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The Three Great Alabama Icons

by: Osborne Ink

Tue Jan 19, 2010 at 05:52:13 AM CST

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George Wallace? Again?

by: mooncat

Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 13:14:27 PM CDT

George Wallace Jr.Just had an email from a friend with the rumor George Wallace, Jr. will be running for office again. It didn't specify which party or office, but I'd bet on GOP -- any of the second tier offices are possible, unless his two previous terms mean he can't serve again as State Treasurer. After Wallace became a Republican, he was elected to the PSC and ran unsuccessfully for the Lt. Gov. nomination in 2006.

I totally agree with my friend's assessment of Wallace, Jr. as a candidate:

With George, Jr. you get to use the ultimate Southern putdown:  "He's not the man his daddy was."
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True or False: Alabama PACT Parents Were Just Dumb Investors

by: countrycat

Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 18:36:30 PM CDT

It's a question floating around blogs, newspaper editorials and letters to the editor.  Why did PACT parents and grandparents think their investment wouldn't lose money?  Furthermore, the questions ask: "I've lost a lot in the market, so why should tax dollars prop up your dumb investment?"

On Sunday, BlueSeeingRed's diary asked some good, legitimate questions along the same lines - although not in such an ugly way.

...but if it was just some glorified mutual fund, aren't the people who invested in the program culpable also in this matter?

I mean there is something called "Buyer Beware"...that it is incumbent upon everyone that signs a contract to know what they're getting themselves into. Thats why you need to read any contract before signing it, or if you're unable to for whatever reason, to get a competent lawyer to do so for you.  I think, after giving it some thought,  I for one need to see the contract before rushing anymore into this blame game.

 Below the fold, I'll try to answer some of the questions and criticisms I've seen in a FAQ format.  One that I certainly hope is more illuminating than the one the PACT board put up.

Oh, there's also a short video of parents and grandparents at the Montgomery parent's meeting on March 12th.  They tell their stories.  One is a banker who describes how George Wallace Jr. (then state treasurer) solicited the Alabama banking community to sell the program to the public in the early 1990's.  Other parents read from their contracts... words like "guarantee" and "assurance" are in each one.  To my knowledge, the definitions of those words haven't changed in the last 20 years or so.

 

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Peggy Wallace Kennedy to Open Doors, Not Block Them, at Sunday's Bridge Crossing Jubilee

by: countrycat

Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 14:10:35 PM CST

Peggy Wallace Kennedy, daughter of former Alabama Governor George Wallace, will introduce Attorney General Eric Holder in Selma this Sunday at the Bridge Crossing Jubilee.

Ms. Kennedy publicly supported President Obama last fall:

Healing must come, hope will be our lodestar, humility will reshape the American conscience, and honesty in both word and deed will refresh and invigorate America, and having Barack Obama to lead will give us back our power to heal."

Ms. Kennedy was invited by Congressman (and Gubernatorial candidate) Artur Davis

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I AM ASHAMED

by: wanda mcneil

Mon Sep 17, 2007 at 10:51:08 AM CDT

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Troy King is an embarrassment to the State.  Shades of Karl Rove and George Wallace rolled into one.  WHERE DO WE DIG THESE PEOPLE UP???

From the Birmingham News

It's a cheap political stand, and it provided King a chance to insult Owens, a Republican who joined other district attorneys in backing King's Democratic opponent in the 2006 election. 

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Troy King Tries to Keep Wallace Shooter in Prison

by: Trent Thompson

Fri Aug 24, 2007 at 23:47:04 PM CDT

The state of Maryland is planning to release George Wallace's attempted assassin from prison within coming months. Arthur Bremer has served 35 years of a 53 year sentence and is being released early for good behavior. However, Alabama Attorney General Troy King is protesting the early release, producing this headline in the Washington Post:

Ala. Hopes to Keep Wallace Gunman Jailed

That's certainly the way to let the rest of nation know that we're over our racially divisive past. Thanks to King's actions, the Post's readers (including countless political and business leaders) now think that the state of Alabama is going to bat for a segregationist a full four decades after the struggles of the Civil Rights movement played out in the streets of our cities.

I understand that Troy King likes to pretend he's tough on crime, but this is simply political grandstanding because Alabama's Attorney General has absolutely no jurisdiction and very little influence within Maryland. All this maneuver does is reinforce a negative impression that most of the nation has about our state.

 

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