Banning ranked choice voting is the next step in ensuring Alabama elections are the most secure in the country | Opinion | #elections | #alabama
On the heels of Alabama’s ballot harvesting ban, I am turning my attention towards the next step in ensuring Alabama elections are the most secure elections in the country: the outlawing of ranked-choice voting. SB 186 sponsored by Senator Arthur Orr and HB 423 sponsored by Representative Mark Shirey prohibit the use of ranked choice […]
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2024 elections are around the corner | Opinion | #elections | #alabama
Folks don’t look now, but our 2024 election year is upon us. Next year is a major year in politics nationwide. Not only does the nation elect a president, most states also elect their governors and legislators for four year terms in presidential years. We, in Alabama, and in most southern states elect our governors […]
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Elections around the corner | Opinion | #elections | #alabama
Folks don’t look now, but our 2024 election year is upon us. Next year is a major year in politics nationwide. Not only does the nation elect a president, most states also elect their governors and legislators for four year terms in presidential years. We, in Alabama, and in most southern states elect our governors […]
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The Recorder – My Turn: Mayor: Much work still ahead
Published: 10/31/2023 12:24:20 PM Modified: 10/31/2023 12:22:51 PM In preparing with my family to make the decision to run for reelection, I reflected on why I want to continue leading the city of Greenfield as your mayor. In the end it wasn’t a hard decision to make. We have a great deal more to do […]
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Democrats indictment plan has made Trump GOP nominee | Opinion | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
In early April, I wrote that “Democrats give Trump a lifeline.” It was at that time that a Democratic district attorney in an overwhelmingly Democratic New York venue had indicted Trump in a political ploy to disarm in some way, politically. There is an old saying that you can indict a potato or a ham […]
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Alabama is in for a Congressional shakeup | Opinion | #elections | #alabama
Being elected to Congress is like having a guaranteed job for as long as you want. They serve two year terms and the reelection rate is 96%. All you have to do is vote the party line and not commit murder and you are there for life. The path to reelection to most political offices […]
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Alabama is in for a Congressional shakeup | Opinion | #elections | #alabama
Being elected to Congress is like having a guaranteed job for as long as you want. They serve two year terms and the reelection rate is 96%. All you have to do is vote the party line and not commit murder and you are there for life. The path to reelection to most political offices […]
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Alabama is in for a Congressional shakeup | Columns | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Being elected to Congress is like having a guaranteed job for as long as you want. They serve two year terms and the reelection rate is 96%. All you have to do is vote the party line and not commit murder and you are there for life. The path to reelection to most political offices […]
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If Alabama loses Space Command, it is because we lost Shelby | Opinion | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Make no mistake about it, the decision as to where the heralded National Space Command Headquarters will be located is political. If you think otherwise, you are politically naïve. Sen. Richard Shelby is the reason and only reason the federal military officials even considered moving Space Command from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama in the first […]
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Rich Lowry: N.Y. mayor vindicates immigration restrictionism | Columns
The public intellectual Irving Kristol famously said that the definition of a neoconservative is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” By the same token, the definition of a convert to immigration restrictionism is a big-city mayor dealing with a surge of illegal immigration in his city. In his desperate pleas for federal help […]
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