They rate Alabama "tossup" for both the State House and the State Senate.
In this Deep South state, the GOP reigns supreme in national contests, and the ancestrally Democratic legislature is under greater pressure than ever in 2010. Both chambers have been in Democratic hands for more than a century but are vulnerable to a party switch this year. A number of Democratic retirements in both the House and Senate will aid the GOP’s chances, as will ongoing fallout from corruption investigations. Already, some recent special elections have gone the Republicans’ way. Even if the GOP doesn’t get enough seats on Election Day, they might have enough momentum to convince a few conservative Democrats to switch parties, allowing them to shift control.
There are two days left in the 2010 Alabama legislative session. When the dust settles Thursday night (or Friday morning) will we or won't we have a bingo bill?
House Speaker Seth Hammett, D-Andalusia, isn’t making any predictions about the outcome Wednesday.
“I’ve seen a list compiled by proponents that shows 67 votes for it. I’ve seen a list by opponents that shows 48 votes against it. That’s 115 votes and there are only 104 members in the House,” Hammett said.
Complicating the negotiations on this bill is the ongoing FBI investigation into possible corruption in the form of money for votes. The NYT did a piece on the graft probe in the Alabama Legislature over the weekend:
Both sides insist that the others are acting at the whim of sinister forces: either the Mississippi and American Indian gambling interests who are eager to stop any competition, or the big money gambling developers who already run casinos and are among the most generous campaign donors in the state.
There is evidence for claims on both sides, though suspicions far outpace fact. In offices and in the hallways of the Statehouse, and along the bar at Bud’s, the beer and cigar joint where lobbyists loosen their ties at the end of the day, conspiracy theories about the opposition run rampant. Recently, The Birmingham News reported that some lawmakers had worn recording devices as part of the federal inquiry, which is apparently becoming a common practice in Montgomery.
I'm intrigued by the idea that the level of trust in Montgomery is so low that wearing wires is becoming a common practice. A lot of constituents have a similar low level of trust and would welcome the opportunity to "wire" our legislators. Maybe someone can figure a way to set them up with a mic and a phonelink and get streaming audio of all the dealmaking that happens while the Legislature is in session, on a legislator by legislator basis.
As for the conspiracy theory talk, this is also from the NYT article:
“If it was just the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. attorney’s office, there could be suspicion,” said Seth Hammett, the speaker of the House and a Democrat, who was at the April 1 meeting. But, he said, “I don’t believe that our United States Department of Justice is going to take sides in this issue.”
Good to see that not all Democrats are buying into the "it's all a plot by the evil DoJ" garbage. After all, this is the Obama Justice Department now, so it's time to retire the "can't trust the federal government" because "they're out to get Democrats" stuff. They are Democrats. Elections have consequences, thank God!
It's SO close. Yesterday the State Senate passed HB373 (the Gourmet Beer Bill) The folks at Free the Hops have worked tirelessly for this for years, literally.
Even if you're not a drinker, it really is about personal liberties vs being nursemaided by the state.
The Madison County Legislative delegation will hold a forum this evening at the Huntsville City Council Chambers (308 Fountain Circle, downtown) from 7 to 9 pm. Questions and comments (limited to 3 minutes) will be permitted but you need to sign up to speak so if you have a pressing issue you really want to bring up, better get there about 6:30.
May I suggest Constitution Reform? Tax reform? Campaign finance reform? They are expecting to hear a lot of concern about the economy and proration. You may also bring printed handouts to distribute to the legislators.
Under the best of conditions the Alabama Legislature can only do so much -- and most years they do a lot less -- so they definitely need to prioritize their work and focus on important things first. I'm happy that removing the sales tax on groceries is high on the list, at least for Democrats. There's every reason to make the grocery tax repeal a legislative priority this year. It's a real problem, affects large numbers of Alabamians and corrective action is within the power of the legislature.
The fight to eliminate the state's sales tax on groceries was renewed Thursday when the powerful Democratic leadership of the Alabama House of Representatives pledged to make the issue its top priority.
Looming behind that pledge is the specter of all-out combat between the House, which has supported elimination of the 4 percent tax, and the state Senate, where support for the measure always has fallen short.
Thursday's announcement - by, among others, Speaker of the House Seth Hammett and House Majority Leader Ken Guin - marks the first time the House Democratic Caucus has singled out one piece of legislation as a No. 1 priority.
In case you haven't noticed, the economy is not exactly booming these days. Manufacturers are cutting back and Alabama's unemployment rate just hit a 5 year high. But no matter how poor you are, if you buy groceries here the state of Alabama taxes you on that purchase. Almost 12% of Alabama households have either low or very low food security -- meaning they sometimes can't afford enough food to sustain a healthy, active life -- and removing the 4% state sales tax on groceries will have a direct, positive impact on those 200,000 hungry households and most everyone else, too.
On the other hand, I'm not convinced that this should be high on anyone's legislative priority list. Is there a real problem with kids getting injured in trucks or is this just a feel good item? Hunger and poverty are real problems that affect thousands of Alabamians every day and I'd rather have the legislature tackling those admittedly tough problems than getting sidetracked with making it a crime for kids to ride in the back of a pickup. Gee, if they have time and energy left after the grocery tax issue, why not take on Constitution reform or a ban on PAC to PAC transfers of campaign $$$. Fair warning: "Because those are hard issues" is not a sufficient excuse.
What would you like to see high on the Alabama Legislature's priority list next year?
I wrote a diary tonight on why I have changed my position on the sewer debt situation. I thought bankruptcy might be a viable option, but learned that there are several uncertainties with going that route as well as misleading information that is being brought forth by the Republicans.
I attended the grand opening of the Democratic party HQ last night.
2 topics that came up in various conversations:
1) "How do I find other like-minded folks?" Sometimes, the consensus was, it's as easy as coming out of the closet as a Democrat. We live in a red state - it's very easy for neighbors and co-workers to believe they're surrounded by Republicans. They need you to flaunt the fact that the Democratic party is alive and kicking in Alabama!
2) An idea for a legislative feedback website, from a young man named Patrick Senn at USA. It's a great idea that can probably be implemented with a Google widget or some Active Server programming - both of which I know just enough about to suggest. If you have more knowledge and are interested in helping make such a site happen, leave a comment and I'll get you together with him.
BTW, if you're in Mobile, HQ is at 3165 Dauphin St. - turn East from I-65 and it's on the right, just past the first stoplight.
Regarding the Alabama Constitution, the Mobile Press-Register tells it like it is. Emphasis mine.
The constitutional ploy that shut down the Senate for 26 out of 30 days on a purely local bill is a relic of the elitism that taints this central document of our state government. This year it sabotaged the Senate; another year it could happen in the House, or both.
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Was it a smokescreen for other bills that senators did not wish to address on the floor because they were controversial?
Good question. Local issues often are amendments to the 1901 Constitution that require the total Legislature's action and a vote by the people. This was designed by the writers of the constitution to keep control of local government in Montgomery and centralized in the hands of a few legislators and a host of lobbyists instead of at the local level.
Therefore, there is no home rule and the people are unable to vote on purely local issues, unless the Legislature gives permission. Sounds like the children's game of "Mother, May I?"
Local bills can be used as a tool to block legislation, hide the real issues and hamstring the Legislature to the point of dysfunction. Maybe that was the design of the writers of the 1901 Constitution in the first place.
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The 2008 regular session and all of its failings cry out for a convention to draft a new constitution to end the Legislature's madness and dysfunction.
Be still my heart. Madness and dysfunction. Constitutional convention. I'm astounded to read this in the Press-Register -- but I love it! Please, please, astound me some more.
The 1901 Alabama Constitution establishes an incredibly elitist system of govenment. The only people in the whole state with real power are the brokers in Montgomery. If you want to build an outhouse in lower Podunk you'll need to go to the Legislature, hat in hand, and beg their permission. Greasing palms helps, too.
Alabama is the epitome of a Nanny State, where the people can make virtually no decisions without permission from the elites in Montgomery. Are we a bunch of wimps, or what?
There are people working hard to push, pull or drag the Legislature to a point where they will have no choice but to agree to a Constitutional Convention -- something that would inevitably curtail their own great power. The Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform have worked long and tirelessly to build support for a convention. Support them, or, give a unique gift to a hard to please friend or family member -- THE GIFT OF A NEW CONSTITUTION! The whole state will thank you.
Vivian Figures picked up the endorsement of the Anniston Star. The Star also made endorsements for the Court of Criminal Appeals and the Court of Civil Appeals -- two races that we've neglected here. For Democrats, those went to Steve Dodd and Jon Hayden, respectively.
The Daily Home of Talladega also endorsed Vivian Figures: "She knows the priorities for everyday folks in Alabama, and she is running on a ticket for change. She rightly points to a faltering economy, a budget deficit and the war in Iraq as issues that need a new course."
The U.S. Supreme Court says it's legal for Gov. Riley to appoint county commissioners in cases of vacancy rather than allow them to be selected by voters in a special election. My non-lawyer opinion is, it may be within the law, but if so that law needs to be changed. Letting the people vote on who represents them is the way to go -- especially in a democracy.
This sounds a little like cutting off your nose to spite your face. It's not like any part of Alabama's education system is too good, is it? Besides, higher education took the rap for killing the regular session, but you and I both know there were forces at work, the Governor being one of them, who didn't want the grocery tax bill, PAC to PAC transfer ban, Constitution reform, the corporate loophole bill and maybe even the hate crimes bill to make it through this year. But higher ed. is a convenient scapegoat.
Scott McClellan is telling all a lot of what he knows about the Bush administration. Karl figures prominently:
McClellan’s tone is often harsh. He writes, for example, that after Hurricane Katrina, the White House “spent most of the first week in a state of denial,” and he blames Rove for suggesting the photo of the president comfortably observing the disaster during an Air Force One flyover. McClellan says he and counselor to the president Dan Bartlett had opposed the idea and thought it had been scrapped. But he writes that he later was told that “Karl was convinced we needed to do it - and the president agreed.”
John McCain is a veteran, and most veterans, it seems, would support a G I bill that increases veterans benefits such as improving the path to college for vets. But McBush, er, McCain, like his hero George W, is opposed to improving the lot of those who fight for our country.
Of course their reasoning is flawed; they say that better college benefits will decrease re-enlistment and result in less numbers of servicemen. But a prediction by the Congressional Budget Office says the bill will increase recruitment by 16%, which happens to equal the predicted decline in re-ups.
VoteVets is urging McCain to support the bill. Watch.
Today's Birmingham News has a piece by Congressman Artur Davis. addressing the state legislature, criticizing both parties for being too guided in special interests rather than presenting a vision to improve Alabama, using specific issues of taxes and education. It is worth a read.
"The Democratic power brokers in Montgomery and the increasingly partisan Riley administration have blamed each other for the breakdown of the legislative process. What is really at fault, however, is that Alabama politics is missing a sense of public purpose."
It is not a surprise that disaffection with Alabama politics is growing. The upside, however, may be that our electorate is ready to reward leadership that will level with us about our state's shortcomings. Our education crisis is not the failure to pass a budget; it is our persistent poor performance on national assessment tests and a true dropout rate approaching 40 percent. The governor's veto of a General Fund provision shielding Medicaid from proration has angered state lawmakers; the larger problem is our chronic underfunding of a Medicaid program that is already among the weakest in the country."
"Finally, we may be on the verge of rejecting the dominance of established interest groups in our state, and the litmus tests they bring to the public square. A governor can disagree with the Business Council of Alabama about the worth of unions and still champion economic development; a governor can challenge the Alabama Education Association's resistance to higher teacher standards without undercutting his commitment to public education. Montgomery's failures establish just how resistant our entrenched lobbies are to compromise. If we are to forge a consensus for advancing Alabama, the power of these lobbies over the machinery of state government needs to be diminished."
This article seems to indicate some of the rhetoric that Davis would use if he decides to run for Governor in 2010, using the fact that he is an ousider to Montgomery debates to his advantage, especially in a primary with Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom. It also builds upon message of change and hope that Barack Obama has used in the Presidential campaign.
Would this message and campaign be successful in Alabama?
Last year the Alabama Legislature's last day gave us "The Punch," this year we got nothing. Literally, nothing.
Due to a filibuster in the Senate over $25 million in additional money for the higher education budget, the Legislature adjourned just before midnight last night with a lot of unfinished business -- BUSINESS THEY CAN'T FINISH NOW BECAUSE THE SESSION IS OVER!
The Education Budget. This was the bone of contention in the Senate yesterday.
Let the people vote on removing the 4% state sales tax on groceries.
Ban PAC to PAC transfers of contributions.
The Hate Crimes Bill.
Ban indoor smoking -- I don't give a fig about this but it seems like lots of people do.
Close a big corporate tax loophole.
Exempt the federal stimulus payments from state income tax.
And many more ...
What are the consequences of adjournment without passing the education budget?
State school Superintendent Joe Morton said that, if legislators failed to pass an education budget, local superintendents starting this week would fire thousands of teachers, most probably young teachers without the job protection of tenure, for fear that an education budget passed later in the year would chop spending even more than the budget debated Monday.
Morton predicted that surrounding states would hire the best of the fired teachers, damaging public education in Alabama for years.
"You don't recover from this just because we have a budget in a week or a month," Morton warned. "It'll take years to recover from not having a budget at this particular point."
I think we need a full-time legislature. Lock these guys and gals in a room and make them work until they get the job done. With the current system there's always somebody willing to run the clock down and just let everything die. That has consequences.
Today is the last day of the Legislative session. It probably won't end with a punch this year, but prepare to be disappointed. Some good legislation is going to die, again.
AL-04: Democrats focus their fire on Aderholt, not on each other. Some more prominent Democrats could learn a few things from Greg Warren and Nick Sparks.
Jill Simpson, with her testimony pointing toward Rove meddling in the Siegelman prosecution, is being viewed a real threat by the right wingers. How do I know this? Hindrocket doesn't waste this much effort trashing unimportant people. Lot's of innuendo there, but no meat.
Legal Schnauzer thinks the Simpson attack is a sign she's onto something, too.
For the good of the country, Glynn Wilson is giving up golf until George W. is out of the White House. In a burst of patriotism and solidarity, I will also give up golf until we get a Democrat at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Please, don't make me play golf, even then.
The Anniston Star gets a gold star for a great pair of editorials last week on Alabama's do-little legislature:
Decisions of our Senators: "The Alabama Senate does not have (or will not take) the time to pass legislation that will improve the lives of our citizens, but it has the time (or takes the time) to pass a resolution denouncing a movement that does not exist and a highway that no one plans to build. ... Reason cannot win."
Little leadership: "Alabamians desiring a better state government are like the proverbial Dickens character so starved for nutrition that he begs for more from a pot of unfulfilling gruel. Too many state residents — it's sad to report — are used to having our bowls filled with this awful concoction, consisting of undemocratic foundations mixed with arrogance and incompetence."
The Tuscaloosa News took the Alabama Senate to task over failure to take action to remove the state sales tax on groceries: "Their refusal to allow that is one of the more disturbing aspects of the decision Thursday. So is the fact that the lawmakers rejected the plan in full knowledge of the fact that continuing the grocery tax perpetuates an unfair and regressive measure that falls hardest on the state's poorest residents."
Apparently inspired by the Star, the Mobile Press-Register got in some Senate-bashing regarding the North American Union and the John Birch Society the next day: "This is the ridiculous stuff that black helicopters and the Flat Earth Society are made of. Most other governments from Texas to the White House and independent investigators such as the Web site snopes.com, which specializes in debunking urban legends, deny the conspiracy. But their denials apparently were not sufficient for the Alabama Senate."
Before we embark on a mad rush to require valid government issued photo-id in order to cast a vote, consider some of the people who had problems meeting that requirement in Indiana -- veterans and a group of nuns. Is there any evidence of large scale voter fraud that the voter-id law would fix? The solution looks worse than the problem, to me.
Facing South is still covering the Women's Voices Women Vote robo-call fiasco in North Carolina and elsewhere. They also posted a very good comment by Pam Spaulding of Pam's House Blend: "If silence on this for "the good of the party" is more important than investigating a illegal practice affecting an individual's right to vote (on purpose or repeatedly by mistake), it's a sad state of affairs. Just because the Republicans do it more, or have a more systematic interest in doing it doesn't change the fact that this was wrong on so many levels -- and airing dirty laundry is the least of the issues in my mind. Apologies are meaningful, but given the spotty history of WVWV robo-calls, there is a stench still in the air, and that's why the investigation is moving forward."
Captain Plaid on John McCain's bearings: "... losing his way, getting off track, not aware of what his position, etc."
Jefferson County needs a loan to come up with the money to pay the loan that they don't have the money to pay off.
The Senate voted 20-11 Thursday, with three abstaining, to bring the bill up for debate, but that was one vote short of the required three-fifths majority.
... Among those who voted to abstain were Sens. Tom Butler, D-Madison, and Arthur Orr, R-Decatur. "It's not over yet," Butler said, explaining that he was using his vote as a bargaining tool to get his quarry bill out of Sen. Zeb Little's committee.
Sen. Larry Dixon (R, Montgomery) is sticking with the food stamp argument against grocery tax relief: "I don't care what people say about poor people. Poor people get food stamps." Food stamps aren't particularly relevant to the tax argument, but who can doubt Dixon cares not what people say about poor people -- or about poor people at all. Dixon has no problem cutting taxes, but doesn't want to make up the lost revenue -- like Alabama has a budget surplus or something?
Dixon said he favors taking the state sales tax off groceries but didn't want to make up for the loss by raising other taxes.
It turns out Sen. Dixon prefers to travel back in time and remove the grocery sales tax one per cent each year starting in 2003. Who knew the Legislature had a time machine?
Can voters use the Legislative time machine to send some of these dinosaurs back to the stone age where they belong?
The Alabama Legislature is screwed up beyond belief, but this compromise on a bill to prohibit political action committees (PACs) from passing contributions around, effectively disguising who is giving to whom, sounds pretty good. Of course, it hasn't actually passed or anything.
Bans transfers between political action committees.
Exempts political parties, principal campaign committees, legislative caucuses and voter participation organizations from the definition of a PAC.
Defines a legislative caucus as a group of legislators affiliated with a political party and limits political parties to three caucuses in each house of the Legislature.
Allows political parties to receive PAC money and limits the political parties to giving money to only candidates or principal campaign committees.
Allows legislative caucuses to receive money from PACs but not from a legislator or another caucus, and allows the caucuses to give only to a candidate or principal campaign committee.
Requires PACs to pay a yearly fee equal to 0.5 percent of the money the PAC raised that year to fund enforcement of campaign finance laws at the secretary of state's office.
Requires PACs, political parties, legislative caucuses and voter participation organizations to file quarterly reports, in addition to those filed before elections, listing contributions and expenditures.
Rep. Jeff McLaughlin (D, Guntersville) is the original sponsor of the PAC to PAC ban and he believes the bill could still be passed on the last day of the session. The House passed McLaughlin's original tough and to the point bill early in the session but the Senate passed a very watered down bill that would limit PAC to PAC transfers but permit PAC to party and PAC to caucus transfers, effectively closing one door and opening two new ones. It looks like the committee is working to at least make those two new doors only operate in one direction. That's progress. So is the quarterly filing requirement.
It's a little disturbing that Sen. Wendell Mitchell (D, Luverne) is opposed to asking PACs to pay one half of one percent (0.005) of the money they raise to fund enforcement. That isn't very much and if the PACs don't pay it, the taxpayers will have to and that sure as heck isn't fair.
There's still hope that the Senate will vote to LET THE PEOPLE VOTE on eliminating the sales tax on groceries in Alabama. This is a critical time, so I'm revisiting the Hall of Shame from the last vote and urging you to contact these Senators about eliminating the 4% state sales tax on groceries. Call today if you can but if you don't see this until tonight, call first thing in the morning. While you're at it, forward this list of misguided Senators to everyone you know in Alabama.
Udpate: Maps indicating the districts involved are posted at the very end of this diary.
As far as changing votes, the best bets are probably these Senators who ABSTAINED from voting last time:
Tom Butler (D, SD2) (334) 242-7854, (256) 837-8374, 256) 837-8374, FAX (334) 353-9777 or (256) 837-4355, senbutler@aol.com
Larry Means (D, SD10) (334) 242-7857, (256) 538-2014
The hard core "balance the budget on the backs of the poor" crowd that voted NO is probably beyond salvation on this issue, but it still won't hurt to call if one of them is your Senator. They are listed below the fold.
Grocery tax relief benefitting 80% of Alabamians failed in the Senate yesterday on a procedural vote.
The state Senate on Wednesday rejected, at least for now, a plan that would let voters remove the 4 percent state sales tax on groceries and raise state income taxes on many wealthier people.
The Senate voted 16-11, with four abstentions, for a procedural motion to allow full debate and possible approval of the plan, short of the required three-fifths margin.
They needed 21 votes to move the grocery tax bill -- which doesn't remove the sales tax on groceries, it just lets the people vote on removing it -- and only had 16. Call, email or FAX if you're tired of the endless stall on progressive legislation like taking the sales tax off groceries. I'm not the only one who's mad about the Senate vote. This is from Rep. John Knight, who sponsored this legislation in the House, as he has for several years:
"We give tax incentives for corporations, we give tax incentives for people who have lobbyists down here," said Knight. "This is a tax cut for average working people across the state."
The legislation is not totally dead yet, so it is absolutely worth your while to contact those who voted NO and especially those who did not cast a vote yesterday, for whatever reason.
Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom finally moved the Senate past a filibuster on a bill regarding electronic bingo in Macon county. Why should a bingo bill affecting a single county hold up all the business in the state Senate for a month, you ask? Because some powerful interests care a great deal about electronic bingo in Macon county, I guess. Folsom's action was controversial. What's new about that? This is the Alabama Senate where everything is controversial. Even a list of "noncontroversial legislation" was disputed.
[Lowell] Barron submitted a list of "noncontroversial" legislation for the Senate to consider late Tuesday afternoon. The list did not include any of [Ben] Brooks' insurance bills, and when Brooks began filibustering the bill in protest, Barron warned him he would not schedule his insurance bills for any vote.
"You're acting childish and it is wrong," Barron told Brooks in a heated speech from the floor. "As long as you keep acting this way, you can forget about me putting your bill up (for a vote)."
Heaven knows, there has already been enough childish behavior to go around in this session. It's time these guys and gals get their heads wrapped around the idea that the critical business affecting the whole state should be taken care of first, then they can argue local points to death if there's time left. This is a good time to point out that if Alabama had a rational Constitution that allowed local governments to take care of local business, the Legislature wouldn't be burdened with all these damned local bills.
Anyway, there is some hope that both Houses of the Alabama Legislature will get down to business in the last days of the regular session. They have a lot to do since neither the general nor education budgets have passed. Those are the bare minimum that has to be accomplished to avoid a special session. Then there are the bills that need to be passed -- letting people vote on constitutional reform, eliminating state sales tax on groceries and the corporate tax bill, to name a few.
HB 308 to LET THE PEOPLE VOTE on Constitutional Reform is being delayed in the Alabama House. This just came via email from Lenora Pate:
Dear Supporters,
As you have probably read and heard, the extended debate over budget bills in the House has created a delay that will impact HB 308 which Lets the People Vote on the question of calling a Constitution Convention.
HB 308 will not come up for consideration on Tuesday, April 29, 2008, as originally expected; however, it may come up on Wednesday or Thursday. There are only 5 days remaining in the Session so time is short. Your presence in the State House to show support for the Bill is always helpful to move the Bill forward and to let your voice be heard. So if you wish to come to the State House during the three meeting days this week, please do so and watch the process of democracy. We apologize that we do not know the specific date for consideration of HB 308.
Continue to call your Legislator and ask for support of HB 308, even if you have called in the past.
Please call the House switchboard. * Call (334) 242-7600 * Give your name * Give your representative's name (Find at www.legislature.state.al.us) * Leave the message "Vote Yes on HB 308" Go to www.constitutionalreform.org for more information.
Call the legislators today and urge each to vote yes on HB 308!
Thank you, Lenora Pate Chair, ACCR
Please call your legislators. We are only asking them to give the people of Alabama a chance to vote on a new state Constitution to replace the ABOMINATION that has shackled Alabama since 1901. Isn't it time we moved forward? FINALLY?
If you go to the State House in support of the Let the People Vote Bill, please make yourself a nametag so legislators can see at a glance why you're there. Print out one of these and pin it to your lapel if you don't have anything else:
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Under the best of conditions the Alabama Legislature can only do so much -- and most years they do a lot less -- so they definitely need to prioritize their work and focus on important things first. I'm happy that 
The Anniston Star gets a gold star for a great pair of editorials last week on Alabama's do-little legislature:
Tom Butler
Larry Means
Arthur Orr
Jim Preuitt
Zeb Little
Myron Penn
Bobby Singleton
Scott Beason
Charles Bishop
Ben Brooks
Hank Erwin
