In the concluding round of analysis, the area’s observers found a single theme: for all the talk of an uprising, Alabama’s established Republicans emerged from Super Tuesday stronger than ever.
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Winners and Losers From Alabama’s Super Tuesday: The Politicos Weigh In
The day after Alabama’s Super Tuesday primary, a panel of the area’s savvier political hands sorted the winners and losers, from Trump’s ceiling to a courthouse upset and incumbents who held firm.
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A Senator for the Defense: Richard Shelby Gets Appointed to a Mobile Drug Case
A clerical mix-up in Mobile County District Court assigned U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby to represent an indigent defendant. The senator called the judge himself to sort it out.
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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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‘Blackmail’ and ‘French Workers’: A Kansas Congressman Escalates the Tanker War
As Mobile fumed over one senator’s slight, a Kansas congressman kept up his own campaign against the Airbus-built tanker, accusing supporters of the aircraft of blackmailing the Air Force.
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‘I Accept the Challenge’: Mobile Answers a Senator Who Said Alabama Builds Nothing
A Washington senator told NPR she had never seen anyone in Alabama build anything. Mobile’s mayor, a county commissioner and a candidate for governor lined up to correct her, and to defend the tanker bid.
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Sessions Takes the Senate Floor to Defend Alabama Workers and the Mobile Tanker Bid
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions used a Senate floor speech to answer a colleague’s slight against Alabama workers and to argue that the Pentagon had rewritten the aerial tanker bid rules against the aircraft that would be built at Brookley.
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Son of the Late Lambert Mims Offers a Dissenting History of Mobile’s Corruption Years
In a lengthy letter, Dale Mims disputed a published account of Mobile’s era of political indictments, arguing the prosecutions of the 1970s and 1980s were shaped by displaced money and federal politics.
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Sparks Tells Mobile Democrats He Will Be on the 2010 Ballot, and Hints It Won’t Be for Governor
Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks told a Mobile luncheon crowd he will run statewide in 2010 for governor or lieutenant governor, while signaling he would not challenge Artur Davis.
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A Mobile Reader Took Jeff Sessions to Task Over the Nation’s ‘Financial Soul’
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.