Via the AP: Siegelman spends election in court as witness recalls flights

While other candidates spent election day amid the hubbub of last-minute campaigning, former Gov. Don Siegelman was in federal court Tuesday for procedural tedium and testimony about his flights on a political insider’s plane in the late 1990s.

Siegelman and his wife, Lori, voted at a polling place near their home in Birmingham at 7 a.m. Tuesday and hurried to Montgomery to be in place as testimony was beginning shortly after 8:30 a.m. on the 25th day in his government corruption trial.

Siegelman said he was trying to act as much like a candidate as possible Tuesday and when court ended for the day at midafternoon, he said he was going to campaign outside several polling places in the Montgomery area.

This really is a fairly pathetic scene.

Even if he is innocent is as the day is long, he should have cleared his name, and then returned to politics.

This whole thing is an unseemly waste of time and money.