Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley

resigns amid sex scandal
agree to never again hold public office.
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The extraordinary agreement, hammered out over the weekend and throughout the day by lawyers for the Alabama Attorney General's office and Bentley attorneys Chuck Malone and Cooper Shattuck, requires Bentley to repay the state for misused funds and perform community service.

In response, the state attorney general's office will not pursue other felonies against Bentley, including those referred for prosecution last week by the Alabama Ethics Commission.

Bentley, as part of the deal, was expected to:

• Resign immediately and leave public life.
  Plead guilty to two campaign violations: converting campaign contributions for personal gain and failing to report campaign contributions.
  Serve one year of probation.
  Perform 100 hours of unpaid community service as a physician.
  Repay the $8,912 his campaign spent on the legal fees of former aide Rebekah Mason, whose involvement with Bentley led to the charges against him.
  Forfeit all the money in his campaign account, which is currently $36,912. The money will go into state coffers.
  
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  Opinion
  He must be a Republican
  a measly sex-scandal hasn't caused any democrats to leave office.
  In fact it's almost a requirement that they be involved in one.
  A sex scandal didn't bother Slick Willey that's for sure....
  Perhaps Republicans pretend to have standards.
  Democrats, not so much.