Obligation, Inc. P. O. Box 26270 Birmingham, AL 25260 www.obligation.org For Release: January 30, 2006 Contact: Jim Metrock 205.822.0080 EDITORIAL MEMORANDUM: Did Governor Bob Riley Reverse Himself On Channel One To Benefit Adviser’s Client? Ralph Reed’s Secret Funding Of Dax Swatek’s Sham “Coalition.” In August 2003, Alabama Governor Bob Riley was on the verge of sending a letter* to local superintendents asking them to suspend the showing of the controversial in-school TV show Channel One until a committee he was to appoint could study the impact of the program on students and taxpayers. Governor Riley’s concern about Channel One suddenly vanished. The letter was never sent. Over the next year, Obligation, a Birmingham-based nonprofit child advocacy group, kept in contact with Dalton Smith, the Governor’s senior policy advisor. Mr. Smith assured Obligation that the Governor would still address the Channel One problem. On July 27, 2004, Obligation made a presentation to the Governor. The Governor was shown video clips of numerous junk food commercials Alabama secondary school students had to watch in their classrooms. He also saw ads for movies with pro-drug, violent and sexual content. At the beginning of the meeting the Governor said he wouldn’t want his granddaughter to watch Channel One, however, at the end of the meeting he said he was … Continue reading Gov. Bob Riley sells out Alabama schoolchildren with help from Ralph Reed and Dax Swatek