Our Readers Already Knew
I am glad for The Huntsville Times and Associated Press to inform their readers today that state Sen. Jimmy Holley (D - Elba) is switching to the Republican Party, but would it kill them to say that it was first reported in the Political Parlor (two weeks ago)?
I could understand a little better if we were some outfit shooting wildly all over the firing range who happened to hit the target this once, but we have a good record over here.
Keep reading… more scoops to come…
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Danny - your loyal readership knows that to get the real scoop on political news in Alabama, your blog is the definitive source. Keep up the great work.
Comment by Anonymous — January 3, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
Good riddance.
Comment by bhmhomeboy — January 3, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
Hey Homey, What about this guy makes you say good riddance?
Comment by Margaret — January 3, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
Republicans can have Jim Holley.
Comment by bhmhomeboy — January 3, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
Can you not answer the question? Did he support legislation you didn’t like or what?
Comment by Margaret — January 3, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
Answer:
Holley, 63, who has served in the Alabama Legislature for 30 years, joined the GOP coalition in the Senate during the 2007 legislative session.
He voted with Republicans, which ground to a virtual standstill because of GOP dissatisfaction over rules imposed by the Democrats.
Comment by bhmhomeboy — January 4, 2008 @ 9:26 am
So it was the shut down of the Senate you find so odious? They still managed to give themselves a pay raise and vote the rules chairman money to hand out while totally ignoring their Covenant for the Future and killing several bills that would have been helpful to the citizens. But, I guess, you didn’t notice.
Comment by Margaret — January 4, 2008 @ 1:12 pm
Last words on this subject:
I don’t notice any Republican legislatures refusing to take the pay raise. I don’t have a problem with legislators getting a much deserved pay raise. It’s to bad they had to vote themselves a pay raise instead of the people offering them one.
Republicans have fixed it so public school teachers have to choose between being an elected offical or a teacher. What’s the next profession Republicans are going to exclude from holding public office? You have to be rich to serve, but thats how Republicans like it.
Good riddance to Holley. Republicans can have him.
Comment by bhmhomeboy — January 4, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Some of them did turn down the pay raise.
Comment by Margaret — January 4, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
And if the legislators had not abused their positions at Community colleges, this problem would never have surfaced. And BTW, Democrats on the State Board voted to restrict this sort of abuse of the public funds. It wasn’t just Republicans. In fact, Mary Jane Caylor who is a Democrat has endured threats to her husband’s position because she supported the measure.
Comment by Margaret — January 4, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
Sorry to keep at it, but are you ever going to explain how rooting out corruption in the Community College system is a veiled attempt to destroy the system?
Comment by Margaret — January 4, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
All of a sudden Republicans care about the abuse of public funds and rooting out corruption and improving the Junior College system? ROFLAMO!
Comment by bhmhomeboy — January 4, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
Ok, still no answer. I keep trying to prompt you into a thoughtful and informed response, but I’m not having any luck.
Comment by Margaret — January 4, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
“Danny Publishes Rumor; Denied Credit By Legitimate Press!”
Unlike blogs and their anonymous contributors, journalists must collect and confirm facts before publishing.
Comment by factcheck — January 5, 2008 @ 11:40 pm
Factcheck wrote:
Unlike blogs and their anonymous contributors, journalists must collect and confirm facts before publishing
Plenty of journalists use unnamed sources (you’ll find them in the newspaper any week of the year), but they are the bugbear of any medium and particularly blogs. There is good information from solid sources who don’t want to be identified and who wouldn’t share if they were going to be identified. What can you do? Like everyone else, I prefer named sources to unnamed ones.
And you are quite mistaken if you think I don’t confirm facts/stories. I have sat on stories for days until I can confirm them, or occasionally had to pass altogether. On the other hand, there are numerous occasions where I have been out first with solid stories. On this one, I presented it as rock solid because it was rock solid.
There are both reputable and poor online outlets/blogs just like there are both reputable and poor newspapers. And they are known as reputable or poor because of their track records.
So yep, there was no need to come up swinging when I did the post above (though a couple of readers suggested that perhaps I should have). But I did want to take the fun opportunity to remind folks that we had it first (by a couple of weeks) and that there are worthwhile nuggets to be found here.
All this considered, I’m glad to have you as a reader!
Comment by Danny — January 7, 2008 @ 12:10 am