Posted by I asked someone who attended the Business Council of Alabama Governmental Affairs Conference if Harold See’s retirement from the Supreme Court was a topic of the event.
The jockeying for Harold See’s race was intense but under the radar. No one was really talking about it openly but there was a lot of whispering and a lot of arm-twisting for endorsements. Kelli Wise made the rounds pretty hard to try to lock down some of the BCA Board of Directors. She realizes that in order to win the Republican Primary the BCA endorsement is a do or die deal… Deborah Bell Paseur was working the crowd hard as well. As a Democrat she might not win their endorsement but she is selling herself as a pro-business candidate.
A source close to BCA’s ProgressPAC board has told the Parlor that the board would not normally expect to endorse a candidate before next year.
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I admit I’m an out-of-stater, but having a judge “sell[] [them]self” is just offencive sounding.
Lurker, it’s an offensive process.
Amen.
It will be an interesting race if those two ladies are nominated by their parties. Both ran strong statewide campaigns last year. It’s amazing that we don’t even bat an eyelash anymore at the prospect of two female judicial candidates for the same seat in general elections in Alabama. As the Virginia Slims ads used to say, we’ve come a long way, baby.
[...] Regarding yesterday’s post about Democrat Deborah Bell Paseur promoting herself as a candidate for the Supreme Court with the Business Council of Alabama last weekend, a reader reminds us that she has ties with BCA: Paseur actually received the BCA endorsement last time when she ran against Sam Welch [for Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3]. She obviously has some strong BCA ties to get their endorsement as a Democrat. That said, I suspect that she has no chance of receiving it this time against a hand-picked BCA opponent. [...]