Mobile attorney Eaton Barnard faced an awkward review by local Republican officials over years of campaign donations to Democrats, under a party rule meant to inform GOP voters of cross-party giving.
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Local News
Bentley Reshuffles Mobile County Board of Equalization, Names a Democrat
Gov. Robert Bentley cleaned house on the Mobile County Board of Equalization, replacing three Riley-era appointees and, in a bipartisan twist, naming veteran Democrat William Clark to the property-review panel.
Mobile County
Mobile GOP Committee Keeps Two Members, Presses Case Against Common Core
The Mobile County Republican Executive Committee fell short of the votes needed to remove two members who had favored a Constitution Party candidate, and it joined the push against Common Core standards.
Local News
Mobile GOP Leader Jerry Lathan Calls on RNC Chairman Michael Steele to Resign
In a letter to the Alabama Republican Executive Committee, Lathan cited private jets, limousines and luxury hotels, warning that donors are balking months before the November elections.
Baldwin County
Beyond the Marquee: Party Committee Seats Also on the June 1 Ballot
Contested races for the state Republican Executive Committee in Mobile and Baldwin counties will be decided June 1, alongside the district attorney and state Senate contests drawing the headlines.
Baldwin County
Confessions of the Crossover Voter: Alabama Politicos Owned Up
Partisanship in Montgomery had rarely been nastier. So how many Mobile-area Democrats and Republicans had never once voted for the other side? Asked directly, remarkably few could claim it.
Mobile
Gov. Riley Appoints Juan Chastang to the Mobile County Commission
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.
Local News
What Mobilians Love and Loathe About Their City, Part One
In the fall of 2005, with a new mayor at City Hall and Katrina’s cleanup underway, dozens of Mobile residents answered three questions about what they loved, what they loathed and what they could not stop thinking about in their city.