The county Democratic executive committee planned to meet around the county during 2009 to build interest, as two Democrats were reported preparing challenges to Republican state Reps. Victor Gaston and Jim Barton.
Category: Semmes
News from Semmes in Mobile County, Alabama.
Baldwin County
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Asked to Name a Statesman, Alabama Lawmakers Crossed Party Lines
Coastal legislators were asked which colleagues outside their own delegations deserved to be called statesmen. The answers, from Republicans and Democrats alike, revealed who commanded respect in Montgomery.
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Mobile’s Political Class Surveys the 2008 Field, and Mostly Declines to Commit
Asked in mid-2007 whom they favored for president, Mobile-area officials, lawyers and businessmen produced a portrait of a Republican electorate torn between Giuliani, McCain and Romney, and a probate judge who refused to answer at all.
Mobile County
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Semmes Incorporation Talk Simmered, With Wilmer’s Collapse as the Cautionary Tale
Leaders in fast-growing west Mobile County kept talking about turning Semmes into a city, with early estimates of 40,000 residents and a $20 million budget, while eyeing the neighboring town that failed.
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Semmes Gets Its First Community Playground After Years of Driving Elsewhere
The Semmes Community Playground, a $600,000 park behind the community center on Moffett Road, was set to open with a ribbon-cutting on Feb. 3, 2007, the first of its kind in the western corridor.
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Five Republicans for Sheriff: GOP Groups Set a Candidate Forum in Semmes
Area Republican groups scheduled a May 2006 forum at the Semmes Community Center for the five candidates seeking the GOP nomination for Mobile County sheriff ahead of the June primary.
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Rusty Glover Opened His District 34 Senate Bid at a Semmes-Area Headquarters
State Rep. Rusty Glover of Semmes scheduled an April 2006 kickoff rally for his Senate District 34 campaign, entering a crowded Republican field to succeed retiring Sen. Hap Myers.
Mobile
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A Brilliant Surrender: The Provocative Case for Dissolving Mobile and Starting Over
With Mobile slipping to third-largest city in Alabama and annexation stalled, a satirical dialogue floats a radical fix: abolish the city entirely, fold it into the county and build metro government from scratch.
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Hap-pening or Hap-less? A Senate Retirement Rumor Freezes the Field in District 34
State Sen. Hap Myers said in August 2004 he would likely seek a fourth term, a signal that scrambled the plans of would-be successors in Alabama Senate District 34 ahead of the 2006 election.