In Hans Christian Anderson’s folk tale, “The Emperor has No Clothes,” neither the town citizenry nor its wise men, in fear of being wrong, would dare admit the obvious that the Emperor was, in fact, observedly parading in town in the nude. That is, until in unlikely voice of an innocent child decried the truth, “The Emperor Has No Clothes!!” With that unexpected and brutally honest proclamation, the citizenry as well as the arrogant elite Emperor realized his fine expensive clothing, for which only could be sewn by the wise and elite, was in fact a lie, and he was humiliated by his expositions of his bare body to his constituents.

I have sometimes been labeled a child and maybe I am but our Attorney General is at least down to his skivvies in the unfolding drama of the Gambling/Electronic Bingo saga now before our state’s highest court. By his own words and actions, the Attorney General has expressed his extreme objection to the Supreme Court deciding once and for all the issue of whether electronic bingo is gambling and therefore unconstitutional and illegal or not.

Humm. Why would our Attorney General who publicly decries his opposition to electronic bingo machines, not want this much litigated issue decided once and for all by the state’s highest court?

To answer this question we must first analyze the winners and losers of such a Supreme Court ruling. Simply put, should the courts find electronic bingo gambling legal, Milton McGregor and others who promote and distribute unregulated electronic bingo machines throughout the state are the big winners. Likewise, McGregor’s friends, partners and political payees would also hit the jackpot.

On the other side of the token, a high court ruling against these electronic bingo devices would be a blow to Mr. McGregor and his band of brothers. (Cronies?)

However, why wouldn’t this self-describe enemy of gambling not want this issue finally resolved? Does this strange inconsistent position have anything to do with the topic of the federal grand jury meeting that was in Montgomery probing the Attorney General of his close ties to gambling interest? Maybe it’s time to ask these questions and “expose” the real motivation behind his reluctance to have this issue heard. Politics does create strange bed partners and I am about ready to close my eyes and scream (decry) the necked truth.