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Republican Women of Shelby County discuss conservative priorities

Conservatives spoke in favor of repealing Common Core, banning Critical Race Theory, banning vaccine mandates and other issues.
September 8, 2021

Senate Bill 222 takes away voters right to elect school superintendents

Tuesday, the Alabama Legislative Watchdogs and the Shelby County Republican Women issued a statement urging members to contact their state representatives to oppose Senate Bill 222, which takes away voters rights to elect their own school superintendents. Elected county school superintendents would be replaced by appointed superintendents answerable only to the politicians on the local … Continued
April 18, 2019

Alabama Republican Party incorporates repeal of Common Core into platform

Saturday, the Alabama Republican Party Executive Committee passed its first ever platform. The 550 member executive committee was meeting for their summer meeting on the Tuscaloosa campus of the University of Alabama. Among the other planks in the platform is an expressed opposition to the controversial Common Core curriculum. The platform explicitly says: “We oppose … Continued
August 31, 2018

Behind the curtain of Common Core Kabuki Theater

By Ann Eubank For the last six years, many grassroot organizations in our State have been fighting against Common Core. Since its implementation, Alabama has gone from being 26th in the nation in math and reading, to dead last. We bring a bill every year, and without fail someone or some thing stops it from … Continued
May 15, 2017

Answer (HB97 and SB153) Same Ole State Longitudinal Data System

By Ann Eubank Director Alabama Legislative Watchdogs Last week in the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee it was business as usual, until SB153, the Senate version of Representative Terri Collins’ data intrusion bill (HB97) was removed from its legislative calendar. Totally unacceptable! There just has to be a new bureaucratic agency created; an agency that will … Continued
February 23, 2017

Why Did Edgenuity Buy Mike Hubbard?

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Friday, June 10, a Lee County Jury found Mike Hubbard guilty of twelve counts of felony ethics violations. Among these is Count number ten. There, the disgraced Speaker was found guilty of, “Receiving money from a lobbyist, subordinate of a lobbyist, or principal of Edgenuity, inc. and/or E2020 … Continued
June 15, 2016

Tea Party Groups Express Disappointment with Legislative Session

  By Brandon MoseleyAlabama Political Reporter Tea Party groups were not very successful in advancing many of their issues during the 2015 Legislative session. No Pro-Life bills passed in this session. The repeal Common Core effort was crushed again. A bill protecting Judges and ministers from having to perform marriages for same sex couples and … Continued
June 9, 2015

Cavanaugh Says Montgomery Doesn’t Need More Money

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, March 19, Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC) President Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh (R) said that she disagreed with Governor Robert Bentley’s (R) plan to raise taxes on the people of Alabama.  President Cavanaugh was speaking to the Rainy Day Patriots at the group’s monthly meeting at Hoover Tactical Firearms. … Continued
March 23, 2015