate over the course of a game. A situation like that of Owen Pappoe — who played an absurd 90.2 percent of Auburn’s defensive snaps last season — should be a thing of the past for a new coaching staff that’s put a big emphasis on depth and rotation. Considering Nixon’s experience level and superb production last season as the No. 4 leading tackler in Conference USA, there should be little reason to think he won’t be a factor in that refreshing equation for Auburn’s linebacking corps this season. Nixon could very likely end up as one of Auburn's most important — and productive — players on defense in a starting role, but the Tigers also have a handful of other options in the linebacking corps, and for now he'll sit behind a number of returning starters on both sides of the ball. WHAT THEY SAID “Larry Nixon is a tackling machine. … Just his passion, the way he ran to the football and the way he's a solid tackler. You just can't have enough of those guys. And I think he's going to come in and compete for a starting position, I really do.” — Freeze WHAT SAY YOU? What do you think of Nixon’s spot in our Most Valuable Tigers rankings? Too high? Too low? Just right? Share your thoughts on the Bodda Getta message board, on Twitter or on Facebook.

247sports.com Most Valuable Tigers No 22 Nathan King 5–7 minutes We're still in the heart of the college football offseason, more than two weeks removed from spring practice, media days still a month away, and more than two months until the start of the 2023 season, Auburn’s first under Hugh Freeze. So what better time to crank up the rankings? As we do annually this time of year, Auburn Undercover is counting down the top 25 most valuable players for the Tigers' 2023 season. A few notes to set the table: These rankings are based on a player's previous contributions to the team, as well as his assumed impact in 2023 — how important he is expected to be to Auburn's success in both production and the win-loss column. It is not simply Auburn's best players in descending order. If a freshman is included on the list, his positioning is obviously a projection of his talent and significance to his respective position group. Next up is No. 22: veteran safety Zion Puckett. AS A RECRUIT Hometown: Griffin, Georgia Class: 2019 247Sports ranking: No. 16 S, No. 190 overall (4-star) 247Sports high school scouting report: “Enough size as both a safety and a wide receiver with the ability to play either on the next level. On defense, shows some nastiness. Has wide receiver caliber ball skills. Instinctive at safety. Is not a rare athlete. Doesn’t show a lot of man coverage reps and may struggle matched up on receivers early in his college career. Has the natural football acumen to be an early contributor on either side of the football and has mid-round NFL Draft upside on defense.” (Dale Zanine, USA TODAY Sports) AS A PLAYER After how the top of Auburn's 2019 class has since been gutted with departures, Puckett is one of the highest-rated recruits on Auburn's entire roster. But just like his 2019 classmate, receiver Ja'Varrius Johnson, his college progression was underscored by injuries really until last year. His freshman season, he appeared in only four games to maintain his redshirt. In 2020, the Tigers still had plenty of depth at nickel and safety, but Puckett was able to fashion himself a decent role behind Christian Tutt at the nickel spot, grabbing 15 tackles and two tackles for loss in nine games. With Tutt gone, though, Puckett had an opportunity for a starting role at nickel in 2021, competing primarily against Vanderbilt transfer Donovan Kaufman. Puckett, a sturdy defensive back at 6 feet and 227 pounds, quietly turned in a productive season, finishing top 10 on the team in tackles with 48. The former top-150 recruit from Georgia could have had more, but he missed four games with a shoulder injury. After the regular season, Puckett decided to undergo surgery and missed the bowl game against Houston. Last year was Puckett’s most productive all-around college season. With Auburn having lost Smoke Monday, Jamien Sherwood and Bydarrius Knighten to the NFL, Puckett slid into a starting safety role alongside Kaufman. Finishing No. 7 on the team with 45 tackles, Puckett also registered a tackle for loss, two pass breakups and a forced fumble. We’ll continue to reference Pro Football Focus numbers in the series, and although they aren’t everything, they did indicate some big struggles for Puckett last season. He had the worst overall grade on the entire defense, including the worst pure coverage grade (41.4) and the second-worst run defense grade among starters on defense. 2023 OUTLOOK While Jaylin Simpson looks to have a higher ceiling at the safety position for Auburn this season, Puckett is still an important returning veteran who will help to lead a highly experienced secondary. Puckett was occasionally fashioned as a linebacker hybrid within Auburn’s defense in his earlier seasons, and while he’s still capable of creeping up to the second level of the defense due to his physicality, another year of stability at safety should serve him well. The fifth-year senior should have a strong grip on his starting job, but role players like Cayden Bridges and Marquise Gilbert have continued to progress over the past year and will certainly push for more playing time. Kaufman, who split time with Keionte Scott at nickel during spring practice, is also capable of sliding back to safety if need be. With the Tigers still breaking in a new defensive coordinator in Ron Roberts, Puckett will continue to be looked to as a coach on the field, bringing younger players along and ensuring Auburn is sound in its assignments this season. Puckett was described as that kind of player by his peers and coaches during spring ball, and that could be his most crucial attribute in what could be his final college season. Puckett redshirted his freshman year and still can utilize his COVID-19 season. WHAT THEY SAID “We call him Teach Tape 10. He does everything perfect in terms of teach tapes. He does everything right from a technique standpoint. He is really a vocal guy. Everybody in the room, when they have a question they go to Zion because he actually studied the game.” — Auburn safeties coach Zac Etheridge WHAT SAY YOU? What do you think of Puckett’s spot in our Most Valuable Tigers rankings? Too high? Too low? Just right? Share your thoughts on the Bodda Getta message board, on Twitter or on Facebook.

Auburn briefing: Tigers in position for high profile names in 2024 recruiting class Lance Dawe 2–3 minutes Auburn football continues to make the final cuts for some big time names in the 2024 recruiting class. Auburn football continues to make the final cuts for some big time names in the 2024 recruiting class. Auburn's 2024 class includes four-stars Walker White (QB), A'Mon Lane (DB), Jayden Lewis (DB), J'Marion Burnette (RB), Joseph Phillips (LB), and Kensley Faustin (S), as well as three-stars Martavious Collins (TE) and Bryce Cain (WR). They're in position to get a few more guys within the coming months. We wrote it Auburn has their eyes on a lot of 2024 targets. Here are five names that could change the Tigers' 2024 class into something special. LJ Cray, a four-star DL out of Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Florida, has included the Tigers in his top five schools. Auburn is alongside Georgia, Florida, Miami, and Florida State. Read about him here. Auburn is pushing hard after three-star defensive back Rydarrius "Red" Morgan. Many hear three-star and lose interest, but if you look at Morgan's offer list, he definitely won't be a three-star for very long. Read about Red here. Tweet of the day The Kick Six will never, ever get old. Auburn football kicks off the 2023 season at home vs UMass on September 2nd. Kickoff is at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN.

auburnwire.usatoday.com Auburn Tigers Snapshot Profile: No. 9 Robby Ashford JD McCarthy 8–10 minutes Going into the 2023 football season, Auburn Wire will be looking at each scholarship player listed on the Tigers’ roster. Over the preseason, each profile will cover where the player is from, how recruiting websites rated them coming out of high school, and what role they will play for Hugh Freeze in his first season on the Plains. Buy Tigers Tickets Up next is returning starting quarterback Robby Ashford. Ashford flashed his potential last season but struggled at times and is now battling Michigan State transfer Peyton Thorne for the starting job. Preseason Player Profile Hometown: Hoover, Alabama Height: 6-3 Weight: 218 Previous School: Oregon (2020-21) Class in 2023: Sophomore 247Sports Composite Ranking Four-Star / No. 12 in AL / No. 12 QB Career Stats Year G Completion Percentage Yards TDs INTs Rushing Yards TDs 2022 12 49% (123-250) 1,613 7 7 710 7 PFF Grades Year Offense Passing Running Pass Block Run Block 2022 58.6 50.1 67.4 62.2 60.6 Depth Chart Overview Ashford went through spring as Auburn’s No. 1 quarterback but Hugh Freeze and Co. then went out and added a veteran transfer in Thorne and he is certainly the favorite to win the job. Even if Ashford is unable to win the job, he could still have a role due to his rushing ability. He averaged 4.6 yards per carry last season and defenses would have to honor his ability to throw the ball. He is still just a sophomore and if he can improve his accuracy and decision making then he has a chance to be an important part of Auburn’s quarterback room moving forward. Robby Ashford’s Photo Gallery San Jose St Auburn Football Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford (9) stiff-arms San Jose State linebacker Jordan Cobbs (44) as he carries… Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford (9) stiff-arms San Jose State linebacker Jordan Cobbs (44) as he carries the ball during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) San Jose St Auburn Football Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford warms up for the team's NCAA college football game against San Jose… Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford warms up for the team's NCAA college football game against San Jose State on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) Auburn Football: A-Day Apr 9, 2022; Auburn, AL, USA; Robby Ashford (9) looks for a pass during Auburn Football… Apr 9, 2022; Auburn, AL, USA; Robby Ashford (9) looks for a pass during Auburn Football A-Day at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Photographer: Jacob Taylor/AU Athletics Mercer Auburn Football Auburn's Robby Ashford (9) celebrates a touchdown run by Auburn's Jarquez Hunter, not pictured, during the… Auburn's Robby Ashford (9) celebrates a touchdown run by Auburn's Jarquez Hunter, not pictured, during the second half of an NCAA football game against Mercer on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Stew Milne) Missouri Auburn Football Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford warms up before the start of an NCAA college football game between… Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford warms up before the start of an NCAA college football game between Auburn and Missouri Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022 in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) Missouri Auburn Football Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford reacts after making a first down during the first half of an… Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford reacts after making a first down during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Missouri, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022 in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) Penn St Auburn Football Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford rolls out to pass during the second half of an NCAA college… Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford rolls out to pass during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Penn State, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) Texas A&M v Auburn AUBURN, ALABAMA - NOVEMBER 12: Defensive lineman Morris Joseph Jr. #91 of the Auburn Tigers and… AUBURN, ALABAMA - NOVEMBER 12: Defensive lineman Morris Joseph Jr. #91 of the Auburn Tigers and quarterback Robby Ashford #9 of the Auburn Tigers celebrate after defeating the Texas A&M Aggies at Jordan-Hare Stadium on November 12, 2022 in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Michael Chang/Getty Images) FTBL: FOOTBALL Nov 26, 2022; Tuscaloosa, Al, USA; Robby Ashford (9) celebrates touchdown during the game between Auburn… Nov 26, 2022; Tuscaloosa, Al, USA; Robby Ashford (9) celebrates touchdown during the game between Auburn and Alabama at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics FTBL: FOOTBALL Nov 19, 2022; Auburn, Al, USA; Robby Ashford (9) celebrates after the game between Auburn and… Nov 19, 2022; Auburn, Al, USA; Robby Ashford (9) celebrates after the game between Auburn and Western Kentucky at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Zach Bland/AU Athletics NCAA Football: Western Kentucky at Auburn Nov 19, 2022; Auburn, Alabama, USA; Auburn Tigers quarterback Robby Ashford (9) celebrates after the Tigers… Nov 19, 2022; Auburn, Alabama, USA; Auburn Tigers quarterback Robby Ashford (9) celebrates after the Tigers scored a touchdown against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers during the first quarter at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John Reed-USA TODAY Sports NCAA Football: Western Kentucky at Auburn Nov 19, 2022; Auburn, Alabama, USA; Auburn Tigers quarterback Robby Ashford (9) shows a pass during… Nov 19, 2022; Auburn, Alabama, USA; Auburn Tigers quarterback Robby Ashford (9) shows a pass during the second quarter against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John Reed-USA TODAY Sports FTBL: FOOTBALL Nov 5, 2022; Starkville, MS, USA; Robby Ashford (9) throws for the pass during the game… Nov 5, 2022; Starkville, MS, USA; Robby Ashford (9) throws for the pass during the game between Auburn and Mississippi State at Davis Wade Stadium . Todd Van Emst / AU Athletics Arkansas v Auburn AUBURN, ALABAMA - OCTOBER 29: Quarterback Robby Ashford #9 of the Auburn Tigers looks for an… AUBURN, ALABAMA - OCTOBER 29: Quarterback Robby Ashford #9 of the Auburn Tigers looks for an open player during the first half of their game against the Arkansas Razorbacks at Jordan-Hare Stadium on October 29, 2022 in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Michael Chang/Getty Images) Syndication: The Montgomery Advertiser Auburn Tigers quarterback Robby Ashford (9) throws the ball as the Auburn Tigers take on Arkansas… Auburn Tigers quarterback Robby Ashford (9) throws the ball as the Auburn Tigers take on Arkansas Razorbacks at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. Arkansas Razorbacks leads Auburn Tigers 17-13 at halftime. FTBL: FOOTBALL 10/15/22: Oxford, Mississippi, USA; Robby Ashford (9) points to the sky after a touchdown during the… 10/15/22: Oxford, Mississippi, USA; Robby Ashford (9) points to the sky after a touchdown during the game Auburn vs Ole Miss Austin Perryman/AU Athletics Austin Perryman/AU Athletics FTBL: FOOTBALL 10/15/22: Oxford, Mississippi, USA; Robby Ashford (9) celebrates a touchdown during the game Auburn vs Ole… 10/15/22: Oxford, Mississippi, USA; Robby Ashford (9) celebrates a touchdown during the game Auburn vs Ole Miss Austin Perryman/AU Athletics Austin Perryman/AU Athletics Syndication: The Montgomery Advertiser Auburn Tigers quarterback Robby Ashford (9) passes behind offensive lineman Brandon Council (71), offensive lineman Kilian… Auburn Tigers quarterback Robby Ashford (9) passes behind offensive lineman Brandon Council (71), offensive lineman Kilian Zierer (77) and offensive lineman Kameron Stutts (62) against LSU as the Auburn Tigers take on the LSU Tigers at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. 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the first time tennessee finally got the balls to play auburn at auburn. i forget what year but we stomped the hell right out of them.........

yahoo.com "Shady and corrupt": Watchdog group sounds the alarm over Amy Coney Barrett real estate deal Tatyana Tandanpolie 6–7 minutes Amy Coney BarrettNICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has personal ties to a leader of the legal clinic under the Notre Dame initiative that funded Justice Samuel Alito's July 2022 speaking trip to Rome, CNN reports. Just months after she was sworn in at the Supreme Court in 2020, Barrett, who had left her judgeship and job as a Notre Dame law professor, sold her private home in South Bend, Indiana, to a recently hired Notre Dame professor who was assuming a leadership role at the Religious Liberty Initiative, according to records discovered by the left-leaning non-profit watchdog group Accountable.US. The initiative's legal clinic has curried favor with the Supreme Court since its founding in 2020 and filed at least nine "friend-of-the-court" amicus briefs in religious liberty cases before the Court. Alito joined the majority in deciding in favor of the initiative's conservative positions in several of those cases, including the one that reversed Roe v. Wade, and others on issues of school prayer and COVID-19 restrictions on churches. Related "Beyond parody": Experts pound Alito for pre-buttal op-ed defending luxury trip with GOP billionaire Neither Barrett's real estate transaction nor Alito's trip to Italy to deliver a keynote at a gala violated the court's ethics rules, several experts told CNN. "It raises a question – not so much of corruption as such, but of whether disclosures, our current system of disclosures, is adequate to the task," Kathleen Clark, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis Law School who specializes in government ethics, told the outlet. Barrett sold the home to Brendan Wilson, then a Washington D.C.-based lawyer, for $905,000, a transaction that she was not required to disclose on her annual financial forms. Federal regulations exclude sales of the "personal residence of the filer and the filer's spouse" from financial matters judges are mandated to disclose. However, some experts told CNN that Wilson's role at the Religious Liberty Initiative and the work of its legal clinic provide another reason why some rules at the Supreme Court should be adapted to increase transparency for the public, giving it a better understanding of the ties between the justices and legal advocates in the high court. "The court, frankly, it faces a kind of legitimacy crisis because of the really dire weaknesses of its ethics," Clark said. "It has the opportunity to address that legitimacy crisis by, you know, stepping up its ethics game – imposing on itself and then abiding by additional disclosure operations." Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary Salon has to offer? Subscribe to our morning newsletter, Crash Course. Stephanie Barclay, the Religious Liberty Initiative's director, emphasized to CNN that Wilson "really could not be further removed from Supreme Court litigation" and explained that many people involved with the group contribute to the briefs they submit to the Supreme Court. Wilson's biography on the initiative's page says his role covers "the transactional component of the Religious Liberty Clinic," and a recent job posting from the group specified that the transactional component includes legal advising for religiously affiliated organizations. Wilson did not respond to CNN's interview requests, nor did Barrett respond to the network's request for comment. Barrett's real estate transaction makes her the third member of the Supreme Court to have made money from property sales with powerful conservative figures or people connected to legal advocacy groups writing the Court. Politico reported that Justice Neil Gorsuch sold a vacation home to the CEO of a major law firm who has argued before the court and did not disclose the buyer's name. Justice Clarence Thomas also came under fire earlier this year when ProPublica revealed a 2014 real estate deal he made with GOP megadonor and billionaire Harlan Crow and failed to disclose. The outlet also revealed that Crow had financed decades of lavish travel and gifts for Thomas and paid the tuition of Thomas' grandnephew for two years in the 2000s. Related Neil Gorsuch caught selling property to head of law firm "involved in at least 22" SCOTUS cases Indiana University law professor and legal ethics expert Charles Geyh told CNN that despite Barrett's transaction falling within Supreme Court regulations, it only further complicates the perception of the court in the public eye. "It is addressed by the court being much more vigilant in guarding against perception problems created by (the justices') financial wheelings and dealings and going the extra mile to make sure that they not only are clean, but look clean," he said. The controversies and increased public scrutiny of the court have also sparked calls for a defined code of ethics to be imposed and enforced on the justices. "The endless drip of shady and corrupt Supreme Court dealings just further underscores the need for reform." Accountable.US President Kyle Herrig said in a statement. "Every federal judge is bound to an ethics code requiring them to avoid behavior that so much as looks improper, except for Supreme Court justices. Chief Justice (John) Roberts has the power to change that, but so far he hasn't shown the courage. If he fails to do his job, Congress must do theirs." Read more about the SCOTUS ethics scandal Samuel Alito scandal shows why conservative justices on the Supreme Court are so whiny Alito's WSJ op-ed didn't mention SCOTUS takeover architect Leonard Leo's key role in ethics scandal Samuel Alito took luxury fishing vacation with GOP billionaire who later had cases before the court Clarence Thomas "must be impeached" over $133K "shady land deal" with billionaire GOP donor: critics

yahoo.com "This is so stupid": MTG mocked over resolution to pretend Trump's impeachments never happened Tatyana Tandanpolie 5–6 minutes Marjorie Taylor GreeneChip Somodevilla/Getty Images Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., and Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., unveiled joint resolutions Thursday to expunge former President Donald Trump's 2019 and 2021 impeachments. Stefanik's measure pertains to Trump's 2021 impeachment on charges of inciting an insurrection, asserting that the facts the articles were based on did not meet the burden of proving that the former president committed "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, or participate in "insurrection of rebellion against the United States." Greene's resolution addresses Trump's 2019 impeachment on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for withholding aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the nation into launching investigations into then-presidential candidate Joe Biden ahead of the election. The document argues that the former president was wrongfully accused of misconduct and that the circumstances on which the impeachment was based did not prove he committed "high crimes and Misdemeanors." Related "You've been nothing but a little b***h to me," MTG says to Boebert during a House floor squabble The conservative congresswomen defended their legislation in a joint press statement Thursday. "The American people know Democrats weaponized the power of impeachment against President Donald Trump to advance their own extreme political agenda," Stefanik said in a press release. "From the beginning of this sham process, I stood up against Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff's blatant attempt to shred the Constitution as House Democrats ignored the Constitution and failed to follow the legislative process. "President Donald Trump was rightfully acquitted, and it is past time to expunge Democrats' sham smear against not only President Trump's name, but against millions of patriots across the country," she added. "The first impeachment of President Trump was a politically motivated sham. The Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, weaponized a perfect phone call with Ukraine to interfere with the 2020 election. Meanwhile, the FBI had credible evidence of Joe and Hunter Biden's corrupt dealings, confirming their involvement in a foreign bribery pay-to-play scheme and receipt of over $5 million each. All of this information was revealed to Congress by the FD-1023 form from the FBI's most credible informant. The form vindicates President Trump and exposes the crimes of the Biden family," Greene said in a statement. "It's clear that President Trump's impeachment was a nothing [sic] more than a witch hunt that needs to be expunged from our history," she said. "I'm proud to work with Chairwoman Elise Stefanik on our joint resolutions to correct the record and clear President Trump's good name." Stefanik's office also added in a press release that if the resolutions were passed, it would be "as if such Articles of Impeachment had never passed the full House of Representatives." Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary Salon has to offer? Subscribe to our morning newsletter, Crash Course. According to Axios, the measures would be mostly symbolic because expungement processes normally pertain to lower-profile criminal cases that can easily disappear from the public record; Trump's impeachments, in contrast, were widely publicized. Though it's unclear whether either resolution will solicit a vote, Stefanik, who chairs the House Republican Conference, has greater influence than others to ensure it happens. The measures also come amid moves by right-wing House Republicans to impeach President Joe Biden and five of his officials and investigate the Biden family's alleged financial schemes much to the chagrin of their more moderate colleagues. MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican lawmaker, slammed Greene and Stefanik's actions on Friday's edition of "Morning Joe," deriding the efforts as "so stupid" and "shameless." "Gesture, gesture, gesture. All they do are gestures," Scarborough complained. "It's totally unclear if such resolutions are even legally possible. House practices offer no guidance," co-host Mika Brzezinski said. "I'm sorry, this is too stupid. I don't even want to read this story," Scarborough said, before repeating that the situation is "too stupid." Brzezinski agreed, adding that we "already knew about Marjorie Taylor Greene — she came baked into the cake — but what the heck?" "Well, just shameless. But that's okay. That's okay. This is so stupid," Scarborough responded. "I mean, why would you do this? It makes no sense. It doesn't make any sense legislatively," he added. "But if their only focus is raising money for themselves, which they can do, the more the more freakish ideas they have, the more freaks out there send them $25, then this actually makes perfect sense for them, just not for the rest of the party." Read more about Marjorie Taylor Greene "I 100% support a challenge to MTG": Knives out in MAGA World over Greene's betrayal House Democrats erupt in laughter after MTG calls for "decorum" while presiding over chamber MTG ripped for spending $100K on Kevin McCarthy's used Chapstick while "country teeters on default"

remember when you and that buffoonish walrus John Durham traveled to Italy in order to discredit the Russia investigation? remember how that blew up in your face when Italian officials told you they had evidence that Donald Trump had committed financial crimes? what did you do with that evidence? did you show it to the American people? no, you ******* buried it. Boy trump just keeps on giving..............

Open in app or online **** these ******* ***** who should have told the truth about Trump back when it mattered we don’t need your honesty now. we needed your honesty back then. Jeff Tiedrich Jun 23 Share oh look, the Bill Barr Rehabilitation Tour continues, and oh boy does he suddenly have a lot of negative things to say about his former boss. Upgrade to paid “He's like a 9-year-old, a defiant 9-year-old kid who is always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it. It's a means of self-assertion and exerting his dominance over other people. And he's a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country's, his personal gratification of ... his ego.” Barr described Trump as "a man who, when he's told something he doesn't want to hear, he immediately throws a tantrum and attacks the person personally." wait, you’re telling us this now? hey Bill, **** straight off. remember the Mueller Report? did you level with the American people then about the naked criminality of your boss? no, you issued your own misleading summary full of lies and distortions, and to this day half the public mistakenly believes that Mueller exonerated Trump. remember when you put pressure on the Southern District of New York to go after Trump’s personal and political enemies? where was your integrity then? remember when you and that buffoonish walrus John Durham traveled to Italy in order to discredit the Russia investigation? remember how that blew up in your face when Italian officials told you they had evidence that Donald Trump had committed financial crimes? what did you do with that evidence? did you show it to the American people? no, you ******* buried it. we don’t need your honesty now. we needed your honesty back then. when it would have mattered. you’re useless to us now. **** off. Refer a friend hey over here, it’s Christopher ******* Christie. look at that, you found your voice. now that you’re a presidential candidate, you can’t stop criticizing Donald Trump. …. his description last week of the former president as “a lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog.” He also called Trump “a child,” “completely self-centered, completely self-consumed,” “a three-time loser,” a “loser, loser, loser,” and “victim me, poor me.” how bluntly honest and refreshing. now piss off. where was your blunt honesty back in 2016, when you were bowing and scraping and tugging your forelock before Trump, in hopes of being appointed Attorney General? where was it in 2020 when you were helping Trump do debate prep, and you almost died of covid as a result? death’s door couldn’t loosen your tongue back then, but now you can’t stop talking. useless. ******* useless. go join Bill Barr in ****offistan. Mike Pompeo. John Kelly. John Bolton. Mark Esper. the list goes on. I’m ******* fed up to here with the cowards and opportunists who witnessed Donald Trump’s crimes and pathologies and chose to stay silent in order to further their careers and agendas. shut the **** up. go away. the damage is done. we don’t forgive you and we don’t need you. everyone is entitled to my own opinion is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paidTHET SHOULD HAVE TOLD THE TRUTH WHEN IT MATTERED

if you cannot protect kids in church they need to be shut down. period. but you give the church a pass because you claim to be christian but they should still go after the trannies? lol you have lost your mind. i hope and pray non of your kids ever get molested because it is not a pretty site. most never recover. they just deal with it and try and move own. but it always sneaks back to let these people suffer again and again. i believe jesus would say the same thing. if you cannot protect a child in church close it down. my reasoning is because you can stop it you just have to take certain steps to get it done. well i am glad god shines on you iam. trans are not known for molesting kids. it is rare. and of course if a trans person crosses the line then throw em under the jail. but if not let them the hell alone. let their parents raise their own kids and if they abuse that then get them. but i have told you several times these backlashes against trans are getting them hurt physically and mentally all over the country. this is why. they just stabbed a trans in a dress in a park or playground. confused? maybe but he or she never hurt a fly and was murdered in cold blood.

my moms best friend worked at the copper kettle or whatever they called it before it blew up. she also worked at a bbq joint called archies that actually had a dirt floor in the sixties and that just blows my mind. archie was a well know figure and a huge man from what my mom said. they claim he had damn good bbq as well. i bet golf and some remember.

damn i am gonna have to take a bullet here. i have been making fun of the wingnuts and god help me this idiot is one. wow. best pile on repukes i do not do this often.......

rollingstone.com RFK Jr. Super PAC Has Ties to Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos Adam Rawnsley 13–17 minutes Skip to main content Pro-RFK Jr. Super PAC Has Deep Ties to Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos The Super PAC is just one example of the nominally Democratic candidate running a campaign that's awash in support from backers of Donald Trump Photo illustration by Matthew Cooley. Photographs in illustration by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images; Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Joe Raedle/Getty Images; Adobe Stock; Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Last month, supporters of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid created a Super PAC titled Heal the Divide. On its website, the group — whose name is borrowed from Kennedy’s own campaign slogan — advises voters that “Only Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. can unite the Nation to start healing America,” and allows visitors to donate both in dollars and cryptocurrency. There’s nothing abnormal about a candidate getting a Super PAC, even a candidate making a long-shot bid like Kennedy’s. What is abnormal, however, is that Kennedy is running as a Democrat in the Democratic primary, while the creators of the Super PAC have a deeply pro-Donald Trump bent — including ties to arch-MAGA officials such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos, and Herschel Walker. Federal Election Commission filings list Jason D. Boles of RTA Strategy as its treasurer and use RTA’s website and mailing address. In 2022, Greene’s campaign and leadership PAC, Save America Stop Socialism, paid the firm more than $372,000 for work on her 2022 congressional race, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets. The Georgia-based RTA, founded by political consultant Rick Thompson, also worked for Walker in his failed 2022 Senate race in Georgia. Thompson served as custodian for Walker’s campaign committee and Boles worked as treasurer of the committee, earning the firm roughly $50,000, according to campaign-finance records. More recently, Boles and Thompson have signed on as treasurer and designated agent, respectively, for the embattled Santos after the indicted congressman struggled to find personnel to handle his campaign finances. Reached by phone, Thompson declined to comment on the Kennedy Super PAC. “We have a strict policy at our firm that we don’t discuss our clients,” he tells Rolling Stone. And the Heal the Divide site does not advertise its Republican backing. But a mistake on the group’s website gives away its origins: The site’s terms of service appear to have been copied and pasted from MAGA PAC, a Trump Super PAC, and incorrectly refers to the Heal the Divide site as MAGApac.com. It’s not just one MAGAfied Super PAC, however, that’s backing Kennedy’s run against President Biden in the Democratic primary. His bid is awash in support from Donald Trump’s allies in MAGA World, conservative media, and some of the Republican-donor elite. Broadly, they’re hoping Kennedy will make Biden look weak in the primary, hurting his chances against Trump — or whichever candidate emerges from the GOP primary. MAGA influencers and longtime Trump associates such as Roger Stone have praised Kennedy’s candidacy as a way to “soften Joe Biden up.” Former top Trump political adviser and campaign strategist Steve Bannon also reportedly spent “months” encouraging Kennedy to run in order to energize anti-vaxxers who make up much of Trump’s base, according to CBS News. Kennedy’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and the candidate has denied that he’s effectively aimed at torpedoing Biden. He has at times criticized Trump, while also praising the former president on things like his draw among middle-class voters. And he has consistently attacked Biden on foreign policy and other subjects. “Our internal poll numbers are showing me stronger against both Republican candidates than President Biden,” Kennedy claimed to Fox News host Harris Faulkner early this month. “Democrats are going to want somebody who can beat Governor DeSantis and who can beat President Trump.” But whether he wants pro-Trump support or not — he’s certainly getting it. At Fox News, three staffers and a producer tell Rolling Stone that some higher-ups have privately discussed how much they value not just interviewing Kennedy on the network, but featuring segment after segment about his candidacy and his unexpected poll numbers in the 2024 Democratic field. “Management loves RFK [Jr.] coverage because it makes Biden look weak. You can expect a lot of it,” the Fox producer says. Before Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox in April, the network’s then-top host would promote Kennedy and argue that the candidate somehow wasn’t an extremist. “So, at this point, the question isn’t who in public life is corrupt? Too many to count. The question is, who is telling the truth? There are not many of those. One of them is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” Carlson said on Fox earlier this year. In the time since, other hosts have praised or interviewed Kennedy, though some not quite as sympathetically as Carlson once did. Still, Kennedy has continued to enjoy a wellspring of backing from influential right-wing media outlets, including among the top tier at Fox. Pete Hegseth, another Fox News host who, like Carlson, has privately advised Donald Trump on policy over the years, defended Kennedy in an April segment, saying: “The establishment will do whatever it takes to keep Biden in the White House. You know that. He’s very useful to them.… The deep state gets deeper every day. They work quietly while Joe does other things. They’re already trying to kneecap Joe’s primary opponents. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — he’s surging in the polls.… Now that he’s a threat, [the mainstream media is] going for his throat.” Meanwhile, Trump and some of his senior aides have delighted in Kennedy’s presence in the 2024 race, viewing him as a useful anti-Biden agent of chaos, according to three sources on and close to the Trump campaign. The ex-president and 2024 GOP front-runner briefly praised Kennedy during this month’s interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, while getting his name wrong, calling Kennedy “very nice” and a “very, very fine person” who Trump knows “very well.” Members of Trump’s team are also pushing the message that Kennedy’s candidacy is a sign of Biden’s weakness. “The fact is, President Biden is a very weak incumbent. He’s just fortunate more opponents have not entered the primary. Ironically, the last time America had a failed Democratic incumbent president, Ted Kennedy ran against Jimmy Carter. Now, Robert Kennedy Jr. is running against Joe Biden,” says John McLaughlin, one of Trump’s top pollsters. “RFK Jr. is on a mission, and Joe Biden is weak and vulnerable. His poll numbers are extremely soft.” Wealthy right-wing donors and activist groups have also pitched in to support and amplify the long-shot presidential campaign. David Sacks, the South African-born venture capitalist who has donated to Ron DeSantis’ gubernatorial campaign and hosted his campaign launch on Twitter, recently held a fundraiser for Kennedy last week. He was joined by fellow venture-capital investor Chamath Palihapitiya. The event included “Democrats, Republicans, and Independents,” according to Palihapitiya. The far-right anti-gay group Moms for Liberty has also scheduled Kennedy to speak at its annual summit in Philadelphia next week. In advertising the summit, the group leads with a quote from conservative 2016 presidential-primary candidate Ben Carson: “A lot of individuals in the room have decided to get up and do something about what they believe because that is what is going to save us as a nation.” Kennedy’s claim that he’s running to defeat Trump contrasts with his stance when the 45th president was first heading to the White House. During the Obama-Trump presidential transition in January 2017, Kennedy visited the then-president-elect at Trump Tower in Manhattan — for a job interview. According to a former senior Trump transition official, Kennedy “wanted to have some kind of role in vaccine research and the questions he raised about the safety of the vaccines,” and had been following some of what Trump had been saying about vaccines, including regarding the widely debunked theories about links to autism. Just after Kennedy left this meeting, Trump said to staff, “Oh, he’s gonna help us with vaccines,” according to the former official. (Kennedy in 2005 popularized some of his anti-vaccine rhetoric in a since-debunked article in Rolling Stone. He has recently attacked the publication, falsely claiming editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman somehow played a hand in the story’s retraction in 2011 and subsequent removal from its website. Shachtman began his tenure in 2021.) Kennedy’s senior role on so-called “vaccine safety” never happened in Trump’s four years in office. Several of Trump’s closest advisers during the transition and early administration urged him never to appoint Kennedy to that kind of position, arguing that Kennedy had too much baggage and would be too much of a public-relations nightmare for the young presidency, former White House aides say. “It took longer to talk him out of it than it should have,” says a former senior administration official, who recalls trying to talk Trump out of officially appointing Kennedy in the Oval Office. But ultimately, Trump got talked out of it. In the years since, Kennedy has publicly trashed Trump for helping to launch the “tyranny” of Covid-19 vaccination. The 2024 campaign is far from the first time that Kennedy has rubbed elbows with MAGA donors. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Kennedy’s political ecosystem often tilted to the fringes of the left, capitalizing on liberal skepticism of large pharmaceutical companies. But as Trump pushed Covid-19 myths and attacked public-health experts in 2020, the far-right swelled the ranks of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists and offered Kennedy a new audience. In particular, Kennedy has courted Ty and Charlene Bollinger, two pro-Trump political activists who held a rally outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 to promote Trump’s lies about a stolen election. The couple, labeled as members of the “Disinformation Dozen” for their prominence in posting vaccine myths on social media, have featured Kenendy in an interview on their United Medical Freedom Super PAC, and as a speaker at their Truth About Cancer Live anti-vaccine conference alongside Eric Trump. David and Leila Centner, two big-dollar donors who forked over $1 million for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign and attended the former president’s Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally on the mall, also briefly served on the board of Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense nonprofit. But for all of the support and hype from the right wing, Kennedy polls at 14 percent, according to the RealClearPolitics polling aggregator, 50 points behind Biden’s 64 percent average.

i will always love our players. they could tinkle on the popes slippers and i would be ok. nothing violent of course. auburn is and will always be a part of me. when i roll into to auburn i feel magic. i feel the energy and the excitement. i love most of the folks are ultra friendly. hell i miss the roaches at the old tiger cafe i think it was on the main block downtown back in the day where the coaches used to hang out some. i may have the name wrong.

i am one strange cat bird but i have always tried to be honest. i have told an ex her hair looked great when it looked like she had been ravaged by a band of wild squirrels and when they finished they smoked one and made a nest in her new hairdo...........lol. there is a reason i am three times divorced. women love me they just do not love me long..........

my point is you can molested in church just like anywhere. so why not come down on the churches? why give them a pass? why is it you mention nothing about the peds in churches and but scream bloody murder because a trans did something. and yes i am judgemental and so are you. you prove it on here just about every single day. you just hate them and want to drag them under the bus when as a loving christian you should look to your own house before you start throwing rocks. that is my point and i imagine ichy will be fine. if not and he wants to address it we will.

i have no proof but how times have changed. used to if you did not confront a shoplifter you would get fired.

he is an embarrassment to john and robert.

that is bullsh*t and you know it. good lord the hate in you. everyone counts or no one counts. you cannot treat everyone just because you think someone might hurt someone. again. your words have meaning just like the budlkight thing and innocents are getting the crap beat out of them and threatened every which a way because you people have no tolerance for some one is odd. i get it. you will not see me running around in a dress or like a woman. it does nothing for me. but again everyone counts or no one counts. i bet you beat up gays in school or something. but the public sees the hate some of you religious types spew and they say whey the hell would i want to get into all that. so they either give up on jesus or pray at home. why are you not on the caths? love me or hate me they are the gift that keeps on giving so why not go after the ones that have done instead of the ones you fear might. go google the list of preachers in alabama alone that molested children.. naw you will not6 do it so i will......... this is not alabama but texas. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Widespread sexual abuse cases in Southern Baptist churches were reported by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News on February 10, 2019. The report found roughly 380 clergy, lay leaders and volunteers had faced allegations of sexual misconduct, leaving behind over 700 victims[1] since 1998. The extent of misconduct is further complicated by work within the Southern Baptist Convention to move sex offenders to other communities and resist attempts to address the culture of abuse.[1] Background Allegations of sexual misconduct are not a new development within the Southern Baptist Convention. An investigative report determined that the Baptist leadership would cover up allegations and move offenders to other communities, all while facing some of their own allegations of indecency. The report by the Chronicle and Express-News said that at least ten Southern Baptist churches welcomed pastors, ministers and volunteers who had been charged with sexual misconduct, many of whom were registered sex offenders. Pastors Leslie Mason, Michael Lee Jones and Joseph S. Ratliff all continued to work as religious figures after allegations of sexual misconduct.[1] Darrell Gilyard, who received multiple allegations of sexual assault, served three years in prison for child molestation before returning to the pulpit at Christ Tabernacle Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida.[2] Mark Aderholt was credibly accused of sexually assaulting sixteen-year-old Anne Marie Miller when he was a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The investigating entity, the International Mission Board of the SBC allowed Aderholt to resign and over the next eleven years, he continued pastoring in large churches in Arkansas listing references from the International Mission Board on his resume.[3] In 2016, he took an executive position at the South Carolina Southern Baptist Convention where he resigned[4] shortly after he was arrested on four felony counts of sexual abuse.[5] Aderholt's arrest sparked a cascade of external independent examinations in the Southern Baptist Convention.[6] Paul Pressler, former vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was accused by Toby Twining and Brooks Schott of sexual misconduct in separate court affidavits.[7] Both men said Pressler molested or solicited them for sex. The accusations were filed as part of a lawsuit filed in 2017 by Gareld Duane Rollins Jr. claiming he was regularly raped by the Conservative leader. Rollins met Pressler in high school and was part of a Bible study Pressler led. Rollins claims he was raped two to three times a month while at Pressler's home.[8] According to the Chronicle, Pressler agreed in 2004 to pay $450,000 to Rollins for physical assault. In the 2018 Chronicle report, Toby Twining was a teenager in 1977 when Pressler grabbed his penis in a sauna at Houston's River Oaks Country Club. Pressler was a youth pastor at Bethel Church in Houston but was ousted in 1978 after church officials received information about "an alleged incident". Attorney Brooks Schott also stated in an affidavit that he resigned his position at Pressler's former law firm after Pressler invited him to get into a hot tub with him naked. Brooks also accused Jared Woodfill, Pressler's longtime law partner who from 2002 to 2014 was chairman of the Harris County Republican Party, of failing to prevent Pressler's sexual advances toward him and others claiming his indiscretions were well known at the firm. Former SBC president Paige Patterson has also been accused on multiple occasions of covering up abuse. Patterson was accused of ignoring the claims of sexual assault from Pastor Darrell Gilyard, who was later jailed for multiple accounts of child sexual abuse.[1][9] Patterson was named in the lawsuit against Paul Pressler for helping Pressler cover up the abuse.[10] Patterson was removed from his position as President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary after wanting to meet with a rape survivor so he could "break her down".[1][11] On May 22, 2022; Johnny Hunt, the longtime pastor of First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia; a former Southern Baptist Convention president who was serving as a member of the North American Mission Board, resigned from the North American Mission Board after the Guidepost report on sexual abuse in the SBC included an allegation that Hunt had sexually assaulted the wife of another pastor in 2010.[12] Some survivors of sexual assault were asked to get abortions for children that were conceived during encounters with clergy, a policy that runs contrary to established Baptist dogma on the issue.[1] Many were shunned from their communities. al.com These 33 Alabama ministers are on the Southern Baptist Church’s alleged sex abuser list Updated: May. 26, 2022, 10:57 p.m.|Published: May. 26, 2022, 9:57 p.m. 14–17 minutes One of several entries from the Southern Baptist list of sex abusers that was redacted in its entirety. The executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention on Thursday night released a 205 page list of alleged sex abusers. The list contains at least 33 ministers that served in Alabama churches or had ties to the state. The release of the list comes after a scathing 288-page investigative report issued Sunday showed the largest Protestant denomination in America stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations. See also: The seven-month investigation was conducted by Guidepost Solutions, an independent firm contracted by the Executive Committee. “We are releasing the list in the exact form that it was provided to Guidepost Solutions by an Executive Committee staff member,” a statement accompanying the list read. However, many entries were redacted either in part or in their entirety. Entries that were not redacted at all were those that ended with a conviction, guilty plea, an admission of guilt, a court ruling against the minister or their inclusion on the sex offender registry. Entries that “did not indicate a disposition” were redacted, the statement added. Many of the entries came from a database compiled by the Houston Chronicle during its 2019 investigation of sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Church. “There will be more exhaustive research and analysis of the redacted entries and we anticipate some of the redacted entries will be released in the future.” The Associated Press contributed to this report. This is a developing story and will be updated. Here are the Alabama ministers listed in the report. In 2009, Ralph Lee Aaron, 54, pastor of Grace Christian Fellowship and former pastor of Victory Baptist Church, in Andalusia, agreed to consecutive life terms in prison for production of child pornography and first-degree sodomy of multiple 8-12 year –old males. He is a Registered Sex Offender. Aaron was investigated in 2005 while pastor of a Southern Baptist church. In 2012, Daniel Montague Acker, Jr. ,a school teacher and school bus driver who retired in 2009, admitted to sexually abusing 20 girls during his 25-year tenure. He was sentenced to serve 17 years in prison for 8 counts of child sexual abuse. Release date is scheduled for January 1, 2029. In 1992, Acker was accused of touching a minor for sexual gratification; however, the grand jury did not indict him. In 2016, he admitted to the 1992 abuse. In 1992, Acker was also serving as youth pastor at Westwood Baptist Church in Alabaster. He was also music and youth minister at Mayberry Baptist Church in Montevallo and served as a camp counselor at the Alabama Baptist Boys Camp. Acker was a well-known figure in Shelby County and the son of a county commissioner. In 2014, Charles Kyle Adcock was youth minister and worship pastor for Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals from 2010-2012. He pleaded guilty in 2016 and was charged with 29 counts of rape and sodomy against a teenage girl. Adcock was sentenced to a 10-year prison sentence, split with 15 months to serve in state prison. He registered as a sex offender in Arkansas for the sodomy conviction. In 2002, John Lankston Anderson Jr., former pastor, Carbon Hill First Baptist, was charged with three counts of first-degree sexual abuse of juveniles under the age of 12, pleaded guilty to all charges and sentenced to three yrs. Immediately transferred to Arkansas, where he pleaded guilty to another sex abuse charge and was sentenced to 10 more years. Served prison sentences in both states. He was a pulpit preacher at Southside in Russellville, Natural Bridge Baptist, West Blocton Baptist, Hartselle Baptist, and other churches in Mississippi. He pleaded guilty in 2002 to three counts of sexual abuse in Alabama and was sentenced to three years. Immediately transferred to Arkansas, where he pleaded guilty to another sex abuse charge and was sentenced to 10 more years. Served prison sentences in both states. He is on the sex offender registry in Tennessee. In 2006, Charles Andrews, an ex-teacher and minister of a Baptist church in Jefferson County, received a sentence of probation after pleading guilty in 2006, for sexually abusing a student in 2005. In 2008, after failing to respond to a lawsuit which accused Charles Andrews, a federal judge ordered Andrews to pay $2.5 million in punitive damages and $500,000 in compensation. “Can’t find the name of the church,” the list states. In 2014, REDACTED, assistant pastor, REDACTED, was charged with raping and sodomizing a 13-year-old. A second victim has led to additional charges. He also faced charges of parole violation. In 2001, he was convicted on a first degree robbery change and served prison time from August 2002-2009. James L. Bevel: “Don’t think he was SBC,” the list states. “Bevel attended American Baptist Theological Seminary In 2005 Bevel was accused of REDACTED by REDACTED and abuse by three others. He was tried in April 2008. Bevel was convicted of unlawful fornication; pursuant to the recommendation of the jury, which could have sentenced him to anywhere from 5 to 20 years, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $50,000. After serving seven months he was freed awaiting an appeal; he died of pancreatic cancer in December 2008. He was buried in Eutaw, Alabama,” the list added. Bevel was a top lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and architect of the 1963 Children’s Crusade in Birmingham whose legacy was clouded by an incest conviction. Howard Blattel, a 65-year-old former Bolingbrook resident and Marquette Manor Baptist Church deacon, was charged in Alabama with sexually assaulting an 89-year-old woman in 2004. In 2010, Walter Jay Bowen, 68, former minister of music and radio station owner and personality, was arrested for sexual abuse of a child younger than 12 and sentenced to 10 years in prison based on a plea agreement which dropped a second sex abuse case involving another child younger than 12. He was convicted of sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years old and sentenced to 10 years. As part of the plea bargain, prosecutors agreed to drop a second sex abuse case. Incarcerated. His prison release date was in 2019 and he is listed in Alabama as a registered sex offender. In 2010, Gregory “Lee” Bowman, 30, health and wellness minister for both adult and youth recreation programs at Eden Westside Baptist Church in Pell City, pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual abuse of a 14-year-old juvenile and was sentenced to serve a 12-month split sentence and required to serve 24 months on supervised probation. He pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual abuse in August 2010 and is a a registered sex offender in Alabama. In 1987, Charles Brown, of London Baptist Church in Evergreen, was convicted of abusing a teenage boy in 1986. Brown was convicted of a reduced misdemeanor charge and given a suspended sentence. Fred Robert Chambers in 1998 was convicted of four counts of sodomy with a 14-year-old boy. He was a volunteer church leader; the church was not named. In 2008, Stanley Daniel, pastor of El-Bethel Baptist Church and Pearls of Promise Girls Academy in Rock Stand, pleaded guilty to “first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy and two counts of distribution of obscene material.” Mack Allen Davis, former youth minister, Lakeside Baptist Church, was sentenced to 35 years in 2015 for three counts of sodomy and four counts of sexual abuse, with victims in three different counties, His is in the Alabama state prison. In 2006, Garret Albert Dykes, 38, former pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Wetumpka, pleaded guilty to 13 sex related charges against two girls under the age of 10. He was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison. In 2014, Jeffery Dale Eddie, children’s minister of Highland Park Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, pleaded guilty to 20 charges, including sodomy, sexual abuse of a child under 12 and possession of child pornography, according to federal civil court documents. He is serving a 30-year sentence in Alabama state prison. Zachary Reed Emerson, a part-time youth employee at East Memorial Baptist Church, in Prattville, was convicted of enticing a child for immoral purposes in Alabama in 2011. He is a registered sex offender in Florida. Luis Federico Garcia, pastor of Spanish ministries at First Baptist Church in Pelham, pleaded guilty to three charges of first-degree sexual abuse involving three girls younger than 12 years old. He is a registered sex offender after he was convicted in 2007 of three counts of sexual abuse in Shelby County. The victim was an 8-year-old female. “Lives in the Dominican Republic,” the list states. In 2016, Jason Michael Hankins, a former staff member at Shades Crest Baptist Church’s Family Life Center in Birmingham, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a child, plus 20 more years of possessing child pornography. He will remain on supervised release for the rest of his life. In 2017, John Edgar Harris, a former employee of Glynwood Baptist Church in Prattville, pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and facilitating the travel of a child for an unlawful sex act. As of Nov. 2, 2018, no court date has been set. In 1993, Henry Hobson, pastor of Moffett Road Baptist Church in Mobile, admitted guilt for abusing a 14-year-old girl in 1991. “Attorneys reached an agreement between Hobson and the victim just before a civil case went to jury,” the list states. Michael Likos was a registered sex offender while being the church piano player at Seventh Street Baptist Church in Cullman. Likos had previous convictions in Louisiana and Mississippi for crossing a state line to engage in sexual contact with a minor. In 2006, Likos was indicted on sexual abuse in the first degree. “2010 REDACTED, youth pastor, REDACTED, arrested on charges of inappropriate sexual relationship,” the list states. Timothy Chun-Chuck Mann, minister at First Baptist Church in Gaithersburg and choir director at Shades Crest Baptist Church in Hoover, is now a registered sex offender in Alabama. He pleaded guilty to child abuse of a 14-year-old female in Maryland in 2008 and was sentenced to 13 years with seven years in confinement with the rest suspended, according to Maryland court records. Billy Paul Masters, pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Boaz, was charged with first-degree sexual abuse of a boy under 12. He also faced a parole violation in connection with 2001 conviction of sodomy involving three boys. Following his release from prison in 2007, Masters registered as a sex offender. James “Javie” Vernon McNeal, children’s minister of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Hazel Green, was convicted of two felony sex offenses and sentenced to 40 years in 2018, according to Alabama prison records. In 2004, Ralph Randall Melton, pastor of Prospect Baptist Church in Wilsonville in 2004 and former pastor of New Salem Baptist Church and Big Springs Baptist Church in Chilton County and his wife were charged and pleaded guilty to raping and sodomizing children in 1975-87. They were sentenced to more than three months in prison followed by 36 months probation and were to register as sex offenders. Prior to his death on June 14, 2018, together with his wife, Cathy, were both registered sex offenders for child rape convictions in Alabama in 2005. (Cathy Melton is still a registered sex offender). Their victims were a 1-year-old male and 16-year-old female. In 2007, Douglas Myers, 57, former pastor of Triangle Community Church in Tavares, Florida, and former pastor of Harbor Baptist Fellowship in Eustis, Florida and Concord Baptist Church in Russellville, and Bayside Baptist Church in Chesapeake Beach pleaded guilty for abusing a 13-year- old boy, a church members’ grandson, in 2006. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison in Florida in 2007. After being released, he was convicted in 2012 in Maryland of child abuse for offenses that occurred in 1997, 1999 and 2001. He is serving a 15-year sentence in Maryland and faced a related civil lawsuit. In 2007, Donald Brent Page, 33, was former youth pastor, Dogwood Grove Baptist Church in Montevallo, and former youth minister of Siluria Baptist Church in Alabaster and youth worker at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Birmingham (now The River Church). In 2007, traveled from Alabama to Tennessee to have sex with what he thought to be a 13-year-old girl but was actually a Memphis FBI Crimes Against Children Task Force Member. He was charged with traveling to to have sex with minor. In 2007, Marshal A. Seymour, 40, a volunteer youth minister at FBC at the Mall in Lakeland, Florida, and former youth minister at Parkway Assembly of God in Mobile, faced charges of unlawful sexual activity and three counts of using a child in a sexual performance. He pleaded guilty to assault. The church background check did not show a previous 1999 Mobile assault conviction which was a misdemeanor. In 1999, Seymour moved to Lakeland and began volunteering at FBC at the Mall. He is a registered sex offender in Florida. As part of a plea agreement, he was convicted of three counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and one charge of directing sexual performance of a child. He was released in 2016. Gary Ladell Smitherman, a youth minister at Friendship Baptist Church in Clanton, was found guilty of one count of sexual abuse of a child and sentenced to 20 years in 2018. He is incarcerated in Alabama. Jay Clair Strickland, a former administrative pastor of Sharon Heights Baptist Church in Brookside, was convicted of first-degree sodomy in Jefferson County in 2016. He is a registered sex offender. In 2018, Christopher Cody Stutts, a youth minister at Westwood Baptist Church in Birmingham, was arrested for sexual abuse of a child under age 12 over the course of more than three years. A grand jury heard indicted Stutts on the initial charges of sexual abuse of a child younger than 12 and second-degree sodomy. The grand jury also added additional charges of first-degree sodomy, second-degree rape and another second-degree sodomy charge. Stutts was fired following his arrest. Corrected at 10:50 p.m. to show it was 33 ministers. see? i do not have to lie to make the church look bad. we gonna ban churches now iam? it is basically the same thing you are saying with trans. clean your own house before you crap on other people. in the last couple of years it has ben preacher after preacher molesting kids and being reported by al.com. do some research. you hypocritical bigot...........

what is it going to take to make the third party viable and mean something david? not picking i am serious. you guys never gain any traction. you need a name you can live with to make a splash. but with todays politics it baffles me why you guys are not taking advantage?

i think greene would destroy that idiot easily. but i dislike both and neither should be in politics. i mean they show their stupidity every single frigging day.

no they think we are detracted by all the repuke bullcrap that has been going on for a year or three now. hell your side is not doing squat they just want some kind of revenge.

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al.com Goodman: What does Rush Propst have left to prove? Published: Jun. 22, 2023, 10:20 a.m. 6–8 minutes Rush Propst is back in Alabama coaching high school football. Naturally, being forever fascinated by Propst’s curious nature, I attended one of his first offseason workouts. He wore me out. Propst never stopped talking. I went to Pell City to see if Propst had mellowed out after all these years. The answer is no. The fire burns, and maybe now hotter than ever. Rush Propst is still very much Rush Propst, I can safely report, which is to mean that Propst, now 65 years old, continues to speak with the captivating intensity of a freight train barreling towards a cliff. I wasn’t on the Pell City football field for more than 30 seconds before Propst began digging up his own past. The accusations of changing grades at Hoover … all the trouble in Georgia … head butting a player and being accused of giving players pills. “I was exonerated,” Propst said. It was dizzying, unfiltered, stream of consciousness stuff. It’s like he wanted to get it all out of the way first. Like he wanted to throw all the skeletons of his past onto the field right there in one breathless heave and bury them at the 50-yard line of a football field in St. Clair County. GOODMAN: MLB dreams come true for Rickwood Field GOODMAN: The moment Birmingham fell in love with its soccer club GOODMAN: Nick Saban wants Congress to stop the cheating Propst has won seven state titles between Alabama and Georgia. He’s a great coach, but it’s complicated. He left Hoover amid scandal and moved to Georgia. He won there, too, but was run off at Colquitt County and then Valdosta. At Colquitt County, they treated Propst like an Alabama Al Capone. In the end, they got him for tax evasion. At Valdosta, which he calls a mistake from the beginning, it was for recruiting players. In Pell City, where he says there’s more talent than he expected, players are already moving in. Does Propst have a quarterback? Not yet, he tells me, but someone with ties to the area is coming from California. “I don’t know if he’s any good,” Propst said. I couldn’t help but laugh. Is this Propst’s last stop? Yes, he says. “Rush Propst is going to retire in this county and Rush Propst is going to die in this county,” he said. Propst’s wife is from Pell City. He says they’re going to live on the lake. He’s good friends with former UAB coach Bill Clark, and Clark has a house on Logan Martin Lake, too. It was Clark, Propst said, who helped him convince the right people in Pell City to give him a job. Propst and new athletics director Xavier Robinson have grand plans for Pell City. A new, two-story athletics complex is in the works. They’re going to renovate everything. Money apparently isn’t in short supply, and an appetite for big-time success is fueling it all. Pell City went 1-9 last season and only won two games the year before. The city is growing, though, and at a rapid pace. Robinson and Propst came in together to transform Pell City into Thompson With A Lake, and I have little doubt in their ability to do it. Propst’s staff includes former Alabama players Nick Gentry (defensive coordinator) and Courtney Upshaw (defensive line). Another Clark disciple, former UAB standout Noah Wilder, is coaching linebackers. Chase Biles, who also played at UAB, will coach the secondary and special teams. “It’s about to get fun,” Gentry said to me outside Pell City’s old field house. Oh, boy. Can Propst win a state championship at Pell City? At this point, why doubt him? Winning has never been Propst’s problem. It’s the other stuff. He’s like the Casey Jones of high school football. “Trouble ahead, trouble behind,” goes the iconic song by the Grateful Dead, “and you know that notion just crossed my mind.” I had to ask Robinson, the new athletics director, some obvious questions. Did you have some parents who were concerned? “No,” he said. “They haven’t come to me about it. “Look, everyone is going to draw their own conclusions. Let them draw. The only people you need ask are these players, and they know him and they care about him. And he cares about the players. We’re in it for the best … like I said in my introductory press conference. I’m here for these athletes. Everything else is irrelevant.” Robinson is a Pell City grad and he worked in multiple roles for Clark at UAB. When I bridged the subject of Propst’s track record of clashing with administrators, Robinson offered that “everybody has a past.” “I’ve worked with him,” Robinson said. “He was with us at UAB for a little stint. Plus, to be with Coach Clark, and they were always in the office together and I was in there with him, so I have a relationship with him and stuff, so he’s a great offensive-minded coach and a great person. All the stuff in his past, like I said to one parent, if you haven’t sat down and talked to him one-on-one, man-to-man, then don’t pass the judgment. … Until you sit down with the man and get an understanding of what’s going on and what’s his vision, then you understand who Rush Propst is.” Propst is one of the most interesting figures in high school sports over the last 30 years. He revolutionized high school football in Alabama, for good or ill. I always wanted to see Propst coach in college, but he could never get out of his own way. Nick Saban wanted to hire Propst, but he couldn’t. That’s all you need to know. Propst would have been a successful college coach, I am convinced, but everyone knows the pattern at this point. He builds it all up, and then he burns it all down. His fire rages too hot. Rush Propst, always an arsonist of his own success. I hope that’s not the case this time. I want the best for Propst, and I want to see him succeed. What does true success look like for Rush Propst? I guess that’s the singular question for high school football’s forever enigma. I left Pell City High School mentally fatigued, but with more questions than when I arrived. Is Pell City ready for this? Is Alabama ready for this ... again? And how long is it going to take for Propst to beat Thompson? What does Rush Propst have left to prove? It’s this, and only this. Can he win without getting fired? That’s all I want to see. That’s everything. Joseph Goodman is the lead sports columnist for the Alabama Media Group, and author of “We Want Bama”, a book about togetherness, hope and rum. You can find him on Twitter @JoeGoodmanJr. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. By browsing this site, we may share your information with our social media partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

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