Comments on: Speaker Hammett: Re-districting “Bad idea”

by: Margaret

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:01:50 +0000

Hey JT. I think bhm lacks knowledge rather than being nutty. Some of his posts show he just doesn’t know much about what has taken place in the state. First, he talked about when the Republicans were in charge about the drawing of district lines when the state legislature draws the lines and has been controlled by the Dems for about 150 years. Second, when he said that the Republicans should help bring down taxes on the poor, he didn’t seem to know that Riley wanted the minimum salary to be $20,000 in order to pay taxes but that Hubbert and the Dems brought the number down to $12,000. Also, I don’t think he is alone in this lack of knowledge as most people pay no attention to what legislation the folks in Montgomery support or kill.

by: JT

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:40:00 +0000

bhmhomeboy is a nut. dems set the lines and lines are drawn, usually, only every 10 years after each census. I hate to tell you bhm, but the majority of this state votes republican in federal elections and there would be no way to draw the lines legally in order to elect a mjority of dems to federal office from this state. the only way to do that is for dems in alabama running for federal office to make themselves and their policies more appealing to voters. i guess they have failed at that so far, huh?

by: Margaret

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:13:09 +0000

Who set the districts as they are now?

by: bhmhomeboy

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:16:36 +0000

Why indeed. And why would Democrats not do anything about the lines? That is the question.

by: Russ

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:29:15 +0000

what would they not like thelines. out of the 7 house members 5 are republican and win re election easily. and when bud cramer leaves office that seat will likely go R as well. Why would they not like the current district lines?

by: Bhmhomeboy

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:08:38 +0000

Republicans like the lines just like they are. The question is why.

by: Margaret

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:14:39 +0000

I think it is a smart move by Hammett. The House routinely passes good legislation that is usually killed by the Senate. I would hate to see the House have a complete shut down like the Senate did last year. This might cause the House members to begin to behave like Senators. Then we would never have any hope that the legislation in the “Covenant” would ever pass.

by: JT

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:10:17 +0000

Agreed that Rs knew this wouldn’t happen but the huffing and puffing of some Dems like Spicer and Reed made it all too easy for Rs to come in and make an issue of it to their advantage. I don’t blame the Rs at all. Nice play on their part.

by: William Wyatt Wallace

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:45:35 +0000

This issue would have blown over and nothing would have come of it but the Republicans saw an issue and jumped on it and made it bigger than it really was. This was smart political positioning.

by: Scorpius

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:22:03 +0000

Poli, Joe Reed is/was chomping at the bit to submit new lines and so were some other Dems like Spicer. Don’t act like the Repubs created the issue out of thin air. They just responded with due haste when the shenanigan brigade let their misguided intentions be known.