In a letter to the editor, Mobile’s Pierre Pelham argued that Alabama’s senior senator had been silent when it counted – on the Iraq war and on the mortgage system – and had no standing to lecture on finance.
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At Mobile Convention Center, Fred Barnes Tells 600 What He Thinks History Will Say About Bush
Journalist and Bush biographer Fred Barnes headlined the Alabama Policy Institute’s annual fundraiser in Mobile, predicting the president would leave office to hisses and be judged more kindly later.
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A Restless Electorate: Mobile Voters Wanted a Candidate Who Didn’t Exist
By late summer 2007, a striking number of Mobile’s civic and business figures had looked over both fields and found nobody who fit. One of them said the ideal candidate was Bob Riley.
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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.
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Hillary Clinton Raises $160,000 at an Eastern Shore Luncheon
The Democratic presidential candidate collected roughly $160,000 at a seated luncheon in the Baldwin County home of Pat and Bob Edington, drawing about 45 donors from five states to a deeply Republican county.
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Mobile Ad Executive and Navy Reservist Was Bound for Baghdad’s Green Zone
Scott Rye, a political consultant and advertising executive, was called up as a Navy Reserve commander to run media operations for Multi-National Force-Iraq, expecting to spend a year in Baghdad.