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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Baldwin County
On the Eve of the 2012 Vote, Mobile-Baldwin Insiders Handicap Obama vs. Romney
On the eve of Election Day, attorneys, officials and operatives across Mobile and Baldwin County offered sharply divided predictions on whether President Obama or Mitt Romney would prevail in 2012.
Baldwin County
Endorsements and Fish Fries Crowd the Calendar as Primary Day Nears
With Alabama’s June 1 party primaries days away, campaigns across Mobile and Baldwin counties raced to stack up endorsements, rallies and receptions, from a Battleship Park fish fry to a Montrose reception for a veteran lawmaker.
Baldwin County
Oil Spill Upends Politics: Byrne Endorsement Rollout in Mobile Postponed
A press conference at which area legislators and council members were to endorse gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne was called off as the Gulf oil spill scrambled schedules along the coast.
Chatom
Pierre Pelham, 1929-2009: The Chatom Lawyer Who Ran the Alabama Senate
Pierre Pelham, the Harvard-trained lawyer from Chatom who served two terms in the Alabama Senate and became its president pro tem, died at 80. Friends and rivals recalled a formidable and elusive figure.
Baldwin County
Jack Edwards Tells Fairhope Republicans the GOP Must Widen Its Tent
The former South Alabama congressman told a packed Eastern Shore Republican Women luncheon at the Fairhope Yacht Club that the party’s future depends on drawing in the voters it has long failed to reach.
Baldwin County
Who Inspires Our Leaders? South Alabama Officials Named Their Political Heroes
Asked to name the political hero who shaped them, area officeholders past and present answered with presidents and prime ministers – and, more often than expected, with their own mothers and fathers.
Calvert
A Steel Plant, a Shipyard and a Tanker: Would Unions Come Back to South Alabama?
With ThyssenKrupp rising near Calvert, Austal expanding downtown and aircraft work possible at Brookley, a veteran labor lawyer was asked whether organized labor would ride the boom back into Mobile. His answer: don’t count on it.
Local News
Forward Mobile: The Quiet Circle of 40 That Worked Behind the Scenes
A retired executive told the Rotary Club of Mobile in June 2008 that Forward Mobile, an unpublicized circle of about 40 civic and business leaders, had quietly shaped decades of local decisions.
Local News
Bubba, Mayer, Mr. Mitchell: Friends Recall a Mobile Life of Outsized Reach
Friends and colleagues remembered Mayer ‘Bubba’ Mitchell, the Mobile developer and philanthropist who died at 74, as a man whose influence ran from Leinkauf School to the White House.