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Left in Alabama The Alabama Democratic Executive Committee had quite a meeting yesterday. Here's the highlights reel. You have see it to believe it....
Left In Alabama:: Alabama SDEC Meeting - Nomination of Liz French for Jefferson County Circuit Judge
Vice Chair Nancy Worley presided over the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee Meeting yesterday. The room was crowded and hot, even though the air conditioning worked at this venue. Worley was presiding because Chairman Joe Turnham was out of town working with an important client.
Left in Alabama Bobby Bright won't commit to voting for Pelosi as speaker because "she might get sick and die." WTF is that about?
Bobby Bright didn't want to give a straight answer to a question about whether he would vote for Nancy Pelosi again as Speaker of the House.
Left in Alabama Local farms: if your food poisons your neighbors, a lawsuit is the least of your problems!
Democratic candidate for Alabama Senate District 13, Greg Varner, is concerned about both the future of family farms and the safety of the food supply. Unlike some observors, he sees a link between the two. We have to wrest the country's food supply out of the hands of agribusiness where a handful...
Left in Alabama GREAT, informative discussion thread on this post!
Schools superintendent Joe Morton says the low score (212 out of 500 points) was partly the result of not having charter schools and not having support of the teachers' union. AEA executive secretary Paul Hubbert disputes that, saying that charter schools were only worth 40 points in the scoring.
Left in Alabama The SDEC meets today at 3pm in Montgomery. Will the give the AFDW a seat at the officer's table this time?
There's been a lot of buzz about the last Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee meeting. There were a number of by-laws changes that caused comment, but the big story was the failure to vote on a proposal that would have given the Alabama Federation of Democratic Women (AFDW) an officer posi...
Left in Alabama Part 18 (!) in Dr. Abston's excellent discussion of health care reform.
Today I'll talk about section 3003, addresses "improvements to the physician feedback system". Since I see only children in my practice, I've never gotten feedback from Medicare, only Alabama Medicaid and private insurers-- so I can't tell you what Medicare's feedba...ck looks like now. I would i...
Left in Alabama Lt. Gov. Folsom is donating trees to be planted in Birmingham when you make a contribution online. Doing good for the environment while helping his campaign. Great idea!
Left In Alabama:: AL-GOV - Folsom Fundraising Program Raising Money Online & Growing Trees In Alabam
Lt. Governor Jim Folsom is "planting seeds" for his campaign and by participating in a "Alabama Re-Leaf Program" tree planting project in Birmingham. For every $25 donated online, the Folsom campaign is donating one tree to be planted by school children in an area in ne...ed of environmental restoratio...
See MoreLeft in Alabama Miranda Joseph, candidate for State Auditor, is picking up some media attention. She has our attention at LIA!
Civic responsibility motivated Miranda Joseph to run for State Auditor. She is running an innovative campaign long on web videos like Miranda's Rights (watch it below the fold) and local media. The Enterprise newspaper has published a piece about this hometown girl trying to do well by doing good.
Left in Alabama Lowell Barron things Alabamaians are satisfied with low taxes & substandard services. This op-ed begs to differ.
David Simpson responds to Sen. Lowell Barron's (D, SD-08) assertion that Alabamians are satisfied with low services as long as we have low taxes ... and hits it out of the park.
Left in Alabama GOP candidate Tom Parker is a Roy Moore protege and allied with Focus on the Family. Mac Parsons needs your support!
How do you spell "lazy?" According to Judge Mac Parsons, it's "P A R K E R." Parsons, Democratic candidate for Alabama Supreme Court, Place 3, criticized his incumbent opponent for laziness on the court. Presumably, Parsons meant that Parker is both physically and intellectually lazy:
Left in Alabama "Speaker John Boehner." Just the sound makes even the most conservative Democrats more appealing....
Prominent Republican "person of color" (that color being ORANGE...), Congressman John Boehner, launched his campaign for Speaker of the House today with a speech demanding, among other things: tax cuts for the wealthy, more impediments to union organizing, no energy reform, and more. As Minority Le...
Left in Alabama Will the Alabama Democratic Party add the AFDW president to its officer list? What a great way to celebrate Womens Equality Day!
The Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee will meet Thursday, Women's Equality Day, at the Embassy Suites in Montgomery, 3 pm. If they have a lick of sense they will take up and pass the amendment to give the President of the Alabama Federation of Democratic Women a seat at the officer's tab...
The problem with many of these protestors, they believe their grief trumps the Constitution, our core values of justice, fairness, and the value of the individual. Too many believe that the opinions of the people trump the Constitution.
Left in Alabama Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Herding Old Cats has found common ground with Ron Paul on 2 issues.
It is repeatedly said that 64% of the people, after listening to the political demagogues, don’t want the mosque to be built. What would we do if 75% of the people insist that no more Catholic churches be built in New York City? The point being is that majorities can become oppressors of minorit...
