Amended campaign finance reports and a trail of emails documented hundreds of thousands of teachers’ union robo-calls made on behalf of Robert Bentley during his Republican runoff against Bradley Byrne.
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Baldwin County
Byrne and Bentley Head to a Runoff, and the Teachers’ Union Looms Over It
Bradley Byrne led the Republican primary for governor, but the buzz belonged to Robert Bentley. Ahead of the July 13 runoff, the fight turned on the Alabama Education Association and the prospect of Democratic crossover votes.
Baldwin County
Insiders Sort the Winners and Losers of Alabama’s Primary Night
The morning after Alabama’s June 1 primaries, political veterans across the Mobile Bay area tried to explain Robert Bentley’s surge, Artur Davis’s collapse and the defeat of a sitting attorney general.
Baldwin County
Political Insiders Hand In Their Predictions Before the June 1 Primary
Days before Alabama’s June 1 primaries, a panel of lawyers, lobbyists, former officeholders and consultants offered their forecasts on the governor’s race, two district attorney contests and the fight over the state’s political future.
Local News
Tyson’s Options Narrow: Democrats Look Elsewhere for an Attorney General Candidate
Mobile County’s district attorney was his party’s nominee for attorney general in 2006. Three years on, the path to a rematch looks steeper, and other Democrats are circling the 2010 nomination.
Baldwin County
Jack Edwards Tells Fairhope Republicans the GOP Must Widen Its Tent
The former South Alabama congressman told a packed Eastern Shore Republican Women luncheon at the Fairhope Yacht Club that the party’s future depends on drawing in the voters it has long failed to reach.
Mobile
Be It Resolved: Mobile’s Politicians and Press Wrote New Year’s Resolutions for Each Other
Reporters, anchors, lobbyists and officials were invited to make resolutions on one another’s behalf for 2009. The result was a candid, occasionally barbed portrait of Mobile at the end of a very long year.
Local News
Riley Moved to Ban Double Dipping Across All of State Government
Gov. Bob Riley sent the Legislature a bill extending the two-year college system’s ban on double dipping to every state agency, university and school system, and barring lawmakers from contracting with the state.
Local News
Beyond the Obvious: Mobile Insiders Sort the Winners and Losers of the 2006 Election
Bob Riley won, Luther Strange and John Tyson lost. But when the sun came up Wednesday, Mobile-area political hands saw a more complicated ledger of winners and losers across Alabama.
Mobile
An Odd GOP Primary for a Mobile County School Board Seat
A GOP primary for a Mobile County school board seat pitted appointed incumbent Judy Stout against John Holland, who had resigned the same seat a year earlier after an ethics complaint, in a race full of oddities.