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Tea Party Groups Ask Bentley Not to Implement Obamacare in Alabama

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama Tea Party Movement is actively lobbying Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) to join with the other conservative Republican Governors and tell the administration of President Barack H Obama that Alabama will not participate in implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (better known as Obamacare). On Friday … Continued

July 23, 2012

Author Michael Patrick Leahy Rallies Rainy Day Patriots for Final Election Push

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Rainy Day Patriots gathered for their last regularly scheduled formal meeting of the year. Soon the Birmingham area’s largest conservative political action group will be too busy canvassing Florida, helping county officials clean up voter rolls, staffing phone banks, and working too hard to get together for their … Continued

July 20, 2012

Tea party activists: Don’t confuse them with independents

Dear Editor, “Tea partiers are disgruntled social conservatives aiming to take control of the Republican Party. Independents are the antiparty force, trying to restructure the partisan political system.” This is the title of an article written by Jackie Salit is the president of IndependentVoting.org, a national association of independent voters and these sentiments are held by … Continued

December 20, 2011

Why America Critically Needs the Conservative Party. NOW.

Dear Editor, Suboptimal. That’s a heavy-duty word being used by some political pundits these days to describe the “less than optimal” performance of the two major political parties. But suboptimal is what average Americans call “less than satisfactory” and it describes how we feel about Republi-Dem performance during the past 25 years. “We basically have … Continued

December 20, 2011

Sumiton Businessman Stan Cooke Announces His Candidacy for Congress

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter In the 2010 election, Stan Cooke ran an insurgent Republican primary campaign against 6th Congressional incumbent Congressman Spencer Bachus. Cooke said that Bachus outspent him by over a million dollars. Despite being incredibly outspent, Cooke was buoyed by local Tea Party support and Cook says that in the recount … Continued

December 18, 2011