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I meant to mention this in the previous post…
The NBC News Political Unit at First Read listed the Field of 64 on Friday, the 64 House seats most likely to change parties in the November elections. The 2nd Congressional District currently held by Democrat Bobby Bright is 35th on the list. The 5th Congressional District currently held by Republican Parker Griffith is 56th.
As mentioned before, Bright faces Republican Martha Roby in November. Griffith was defeated in the primary by Mo Brooks, who faces Democratic nominee Steve Raby.
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Anti-Democrat sentiment is running high in AL-02, Bright will go quickly. Voting for Pelosi as Speaker shows how quickly he can make a stupid decision.
PS,
As I see it, Republicans are fed up but it is with the way this state has been run for the past eight years and the bingo crap. Bright has not done nothing but remain conservative and vote the way he felt was right for the people of this district. But, I guess that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, huh!
Since by the numbers Bright should be in the top 3 most likely to flip – looks good for him. He is defying the odds, as he has always been able to do! Bright is much stronger than you want to believe PS!!!!
@anonymous I agree. PS, Just keep spouting that ol’ party line. Remember, it is not only the Democrats that are in trouble for the quagmire we call Congress. People are fed up with career politicians who only listen to their constituency at election time, then go off and earn millions by joining the biggest little club in the world!
02,
Republicans still like Riley and approve of his handling of the gambling issue.
Let’s see. Roby’s a Republican, Raby’s a Democrat.
Hope no one gets them mixed up on Election Day.
anonymous, yep, everyhwere but the wiregrass. Oh, I forgot – republicans also voted against Riley endorsed candidate Byrne by 57% OUTSIDE of the wiregrass.
Bright has been true to the 2nd CD- independent and conservative. Looks like his critics are grasping at straws to find any real policy differences. My bet is that he’s here for a while.
you guys haven’t a clue. bright lost the wiregrass in 08 and he will lose it again. the last thing we need is to send another democrat to congress to keep the pelosi, reid and obama regime in power. bright is a fraud. and “02 voter”, maybe you should be reminded that when the country crossing idea first came up, Bobby Bright was one of the first to run down to dothan and have a press event on the steps of the courthouse with the chair of the christian coalition to rally against the project. my how times change. but we expect that with mr. bright. he always rides the fence and remains on the sidelines. we need a leader and a fighter for us in DC – he is neither.
Oh 2010 – why don’t you pack it up and go back to headquarters. Since it is clear that you are such a GOP operative/insider and Roby supporter, you well know that she cannot get beyond the support of hardcore republicans in the wiregrass. She is struggling raising money and is holding out hope that Bright can be taken down with the Pelosi factor.
Of course I support Roby. I support Republicans. And Roby is having trouble raising money? She has raised more in individual contributions than Bright. That says a lot. A LOT! And believe me, it is more than “hardcore Republicans” that will vote to send Bright packing. It is Republicans at all levels on intensity and independents as well. If you want to use the “hardcore” term then get it right…the only people to support Bright in droves will be hardcore Democrats. And wake up….this is not 08 where Obama turned out minority straight ticket democratic voters in mass. I know Bright was hoping that his friend Artur Davis would be on the ticket for Governor so Bright could benefit from a similar effect…but it’s not happening in 2010. Just the opposite in fact. I hope Bright has the U-Haul reserved for is trip back home. We need to send a leader to DC – not a follower that is scared to speak out.
Just remember 2010, you’re in the middle class…Repub’s hate the middle class. They are geared more toward the “rich man-poor man” idea!!
http://www2.eufaulatribune.com/news/2010/aug/18/independence-yea-ar-721389/
“doesitmatter
August 18th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Just remember 2010, you’re in the middle class…Repub’s hate the middle class. They are geared more toward the “rich man-poor man” idea!!”
I’m middle class and I don’t hate myself and I support the GOP. Saying it doesn’t make it so…go on back and save these bingo tactics for Gilley and Harrianne Smith. They’ll need your made-up “facts” in Novemebr when they are being tried for vote buying.
From what I hear down here in CD2 most people are pleased with the way Bright has voted most of the time with the notable exception being his vote for Pelosi to be speaker of the house. On the other hand they dislike Bright for not speaking out in congress against some issues he ended up voting against once it was apparent the bill would pass without his vote. They also are fed up with the way he has failed on several occasions to meet with constituents and in fact slipped out the back door of his Montgomery office to avoid a group of senior citizens who had request that he meet with them. They also dislike the way he conducts many of his “Town Hall” meetings over the phone where he can be in complete control of questions asked, rather than in person. They don’t think he displays leadership.
Don, you are exactly right, I’ve been on those telephone town ahlls he has and they accomplished absolutly nothing. He won’t meet with you face to face until now that he’s getting challenged strongly. He’s useless and needs to be sent packing.
DON is exactly on point. And recently, when Bright did actually have a town hall meeting that was not via telephone, he declined to answer some questions saying he “could not be political” because there were tv cameras there. Are you freakin’ kidding me? Man up, Bright. If you don’t want your comments recorded then don’t run for office.
Hey you GOPers (2010 and PS) Bright has held real Town Hall meetings all over the District. He has done so as Congressman and not as a political candidate. There is no place for politics in that forum and you (should) know that. You can say man-up all you want but Bright has displayed more strength of character in one day of public service than your party-girl candidate has in all of her young life. Throughout the district those many who know Bright will tell you that he is solid as a rock and stands up strong for what he believes. To try and say otherwise is the wrong tune to take Bright down. But, desperste souls do desperate things.
Anon – you obviously do not have your hand on the pulse of the way people actually feel. And having a town hall meeting and a “political question” coming up in the meeting? Wow….imagine that…. a political question asked to a politician. If Bright cannot answer questions for fear of the voter’s reaction, he should not be in office. If he is asked if he will vote for Pelosi again or if he would vote for President Obama again if the election were held tomorrow he runs like a scared school boy and refuses to answer. It would be funny if this was not such a serious matter. How is that a leader? Is it not.
@2010, maybe you should take pause and read your own admonishment to Anon. It appears that you are the extremist in just about every post. You are rabidly against any person who does not carry the moniker of Republican. I’m against Obama, and have been since the get go. But the reasons were and continue to be that he is not fiscally responsible, and has no idea of world politics with little national exposure.
Unfortunately Obama was sent to office by persons who now say they didn’t vote for him (in fact, you might be one of those mystery voters!). Gee, thanks. The same seems to be true about Riley. One year after he was elected the first time around, he tried Amendment One, the largest tax increase in state history. Yet you voted for him again? Gee, thanks. Riley is slick (remember, he’s a used car salesman) and he will not let the state vote on anything that does not fit his ticky tacky little Baptist box of propriety and yet people like you let him continue to remain secure in his own mind that he knows what is best for everyone but himself. If Riley is so cock sure that he is right, why won’t he let people vote? Because Riley feels that even YOU are not smart enough to make his decision! And then there’s the issue of the indians want their money’s worth. But I won’t even get into that issue.
Riley takes trips to England to find jobs for Alabama???? Give me a break. Riley goes to the National Championship with fifty or so cronies to find jobs for Alabama???? Give me a break. He’s using our dollars (maybe the educational dollars he spoke of in the State of the State address) to flit and fly around the world gaining nothing for even the Republican party except ridicule. That’s surely more important than teachers. With what was spent on the National Championship boondoggle alone, we could have funded at least two or three positions for a year or two. The millions spent on the Bingo crusade could have funded a number more. But it was more important to give his son in law the money for work that has yet to produce one arrest and conviction. Smoke and mirrors. Collosal waste.
Alabama has been in just about every major newspaper across the United States and Canada and we are being held up by the rest of the country as a state filled with toothless inbred rednecks driving beat up pickup trucks filled with pregnant and barefoot women.
Thanks Bob, we now have succeeded Florida and the pregnant chad affair as the dumbest and most backwards state in the country, further adding to our stellar showing of being third in both the incidence of obesity and the issuance of unnecessary prescriptions. We have an educational system second to everyone else, we are getting rid of teachers due to no funding (where IS that $400,000,000 we had for education?). Riley has filled the job market with minimum wage positions for out of state and foreign employers that leave as soon as the tax breaks are gone. Then when the employer leaves, we get stuck with another Superfund site. I agree with doesitmatter above, the Republicans who loudly voice their opinion, at least in this state, are for the most part mean spirited, only care about the rich and how much more money they can accumulate amongst themselves and for their handlers, then say “to hell with the middle class and poor.” THAT is Bob Riley’s legacy, and what a legacy it is: one of which we all justifiably can be proud!
“@2010, maybe you should take pause and read your own admonishment to Anon. It appears that you are the extremist in just about every post. You are rabidly against any person who does not carry the moniker of Republican. I’m against Obama, and have been since the get go. But the reasons were and continue to be that he is not fiscally responsible, and has no idea of world politics with little national exposure.”
- Good for you i think most agree on this website on your first paragraph.
“Unfortunately Obama was sent to office by persons who now say they didn’t vote for him (in fact, you might be one of those mystery voters!). Gee, thanks. The same seems to be true about Riley. One year after he was elected the first time around, he tried Amendment One, the largest tax increase in state history. Yet you voted for him again? Gee, thanks. Riley is slick (remember, he’s a used car salesman) and he will not let the state vote on anything that does not fit his tricky tacky little Baptist box of propriety and yet people like you let him continue to remain secure in his own mind that he knows what is best for everyone but himself. If Riley is so cock sure that he is right, why won’t he let people vote? Because Riley feels that even YOU are not smart enough to make his decision! And then there’s the issue of the Indians want their money’s worth. But I won’t even get into that issue.”
- Could you please use the truth for once…if he really is bought and paid for by the Indians don’t you think a Democratic and Obama owned justice department would love to hammer the GOP with a GOP Governor being investigated right before the November elections? You bet they would but they aren’t because there isn’t nor has there ever been any truth to the lies your hero Gilley and Macgregor has been spewing. Oh and get in that hate speech against the Baptists too, classy!
“Riley takes trips to England to find jobs for Alabama???? Give me a break. Riley goes to the National Championship with fifty or so cronies to find jobs for Alabama???? Give me a break. He’s using our dollars (maybe the educational dollars he spoke of in the State of the State address) to flit and fly around the world gaining nothing for even the Republican party except ridicule. That’s surely more important than teachers. With what was spent on the National Championship boondoggle alone, we could have funded at least two or three positions for a year or two. The millions spent on the Bingo crusade could have funded a number more. But it was more important to give his son in law the money for work that has yet to produce one arrest and conviction. Smoke and mirrors. Collosal waste.”
- How the heck do you think we get foreign investment in our state? We just sit back and let them come to us??? If that is what you think then you don’t understand business and marketing or chose to ignore it in the class room. Every good business man or salesman knows that you go to the prospective customer not the other way around. He’s planting seeds, and out of the many seeds he plants…just maybe one will sprout with another car company or business willing to move operations to Alabama. But sitting on your end parsel as a governor isn’t going to get it done. Look at Obama, he sits on his and thinks everything should fall into place and see where it has gotten us?
“Alabama has been in just about every major newspaper across the United States and Canada and we are being held up by the rest of the country as a state filled with toothless inbred rednecks driving beat up pickup trucks filled with pregnant and barefoot women.”
- If you believe that then your a fool, they hate the Alabama is a right to work state and has low taxes and inexpensive labor compared to the geniuses in those areas you cited. They are simply jealous of what we have to offer them and frankly you play right into their hands by believing that garbage. There is a reason why our unemployment numbers are better than any surrounding states.
“Thanks Bob, we now have succeeded Florida and the pregnant Chad affair as the dumbest and most backwards state in the country, further adding to our stellar showing of being third in both the incidence of obesity and the issuance of unnecessary prescriptions. We have an educational system second to everyone else; we are getting rid of teachers due to no funding (where IS that $400,000,000 we had for education?). Riley has filled the job market with minimum wage positions for out of state and foreign employers that leave as soon as the tax breaks are gone. Then when the employer leaves, we get stuck with another Superfund site. I agree with does it matter above, the Republicans who loudly voice their opinion, at least in this state, are for the most part mean spirited, only care about the rich and how much more money they can accumulate amongst themselves and for their handlers, then say “to hell with the middle class and poor.” THAT is Bob Riley’s legacy, and what a legacy it is: one of which we all justifiably can be proud!”
- There you go again…badmouthing our state because you didn’t get slot machine bingo…give it a rest ok? We see where your loyalties lay, you must have been an investor that was conned by Gilley. Look around the GOP, most are regular people just trying to make ends meet. The GOP isn’t filled with the “rich” people waiting to take your money away from you…that’s the job of the illegal casino bosses. Your incoherent rantings are sad…because you don’t know half of what you think you do.
I’m a Republican who voted twice for Riley but with 20/20 hindsight, he’s not been a great governor. He’s not even been a good governor. He’s been a corrupt governor who governed about as poorly as George W. Bush did and that’s not good. That’s awful. Riley had a lot of promise, but he blew it in his man-love support of the Indians and their casinos. Why did he do it? Who knows? Maybe his indictment will give us the Paul Harvey rest of the story.
Regular Alabamaian = democratic gambling plant
PS — who writes your material? Charles from Reeltown? What a moron. I’m not a Democrat and I’m a gambling proponent. I’m simply stating the truth. I guess you can’t handle the truth.
@PS, More of your moronic, imbecilic spouting straight from the mouth of Patsy Riley. How much more out of touch can you get? Go and watch “The Phenix City Story” a few more times, then exalt in your knowledge that you are the only true light for the future of Alabama.
If you can tell me where Riley put the $400,000,000 he had for education in the State of the State address, then perhaps I’ll quit a little of the carping. You are so dense that you can’t even see the connection between $25,000,000 miraculously found one day to save the state Court System from layoffs, and a Riley decision the next day from the Supreme Court. Remember, no court in Alabama has RULED on the LEGALITY of electronic bingo, and will not as long as Riley is in power. You don’t care about Alabama, you don’t care about anything except your way. You and your thoughts sir, are detrimental to our future, so just go over the Mississippi, gamble where your fellow church members can’t see you, and leave the problems to persons who want to find a solution. Your christian (yes, little “c”) ramblings do nothing. Try lighting that little candle and thinking of something that doesn’t further enrich yourself and your fat cat friends that can help get more than minimum wage jobs for Alabamanians!
And when we get the largest tax increase in history next session, I don’t want to hear you bellow and cry in disgust. You asked for it, you fostered it by your incalcitrance and intolerance, and now you have left no option except its passage due to both your and others’ unswerving allegience to Bob Riley and his economic practices!