Days after the 2012 election, attorneys, consultants and officials across the Mobile Bay area weighed the winners and losers beyond the obvious, from ticket-splitting to the AEA’s comeback.
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Local News
If Romney Wins, Who Becomes U.S. Attorney for South Alabama? The Names Being Floated
With the presidential race too close to call, Republicans in Southwest Alabama were already trading names of possible candidates to become the next U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.
Local News
Seventeen Attorneys Line Up for Mobile County District Court Vacancy
Seventeen Mobile attorneys applied to fill the Mobile County District Court seat being vacated by retiring Judge Mike McMaken, launching a selection process overseen by a five-member commission.
Baldwin County
Political Observers Name South Alabama’s Rising Stars
A survey of political insiders across Mobile and Baldwin counties turned up a long list of up-and-coming names, from young council members to legislators eyeing higher office.
Local News
Artur Davis Brought a Campaign for Governor to Mobile — and a Pronunciation Lesson
The congressman told about 100 Mobile Democrats that Alabama’s past need not dictate its future, made education his central theme, and asked the city’s television anchors to note that his name is Artur.
Chickasaw
South Alabama Sizes Up Joe Biden: Mixed Verdicts From Mobile’s Political Class
Judges, lawyers, party officials and consultants across Mobile and the Eastern Shore delivered a split verdict on Barack Obama’s selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate in August 2008.
Chickasaw
Adam Bourne Runs for Chickasaw City Council on Police, Curfews and ‘the Crown Jewel of Mobile County’
A former Alabama assistant attorney general and industrial development board member announced a run for Chickasaw City Council in 2008, promising more police, a teen curfew and code enforcement.
Chickasaw
Mobile Democrats Opened Their Season With Karaoke, a Food Drive and a Treasurer’s Race in Flux
County Democrats planned a kickoff reception with neighboring party chairs from three states, a retired union leader weighed a run for treasurer, and a Bishop State student announced for school board.