“I don’t want Richard Shelby getting beat.”

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Tuesday September 07, 2010 · 10:44 AM PDT

2010/09/07 · 10:44

No, that's not how I feel. Few things would make me happier than seeing my senior Senator, Richard Shelby, get beat like a drum this November or any November.

The quote is from an Alabama Democrat, and not just any Democrat, either. It's from Alabama Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ron Sparks -- the guy supposedly leading the Democratic ticket -- speaking to the Tuscaloosa News last week, giving props to union-buster Shelby for keeping Redstone Arsenal and other Alabama military installations open. Way to stand up for your party, Mr. Sparks, way to parrot GOP talking points and way to snub Democrat William G. Barnes who is running an uphill campaign against Shelby and his $17 million little green friends. The full quote from Sparks is below the fold.

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Wednesday June 23, 2010 · 10:08 AM PDT

2010/06/23 · 10:08

As long as we've been keeping track, that's how long Terri Sewell has been running on progressive ideas.

Here's the latest talking point from Sewell's detractors:

"Terri Sewell didn't start supporting progressive issues until AFTER her Ivy League buddy and soon to be ex SD 7 Congressman Artur Davis went down in flames for not supporting progressive issues ..."

OK, I'm beyond disgusted at the way some so-called Democrats act like a good education disqualifies a person from public office -- surely those aren't our values? -- and I don't know what "SD 7" means either. But let's get to the substance of this complaint, the allegation that Terri Sewell isn't progressive and has modified her positions since June 1.

False. On both counts.

Mooncat

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Friday December 04, 2009 · 1:14 PM PST

2009/12/04 · 13:14

Have you heard the Obama administration might appoint a (gasp) Republican as the next U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Alabama? Well, set your mind at rest. No matter what you may have heard, Tamarra Matthews Johnson is not a "rabid, right-wing Republican." Or any sort of Republican at all. In fact, Ms. Johnson is actually a Democrat -- no matter what a single, unnamed source alleges.

Let me back up a step or two. New U.S. Attorneys have already been nominated and confirmed in the Northern (Joyce Vance) and Southern (Kenyen Brown) districts of Alabama, but Bush nominee Leura Canary is still in place in the Middle District.

(Cross posted from Left in Alabama.)

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Thursday November 19, 2009 · 10:53 AM PST

2009/11/19 · 10:53

The Alabama Republican Party has distributed specially designed "Stop Obamacare!" voter registration forms -- they're a regular form on the front, but the back says "I want to do my part to stop Obamacare!" in BIG letters -- see an image below the fold. The forms also have volunteer sign up opportunities and a place to provide an email address. Unlike regular Voter Reg. forms which are to be sent directly to county registrars, these are addressed to the "Alabama Republican Pary" (sic), postage paid. The Republican Secretary of State has instructed registrars to process these forms in the normal fashion.

I've never seen voter registration forms that weren't either the ones provided by the registrar's office or a direct reproduction of the ones provided by the registrar and I've never seen one with what amounts to a political endorsement on it. Is this kosher?

Mooncat

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Tuesday April 14, 2009 · 2:58 PM PDT

2009/04/14 · 14:58

The race is on!

Look out Mike Rogers (R, AL-03) that bullet you dodged last November is coming around again -- more experienced, better known and, hopefully, with more institutional backing this time. Josh Segall just announced he will mount another campaign against Rogers in Alabama's third congressional district. Mike Rogers was most recently in the news for referring to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as "Tom Delay in a skirt" and "crazy." Did I mention Josh has an ActBlue account?

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 9:19 PM PDT

2008/10/14 · 21:19

Want to help defeat conservatism right in the heart of Red America? How about Alabama, Heart of Dixie, where 29 year old attorney Josh Segall is the latest addition to the DCCC's Red to Blue list. If elected, Segall won't be just another Blue Dog Democrat -- he's a true progressive, a better Democrat in a place where merely more Democrats would be welcome.

The Democratic party can and should take back Alabama's 3rd District this year. The seat was held by a Democrat from 1875 until the 1996 election when Glen Browder retired and (now governor) Bob Riley won election to Congress as a moderate Republican. It was an open seat in 2002, a terrible year for Southern Democrats. The DCCC pulled out of the race late and Joe Turnham was completely off the air for a full two weeks before election day. He lost by only 3800 votes. It's kind of poetic justice that the DCCC is stepping in to help Segall -- late, but not too late to make a critical difference in the race.

Mooncat

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Wednesday July 30, 2008 · 6:49 PM PDT

2008/07/30 · 18:49

Josh Segall is a great young progressive Democrat running for Congress in Alabama's third district. He's young, smart, enthusiastic and hard working, convinced that his district can and should be more prosperous than it's been under incumbent Mike Rogers, and he's raised enough money to be a threat. The district is a favorable one for a Democrat too -- it's the second most Democratic district in Alabama with 33% African American population and a high proportion of young voters. Segall has outraised Rogers in the first and second quarters of this year and the incumbent is worried enough to have already started running television adsattacking him -- so Josh is on the right track.

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Monday July 14, 2008 · 10:52 AM PDT

2008/07/14 · 10:52

It has been noted elsewhere that the press release announcing that Alabama AG Troy King was John McCain's Alabama campaign chair disappeared from the McCain website last Friday, after a number of blogs linked to it. I'm posting this here because I don't know enough about the workings of websites and search engines to figure out if it's plausible to chalk that up to accident or not. The semi-official Alabama GOP story is put forward in the comments at Doc's Political Parlor -- this is just accidental damage from a remodel of McCain's website.

Mooncat

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Sunday July 06, 2008 · 12:20 AM PDT

2008/07/06 · 00:20

That's right! Today is George W. Bush's 62nd birthday. Laura sent me a letter a while back to remind me that "this is the last birthday he will celebrate in the White House." All I can say to that is, thank God for small favors! It's a crying shame such a small, weak, pitiful excuse for a leader as George W. Bush was allowed to celebrate any birthdays in our White House, let alone 8 of them.

(Cross-posted from Left in Alabama.)

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Wednesday June 18, 2008 · 11:43 AM PDT

2008/06/18 · 11:43

Here's a clue: Women have no desire to bear children, nurture them, love them and raise them just so they can become cannon fodder in an old man's war. Period. Not even devout conservative, Christian, pro-life women. Women know the human potential of our children is better used for some higher purpose. Helping people, instead of killing them. Building civilizations, instead of tearing them down. Today's Republicans just don't get this.

Mooncat

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Tuesday December 11, 2007 · 7:49 PM PST

2007/12/11 · 19:49

Do you care about poor kids? Personally care? Why should you? Why does a mainstream candidate like John Edwards make eliminating poverty the centerpiece of his presidential campaign? Why does Devilstower care enough about poor kids to say this:

[W]e should not pretend that "a program will take your money." Or "the government will take your money." This is a democracy, and we are the government. I will take your money. I will. Some of that money you worked hard for and want to keep. I will give it to a kid who is hungry. If your concern is that poverty should be addressed by individuals, then there's a simple solution: feed him. If there are no poor children needing food, I won't have to take anything for them.

Why is it so important for us to reduce poverty and give a helping hand to poor kids in America? The simple answer is that those kids are our future -- all our futures.

Cross posted from Left in Alabama.

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Sunday December 09, 2007 · 5:53 PM PST

2007/12/09 · 17:53

In my digging around on the story of alleged discrimination and union busting by New Era Cap in Mobile, Alabama I noticed that New Era is the exclusive supplier of caps for Major League Baseball and that they have 4 plants in China. I found out another neat thing: MLB still cares just enough about American workers to require that the caps and uniforms actually worn by MLB players have to be made in the USA.

Cross-posted from Left in Alabama.

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