By Associated Press
Montgomery AL – Trial begins today (Monday) in Montgomery for former Secretary of State Nancy Worley, who spent four years as Alabama's chief election official. She's charged with violating the election laws she was supposed to administer. Worley faces felony and misdemeanor charges for sending campaign letters, campaign contribution envelopes and bumper stickers to five of her employees in the secretary of state's office. Worley's attorney, James Anderson, says the attorney general's office has a weak case. But Chris Bence, spokesman for Attorney General Troy King, said Worley's letters to her employees ``are pretty powerful'' evidence and a Montgomery County grand jury agreed when it indicted her. The 55-year-old Worley has labeled her indictment ``totally political.''