 Posted by G, on February 28th, 2007, at 6:55 am
Posted by Danny, on February 27th, 2007, at 7:57 am Lt. Governor Jim Folsom marches with the parade of folks who support banning PAC-to-PAC transfers and says we’ll see legislation lowering the amount of unreported money that lobbyists can spend on legislators.
I’ve stated publicly and still am supportive of [legislation on PAC-to-PAC transfers]. I think we need to address that. You’re going [...]
Posted by G, on February 27th, 2007, at 7:15 am
Posted by Danny, on February 26th, 2007, at 10:44 am  Political Parlor’s Alabama Line was created by insiders across the political spectrum who gave their takes on the 2008 U.S. Senate and U.S. House races, and the 2010 Governor’s race.
Considerable care went into thinking this through. Of course, your mileage may vary.
The plan is to update the Alabama Line when information becomes available that [...]
Posted by G, on February 26th, 2007, at 7:40 am
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/117248169291080.xml&coll=2 – Governors of Florida, Mississippi back Alabama’s efforts to lure huge steel manufacturing facility.
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/117248150491080.xml&coll=2 – Legislature to convene today for special session, primarily to provide mechanism for funding huge incentives to lure steel plant to state.
http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/117248142391080.xml&coll=2 – The Birmingham News criticizes State Board of Education for their complaints [...]
Posted by G, on February 25th, 2007, at 6:20 am http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/117239544572970.xml&coll=2 – Corts’ problems with Board of Education said to have begun almost immediately after he assumed interim chancellor’s position.
http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/117239530172970.xml&coll=2 – The Birmingham News calls for legislators to put aside partisan differences to enact needed legislation in special session.
http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/jkennedy.ssf?/base/opinion/117239500972970.xml&coll=2 – Joey Kennedy’s commentary on the decision by James Tucker, plaintiff [...]
Posted by Danny, on February 24th, 2007, at 10:35 pm On the subject of the special session, the Alabama Senate Democratic Caucus is circulating a letter to the editor. (You may see it as early as tomorrow in some papers.)
Thanks to a reader, you may read the full text of the letter below or see the original here (pdf).
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Posted by Danny, on February 24th, 2007, at 10:29 pm Still no copy available of the official call for the special session.
At this writing, the first blurb on the Governor’s official web site is entitled “Governor Riley Calls Legislature into Special Session.” The body of the first blurb reads
Friday, February 23 – MONTGOMERY—Governor Bob Riley has called the legislature into a special [...]
Posted by G, on February 24th, 2007, at 7:55 am http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/11723088488770.xml&coll=2 – The Birmingham News suggests that state follow the lead of Minnesota in developing a merit selection process for judges to replace partisan elections.
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1172312321261150.xml&coll=3 – U.S. Senators from Mississippi, Florida join colleagues from Alabama to urge Mobile as site for huge steel manufacturing plant.
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1172312157261150.xml&coll=3 – [...]
Posted by Danny, on February 23rd, 2007, at 12:24 pm In the back of the shop, the usual crowd was gathered around an old Evinrude 2-cycle that Doc had pulled apart, when talk came around, as it often does, to politics. Lots of jawing over many days, lots of input from people across the political spectrum, and pretty soon they figured that they’d answered [...]
Posted by Danny, on February 23rd, 2007, at 11:01 am Editorials across the state are supportive of the news that last week Governor Riley called a special session (beginning this Monday) reportedly to deal with incentives to lure industries and jobs to Alabama and to “create irrevocable trusts to pay billions in health care costs for retired teachers and state [...]
Posted by G, on February 23rd, 2007, at 6:35 am
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Posted by G, on February 21st, 2007, at 7:00 am
Posted by Danny, on February 20th, 2007, at 8:32 pm I’ve received a report that Don Webster, 2nd place finisher in the HD 22 Democratic primary, endorsed GOP nominee Wayne Johnson for the March 6 special election at a campaign event tonight in Maysville.
Don Webster finished second to Butch Taylor in the Democratic primary. Taylor was a few votes shy of winning an outright [...]
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Legislative Dispatch
By Sen. Steve French on March 10, 2010
I wish my friend Hinton Mitchem godspeed and good luck after his retirement from public service. Hinton, on Monday, announced what many had suspected — he will not seek re-election. I remember meeting Hinton for the first time while I was a student at Auburn University. He served the people of his [...]
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By Rep. Cam Ward on March 8, 2010
 Here is a quick preview of the upcoming week in Montgomery. This week will be a standard legislative schedule for the House. We will be in session on Tuesday and Thursday with committee meetings scheduled for Wednesday.
The House will take up a ten minute calendar this week. A ten minute calendar is [...]
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Purple Dot Connection
By Natalie Davis on March 15, 2010
TOP TEN INDICATIONS OF MARCH MADNESS
10. Eric Massa inviting us to ask the 10,000 Navy men he served with whether he is gay.
9. Larry Langford hitting the jackpot 33 times in one day and not remembering it.
8. Ron Sparks being able to make payments on a $500,000 loan with an income of $80,000.
7. Artur Davis [...]
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