Posts Tagged ‘Alabama’
AL: GOP Attorney General Race in the Spotlight
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:57 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 1 June 2010 01:01
From montgomeryadvertiser.com:
Alabama voters face a long ballot Tuesday as they pick party nominees for all constitutional offices, legislative and congressional seats as well as many local offices such as sheriff and county commissioner.
Outside of the governor’s race, the hottest action has come in the Republican race for attorney general, with Birmingham lawyer Luther Strange seeking to unseat incumbent Troy King, who has lost the backing of some top GOP leaders in his feud with Republican Gov. Bob Riley over electronic bingo casinos.
Three Democratic attorneys, Michel Nicrosi of Mobile, James Anderson of Montgomery and Giles Perkins of Birmingham are facing off in the Democratic primary for the right to face the winner of the King-Strange race in the Nov. 2 general election.
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AL: AG Race “One to Watch”
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:55 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 1 June 2010 12:54
From DecaturDaily.com:
Alabama voters face a long ballot Tuesday as they pick party nominees for all constitutional offices, legislative and congressional seats as well as many local offices such as sheriff and county commissioner.
Outside of the governor’s race, the hottest action has come in the Republican race for attorney general, with Birmingham lawyer Luther Strange seeking to unseat incumbent Troy King.
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Alabama Goes to the Polls
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:55 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 1 June 2010 12:39
From al.com:
After millions of dollars raised and spent, a flurry of charges and counter-charges, a flood of commercials and enough signs, billboards and bumper stickers to stuff a landfill, it’s time to vote.
Polls open across Alabama at 7 a.m. today and close at 7 p.m.
On the ballot are hundreds of races, from a historic choice for governor that includes a black man making a serious bid to win his party’s nomination, to contests for Congress, attorney general and the Supreme Court. Down-ballot races include contests for judgeships, sheriffs’ offices, school boards and county commissions. In Jefferson County, a record 34 candidates are vying for their party’s nomination for five seats on a commission that has been hammered by crisis and scandal for years.
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Alabama Attorney General Gives Update on Health Care Plan
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:56 Written by rslcpol Friday, 28 May 2010 12:43
From al.com:
Alabama Attorney General Troy King plans to provide updated information on the state’s court challenge of the new health care plan passed by Congress.
King will be joined by the Alabama president of the National Federation of Independent Businesses at a news conference at 10 a.m. today in the attorney general’s Montgomery office.
Alabama is one of more than a dozen states that has challenged the new health care plan in court. The Florida-based lawsuit was filed in Pensacola.
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Alabama Joins Gun Suit
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:48 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:55
From al.com:
The list of states joining the legal battle over federal gun control is growing.
A total of seven states filed “friend of the court” briefs by Monday’s deadline to do so. And the Montana attorney general also is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit first filed by gun advocates in U.S. District Court in Missoula.
The legal fight is based on a law first passed in Montana that seeks to exempt guns made and sold within its borders from federal regulation.
Utah, Alabama, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming and West Virginia all signed on to the lawsuit. The states argue that the U.S. Constitution gives them the right to control activities inside state borders.
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AL: GOP Closes the Gap in Senate
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:54 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 7 April 2010 12:34
From montgomeryadvertiser.com:
Republicans are now within three seats of picking up the majority in the Alabama Senate after a recent switch from a longtime Democrat.
State Rep. Mike Hubbard, who is chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, said Sen. Jim Preuitt’s switch was a pleasant surprise.
Preuitt, R- Talladega, has voted with Republicans on most major issues but officially filed to run as a Republican on Friday after serving five terms as a Democrat.
Top officials with the Alabama Democratic Party said Preuitt called them Thursday asking for the paperwork so he could qualify to run again as a Democrat.
Jim Spearman, executive director of the Democratic Party, said he thought Preuitt might switch when he did not turn his papers in Thursday.
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AL: AG King Heads to Washington over Health Care Bill
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:21 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 23 March 2010 01:25
From WSFA News:
Alabama Attorney General Troy King may have his hands full with the newly taken over Task Force on Illegal Gambling, but there’s a pressing matter nearly 1,000 miles away that’s about to occupy a good bit of his time.
King is headed to Washington, D.C to discuss the newly passed, historic healthcare legislation, and what he can do as Alabama’s chief law enforcement officer to stop what he sees as the soon-to-be law’s encroachment on his constituents’ rights.
“I was stunned,” King said at a news conference Monday, “as I watched what happened…over the weekend.” King said the system is broken.
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AL: AG Candidates Face Off at Breakfast
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:22 Written by rslcpol Monday, 22 March 2010 12:32
From al.com:
Luther Strange told Huntsville Republicans Saturday that unlike his GOP primary opponent, Attorney General Troy King, he wouldn’t hesitate to take control of Gov. Bob Riley’s Task Force on Illegal Gambling.
King didn’t bring up the subject of bingo during his address to the Republican Men’s Club breakfast and declined to respond afterward to Strange’s jab. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Robert Vance Jr. has given King until Monday to decide whether he will take over the task force.
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AL: Special Election Win Gives GOP Confidence for November
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:03 Written by rslcpol Monday, 22 February 2010 01:37
From the MontgomeryAdvertiser.com:
Alabama Republicans have picked up another key seat in the Legislature and another impressive win heading toward the general election later this year.
Republican K.L. Brown won a seat that had been in Democratic hands for generations. He won by almost 14 percentage points, receiving more than 55 percent of the vote.
More impressive for Republicans is now, with 45 members in the Alabama House of Representatives, they are eight seats away from a majority in the chamber for the first time in more than a century.
Taking control of the Legislature was the target of Republicans when they launched Campaign 2010 and started collecting the funding and putting together a plan.
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Republican Sworn into Alabama House
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:07 Written by rslcpol Friday, 19 February 2010 01:21
From al.com:
Republican K.L. Brown has been sworn-in as the newest member of the Alabama House.
House Speaker Seth Hammett administered the oath of office to Brown shortly after the House went into session Thursday morning. Brown was elected Tuesday in a special election to fill the unexpired term of Democratic Rep. Lea Fite of Jacksonville, who died in October.
The 58-year-old Brown is a funeral home owner in Jacksonville and Anniston.
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