For 84 years John Tyson Sr. had known only one party. This month, to back a candidate for Mobile County district attorney, the veteran Democrat did something he had never done before: he asked for a Republican primary ballot.
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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.
Local News
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.