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Public Hearing on Tax Plan

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama Legislature is taking a holiday after their first eight legislative days of work in the 2015 Regular Session.  When they return, addressing Governor Robert Bentley’s (R) proposed tax increases will be among their first orders of business.  A public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, April 1 presumably … Continued
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March 24, 2015

Policy Makers Brief Birmingham Young Republicans on Prison Reform

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Friday, March 13, members of Alabama’s Prison Reform Task Force briefed the Greater Birmingham Young Republicans (GBYR) on impending prison reform legislation. Alabama’s prisons are at 192 percent capacity and state officials fear a costly federal takeover of the State’s chronically underfunded corrections system. For the last nine months, … Continued
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March 17, 2015

Alabama Legislative Session Begins

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Tuesday, March 3, both houses of the Alabama state legislature returned to Montgomery for the opening session of the 2015. Speaker Mike Hubbard (R from Auburn) said in a statement on Facebook, “Proud to gavel in the 2015 Legislative Session in the Alabama House of Representatives. I look … Continued
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March 4, 2015

Bentley Revenue Announcement

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Friday, February 27 at 11:00 am Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) spoke to reporters about his plan to increase state revenues to deal with expected shortfalls in the state’s general fund. Gov. Bentley began, “Good morning! As we begin the 2015 Legislative Session, the most serious issues we … Continued
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March 4, 2015

Alabama Legislative Session Starts On Tuesday

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Tuesday, March 3, both Houses of the Alabama Legislature will return to Montgomery for the start of the 2015 legislative session. During the day there will be a number of events. At 9:30 am in the Joint Briefing Room (popularly called the Star Wars room) on the seventh … Continued
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March 2, 2015

Bentley Releases Details On Controversial Tax Plan

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter In November, Governor Robert Bentley was reelected by the vast majority of the voters in Alabama easily outclassing his Democratic opponent. But was Gov. Bentley reelected because the people of Alabama trust him implicitly to lead them, or were they voting for his first term policies of rightsizing Alabama … Continued
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March 2, 2015

Governor To Propose Tax Increases

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) wants more money to spend.  After four years of saying that we should right size Alabama government to fit government revenues, now the recently re-elected Governor wants to grow revenues so that State government can grow and so its leaders can spend more money. … Continued
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February 3, 2015

Palmer Favors Tax Increase, Yes That’s Right!

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Lately, the far-right-wing talking heads, and even those who consider themselves to be the media elite, have taken to bashing Congressional candidate Rep. Paul DeMarco. The talking point has been that DeMarco deceptively used a quote by his campaign rival out of context. DeMarco’s campaign recently aired a commercial … Continued
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July 8, 2014

Big Tax Hike May Be Linked to Hubbard Contract

By Bill BrittAlabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—On the same day the Clerk of the House certified a bill that would allow for what may become the largest tax increase in the history of the city of Auburn, Auburn Network, owned by Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, received a contract giving his company exclusive rights to … Continued
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August 14, 2013

Armistead Supports Alabama Republicans Who Opposed Fiscal Cliff Deal

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The majority of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives opposed the fiscal cliff deal that their Speaker (John Boehner from Ohio) negotiated with Senate Republicans, Democrats, and President Obama.  Only 87 House Republicans voted with the Republican Speaker and none of them were from Alabama.  Alabama Republican Party … Continued
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January 3, 2013