The BamaRush documentary puts a spotlight on The Machine. A roll call of Alabama politicians - from the past and present - have ties to the secret society, going back to the early 1900s.
“Crosses have been burned in sorority yards, independent candidates intimidated regularly. One candidate - who claimed in college he was run off the road by Machine thugs - went on to become a federal agent.
And in 1905 that group - Theta Nu Epsilon - found its way to a willing clique of elites at the University of Alabama.Machine fraternities and sororities are billed hundreds of dollars per semester for each Machine member, and the group selects SGA officers and homecoming queens choices - that almost always go on to win.
Former Secretary of State John Merrill famously beat the machine to become SGA president at Alabama, only to have his office ransacked. R.B. Walker, a board member of the dark money group former Gov. Robert Bentley used to pay Rebekah Mason, was a Machine-backed SGA president.
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