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Folks have long been telling the Parlor of Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos and his interest in the 2010 Governor’s race. He has been listed on the 2010 Big List from the beginning. Today, he publicly confirms his interest in the race for the Republican nomination.
Thanks to reader William.
Will be an also ran. My knee jerk tells me that he knows he will be an also ran but has aspirations down the road and is hoping to get some needed around the state exposure.
His cheesy TV ads with the thumbs up while saying “Hoover’s happenin’” might be cute in a gubernatorial ad though.
who? i repeat….. who?
This just in: campaign slogan to be “AMAZIN’ ALABAMA”!!!
I heard this on WBHM today and thought I must have been imagining things. Petelos? Really? I guess he can run on the “hatin’ illegals” ticket. It worked in Hoover.
Isn’t Petelos too honest for Governor?
He should run. No one from B-ham area is running.
Petelos will not catch on outside Jefferson County suburbs. No fundraising base, no statewide message. Petelos also has a quirkiness that would not wear well in rural areas.
Jefferson County suburbs IS a fundraising base, is it not?
The base line for making the run off could be looking so low that it could start producing regional candidates.
Prehaps a local Republican player from Hunstville could jump in?
If he gets the bulk of the Shelby County votes in the Primary he will be in the run off.
That’s why I bet he runs. Anybody who makes the runoff has to figure that will have a shot at winning the run-off.
And ANY Republican nominee would defeat Davis.
Of course Cobb would be a different matter.
But likely they get Davis.
Petelos would struggle in the general, but as the GOP primary is becoming a circular firing squad, anyone who could run strong in the Bham suburbs could win. That said, I’m not sure Petelos is as popular in the suburbs outside Hoover as he thinks.
Of course, the same is true on the Dem side. This is like one of those primaries you read about from the forties and fifties where everybody and their brother would run and you saw stuff like former governors finishing outside the top five.
Petelos has wanted to run for governor for three years-that is not news. The question is could he raise money? To one of the early posters, the only Jefferson County suburb that is a money base is Mountain Brook and Petelos has no special appeal there.