Roger McConnell, a former Alabama Republican Party chairman from Mobile, resigned from the state and county GOP executive committees in 2004 after co-hosting a fundraiser for Democratic District Attorney John Tyson Jr.
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Retired Republican Judge Endorses the Democrat in the Race for Juvenile Court
Retired Mobile County Circuit Judge John Butler, a Republican who spent 22 years overseeing juvenile court, endorsed Democrat Jeff Glidewell over the GOP incumbent appointed to succeed him.
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‘That Ronald Reagan Smile’: A Mobile Woman’s Inaugural Ball Encounter With the 40th President
As the nation mourned Ronald Reagan in June 2004, a Mobile woman recounted how persistence, Southern charm and a sympathetic Secret Service agent let her press a medal into the president’s hand in 1981.
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The Rain Came Down: How a Soggy, Sleepy Primary Reshaped the District 2 Commission Race
Rain, a holiday weekend and plain apathy held turnout to 16.2 percent in the June 1, 2004 Mobile County primary, an outcome that pushed newcomer Ralph Buffkin into a runoff with Stephen Nodine.