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Hubbard, Storming the Steak House

By Lee HedgepethAlabama Political Reporter According to campaign finance reports in November of last year, and with the 2014 elections exactly a year away, Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard spent hundreds of dollars from his campaign coffers on food from high-end restaurants, including nearly $200 at the famous Smith & Wollensky, a gourmet steak … Continued
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March 31, 2014

AL-06 Candidate Takes Fire At Obamacare With AR-15

  By: Lee HedgepethAlabama Political Reporter In a newly released campaign ad, Will Brooke, a candidate in Alabama’s Sixth Congressional race, takes aim at Obamacare – quite literally. In the campaign advertisement, titled “Let’s Do Some Damage,” Brooke says that he wants to talk about two subjects: the Second Amendment, and “doing damage” to Obama’s … Continued
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March 28, 2014

Riley Partner Could Triple Profits Through Proposed Legislation

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter John Kirtley, one of former Governor Bob Riley’s business partners, may soon see a tripling of his over seven million dollars in annual profits coming in from his Florida Accountability Act-style SGO if newly proposed GOP legislation can make its way through the state’s legislature. The proposal, which comes … Continued
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March 25, 2014

AL Senator on Joseph McCarthy: “I’ll Study Up”

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter The fight over what have become known as the Common Core educational standards has made its way into State House this legislative session, and it has now broken down to lawmakers debating which books are and are not appropriate as examples of what to use in Alabama schools. In … Continued
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March 18, 2014

Don’t Bring a Chart to a Gun Fight: Vote Trading on Goat Hill

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter News headlines flowing from Montgomery late this legislative session have focused on many controversial topics – something that some politicos had said was unlikely in an election year, but that is happening nonetheless. Chief among these has been a bill proposed by GOP lawmakers that would increase representation on … Continued
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March 17, 2014

Riley SGO to House Committee: “Consider Whatever It Takes…Whatever That Means”

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter On Wednesday, the Alabama House of Representatives’ Education Policy Committee passed out a bill making significant changes to the Alabama Accountability Act’s SGO, tax deduction, and failing schools criteria provisions. Most significantly, the proposal, HB558 by Representative Chad Fincher, would lift the $7,500 individual contribution cap for funds donated … Continued
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March 13, 2014

Lowell Barron Subpoena of AG Strange Quashed

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter DeKalb County Circuit Court Judge Randall Cole issued an order yesterday that has conditionally quashed the subpoena against Attorney General Luther Strange ordering him to testify in the campaign finance violation trial of former Senate Pro Tem Lowell Barron. Barron, who was an Alabama Senator for 28 years – … Continued
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March 13, 2014