Michael Galloway, a Mobile native who worked for Sonny Callahan and Jo Bonner, became chief of staff to Rep. Parker Griffith days after the congressman’s entire staff resigned over his party switch.
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Baldwin County
Conscience or Survival? Alabama’s Political Class Weighs the Griffith Defection
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.
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Alabama Democrats ‘Betrayed’ by Griffith’s Jump to the GOP, Party Chairman Says
State Democratic chairman Joe Turnham said thousands of Alabama Democrats felt betrayed by Rep. Parker Griffith’s switch to the Republican Party, and demanded he return the money they raised for him.
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Jeff Glidewell Sought the Juvenile Judgeship Again, This Time as a Republican
Mobile attorney Jeff Glidewell confirmed in March 2006 that he would seek the Republican nomination for Mobile County juvenile court judge, four years after running for the same seat as a Democrat.