Christian Coalition of Alabama & the AL-05 Race

Dr. Randy Brinson

In the AL-05 race, the Christian Coalition of Alabama does not care for the “Misleading Attack Ads By Casino-Funded Freedom’s Watch,” according to a Friday release from CCA Chairman Randy Brinson. Freedom’s Watch ran the ads against Democratic candidate Parker Griffith on behalf of Republican Wayne Parker.

It’s hard to know what to excerpt [...]

AL-05: New Poll, New Flap

Alabama

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a poll from Anzalone Liszt Research that shows Democratic nominee Parker Griffith 8 points ahead of Republican Wayne Parker in the AL-05 race. The entire text of the release is below.

This poll was taken Oct. 12 to 14, mostly before the flap emerged yesterday about a recording from [...]

UMC Resolution on Tax Fairness

United Methodist Church logo - cross and flame

The Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church adopted the below resolution related to Alabama’s tax system on June 4th. The conference adopted a similar resolution in 2003.

Resolution to the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church

June 1, 2008

WHEREAS, since the days of John Wesley, Methodists have had a strong [...]

Editor: Not an Empty Tome

The general editor of the Bible Literacy Project fires back a defense of the textbook The Bible and Its Influence in response to Sen. Scott Beason’s criticism of the project.

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Beason Divinity School

Sen. Scott Beason (R – Gardendale) jumps into theological waters and offers his take on “The deception of the Bible Literacy Project” for WorldNetDaily yesterday.

Those can be difficult waters to navigate.

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More on Brinson and Iowa

Phillip Rawls for the Associated Press this afternoon:

The chairman of the Montgomery-based Redeem the Vote [Randy Brinson] said Friday he believes his organization’s campaign in Iowa to encourage voter participation by faith-based citizens helped Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama win in party caucuses.

And about the comment from Doug Gross, Mitt Romney’s Iowa campaign [...]

Brinson’s Huckabee Help

Dr. Randy Brinson

Dr. Randy Brinson, he of the prodigious email list and head of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, is among the conservative Christians rallying support for GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee in today’s Iowa caucuses. His recent mass email attempts to sway (and encourage turnout among) Iowa’s conservative Christians with faith-based doubts about [...]

Huckabee and Brinson: Match Made in Heaven?

Dr. Randy Brinson

Did you see the weekend’s Washington Post article suggesting that Alabama MD Randy Brinson and his email list of 71 million names get some of the credit for Mike Huckabee’s surge among GOP presidential candidates? The article called it “one of the most coveted lists in Republican politics.”

FWIW, the article did not mention [...]

State Bd of Ed Approves Bible Literacy Textbook

The Bible and Its Influence

The State Board of Education has now approved the textbook The Bible and Its Influence for use across the state though some of its members appeared not to know it until after the fact.

The book and its use in schools was a matter of contention in 2006 when a Senate committee voted [...]

Three Items on Christian Coalition of Alabama

Three items…

  1. First, a little more about John Giles’ new group Christian Action Alabama keeping the url for the Christian Coalition of Alabama (http://www.ccbama.org/). Of course that is bound to cause some confusion, but it’s worse than that. There are references all through the site that would mislead readers into believing they were [...]

What’s Behind the Curtain of Giles’ Christian Coalition?

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

The head of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, Dr. Randy Brinson is suing John Giles, who led the Christian Coalition of Alabama for eight years.

The suit contends that after Giles was asked to resign from the CCA, he has refused to give the group’s current leadership necessary records, including membership and lists of contributors, [...]

Payday Loans Attract Interest

Payday Loan Store

A bill to subject the payday loan industry to the regulation of the Small Loan Act is being introduced by Sen. Bradley Byrne (R – Fairhope) and has the support of Democratic Party Chair Joe Turnham and the Christian Coalition of Alabama.

The banking industry brought suit a few years ago charging that the payday [...]

Selma’s Pulpit Visitors

Selma to Montgomery March, 1965

Activities in Selma this weekend commemorate the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march. Selma pulpits are seeing visitors tomorrow, some in a “command performance:”

It was [GA's U.S. Rep. John] Lewis who invited Obama to Selma a month before Clinton decided to go. And it is Obama, not Clinton, who has been awarded Selma’s prime [...]

Christian Principles in an Election Year

The National Council of Churches (whose member faith groups “include 45 million persons in more than 100,000 local congregations”) offers Christian Principles in an Election Year complete with a companion group study guide. It is also available in a reproducible format in a pdf file.

Alternative Faith-Based Voter Guide

From the Associated Press:

Redeem the Vote, a Montgomery-based group that registered thousands of religious voters in 2004, plans to distribute what it calls an “alternative voter guide” on races for statewide offices and the Legislature.

It will list candidates’ responses to a questionnaire about issues of faith, rather than highlighting their responses to hot [...]

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Legislative Dispatch

Change

I 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

Riley and her friend Caroline joined Julie on the campaign trail in Isabella this past weekend.

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.
The House will take up a ten minute calendar this week. A ten minute calendar is [...]

Purple Dot Connection

MARCH MADNESS

TOP TEN INDICATIONS OF MARCH MADNESS

10.  Eric Massa inviting us to ask the 10,000 Navy men he served with whether he is gay.

9.  Larry Langford hitting the jackpot 33 times in one day and not remembering it.

8.  Ron Sparks being able to make payments on a $500,000 loan with an income of $80,000.

7.  Artur Davis [...]


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Union Avenue in Ozark in the 1920s

Vintage postcard