Karl Rove & Perry Hooper in 1994 Alabama

While looking up some other things, I ran across this account of Karl Rove’s role in the 1994 election of Republican Perry Hooper, Sr. to the Alabama Supreme Court. At the time, no Republican had been elected to the Supreme Court in more than a century.

The 2000 [presidential] election was not Rove’s closest race. That had come earlier, and serves as a greater testament to his skill. In 1994 a group called the Business Council of Alabama appealed to Rove to help run a slate of Republican candidates for the state supreme court…

Interesting reading.