Mobile and Baldwin County News
Mayor Mike Dow reported zero contributions for all of 2004 and $18.47 in spending. Councilman John Peavy opened a mayoral account that hit six figures in five days, most of…
Gov. Bob Riley appointed Mobile City Councilman Stephen Nodine to the vacant District 2 seat on the Mobile County Commission in July 2004, days after Nodine won the Republican runoff.
Pre-election campaign finance filings in May 2004 showed Mobile County Commission candidates raising tens of thousands of dollars from PACs, contractors, doctors and developers ahead of the June 1 primary.
A 2004 survey of Mobile County Commission candidates found nearly unanimous opposition to a proposed onshore liquefied natural gas terminal at Hollingers Island in south Mobile County.
An opinion from the Alabama Attorney General held that Mobile County Commissioner Freeman Jockisch vacated his seat upon his federal fraud conviction, leaving the governor to fill the vacancy.
With the Republican primary set for June 1, one veteran observer sized up the Mobile County Commission contests in Districts 2 and 3, where a federal trial loomed over a…