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 Posted by Danny, on March 12th, 2010, at 10:40 am State Sen. Harri Anne Smith’s campaign has released a poll showing her with a 51%-30% lead over her GOP primary challenger George Flowers. The campaign is obviously pleased, or pleased enough, with the numbers to trumpet them, but is that a bit low for primary numbers for an incumbent running for a fourth [...] Posted by Danny, on March 10th, 2010, at 7:57 am The Senate Sketches of Sen. Hank Sanders (D – Selma) are now available at the Political Parlor in a new-easier-to-navigate format. Whether you read it because you believe, like the Birmingham News once said, that the column “often provides rare, behind-the-scenes looks at why things happen as they do at the [...] 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 waltm, on February 18th, 2010, at 11:38 pmOne of the things missing in this week’s bingo sitzkrieg, has been any information about the tax revenue to be generated other than in very general terms, “about $200 million” or candidate Whaley’s statement half a billion a year was possible. However, the required fiscal note from the Legislative Fiscal Office is not readily [...] 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 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 waltm, on January 12th, 2010, at 3:11 pmDid capture the House meeting and eventually some of the Senate meeting which appears garbled. Anyone get a clear copy? Will upload my files to the archive after the Joint Session and State of the state speech tonight. Posted by Danny, on January 12th, 2010, at 12:43 pm Thanks to Chip Drago of the Mobile Bay Times, we have some brand spankin’ new names on the 2010 Senate Elections Directory in Senate District 33. Vivian Figures is the Democratic incumbent. She also was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in the 2008 race against Jeff Sessions. According to [...] Posted by Danny, on January 12th, 2010, at 12:34 pm The 2010 Legislative Session starts today, and that means Parlor readers can again enjoy posts from the legislature. Four legislators have agreed to take time from their busy schedules to share with Parlor readers their insights, perspectives, and other thoughts that they would be willing to share with us. I am pleased to tell you [...] Posted by Danny, on January 8th, 2010, at 12:59 pm Looks like Dick Brewbaker had a mail piece ready to go that may have been waiting on Larry Dixon’s announcement that he was retiring. I understand SD 25 residents are receiving this [...] Posted by Danny, on January 6th, 2010, at 1:14 pm Sen. Larry Dixon (R – Montgomery) this morning made the long-expected announcement that he would not seek re-election to the SD 25 seat that he has held for almost 30 years. Former State Rep. Dick Brewbaker (R) has previously announced his SD 25 candidacy and released a statement this morning praising Dixon [...] Posted by Danny, on January 4th, 2010, at 4:17 pm Tom Beason has announced his candidacy for state Senate District 4. Beason, a retired BellSouth employee, is the father of state Senator Scott Beason (R – Gardendale). Beason is the third Republican to announce a campaign for the seat held by Democrat Zeb Little. Dentist Paul Bussman and retired teacher Patricia McGriff have [...] Posted by Danny, on December 22nd, 2009, at 3:17 pm You read here first at the Parlor that Tom Whatley is preparing to run for the state Senate District 27 seat. While he has made no formal announcement, his Twitter page tells us (see the screenshot below) that indeed he is “Running for Alabama Senate District 27.” (The tweets themselves are [...] Posted by Danny, on December 17th, 2009, at 11:58 am Note that the four members of George Flowers’ principal campaign committee (pdf) (mentioned in the previous post) have all previously been supportive of SD 29 incumbent Harri Anne Smith. Davis Malone, Reid Dove, Jeff Coleman, and Steve Shaw are now members of Flowers’ campaign committee, but just last year in February they [...] |
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... Union Avenue in Ozark in the 1920s |
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