Retired labor leader Don Langham decided against a run for Mobile County treasurer, reopening the question for Democrats with the qualifying deadline hours away. Party chairman Brad Warren reconsidered his own bid.
Tag: Mobile County treasurer
Baldwin County
A Retired Union Leader Entered the Treasurer’s Race — With One Condition
Don Langham said he would run for Mobile County treasurer as a Democrat unless party officials allowed a troubled congressional candidate to qualify, a caveat that revealed the party’s anxieties.
Chickasaw
Mobile Democrats Opened Their Season With Karaoke, a Food Drive and a Treasurer’s Race in Flux
County Democrats planned a kickoff reception with neighboring party chairs from three states, a retired union leader weighed a run for treasurer, and a Bishop State student announced for school board.
Local News
He Wanted the Job So He Could Eliminate It: A Candidate Runs to Abolish the County Treasurer’s Office
The chairman of the Mobile County Democratic Party announced a run for county treasurer on a pledge to shut the office down within two years, calling the post an expensive relic of another era.
Baldwin County
Former County Treasurer Vivian Beckerle Entered the Race Against Jo Bonner
Former Mobile County treasurer Vivian Beckerle announced in March 2006 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for Congress in Alabama’s First District, challenging two-term Rep. Jo Bonner.
Local News
A Young Mobile Democrat Weighed a Challenge to Rep. Jamie Ison in House District 101
Mobile attorney Amy Beckerle Smith, 28, was considering a run for the Alabama House from District 101 against Republican Rep. Jamie Ison. Her family name is well known in county politics — on both sides.