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Democratic Gubernatorial Primary is Today

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter All of the press, money, advertising and attention has been focused on the Alabama Republican Party, where the mega-PACs have all chosen up sides assuming that the GOP will maintain a supermajority in both Houses of the State legislature for another four years.  The Alabama Education Association (AEA) is … Continued
June 3, 2014

Candidate Parker Griffith Throws Down Gauntlet After Clouse Revelation

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter HUNTSVILLE—Just hours after the Alabama Political Reporter released a report in which House Ways & Means Chair Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, broke with the Bentley Administration on expanding Medicaid under the ACA better known as Obamacare, gubernatorial candidate, Parker Griffith, released a scathing assault on Bentley and the ALGOP leadership. … Continued
May 23, 2014

Clouse Favors Medicaid Expansion, Says ACA Saved AL Money

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter Chairman of the Alabama House of Representatives Ways and Means General Fund Committee, Representative Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, has recently told media outlets that he favors the expansion of Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more widely known as Obamacare, as long as Alabama’s share of funding … Continued
May 23, 2014

Greg Wren’s Prescription for Alabama: A Breakdown

By Lee HedgepethAlabama Political Reporter Yesterday, Alabama House Representative Greg Wren, R-Montgomery, resigned his office and plead guilty to a misdemeanor public corruption charge in the Montgomery County Courthouse. Video highlights of Wren’s visit to the courthouse can be viewed here. The charge was centered around actions that Wren took in his official position as … Continued
April 2, 2014

Wren Plea Deal Shocks Legislature

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Today, longtime incumbent Greg Wren (R) from Montgomery went to a Montgomery courthouse and confessed to his involvement in using his office to enrich himself and possibly other lawmakers. The news shocked his fellow legislators, many of whom would not comment on the record. Representative Mack Butler (R) from … Continued
April 2, 2014

Medicaid Overdose: Bigger is not Better

By Brandon Demyan Much has been made about the continual refusal by Governor Robert Bentley to expand Medicaid. In the push to pass the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), President Obama explained in 2009 that “we can’t simply put more people into a broken system that doesn’t work.” Medicaid was originally created to … Continued
March 4, 2014

House Passes General Fund Budget

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter In a Wednesday afternoon session, the Alabama House of Representatives passed the Fiscal Year 2015 General Fund budget, House Bill 235, which goes into place on October 1. Because of Alabama’s archaic budgeting practices, education has its own separate budget, with monies earmarked by the Alabama Constitution for both … Continued
February 28, 2014

Bentley Addresses Cleburne County Republicans

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Saturday, January 18 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) was in Cleburne County addressing the Cleburne County Republican Party as their Winter Dinner event. Governor Bentley said that Cleburne County will always have a special place in his heart because when he was running for the office of Governor … Continued
January 20, 2014

Statement on the Governor’s State of the State Address Regarding Medicaid Expansion

By The Alabama’s BEST Coalition On Tuesday, The Governor focused a major part of his State of the State address on Medicaid and his concerns about expanding the program.  While we adamantly disagree with the Governor’s decision not to expand Medicaid, we did find several areas on which we fully agree.  In fact, several of … Continued
January 16, 2014

Melton Pushes Minimum Wage Increase for Alabama

Staff Report SELMA—Representative Darrio Melton (D-Selma) has filed legislation for a constitutional amendment to increase the minimum wage in Alabama. His bill would increase hourly wages to $9.80 over the next three years. Currently, Alabama is one of five states that does not set its own minimum wage rate, instead relying on federal minimums. The … Continued
January 9, 2014