The Home Builders Association of Alabama endorsed Bradley Byrne in Fairhope, his third major business endorsement, while Ron Sparks and Robert Bentley worked the Mobile Bay donor rolls.
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Bar Panel Disbars Former Judge Herman Thomas, Calling Paddlings ‘Sexually Motivated Assaults’
A five-member Alabama State Bar disciplinary panel found former Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas untruthful and barred him from practicing law, crediting the inmates a jury had not.
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Reading Reed Between the Lines: A Rival’s Blessing in Senate District 33
Reports that Joe Reed would back Vivian Figures against Herman Thomas cut across four decades of Mobile political rivalry, and turned on a single legislative vote about a building’s name.
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Acquitted Ex-Judge Herman Thomas Weighs a Run Against Vivian Figures
Months after his acquittal, former judge Herman Thomas was among several prominent figures weighing a challenge to state Sen. Vivian Figures, whose family had testified for the prosecution at his trial.
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Davis Hits Byrne Over PACT, and 48,000 Alabama Families Are the Audience
Artur Davis attacked Bradley Byrne over a remark about the state’s legal obligation to the failing PACT college tuition program, opening a general election fight months before either man had won a primary.
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Sparks Stays in the Governor’s Race, Passing Up an Open Congressional Seat
Ron Sparks scheduled a three-city announcement tour and let speculation build that he might abandon the governor’s race for the 5th District. The scheduling itself gave away the answer.
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Alabama Democrats ‘Betrayed’ by Griffith’s Jump to the GOP, Party Chairman Says
State Democratic chairman Joe Turnham said thousands of Alabama Democrats felt betrayed by Rep. Parker Griffith’s switch to the Republican Party, and demanded he return the money they raised for him.
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The December Scramble: Alabama’s Governor Candidates Race a Fundraising Deadline
With campaign finance reports due Jan. 31, the candidates for governor spent December begging, cajoling and raffling lunches, each trying to make the bottom line look like momentum.
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Sparks Proposes Tapping Alabama’s Oil and Gas Trust for a Decade of Road Work
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ron Sparks endorsed drawing $100 million a year for ten years from Alabama’s oil and gas trust fund to rebuild highways, reviving a long-running fight over the state’s savings.
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The Davis-Reed Rift: A Feud That Tested the Machinery of Alabama’s Democratic Party
The public break between gubernatorial front-runner Artur Davis and Democratic power broker Joe Reed raised a question veteran Alabama strategists were happy to answer: is the old machine still the machine?