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Fox to challenge Worley for state Democratic Party chair

There will be a legitimate challenge for the top seat in the Alabama Democratic Party. Montgomery attorney Peck Fox told APR on Tuesday that he plans to challenge chairman Nancy Worley. The party’s executive committee will meet on Saturday to vote on the chairman’s position and also fill vacancies throughout the state. “The party needs … Continued

Josh Moon

August 8, 2018

Opinion

DC’s political pornography keeps voters distracted

While Alabama’s voters breathlessly bask in the bodice-ripper soft porn that is the daily press coverage of the President Donald J. Trump administration here at home, some elected officials are disregarding and dismantling the very laws that Republicans rode to victory in 2010. Ethics reform and the Fair Campaign Practice Act are under attack, not … Continued

Bill Britt

August 8, 2018

Opinion

In politics, more than ever, conversations are important

Terry Lathan was not happy with me. That tends to happen, I guess, when you say in a column that someone believed a dumb thing. The believer of that dumb thing, it seems, very rarely shares the opinion that what they believe is, in fact, dumb. And that was pretty much Lathan’s position. In a … Continued

Josh Moon

August 8, 2018

Opinion

Ivey claims she’s strengthened ethics laws. She’s done the opposite.

There’s a trick that’s often used in Alabama politics — one that Kay Ivey seems to know well. This trick comes in many different forms, and is disguised under many different names, but it is always essentially the same. It’s pretending to do something while in reality doing nothing. While that basically sums up Ivey’s … Continued

Josh Moon

July 26, 2018

Opinion

British waffling on death penalty will have global repercussions

For over half a century, abolitionists have wielded the United Kingdom’s conscientious, consistent, civilized opposition to capital punishment – in all cases and all circumstances – as a powerful argument to end the ignominious practice in their own countries and states, too. This may be about to end. In a fiery column for The Independent with a blistering chyron-style … Continued

Stephen Cooper

July 26, 2018

Roby beats Bright again

It’s like 2010 all over again. Rep. Martha Roby won the Republican runoff for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional district on Tuesday, knocking off Bobby Bright, a former Congressman and Montgomery mayor. Bright held the seat as a Democrat in 2010 when Roby pulled off a surprising upset. On Tuesday, she was the incumbent, but the results … Continued

Josh Moon

July 18, 2018

Opinion

The anti-American American president

The American president has refused to defend America. That is, as far as I can tell, an unprecedented development in American history. Even when delusional conservatives were railing on and on about President Obama, they usually stopped short of seriously complaining that he had sold out the country in deference to a hostile foreign nation. … Continued

Josh Moon

July 17, 2018

Trump close advisor Roger Stone flies to state for Troy King

President Donald Trump’s close advisor and friend, Roger Stone, parachuted in on Monday to bolster former Attorney General Troy King’s campaign to reclaim the Attorney General’s Office as he fends off unfounded attacks by appointed Attorney General Steve Marshall. In a blitz that took place across the state, Stone blistered Marshall saying, “I felt compelled … Continued

Bill Britt

July 17, 2018

Opinion

Americans are better off now

Two years ago, I joined other Republican House members in unveiling our “Better Way” agenda. The agenda covered everything from national security to tax reform to the economy. It was a bold vision about a different path for America that wasn’t driven by a larger, more powerful federal government. Instead, we advocated for a better … Continued

Bradley Byrne

July 16, 2018

Connie Glover endorses Twinkle Cavanaugh for lieutenant governor

Connie Glover, the wife of Senator Rusty Glover, who finished third in the June 5 Republican primary for lieutenant governor, endorsed Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh in the same race. “My first choice for Lt. Governor was and still is my husband Rusty Glover, but God had other plans,” Glover said. “Twinkle is a Christian, lifelong conservative, … Continued

Charlie Walker

July 16, 2018