Comments on: Qualifying Ends

By: Homewood Republican

Homewood Republican — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:07:50 +0000

I think Scorpius is being a little hard on Amari. I generally vote straight ticket, but Amari is one of the few candidates who always stood up for labor (whether he was republican or democrat). Looks like I’ll be splitting my vote this November.

Besides, does party affiliation even matter in a small judicial race?

By: links for 2008-04-08

links for 2008-04-08 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:36:42 +0000

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By: Scorpius

Scorpius — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:21:15 +0000

Kudos to JohnKillian for calling spades spades.

JT or John or John Timothy or whatever Smallwood decides is accurate for his nom de plume is going to face a lot of questions this election cycle.

Not the least is: Is there nepotism in promoting a civil domestic partner?

By: blue dotter

blue dotter — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:59:58 +0000

At least Danny did not post a pic like this re Amari

http://johnkillian.blogspot.com/2008/04/boy-georges-of-alabama-politics.html

By: Scorpius

Scorpius — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:16:00 +0000

Amari, or “The Italian Stallion” as he was known during his senate days in Monkeytown, has become a laughingstock. What wasn’t mentioned was that he ran in the GOP primary in ‘98 against Steve Windom for Lt Gov. After he was defeated in that, he turned around and helped the campaign of Democrat Lt Gov candidate, Dewayne “Somebody I love’s gonna get a beating tonight” Freeman.

Amari ran in 2002 for his old senate seat against French, his successor, and got beat like a drum for all his old trial lawyer ties.

I guess he figured that since he couldn’t even beat anyone as pathetic as Hooper, Jr., he might as well jump ship and run in the party where his heart and mentality really lie.

By: DB

DB — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:53:53 +0000

Dr. Mancuso (Decatur) is running as a Republican for the 5th congressional district seat. He used to be a Democratic Representative.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:35:03 +0000

Considering all the publicity surrounding the scandals in the two year college system, Byrne’s attempt to clean the system up, and subsequent actions in the legislature and the judicial system to stop what Byrne is doing, it seems to me that the races for seats on the state school board should be on someone’s radar.

All the activity in opposition to Byrne’s actions seem to be orchestrated by Paul Hubbert. It could well be that Hubbert is pulling out all stops by also trying to gain control of the state school board.

One would expect AEA to pick a Democrat to run against Stephanie Bell in District 3, but at almost the last minute on Friday Troy W. “Skip Smithwick, Jr. from Sylacauga qualified to run against Bell as a Republican. Smithwick’s ties to education (thus AEA and Hubbert?) may indicate that Hubbert wants to make Bell spend so much money in a Republican primary that she won’t have sufficient funds to defeat her Democratic opponent, Judy West Bell from Jacksonville, in the general election.

Does anyone know anything about Smithwick?

By: Blue Dot

Blue Dot — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:43:17 +0000

STICKS AND STUFF
STICKS AND STUFF

crap
all I’ll hear in my head all nite now!

By: walt moffett

walt moffett — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:23:30 +0000

Tina Gordon, late of NASCAR and Sticks and Stuff ads, is running for County Commissioner in Cherokee County as a Democrat.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:19:09 +0000

One thing interesting I see is that Jennifer Champion decided not to run for tax collector, which she had originally planned to, and chose to run for county treasurer instead. It is highly probable that she did not want to bring possible attention to the situation with the qualifying in ‘06, but that was not her fault and she seems like a very nice person. I wish her the best.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:13:47 +0000

Republicans Vicki Fuller and Jeff Caddell might be sleeper candidates for the Collector and Assessor