Mobile and Baldwin County News
Republicans, Democrats and operatives across Alabama, including Mobile County party figures, offered blunt assessments of Parker Griffith's party switch. Almost none of them called it principle.
Democratic nominee Merceria Ludgood held a nearly 100-to-one fundraising lead over Republican Juan Chastang heading into the Oct. 9 special election to restore the Mobile County Commission to full strength.
Mobile County Commissioner Mike Dean looked at a Republican primary fight and a likely Democratic opponent in his 2008 re-election bid, with names from Dauphin Island to Bayou La Batre…