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 Posted by Danny, on October 5th, 2010, at 11:13 amDemocratic Congressional candidate Steve Raby went on broadcast TV Friday morning with this spot. 
Raby and Republican Mo Brooks face off in November to see who will succeed Parker Griffith (the Democrat-turned-Republican) in the 5th Congressional District seat. Related Articles: Posted by Danny, on September 3rd, 2010, at 1:29 pmThere always seem to be more items to write about than there is time for writing about them. Let’s run through a few that may be undeservedly overlooked.
All for now… Related Articles: Posted by Danny, on August 17th, 2010, at 2:37 pm
The NBC News Political Unit at First Read listed the Field of 64 on Friday, the 64 House seats most likely to change parties in the November elections. The 2nd Congressional District currently held by Democrat Bobby Bright is 35th on the list. The 5th Congressional District currently held by Republican Parker Griffith is 56th. As mentioned before, Bright faces Republican Martha Roby in November. Griffith was defeated in the primary by Mo Brooks, who faces Democratic nominee Steve Raby. Related Articles: Posted by Danny, on July 27th, 2010, at 4:35 pm
In addition to the ones you already saw here at the Parlor in a sneak peek*, ALFA’s Farm-PAC also endorsed: CD 5 – Steve Raby (D) ALFA’s Farm-PAC had already endorsed our incumbents in Washington, Supreme Court Justices Mike Bolin and Tom Parker, Supreme Court candidate Kelli Wise in Place 1, and Tommy Bryan in his re-election bid to the Court of Civil Appeals. Of those, Bobby Bright in Congressional District 2 is the only Democrat. No endorsement was made in the governor’s race between Robert Bentley (R) and Ron Sparks (D). See the ALFA announcement here. *Kay Ivey (R) for Lt. Governor, Luther Strange (R) for AG, John McMillan (R) for Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries, Jan Cook (D) for PSC Place 1, and Susan Parker (D) for PSC Place 2 were noted here last week as receiving the recommendation for endorsement from ALFA’s Farm-PAC advisory trustees. Related Articles: Posted by Danny, on June 18th, 2010, at 7:23 pm
Terri Sewell and Shelia Smoot are in a runoff for the Democratic nomination for the 7th Congressional District seat vacated by Artur Davis. One of them will almost certainly be elected in the fall as the district leans left enough that the seat is considered to be safe for Democrats. (If one of the two men in the GOP runoff, Don Chamberlain or Chris Salter, wins the seat in November, we will have an even bigger story.) In addition, Martha Roby finished first in the race for the Republican nomination in CD-5 and faces Rick Barber in a run-off. The winner faces Democratic incumbent Bobby Bright, meaning that we could have the potential to send the first two women from the state to Congress via a regular election. Back to the CD-7 race… Sewell yesterday released a polling summary showing that an Anzalone-Liszt poll done for her campaign had her leading Smoot by 20 points, 53% to 33%. See the memo here in .pdf form. On the subject of Alabama women and Congress… Elizabeth Bullock Andrews was elected to the 3rd Congressional District in a 1972 special election to succeed her husband George Andrews who died in office. She served 10 months and did not seek re-election. Maryon Pittman Allen served a few months in the U.S. Senate in 1978 when her husband Jim Allen died while holding the seat; she lost the nomination to Donald Stewart when she ran for the seat herself. Faye Baggiano was the Democratic nominee for CD-2 in 1990 and lost to Republican incumbent Bill Dickinson. Related… see also the story a couple of weeks back from Tommy Stevenson of the Tuscaloosa News, “Alabama’s first black female member of Congress?” Posted by Danny, on May 31st, 2010, at 8:02 am
Flashpoint and Politico follow-up on Jackson’s story. From Politico:
Griffith faces Mo Brooks and Les Phillip in the Republican primary for the AL-05 seat. Update: A commenter offer this link to a Huntsville Times article on the story. Posted by Hilary, on May 25th, 2010, at 7:08 amLes Phillip, Republican candidate for Alabama’s 5th Congressional District, gets tough on President Obama and touts his conservative bona fides in this vivid ad*. 
Phillip’s website touts a favorite comment about the ad from Jim Geraghty of the National Review Online: “This ad for Alabama House candidate Les Phillip makes Alabama agriculture commissioner candidate Dale Peterson look like a squish.” Phillip is racing in the GOP primary against Mo Brooks and incumbent Parker Griffith. — * The photo of Obama with the cigarette reportedly was removed from the ad. Related Articles: Posted by Danny, on May 19th, 2010, at 3:56 pm
Posted by Danny, on May 19th, 2010, at 3:02 pmDemocrat Taze Shepard has an ad airing in the 5th Congressional District that plays up the worst of primary rival Steve Raby’s past political associations. (Decent look-alike in the ad, btw.) 
Speaking of associations, was Shepard at one time disassociating himself from this web version of the ad? This version doesn’t contain his picture with the spoken words “I’m Taze Shepard and I approve this ad” like it does on the broadcast version. Also, you can see a red label has been put on the web version of the ad that covers the words indicating that the Taze Shepard campaign paid for it. A day or so after this version circulated on the web, the campaign provided the broadcast TV version to the Left in Alabama site. Posted by Danny, on May 17th, 2010, at 1:49 pmDemocrat Steve Raby is running this ad on broadcast TV in his bid to unseat Democrat-turned-Republican Parker Griffith in Alabama’s 5th Congressional District. 
Related Articles: Posted by Danny, on May 17th, 2010, at 1:03 pmRepublican Les Phillip, candidate for the 5th Congressional District, is on cable TV in Huntsville with this spot. No indications from this perspective that his campaign has yet found traction in a tough primary against incumbent Parker Griffith and Mo Brooks, a long-time Republican standard-bearer for the area. 
The GOP nominee will face the winner of the Democratic primary race with Mitchell Howie, David Maker, Steve Raby, and Taze Shepard. Posted by Danny, on May 12th, 2010, at 4:52 pm
I have meant to pass along here that the site Swing State Project concluded last week that AL-05 candidate Steve Raby is one of four Democratic challengers in the nation to raise more money than the incumbent opponent (former Dem Parker Griffith in this case) in the last most recent fundraising reports covering the first quarter of 2010. Said Raby in a released statement:
See the whole statement here in .pdf format. Posted by Danny, on May 12th, 2010, at 10:44 amRepublican Congressman Parker Griffith navigates tricky waters: running a negative ad criticizing how negative his primary opponent Mo Brooks has been in the race for AL-05. 
The ad has been on broadcast TV since yesterday. The Mo Brooks campaign released this detailed response (below), which is well and good, but it’s not a TV ad. Posted by Danny, on May 4th, 2010, at 12:51 pmDemocratic Congressional Candidate Steve Raby begins airing a TV spot in the 5th Congressional District this week. 
Related Articles: Posted by Danny, on May 3rd, 2010, at 6:00 pmAt a 5:30 campaign rally in Huntsville this evening, Democratic Congressional candidate Steve Raby welcomed the endorsements of former Congressman Ronnie Flippo, the family of the late Congressman Bob Jones, Jr., and the family of the late U.S. Sen. Howell Heflin. Said Raby in a statement released by the campaign (pdf):
See the entire statement (.pdf) here.
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I meant to mention this in 
The executive committee of ALFA’s Farm-PAC met yesterday and approved the recommendations for endorsements made last week by its Farm-PAC advisory trustees.
I have seen little mention of a fairly noteworthy story coming out of the primary elections: Alabama is poised to elect a woman to Congress for the first time in a regular election. Two women from Alabama served briefly in Congress after the deaths of their husbands who held the seat; one of them was elected in a special election.
Last week, radio host Dale Jackson 
Speaking of the 5th Congressional District, 
