Saturday 3/25/2006 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1143281706265400.xml&coll=2 – Moore sees “strange coincidence” between case of mad cow disease and congressional/legislative consideration of measure to require tracking of farm animals. Moore opposes proposed tracking as an “imposition on freedom and liberty.”
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060324/APN/603240899 - AG Troy King asks Supreme Court to set aside ban on executions for crimes committed by minors.
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060325/NEWS/603250347/1001 - Bryan Stevenson uses the case of the Scottsboro Boys as a reminder that Alabama has far to go in providing adequate legal representation to poor citizens.
FROM TODAY’S ANNISTON STAR:
EDITORIALS
Roy Moore speaks his mind
In our opinion
03-25-2006
It is hypocritical to proclaim yourself the people’s candidate when you don’t have faith in the people, but apparently that is what Roy Moore has been doing over the last few months.
On Wednesday, at a breakfast meeting of the Blount County-Oneonta Chamber of Commerce, Moore delivered his usual spiel about taxes and education and not taking PAC money. Afterward, he was asked where he stood on rewriting Alabama’s archaic and inefficient Constitution.
Specifically, he was asked if he thought the people of Alabama “had enough sense” to elect representatives to a constitutional convention.
Moore said “no.”
Even for a man well known for shooting from the hip, the bluntness of his response caught a lot of people off guard and left them wondering how Moore could expect people who lack the sense to chose delegates to a constitutional convention to have the sense to elect him governor.
Or maybe that is his point.
Later he said that “special interests” would control the delegate-electing process and therefore would rewrite the Constitution to suit themselves. (Apparently, he has not read the legislation with its rules on delegate selection or he would know that great care has been taken to make sure that the “special interests” he fears would not be able to control the convention unless the people chose to let them.)
No, apparently candidate Moore thinks that the people of Alabama can be easily fooled into voting for something that they neither want nor need. Apparently, he feels that citizens of this state are so malleable, so easily manipulated, that they can be convinced to vote for candidates based on emotional issues and false promises.
So it follows that Moore believes he can easily fool and easily manipulate these folks into lining up and voting for him.
Thanks for clearing that up, Mr. Moore.
