Thursday’s unexpected apology from Gov. Kay Ivey not only revealed Alabama still has not fully exorcised the demons of its past, it showed us that some members of the Alabama Legislature still feel jilted after the Rebuild Alabama Act passed this spring.
Ahead of Thursday’s announcement, some members of the legislature were given a head’s up about the forthcoming blackface saga but not all. The ones that were not: members of the House of Representatives that were “no” votes on the Rebuild Alabama Act this earlier this year.
Several members of the Alabama House of Representatives confirmed to Yellowhammer News they were left out of any notice prior to Ivey’s public acknowledgment. Some of those members alleged that has been a general trend since the March vote on the gas tax.