Posted by Not an unusual thing of late to find me playing catch up… let’s clear some things out of the notebook.
Chad Horrell returns to his home state of Indiana, leaving Josh Segall’s Congressional campaign in AL-03 where Horrell served as campaign manager. Horrell will again be on the campaign staff of Democratic Congressman Brad Ellsworth. Horrell was Ellsworth’s Field Director in a successful 2006 campaign. (I have heard but have not confirmed that this time around Horrell will be Ellsworth’s campaign manager.)- In the wake of Scott Brown’s Senate victory in Massachusetts, Rothenberg moved his ratings on 28 House seats toward the GOP, including AL-02. Rothenberg rates the seat held by Democrat Bobby Bright as “Toss-Up/Tilt Republican”.
- Terry Dunn, an erstwhile candidate in the Treasurer’s race, indicates on his Facebook page that he is going to enter the race for PSC, Place 1. If he does, he’ll be the third Republican to mount a challenge for the seat held by Democratic incumbent Jan Cook. Chip Beeker and Stephen Evans have already announced their candidacies.
- FWIW, another staffer of U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith (
DR), Huntsville native Whitney Heaps, quit in the wake of his party switch. She was his Field Director. - Gene Tackett, Griffith’s District Director, did not resign. Until Friday he and his wife were also elected members of the State Democratic Executive Committee. (He was also a member of the Party’s Executive Board.) The Parlor hears that Tackett did not wish to leave the State Dems Executive Committee and in January rebuffed requests from the state party to resign. Some SDEC members from the 5th District talked to party officials about voting Tackett off the SDEC at the January meeting, though the issue was not put on the agenda. As the story is told to the Parlor, Griffith’s DC staff and political consultant heard that the Times Daily was calling around for a story on the topic (a story that came out today), and they put pressure on Tackett to step down. With the pressure, Tackett resigned from the SDEC late Friday via email to state party officials. His wife sent a separate e-mail resigning her position at the same time.
- Jefferson County Commissioner Jim Carns is circulating a notice in email that he will not run for re-election. Figure in outgoing Commissioners William Bell (just elected mayor of Birmingham), Bettye Fine Collins (council president already announced she will not run again), Shelia Smoot (running for CD-07), and you have four of five Commissioners who are jumping ship. Commissioner Bobby Humphryes said last year that he will run for re-election. Given the county’s state of affairs, it’s a tough role to fill.
- We know who wants off the JeffCo Commission. Who wants on? The names heard here of folks who are interested in replacing William Bell include Kamau Afrika, George Bowman, Willie Hartley, Valerie Hicks-Powe, Nathan Reed, Andra Sparks, and Chris Talley.
- GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim James this week presented a “6-point plan for immediate budget savings” and you can find out all about it here [.pdf].
- Terri Sewell has put some of her fundraising largesse toward a redesign of her site for her campaign for the 7th Congressional District race.
I’m sure there’s more. There always is.
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I would list the Bright seat as Leans GOP or worse and would have the day after he was elected. Plainly it will be tough for him to wrestle the votes he needs out of Montgomery without Obama on the top of the ballot. At the very least he will need to pick up a lot more support from the southern part of the district (not inconceivable as that’s where he is from) to compensate or he is in major trouble.
Bright has trouble; and he knows it. If Rick Barber is able to win the GOP nomination – Bright is history.
Apparently if Steve Raby decides not to run for Congress in North Alabama, the Democratic party is looking to Taze Shepard to run. Shepard is an attorney in Huntsville and a former member of the Alabama State Board of Education. He’s also the grandson of former Senator Sparkman. This will be interesting to follow. I imagine Raby will have to make up his mind soon.
Anybody catch the “urgent” press conference in Byrneville today? So…let me get this straight…(snicker)…Byrne wasn’t home after sunset…(snicker, snicker)…when he was being served with a subpoena…(giggle, snicker, snicker)…so the wife is there is terrified because the guy won’t leave the subpoena with her?…(tears welling, more giggles)…and so Byrne calls a press conference because the guy served him this morning instead…(trying not to blow my milk through my nose)…and and these are intimidation tactics by his enemies???…(bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!)
Are you kidding us Bobly?
Your wife didn’t call the FBI on the guy? I’ll bet the Byrne family gardner is scared sh-tless now everytime he cranks up the riding lawnmower.
I hope the Mobile press has enough reporters on call to cover all these “urgent” press conferences after the Jehovus Witnesses, encyclopedia salesmen and Girls Scouts come by to knock on the front door at Byrne Manor!
Did anybody catch Byrne referring to the guy as waiting for him this morning in Byrne’s “parking lot”? Parking lot? Parking lot? What kind of ponderosa spread does Bobly live on, a car dealership or the Biltmore Estate?
This is one for the ages. The guy is not ready for primetime and his numbers are tanking everyday. Flip flops about the Bible, accusing his hometown paper of “misquoting” his own writing, billion dollar tax hikes, running the campaign of Spanky Thomas and tv ads that are cornyer and phonyer than an episode of Ozzie and Harriet. How much money is the Montgomery business elites throwing away on this guy???
Well at least in this age of $12 movies we get the treat of hysterically entertaining politics for free.
Keep it up Bobly. David Barber and the Original Bobly are indebted to you for the media diversion.
Steve Raby was one of those involved in the attempted “hijacking” of the GOP primary for State Board of Education race last election…
http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/31/unusual-interest-in-sboe-races/
There is just one thing I don’t really get. If Gene Tackett were really committed to re-electing newly Republican Rep. Parker Griffith, why would Tackett wait to resign from his key state Democratic leadership positions until more than a month after Griffith changed parties suddenly. It sounds like Tackett was forced to to resign by his bosses in order to keep his job. Doesn’t seem like Tackett knows which side he is on.
This should be called The Loser’s Roundup.
As for the Byrne “urgent” story, when in the devil did 7PM constitute the middle of the night?
This is not intimidation. Intimidation involves getting a fish wrapped in newspaper left on the hood of your car or maybe being followed by a PI hired by local gambling magnates as you travel from the country club to your palatial bayfront mansion.
Growing up, Bradley was always very timid and scared around all the rest of us at the Country Club . . .maybe that is why he is carrying a gun around with him while he is on the golf course . . .
Obviously little Braddy is easily intimidated . . .makes all this “don’t back down” stuff look silly . . .
Guess Jack Miller isn’t around to protect him?
Northalabamapol,
I can’t imagine Taze Shepard(grandson of Sen. Sparkman)running for Congress. Talking heads will be brutal.
The Parlor is being mentioned on the floor of the Senate right now during the GOP stalling on the roads bill trust fund raid. Brooks and Beeson were up there talking about Jeff McLaughlin being considered one of the most ethical folks up at the state house during discussion on the Parlor.
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