Election-Campaign Law

"Broke. Broke. Broke."

Posted on May 13, 2013
AL.com reports: Acting state Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Worley lowered her head and slowly shook it side to side when summing up the financial condition of her once powerful party. "We're broke, broke, broke," Worley told the party's Executive Board...

Revision of Fair Campaign Practices Act amended in House, heads back to Senate

Posted on May 10, 2013
AL.com reports: The Alabama House of Representatives passed a Senate bill tonight that would make numerous changes to state campaign finance laws, including removing the state's $500 cap on campaign contributions by corporations. The bill returns to the Senate, which...

House to consider elimination of cap on corporate contributions

Posted on May 09, 2013
AL.com reports: A bill before the Alabama House of Representatives today seeks to repeal the state?s $500 limit on corporate campaign contributions to candidates. The chairman of the House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee said Wednesday that it was time...

New campaign finance database going online

Posted on May 06, 2013
The Anniston Star reports: Following the money in Alabama politics might soon get a whole lot easier. Officials of the Alabama Secretary of State's office say they'll launch a searchable online database of campaign donations by the end of May...

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AL.com reports: A sold out crowd

Posted on May 04, 2013
AL.com reports: A sold out crowd of nearly 700 is expected for an event in Birmingham tonight honoring 28 lawyers for their contributions to the civil rights movement in Birmingham. The Journey for Justice Gala at the Cahaba Grand Conference...

Where did Mike Hubbard get the funds to print his sorta-campaign mailer?

Posted on May 03, 2013
Alabama Political Reporter reports: Lee County voters this week were treated to a campaign-style push-card paid for by the Friends of Mike Hubbard. The mail drop is an unusual direct response to a stinging--and humorous--flyer branding the Speaker of the...

2012 Evergreen election to be held on June 18

Posted on April 30, 2013
AL.com reports: A federal judge this afternoon postponed a long-delayed municipal election in Evergreen, pushing the voting back to June 18 after conducting a telephone conference with lawyers in a voting-rights lawsuit. Attorneys for the Conecuh County seat requested the...

Former Sen. Lowell Barron arrested for campaign-finance violations

Posted on April 24, 2013
AL.com reports: Former state senator Lowell Ray Barron, for years a legislative powerhouse in Montgomery, has been indicted on charges of violating the state's ethics and campaign finance laws, the attorney general's office announced. ... Former campaign staffer, Rhonda Jill...

Bill to amend Fair Campaign Practices Act clears Senate committee

Posted on April 19, 2013
AL,com reports: A bill that would lower the fundraising and spending threshold that brings political candidates under the requirements of the Fair Campaign Practices Act won approval this morning in a state Senate committee. The bill, by Sen. Bryan Taylor,...

Another early attack on a GOP leader

Posted on April 13, 2013
The Alabama Political Reporter reports: It seems campaign season came a little early in Senate District 12. Last week, an unflattering "push-card" concerning Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston) was circulated in the Anniston area. There had been reports...

Campaigning about campaign-finance violations

Posted on April 13, 2013
Alabama Political Reporter reports: On Tuesday voters in Lee County received a campaign push-card that looks like an advertisement for a B-Movie or a Quentin Tarantino noir parody. The mailer features Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard as "The Graftmaster...

"House committee approves bill that could limit primary run-offs"

Posted on April 03, 2013
The Montgomery Advertiser reports: A House committee Wednesday morning approved legislation that could curtail or eliminate primary run-offs in the state. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mike Ball, R-Madison, passed the House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections committee on a voice...

SuperPAC will oppose Bachus in 2014

Posted on February 14, 2013
AL.com reports: A super PAC that pumped in dollars in a failed effort in 2012 to defeat long-time Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Vestavia Hills, will try it again in 2014. The Campaign for Primary Accountability announced today it will target Bachus,...

Jefferson County Commission to hold hearing on redistricting plans

Posted on February 14, 2013
AL.com reports: Jefferson County Commissioners will view two redistricting maps, and possibly a third, during a public hearing today at the County Courthouse. The two completed maps have drawn considerable interest because of changes that moved some precincts in Districts...

Bill proposes eliminating most runoffs in special primaries

Posted on February 11, 2013
The TimesDaily reports: A north Alabama lawmaker is kicking an idea around Montgomery that could dramatically change the state's election process. Rep. Mike Ball, R-Madison, said he's researching and gathering opinions about discontinuing most party primary runoffs...

Alabama at the bottom in new Election Performance Indix

Posted on February 11, 2013
The Pew Charitable Trusts has released a report: The Elections Performance Index is a project that, for the first time ever, examines election administration performance across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. ... A state's performance is based...

"Bill Armistead beats Matt Fridy and the biggest names in state GOP to win re-election as party leader"

Posted on February 03, 2013
AL.com reports: Bill Armistead has been re-elected chairman of the Alabama Republican Party beating off a challenge by Matt Fridy that had been supported by the biggest names in the state party. The final vote of the GOP Executive Committee...

Midfield mayor questions motive of removing city from Brown's district

Posted on January 20, 2013
AL.com reports: Midfield Mayor Gary Richardson, a former candidate for the Jefferson County Commission, said today that a redrawn district map appears to be an effort to keep him from running against one of the sitting commissioners. Under a proposed...

Jefferson County Commission to consider new districting plan

Posted on January 18, 2013
AL.com reports: The Jefferson County Commission today set a Feb. 14 public hearing to consider a resolution that could determine who gets a seat on the commission when elections are held in 22 months. The proposed plan to alter the...

Speaker Hubbard forms "leadership pac"

Posted on January 17, 2013
AL.com reports: Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard, who led the 2010 effort that won Republicans control of the Alabama Legislature, has formed a new political action committee designed to keep the GOP in power. Hubbard, an Auburn Republican, filed paperwork...

Mobile city councilor asks for DOJ objection to city's new plan

Posted on January 10, 2013
AL.com reports: A Mobile city council member is requesting the U.S. Department of Justice investigate the city's proposed redistricting plan that outlines the council's political districts for the next 10 years. Councilman Fred Richardson, in letters to Attorney General Eric...

GOP audit released -- shows Hubbard's firm got $800,000 in printing business

Posted on December 17, 2012
AL.com reports: The Alabama Attorney General's office has subpoenaed records from the Alabama Republican Party, including an audit and supporting financial documentation for 2010, when the party successfully won control of the Alabama Legislature. That audit shows that a printing...

Alabama AG subpoenas GOP financial records for 2010 election

Posted on December 16, 2012
AL.com reports: The Alabama Republican Party's steering committee - a group of 21 party leaders from across the state - gathered in good spirits in Montgomery on Wednesday afternoon. After a regular, quarterly meeting to discuss party business, they were...

Coaches in ethical hot water

Posted on December 15, 2012
AL.com reports: The Alabama Ethics Commission this afternoon found that nearly two dozen Decatur High School coaches ran afoul of state ethics law when they accepted monetary Christmas gifts from the school's booster club in 2011. Commissioners, following a closed-door...

Three from GOP, none from Dems for SD 35 special election

Posted on December 14, 2012
AL.com reports: Three Republican candidates qualified Wednesday to run for the state Senate District 35 seat vacated Dec. 4 by Ben Brooks of Mobile. The Alabama GOP said Jim Barton, Bill Hightower and Nick Matranga filed paperwork by Wednesday's 5...

ADC files suit against legislative redistricting

Posted on December 14, 2012
The Gadsden Times reports: The predominantly black Alabama Democratic Conference and others filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging state House and Senate districts that were redrawn earlier this year by the Legislature. The lawsuit filed Thursday claims legislators drew the...

Write-in candidate wins in Hale County probate judge election

Posted on November 30, 2012
The Tuscaloosa News reports: The controversial battle for the Hale County probate judge position was settled after a successful write-in campaign by challenger Arthur Crawford Sr. Crawford won the Democratic primary, but was disqualified after rulings that he didn't follow...

Hale County Probate Judge race still not decided

Posted on November 08, 2012
The Tuscaloosa News reports: Hale County residents won't know until next week who won the election for probate judge. Election officials had to repair a broken voting machine before tallying the votes Wednesday. But the 3,650 write-in votes won't be....

Alabama shows its xenophobia again

Posted on November 06, 2012
The Tuscaloosa News reports: Two European election observers will be in Alabama today and their presence is causing a stir. Election observers from the Office of Security and Co-operation in Europe/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights have conducted limited...

Excluded candidate files suit to stop election

Posted on November 01, 2012
The Tuscaloosa News reports: Arthur Crawford, who won the Democratic runoff election for Hale County probate judge in spring only to be declared ineligible this past summer, is still hoping to claim the seat. Crawford filed a civil suit in...

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