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DeMarco Announces Raising $360,000 in Campaign For Congress

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Monday, January 27, 2014 Alabama State Representative Paul DeMarco (R) from Homewood officially qualified with the Alabama Republican Party today as a candidate for Congress representing Alabama’s Sixth Congressional District. The DeMarco campaign also announced that they had raised more than $360,000 in the final nine weeks of … Continued
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February 3, 2014

Hightower Elected To State Senate

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama Senate District 35 voters elected business consultant Bill Hightower to represent them in the Alabama Senate on Tuesday.  Hightower defeated State Representative Jim Barton in Tuesday’s special Republican Runoff. Rep. Barton conceded at 7:45 pm after Barton campaign poll workers reported polling place results show that his efforts … Continued
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March 13, 2013

Barton and Hightower Election Today

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The special Republican Runoff election for Alabama Senate District 35 is today.  District 35 includes much of Mobile County.  State Representative Jim Barton faces business consultant Bill Hightower. The winner of the March 12 runoff will be the State Senator as the Alabama Democratic Party was unable to recruit … Continued
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March 12, 2013

Barton and Hightower To Face Off Tuesday

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter State Representative Jim Barton faces business consultant Bill Hightower in Tuesday’s special Republican Runoff for state Senate District 35. In the primary Hightower took 46.5% of the Republican primary vote and Rep. Jim Barton (R) came in second with just 30% of the vote.  Former Marine Corps pilot, Nick … Continued
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March 11, 2013

Barton Narrowly Gets in Runoff with Hightower

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Shocking many Montgomery political insiders, in Tuesday’s special Republican Primary for state Senate District 35, business consultant Bill Hightower took 46.5% of the Republican primary vote.  Alabama State Representative Jim Barton (R) came in second with 30% of the vote.  Former Marine pilot Nick Matranga came in third with … Continued
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January 30, 2013

Bachus Spends $1.5 million to Hold On To House Seat

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama’s senior member of the House, Congressman Spencer Bachus (R) from Vestavia, has been engaged in the most expensive primary battle in the history of Alabama Republican Congressional politics. Where normally a Republican incumbent in Alabama faces only token opposition, Rep. Bachus’s tenth reelection campaign has been a monumental … Continued
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March 12, 2012

Roy Moore Running For Chief Justice

By Brandon MoseleyAlabama Political Reporter  Former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore is seeking to become Alabama’s Chief Justice again.  Thursday, Alabama’s most famous living jurist agreed to an exclusive phone interview with ‘The Alabama Political Reporter.’ In addition to being a sitting jurist on the Alabama Supreme Court the elected Alabama … Continued
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March 2, 2012