January 31, 2007
Alabama has never really played much of a role in selecting the candidates that are the Democratic or Republican Party’s nominees for President. We…
January 24, 2007
One of the things that is obvious to astute observers of the political system is how pervasive the abuse of PAC to PAC campaign contributions has…
January 17, 2007
Last week’s organizational session of the Legislature played out with as much drama as expected. A few weeks ago it was an understatement when I…
January 10, 2007
George Wallace was a product of rural Alabama and came of age during the Great Depression. Alabamians who knew the Depression days are dwindling…
January 03, 2007
As the dust settles on the old year and we begin the new I will share a few political observations from the 2006 election year. First of all I was…
December 27, 2006
As the year 2006 comes to a close let’s reminisce about what happened politically in our state. This being an election year the races for Governor…
December 20, 2006
When the votes were counted on November 7th the results revealed very few surprises. Bob Riley was reelected Governor. Eight out of nine members of…
December 13, 2006
Last week’s column expounded on the looming 2008 Presidential Race. It is obvious that the apparent GOP frontrunner is Sen. John McCain from Arizona…
December 06, 2006
Now that our Alabama gubernatorial race has concluded the jockeying will begin for the next governor’s race in 2010 four years from now. In the same…
November 29, 2006
When Bob Riley took office in January of 2003 he had just survived one of the most bruising gubernatorial elections in history. His razor thin margin…