All quotes from the Huntsville Times. http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/01/some_legislators_state_officia.html
Ford: “I know they offered tickets to other people who were not legislators.”
“I could have found tickets. If she (Fulford) had given me something as a deal, I would not have accepted it.”
Morton: “I never asked Auburn for free tickets and Auburn never offered me free tickets.”
“I was able to purchase two tickets for the friends and did so.”
Reynolds: “If they had said no, I would have said ‘thank you for trying.'”
“I never saw anything wrong with it. All you can do is ask and they can say no.”
Scofield: “We’ve been there for three generations, we’ve been big supporters of the university financially for a long time.”
“I would have gotten tickets one way or another.”
“We did not get anything free. We paid the full price just like everyone else did.”