Posted by Ron Sparks has announced for the Governor’s race.
Sparks commented on economic development, bingo, and education:
“The only way that we are going to rebuild rural America is with alternative fuels, and in Alabama we can do that,” he said.
Sparks, in his Montgomery announcement, also said as governor he would push for equal educational opportunities for all children regardless of where they live. He also supports raising the school dropout age, which is now 16, and providing more state economic incentives to help existing Alabama businesses add jobs. When asked about the “Sweet Home Alabama” bill in the Legislature — which would expand, tax and regulate gambling machines — Sparks said, “I would say I would be for the bill.” But he added that he has concerns about the part of the bill that expands electronic gambling to new counties.
Noteworthy was the presence of former Alabama Democratic Conference field representative and Obama’s Alabama political director.
Should be an interesting weekend and a long campaign season.
A sorta contrasting article from the Montgomery Advertiser which offers more details about his platform, which is not just rural development and seems to omit a point.
Edit: change around paragraphs link to Times Journal (Sparks’ home town paper) and clean u. yet again.. spell check I’ve heard of it…
21:13CDT – add link to advertiser article hide all this behind a more clicky
Legislative Dispatch
Purple Dot Connection
2010 Big List
2010 Senate Elections
2010 House Elections
Press Releases
…………..Yawn………….
The former ADC field director, Jerome Gray, works for Sparks, as in on the state payroll. He also is the brother of Earl Hilliard’s former Chief of Staff. he joins a few other blacks who are notorious Davis haters, Albert Turner, Earl Sr., Frank Matthews who have allied themselves with Sparks. They’re usually good for about 10-15 percent of the black vote agn Davis.
Go Ronnie, Go!
So Ron has aligned with ADC. Kiss of death..
Looks like he understands the people want to vote on bingo. Smart move politically.
Davis as governor means end of Joe Reed. Enough said.
Can Ron Sparks even read?
#2 if you what you say is true about the older AA leaders delivering 10 to 15% of the black vote, then Davis is dead in the water based on simple math. He can’t be elected without 90% of the AA vote.
#2 if you what you say is true about the older AA leaders delivering 10 to 15% of the black vote to Sparks, then Davis is dead in the water based on simple math. He can’t be elected without 90% of the AA vote.
Bad start for Sparks..according to the BHM news, a sparse crowd in Montgomery, and no coverage at all of his Birmingham speech. Also, no live TV for Sparks, Davis got both announcement speeches covered live. Sparks is Hillary without the white female base and without the money. I think it is up in the air whether Davis will galvanize blacks here as Obama did, but I’ll put it this way: every poll I have seen in the last two years says he is the most popular politician in the black community by far.
sparks should have run for treasurer or something he could win. but, then again, i will be glad to get him off the public payroll for a while. so long ron….
If “it ain’t all about ego”, as Sparks says, then he should have no problem admitting that he made a mistake by posting on the hate site Daily Kos and then by denouncing Kos.
Sparks posted a diary there soon after Kos said “screw them” about Americans killed in Iraq. Does Sparks agree with that sentiment? I doubt it, but he brought dishonor to himself and his office by associating himself with such an evil point of view.
#12 – Wait a minute there – I certainly wouldn’t call “Daily Kos” a hate site – What Markos says is not reflective of everyone that visits the site. It is a Democratic site where there are often competing viewpoints on a number of issues. It is not an Amen corner for Markos.
There are also not always agreements on which candidates to endorse, etc.
People call Markos out on his own site all of the time.
On the other hand, Faux news. I think they support a one Michele Bachmann who supported an overthrow of the Government not just what two weeks ago.
If you had a conservative site like Kos, Southern Poverty Law Center would have sued them out of existance for hate speech.
I don’t know which is worse the number of times they ask for Bush to die (try that with Omaba and see who visits you) or the amount of foul language use in general discussion.
“Screw them” – those were Kos’ own words. Even John Kerry pulled his ads from Daily Kos after Markos wrote that.
Rep. Bachmann paraphrased Democratic Party icon Thomas Jefferson (”revolution now and then is a good thing” or more accurately “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”).
Let’s get back to sparks and his run for Gov. folks. Does anyone really think he can win the dem nomination? I don’t. I think Davis will be better at mobilizing his own voters than sparks will be. Also, I think the GOP is loving this…..Folsom they would have feared….Davis, they do not. Sparks should have run for a lower office again – but I guess he feared that would be seen as a step down. I aassure you that if / when he loses this race, he will be back running for something else in 2012. I assure you he will not go away…
2010 – Sparks’ poor judgment in posting at Daily Kos after Kos wrote “screw them” about Americans killed in Iraq is “back to sparks”.
BTW, proof that Daily Kos is still a hate site, Kos Twittered: “Conservatives, apparently, prefer to talk “revolution” and kill cops”.
This was in response to the Pittsburg shooting of 3 policemen. He said nothing about the recent Oakland police shootings (where the killer was actually celebrated by leftists).
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