I pray every morning for wisdom and guidance and forgiveness for the sins I have committed'.
One misdemeanor charge against Bentley stemmed from a $50,000 loan he made to his campaign in November that investigators said he failed to report until January.
Furthermore he was sentenced to a year's probation, 100 hours of community service and required to return almost $40,000 from a campaign account to the Alabama state treasury. It contributed to one of the other most notorious recent stories coming out of Alabama politics: the attempt to close driver's license offices in predominantly black counties.
News 5 has obtained the official resignation letter Robert Bentley submitted to step down as Governor of Alabama.
"Today is a dark day in Alabama, but also it's one of opportunity", she said during her swearing-in ceremony.
But she said she didn't feel Ivey responded appropriately.
Ivey grew up in rural Camden, Ala., raised on a farm.
Ivey has a folksy, no-nonsense demeanor and has been a steady hand at lieutenant governor, a largely ceremonial post, presiding over the state Senate.
But he's far from being alone among governors who have left office either because they were convicted in impeachment proceedings or forced to resign as salacious scandals swirled around them.
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At Airlie Beach, the army has used tanks and a truck to deliver nearly 20,000 litres of much needed drinking water. Evacuation orders are mandatory", New South Wales State Emergency Service said on Twitter on Thursday.
She is the second female governor following Lurleen Wallace, wife of four-term Governor George C. Wallace. She was governor for about a year after state law kept her husband, a Democrat, from running for consecutive terms, according to the New York Times. He led Ivey through her first oath of office in 2003.
Former Governor Robert Bentley appointed the former Attorney General Luther Strange to the seat and then delayed a special election until next year.
On the night of his re-election in the 2014 gubernatorial race, Bentley was allegedly convinced that his opponent had a copy of the recording and told Alabama Law Enforcement Secretary Spencer Collier to travel to Greenville to retrieve it.
After Bentley discovered that his wife was reading his text messages, he started using "burner phones" to communicate with Mason. So I think that also says, 'Hey, we're getting our stuff together.
"I remember just trembling, and she was kind of shaking too, but everything we talked about, she recognized it as well, and we knew that there was a problem", Hannah recalled.
"If we are going to do what we did the other day, we are going to have to start locking the door", the governor is heard saying.
All of this might have never come out if it weren't for Alabama's former chief law enforcement officer Spencer Collier, who went public with allegations against the governor previous year.
The former first lady's chief of staff also charged that Bentley threatened her job because he believed she had helped his wife make the recordings. A sixth is expected to join the ranks if Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a Republican, is confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to China-President Donald Trump nominated him for the role in December-and he's replaced by his lieutenant Kim Reynolds, a Republican.
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