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 Posted by Danny, on March 16th, 2010, at 12:49 pm Republican Chip McCallum, attorney and son of former Vestavia Hills mayor Scotty McCallum, appears to be preparing for a campaign for House District 47, according to this Facebook page. The seat is held now by Republican Jack Williams of Birmingham. As always we try to keep up with these matters for you on our 2010 [...] Posted by Danny, on March 8th, 2010, at 5:44 pm The Parlor is hearing that Democrats in Morgan County are pleased that long-time Couny License Commissioner Sue Baker Roan is “99% sure” she’ll run for the House District 9 seat being vacated by Democrat Ron Grantland. Ed Henry and Dwight Tankersly are announced GOP candidates for the seat. Posted by Danny, on March 8th, 2010, at 1:24 pm Once considered a candidate to switch parties, eight-term state Senator Hinton Mitchem (D – Union Grove) announces he will not run for re-election. Rumors heard here and elsewhere are that Democrats are urging state Rep. Jeff McLaughlin of Guntersville to run for the seat. Related Articles: Posted by Danny, on March 1st, 2010, at 9:35 am New York Times Magazine yesterday has a piece titled “Race in the South in the Age of Obama.” The piece touches on several Southern black politicians but largely focuses on Cullman County’s state Rep. James Fields, (D – Hanceville). According to the article, Cullman County has only 401 African-American voters among its [...] Posted by Danny, on February 24th, 2010, at 3:33 pm I am sorry to hear that Rep. Warren Beck (R – Geneva) has passed away. He was 65. He is the second state Representative to pass away in recent months. Rep. Lea Fite (D – Anniston) died in October. State Senator Pat Lindsay (D – Butler) died a little over a year [...] Posted by waltm, on February 23rd, 2010, at 4:46 pmAt the start of this session, Demetrius Newton introduced HJR54 which if passed by both Houses, result in a convention to draw up a new state constitution. Today the resolution was first put on the table then by voice vote carried over. Meaning its not dead it just wants to take a little [...] Posted by Danny, on February 16th, 2010, at 9:44 pm Republican K. L. Brown has won today’s special election over Democrat Ricky Whaley to fill the vacancy in state House District 40. The seat became vacant with the death of Democrat Lea Fite in October. Here is this evening’s release from the state [...] Posted by Danny, on February 12th, 2010, at 2:50 pm Posted by Danny, on February 12th, 2010, at 1:14 pmArea radio stations and TV stations have pulled ads on behalf of Democratic candidate Ricky Whaley in next week’s HD 40 special election after successful challenges by the ALGOP and the attorney for Republican candidate K. L. Brown. Seems that a PAC calling itself “Alabama Ethics Committee” put out ads saying that Whaley’s Republican opponent, K. [...] Posted by Danny, on February 3rd, 2010, at 2:25 pm First, hats off to Walt for the links on the 2010 Big List, Senate List, and House List that make finding the financial reports for candidates so wonderfully easy! Phillip Rawls of Associated Press summarizes the reports for gubernatorial candidates nicely here. Here’s a list of the gubernatorial candidates listed by 2009 contributions [...] Posted by Danny, on February 3rd, 2010, at 2:16 pm Reader Stephen pointed out Thursday that the Political Parlor was mentioned on the floor of the Senate by Sen. Scott Beason (R – Gardendale). I for one was immediately glad that there is a place on the internet you can go to get audio archives of proceedings in the state Senate and the [...] Posted by Danny, on January 21st, 2010, at 10:50 am Looks like Virginia Sweet (D), the former Executive Director of the Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham, is preparing to challenge Republican incumbent Mary Sue McClurkin in House District 43. It’s going to be tough for a Dem to win in that district though Sweet looks to be better-connected than most challengers. Update: The [...] Posted by Danny, on January 15th, 2010, at 3:41 pm Posted by waltm, on January 14th, 2010, at 8:57 amWill update this with a link to a Press Register article, quoting Rep. Black who introduced the bill and comments from a Country Crossing spokesman and bill opponent. Always interesting to see the power of the State used to protect private profits. Folks might find HB154, the first bingo bill of the session an [...] Posted by Danny, on January 13th, 2010, at 10:54 amRepublican Jay Dill suspends his campaign and endorses his HD 40 primary opponent K.L. Brown, according to a GOP release this morning (below). Brown had received 46% of the primary vote to Dill’s 19%, and a runoff was scheduled for February 16. The special election will now be on February 16 and will feature Brown, [...] |
ChangeI wish my friend Hinton Mitchem godspeed and good luck after his retirement from public service. Hinton, on Monday, announced what many had suspected — he will not seek re-election. I remember meeting Hinton for the first time while I was a student at Auburn University. He served the people of his [...] Ten Minutes in the House, Senate Moves On Here is a quick preview of the upcoming week in Montgomery. This week will be a standard legislative schedule for the House. We will be in session on Tuesday and Thursday with committee meetings scheduled for Wednesday. Back in the Day... Tent City at Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, ca 1918 |
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