Resolution

Passed by the Alabama Republican Party Executive Committee

January 10, 2016

WHEREAS, Representative Mike Hubbard serves the State of Alabama as Speaker of

the Alabama House of Representatives; and
WHEREAS, since 2013, Speaker Hubbard has had to endure an investigation in
regard to various allegations about his private financial affairs and his service as
Speaker; and
WHEREAS, in 2014 Speaker Hubbard was indicted for 23 felony counts and allegedly
violating the Alabama Ethics Laws which regulates the performance of public
officials, and the indictment includes allegations about his conduct before he was
Speaker while he served as Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party from 2007 to
2011, and his trial is set for March of 2016; and,
WHEREAS, there has been ongoing public discussion of the Hubbard indictment
since it was issued, and the trial is currently scheduled to take place during the
regular session of the Alabama Legislature in 2016; and,
WHEREAS, the trial, itself, is likely to become a distraction from the regular business
of the legislature and, later become a subject of public debate in the primary and
general elections of 2016; and,
WHEREAS, the Alabama Republican Party is an association of private citizens
organized to elect candidates to public office in Alabama to advance the policies of
securing a free citizenry and fiscal responsibility in accordance with law, including
the U.S. Constitution and the State Constitution; and
WHEREAS, the Alabama Republican Party seeks to protect its right to selfgovernance against over-reaching application of the Ethics Law, especially if meant
to be applied to its private activities and its leadership, but will not evaluate the
specifics of the charges against Hubbard; and
WHEREAS, the Alabama Republican Party does not want the distractions of the
Hubbard trial to take away from the regular business of the legislature or its ability
to achieve the policy objectives of the Republican Party in the primary and general
elections of 2016;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we, the members of the Alabama Republican
Party Steering Committee, respectfully request Mike Hubbard to suspend his role as
Speaker until his trial is complete, and the indictments against him are resolved.