We seem to be snakebit around here in recent months. This morning, we were down a few hours because of a “bandwidth limit exceeded” issue though my understanding was we had unlimited bandwidth available to us. That issue has been handled in that as far as I [...]
Democrat Susan Parker makes it official today: she is running for re-election to the Public Service Commission, Place 2 (Word .doc).
Republican Chip Brown has also announced his candidacy for the position.
[...]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 [...]
I was pleased to have a conversation with Montgomery attorney James Anderson who tells us that, contrary to any rumors, he is not considering running for the Supreme Court but that he is very much considering running on the Democratic side for Attorney General in 2010. [...]
Rep. Frank McDaniel (D – Albertville) is announcing today that he will not run for re-election as the representative for House District 26. Marshall County and HD 26 have been moving right on the political spectrum, but most observers believed that the long-serving McDaniel would have [...]
It’s official: Trey Glenn has just announced to the Alabama Environmental Management Commission that he is resigning as ADEM Director.
He tells the EMC that it is time to write the next chapter in his life, thanks the AEMC for their support and the service they provide, and [...]
Observers close to the situation are expecting Director Trey Glenn of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) to step down at tomorrow’s Environmental Management Commission meeting. The business community, the environmental community, and ADEM staff have all had their dissatisfactions with Glenn, though as one interested [...]
A source close to the Ron Sparks’ gubernatorial campaign confirms what I have heard elsewhere: the Democrat’s campaign for governor is expanding and hiring.
The campaign doubled office space two weeks ago in Montgomery, is in the process of hiring a couple of new positions, and has [...]
Rep. Cam Ward has a new post for us, “Charging Windmills,” in the Parlor’s Legislative Dispatch section.
There are a few rough edges yet in the new design of the site, and one of them is that I have not yet [...]
I don’t know that the Alabama Line will tackle the task of handicapping each state legislative race, and the three Supreme Court races haven’t firmed up enough that it would yet be practical to handicap them individually either. However, undaunted, the Alabama Line is willing [...]
The 2010 Alabama races for U.S. Senate and seven Congressional seats have been added to the Alabama Line. Find the Alabama Line here or in the sidebar.
Some look now to be close. Others, not so much.
[...]The 2010 races for Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Public Service Commission Places 1 & 2, and Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries have been added to the Alabama Line. Find the entire Line (to date) here or in the sidebar.
Not all of the [...]
Today’s special election for Birmingham’s fourth mayor in months is being held on a rainy day. Or perhaps the heavens are crying over the whole affair.
WadeonBirmingham has “Last-Minute Thoughts on a Hurry-up Mayoral Election” that is worth checking out for those with interest in the matter.
I’ll be surprised if [...]
I don’t know either. Ask Judge Roy Moore, whose Twitter account (Moore2010) went from 2589 followers to 4270 followers in one day on October 8.
Kristopher at The World Around You has a take on that and looks at the various gubernatorial campaigns and their use of Twitter. [...]
The Alabama Line has been updated with the Attorney General’s race.
The race to be the Republican nominee for Attorney General looks to be one of the most closely watched and hotly contested of the coming year. Given that, I thought readers might appreciate a [...]
Originally posted Dec. 4What are the odds that your favorite candidate will be elected to state office in November 2010? Are you watching a longshot and wondering what his chances [...]
Gubernatorial hopeful Artur Davis is one of four featured speakers at the Democratic Governors’ Association Candidate Luncheon today in Washington. The other three are Tom Barrett of Wisconsin, Diane Denish of New Mexico, and Alex Sink of Florida.
The DGA appears to be taking notice of [...]
Harri Ann Smith (R – Slocomb) will be getting a little country love from Ronnie Gilley, John Anderson and Lorrie Morgan next week. Anderson and Morgan will be performing at a fundraiser for Smith’s 2010 state Senate campaign, Dec. 8 at the BamaJam Music Festival site. While John Anderson will [...]
Tom Whatley, the former Chief of Staff to Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb (D), the person supported by Alabama’s three Democratic Congressmen to be state director of the USDA’s Office of Rural Development, is preparing to run for the state Senate. As a Republican.
Whatley is [...]
Stuart Rothenberg (of the Rothenberg Political Report) lists the dozen most vulnerable seats in the U.S. House for RollCall (subscription required). While he offers the caveats that there are “strong arguments for including at least half a dozen other districts on the list” and that the list is [...]
Sen. Jabo Waggoner (R – Birmingham) announced to a crowd at a Tuscaloosa fundraiser earlier this month that former state Senator Gerald Dial will run as a Republican for the Senate District 13 seat that he held six terms as a Democrat.
Dial as a Democrat became [...]
Did you see that Earl Hilliard Jr. picked up the endorsement of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC in his quest to succeed Artur Davis as the Congressman for AL-07? Dad’s ties from his own Congressional days surely didn’t hurt. The real value for Hilliard [...]
We’ve had more than the usual number of distractions around the Parlor lately, including the holidays and working to get the Parlor back into shape after our ‘net storm. I’ll be sifting through some email and notes to find post topics that didn’t get posted, seeing what [...]
Tallassee’s landmark Hotel Talisi was destroyed in a fire this morning. Opened in 1928, the buffet in the hotel’s restaurant was promoted in an Alabama Tourism campaign, “100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama Before You Die” (pdf).
There are still some rough edges to be sanded down, and the tweaking will no doubt be an ongoing effort, but we have a new look for the site that brings us closer to completing the transition from the old look (that we [...]
A reader writes:
Is it possible to get a list of ALL public officials (elected, appointed, etc.) who were given free AU/AL Game tickets? Who paid for the tickets and what is the actual value of each ticket? Did spouses also receive free tickets? Did taxpayers pay for a special reception, [...]
I expect that next week you will see a new look for the Parlor. The painters are putting on the second coats, and movers will position the big pieces once the dropcloths are removed. Tweaking the smaller pieces and other design elements will be a longer process.
We [...]
Natalie Davis surveys the current political landscape in the nation, in the state, and with the Birmingham mayor’s race and declares it “Thanksiving Just in Time” in her new post here in the Purple Dot Connection.
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Lagniappe (out of Mobile) this week picks up on the Supreme Court report on the disparities among the justices’ …um… working tempos that we had here last month.
Lagniappe adds comments from Court Clerk Robert Esdale:
Court Clerk Robert Esdale [...]
George Talbot’s article in the Press-Register gives us the morning update on the Jesse Jackson / Artur Davis story.
Jackson said in a statement late Thursday that he called Davis to discuss his remarks.
“I talked to (Davis) today to assure him of my [...]
The Rev. Jesse Jackson calls out Rep. Artur Davis for voting against the Democrats’ health care reform bill in the House.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
“We even have blacks voting against [...]
Associated Press this morning:
Former federal prosecutor Michel Nicrosi says she plans to run for Alabama attorney general as a Democrat.
The 45-year-old Nicrosi says she is filing papers Thursday with the Alabama Secretary of State’s office showing she will run for the' [...]
The Parlor hears reliable word that Bill Harris is considering running for Congressional District 2 in 2010. One factor in his decision has to do with when he will be released from active duty from his military service. He also [...]
Speaking of the Birmingham mayor’s race…
Richard Arrington apparently will not find out if the once-formidable Citizens’ Coalition could propel him into the mayor’s office again, telling the Birmingham News that he will not run. Many public figures are not self-aware enough to know when [...]
Don’t miss Natalie Davis considering the lay of the land after the recent national elections, and she looks ahead to the Birmingham mayor’s race.
She managed to wiggle the post on to the site at the end of the week before the site got completely uncooperative, [...]
I should have known when I got this warning sign last week that we were in for some trouble.
I put a note of explanation here (and linked for now up top to the text “Update Nov 2009″) that the site is definitely in flux while [...]
I poked H into a Friday afternoon post of the Daily Headlines (in the previous post), partly to make sure that aspect of the blog worked right.
I’m not sure how much I like this minimalist look.
[...]We’ve had some real problems, and maybe some time some of those details are worth telling, but the fun part is that we now should be good to go.
A lot is in flux here. This look will evolve into something else. There was some heavy customization in the old site [...]
Tomorrow at 10 am, Scott Douglas, Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, will announce his candidacy to be mayor of Birmingham tomorrow at Kelly Ingram Park at the statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Interim mayor Carole Smitherman will run. Patrick Cooper, runner-up in' [...]
Lots going on… e.g., health care reform in Washington, 2010 races heating up, and we have the added distraction of some site issues that took us down for a bit this morning. We are back, and we’ll get the problem worked out. Refunds for the downtime and inconvenience are available [...]
A couple of times now something has gone awry at the site that has caused it to eat up resources to the point that the host company had to suspend the site so as not to bring the whole server down.
I blame tea partiers, the [...]
Speaking of Ron Sparks… 28 sheriffs across the state gathered today to endorse his Democratic candidacy for governor.
We keep up with press releases here at the Parlor for you - particularly the ones received that meet what I intend to be modest guidelines [...]
Former Riley Cabinet member and gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson makes hard accusations:
“I was in the leadership of the 2002 and 2006 Riley for Governor Campaign,” Johnson said Thursday morning during a press conference he called at the Country Crossing development south of Dothan.
“We received [...]
Obama was elected a year ago this week and has been in office since January. What kind of politics is at work that has led Obama to nominate Joyce Vance to the U.S. Attorney spot in the Northern District in less than four months, but to leave Bush appointee Leura [...]
From Dealbook at nytimes.com:
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday that JPMorgan Chase had agreed to pay $75 million in penalties and forfeit another $647 million in termination fees to settle civil charges that its securities firm had engaged in an “unlawful payment scheme” [...]
Rep. Bill Dukes (D - Decatur) has decided that he is going to run for re-election after all, according to Jim Spearman, Executive Director of the state Democratic Party. “Bill Dukes will be a candidate for his house seat after all. He has decided he is [...]
I’d rather engage in discussion about what ideas are good and bad moreso than what people are good and bad, but I am not surprised that the state GOP is trying to make hay out of some serious lapses from some Democrats. As far as I can tell, it’s where [...]
Democrat Elaine Beech won a special election for the House of Representatives today, according to unofficial returns.
Beech garnered about 53 percent of the vote for the House District 65 seat, while her Republican opponent, Jerry Reed, tallied 47 percent. Provisional ballots were not yet counted as of Tuesday [...]
