Mobile and Baldwin County News
A Mobile Republican women's club installed new leadership, city planners opened neighborhood meetings on a downtown master plan, and a young minister launched a campaign for the state school board…
Republican circles are speculating that Rep. Jo Bonner could be eyeing a 2010 run for Alabama governor after his new House Appropriations Committee assignment, though Bonner says his focus is…
Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani's second Mobile visit of the year paired a free public gathering on the Causeway with a high-dollar reception and dinner hosted by the city's GOP…
Gov. Bob Riley's decision to back Randy McKinney over Trip Pittman in a Republican runoff broke an unwritten rule and left Mobile and Baldwin Republicans debating what it cost the…
A June reception at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center, at $1,000 a ticket, aimed to raise $750,000 for Jeff Sessions' 2008 re-election campaign, with the president himself as the…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, County Commissioner Juan Chastang and ADECA Director Bill Johnson headlined the Washington/Douglass Economic Forum, a Republican-sponsored think tank session on poverty and race.
Local GOP leader Jerry Lathan made the electability case for Rudy Giuliani while busloads of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women descended on Montgomery for Red Wave Day.
Campaign records showed House Speaker Seth Hammett moved more than $1.4 million to Democratic candidates across Alabama in the 2006 cycle, including several from Mobile and the southwest counties.
Democrats celebrated nationally and cheered statewide but stumbled in Mobile County. Party figures and consultants dissected losses by Gary Tanner, Chip Herrington and Pat Lindsey and asked what the results…
Gov. Bob Riley named Mobile teacher and Republican Juan Chastang to the county commission, filling the three years remaining on Sam Jones' term after Jones became Mobile's first African-American mayor.