State Republicans’ “Contract with Alabama” Coming

The state Republicans’ “Contract with Alabama” will be released next week after Labor Day. Here are a few other points I have learned about the plan and its release.

• It will be released as the Governor’s proposals. State Republican legislators “are on board with it.”

• Coordinating the discussion of the proposals among all the interested parties, including the Governor, has created a small delay in its release. (Three weeks ago, House Minority Leader Mike Hubbard was quoted as saying the plan will be “unveiled in two or three weeks.”)
• The Republicans plan to show specifically how Democrats have killed proposals that Democrats now embrace in their “Covenant for the Future.”
• Yes, banning PAC-to-PAC transfers is in the plan.
• “I don’t know if full disclosure by lobbyists made it in there.” Which to me means it didn’t.
• It will not be called the “Contract with Alabama.”

Bonus section: Here are a few points I heard about the Democrats’ “Covenant for the Future” that I will pass on to you.

• That the Democrats would call the “Covenant for the Future” a Democratic plan “is infuriating.”

• The Republicans are all on the same page with the Governor’s proposals and campaigning on one platform, unlike the Democratic legislators who didn’t even talk to Lucy Baxley about their plan. After they released their plan, she soon came out with her own platform.
• “The Democrats don’t even say that they are going to pass their plan. They say that they are going to introduce the legislation. They don’t even say that they will vote for it.”

The last one makes me wonder if the Republicans are pledging to pass their legislation if they have a majority. Or if all Republican candidates are pledging to vote for all pieces of their proposal.

Next week.