That heat you feel? It may be from recently defeated Democratic state senator Gerald Dial burning bridges:
Dial has served 32 years in the Legislature, but he got defeated in the Democratic primary June 6. He said Wednesday he decided to do the ad [for the Riley campaign] because he’s been impressed with Riley’s administration and because he’s known Riley since Dial was a high school football coach at Lineville and Riley was playing for Ashland.
Will resist the urge to draw comparisons between Dial and Lieberman.



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Dial made a HUGE mistake back in March by not switching to the GOP. It was a very bad mistake
[...] crossed party lines that campaign season to cut a TV commercial for Republican Governor Bob Riley’s re-election campaign and later was appointed by Riley to [...]