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Republican David Sessions and Constitution Party candidate Bill Atkinson face off in the House District 105 special election this Tuesday. No Democrat qualified for the race that became necessary when Gov. Robert Bentley tapped Spencer Collier (R – Irvington) to be Director of the Alabama Department of Homeland Security.
The default position here is to not to get too worked up about a third party candidate’s chances, though this race offers an interesting dynamic. As one reader described it in email:
The GOP nominee openly supported Ron Sparks and his campaign is run by two former Democratic legislators – Gary Tanner and Taylor Harper.
The Constitution Party nominee Bill Atkinson has actually raised $25,000 and has more activity on the grassroots.
Atkinson has been endorsed by Common Sense, Allied Women, Conservative Christians of Alabama, Alabama Alliance against Abortion, and defeated GOP candidate Michael Burdine.
That said, Sessions has a fundraising lead aided by $10,000 courtesy of state Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard. Sessions also touts the support of Congressman Jo Bonner (R – Mobile) and every Republican state legislator from Mobile County.
If the voters of the county wanted to send a message they would vote Atkinson, but I don’t think he can win. Thus, it would at least be good if he got in the 40′s.
Tanner and Harper…what a pair!
Atkinson’s appears to be way out there on the far right wing fringes. I remember several years ago he had a huge, and I mean huge, sign on his property for Judge Roy Moore in some election. Everyone in the district got a call from Spencer Collier this weekend asking them to vote for Sessions because Atkinson was against public education, social security and medicare. Atkinson replied quickly with a call saying these were lies. I checked the Constitutional Party’s website and it appears to me that Collier was more right than wrong.
Any relation to our esteemed Jefferson Buregard Sessions?
Willie
if you go by the Sessions farm he still has a vote Ron Sparks sign on his property, your point? A conservative or a liberal democrat running as a republican? He also gave $500 to Ron Sparks.
At least when you ask David Sessions who he voted for he doesn’t lie or blame it on someone. Bill Atkinson for as many years as anyone in south Mobile County can recall has had a HUGE Rebel flag flying on his property. Not that I really care. It is his property. BUT! This flag has mysteriously disappeared. When asked about what happened to it he replied that was something his kids put there??? Sounds like he may want to hid his true feelings now that he has decided to run for office. If not then why be ashamed and take it down. If he is for schools, I would like to know how he voted on the recent property tax to remain in place for our schools? I would bet my first born he voted NO!
Is the ALGOP even doing anything to help? Seems like they were very active in the special elections in 09 and 10. It could be because there is no dem to beat up on, but resting on your laurels in a special election is dangerous.
Bill Atkinson’s beliefs and values are right where they should be as a true conservative. David Sessions is a RINO, Republican in name only, and it baffles me as to why the Republican party even let him run as a Republican. I guess they figure he will be a “yes sir” man to the people who pay to get him elected. Bill Atkinson, on the other hand, will vote according to Constitutional principles not “good old boy” politics, and the party leadership can have none of that. Most of our politicians now, at all levels of governement, are nothing more than “Republi-crats”. Most political contests that we see today are about as real as the so-called “pro wrestling” matches on TV. They all put on a show like they are different or better or smarter or stronger than their opponents in the other party, and after the cameras are off, they all go out to eat together and laugh about the show they put on for us. Republicans and Democrats alike are both guilty of leading our states, and our nation as a whole, down the path to moral and fiscal destruction. We MUST elect candidates at all levels of government who will do their best to stop this process. I have personally known Bill Atkinson for over 15 years. He is the kind of person that we need in office.
So,Bill Atkinson had a Confederate flag flying on his farm. And you think that is a negative in that district?
Like I said in my post, it is his property, he can do what he wants. The problem I have is that he took it down when he decided to run for office, then blamed his kids for the thing being up. He didn’t mind that he may offend someone when he was out of the spotlight, why change when he is in it? Just seems to me that he is hiding who and what he really stands for to get elected.
Nocorrection,
Willie is a democrat if you haven’t noticed. He posts on AL.com as well. Seeing as the southern democrat was given a one two punch in the last election they have resorted to weighing in on conservative races.
Mr. Kluger, Willie is a democrat and a resident of house district 105. As of now we do not have totalitarian form of government in Alabama,something a guy named Kluger might be happier with. So, I have right to vote in a general election for anyone I want to. Spencer Collier represented his district well, even supporting the removal of the sales tax on food, a Democratic initiative that failed to pass, but was good for his constituents. I believe Sessions will serve his district in a similar way.
Sessions wins! Hooray! Someone gets to pull thunder from Jefferson Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Sessions the Third!
Yea! Another RINO! What’s the count up to now? Party discipline anyone?
RINO is as RINO votes. Scott Beason: always a Republican but tried to gut ethics reform. Cam Ward: always a Republican but voted against teacher tenure reform because he didn’t want your kids to go to a school where bad teachers could be fired. I’d rather have someone who was a Dem but votes Republican now than a Scott Beason or Cam Ward. David Sessions may or may not be a RINO. Let’s call him one at the end of the session, not the beginning of the session. I don’t know a damn thing about him, but see how he does.
RINO definition for this post: anyone running as a Republican with a Sparks sign still up in their yard.