Posts by Cliff Sims — Page 47
Alabama native and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday that President Obama should walk back his executive amnesty plan and realize that the American people delivered a strong message at the polls that they do not approve of the direction he has taken the country. “We can’t have a circumstance in which […]
WASHINGTON — Tuesday’s elections may have delivered sweeping changes to the makeup of the U.S. Senate, but the same Jeff Sessions returned to work post-election and continued hammering President Obama for his plan to grant executive amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. “(On Election Day), the American people rebelled against the President’s executive amnesty and […]
Everyone’s seen who won the races, but now that the dust has settled, here’s a deeper look at Alabama’s biggest winners this election cycle. School Choice School choice advocacy groups have flocked to Alabama in the wake of the Alabama Accountability Act — the state’s first ever school choice law — believing that there will […]
If June 4, 2014, the day after Alabama’s Primary Elections, was considered “rock bottom” for the Alabama Education Association (AEA), its embattled leader, Henry Mabry, must have immediately found a jackhammer and started digging, because five months later, the once powerful organization has somehow managed to reach a new low. Remember that time AEA spent […]
Shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday night it became clear that Republicans would take the majority in the U.S. Senate, topping off a massive night for the GOP and a crushing defeat for the Obama presidency. Voters tossed out Democratic incumbent senators in Arkansas, Colorado and North Carolina and elected Republicans to fill seats being […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Republican Party was notified late this afternoon that ballots at two polling locations in House Districts 77 and 78 have been “severely mishandled,” which the ALGOP says “resulted in voters having not been given the correct ballot” in those two districts. The two voting locations in question are Beulah Baptist […]
There’s very little drama at the top of the ticket this year in Alabama, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a storyline worth watching. That storyline is math, simple math. And no, believe it or not, it has nothing to do with Common Core. Here are a few reasons why math is the storyline worth […]
With a price tag of roughly $3.67 billion dollars, the 2014 elections are going down in history as the most expensive midterms in American history, and they’re finally about to come to a close. Voters around the country will head to the polls Tuesday to exercise their sacred right as American citizens — one man, […]
Alabama is something of a Petri dish for outlandish politicians, bizarre campaign moments and scratch-your-head political theater. Sometimes it seems like the Yellowhammer State was created just to be the perfect environment in which to grow the most wacky, over-the-top characters imaginable. A state representative declaring men should be able to marry mules? We’ve got […]
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will cruise to re-election on Tuesday as the only U.S. Senator on the ballot in 2014 who did not face a General Election opponent, and according to Daily Caller Editor-In-Chief and Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, the reason is simple. “Jeff Sessions is so popular he could come to work […]
TUSCUMBIA, Ala. — Famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson gained national notoriety for his speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast, during which he criticized ObamaCare and warned of America’s “moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility” as President Obama sat just a few feet away. On Sunday, Carson took aim at another Democrat, this time one right […]
The Alabama New South Coalition (ANSC), whose stated purpose is “to promote the general welfare of all people through independent focused organizations dedicated to progressive ideals of freedom, justice and democracy,” appears to be working to accomplish those goals through a simple method — fear. The group is disseminating a mailer to black households around […]
36 states will hold gubernatorial elections on Tuesday, and according to the famed election prognosticators at FiveThirtyEight, Alabama’s incumbent governor Robert Bentley is the surest bet of them all. His chances of getting re-elected currently stand at over 99 percent, and the margin of victory is expected to be substantial. FiveThirtyEight’s founder Nate Silver explains […]
“If Pipkin and Tullos are going home to their families tonight after what they did,” the juror said, “then Barry Moore should definitely be going home to his family.” OPELIKA, Ala. — Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) was able to breath a sigh of relief Thursday as a twelve-member jury of his peers found him not […]
The battle lines in Rep. Jim Carns’ (R-Birmingham) bid to unseat Rep. Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representative perhaps became a bit more clear Thursday evening at Jim & Nicks BBQ in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood. Carns, who launched his campaign for the gavel within minutes of the news […]
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OPELIKA, Ala. — Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) was found not guilty on all counts after being charged with two counts of first-degree perjury and two counts of providing false statements during testimony he gave to a special grand jury in January. While testifying before the grand jury, Moore was asked to recall the details of […]
OAKMAN, Ala. — Gov. Robert Bentley visited the Drummond Camp Creek Coal Mine in Walker County on Wednesday and brought with him some fierce criticism of an “overreaching” federal government and the EPA regulations that he says are currently threatening to close Alabama coal mines, destroy jobs and raise electricity rates for Alabama consumers. “What […]
The Alabama Free Market Alliance (AFMA), a conservative advocacy group headed by Alabama’s Republican National Committeeman Paul Reynolds, released a television ad this week that is now airing statewide. However, rather than focusing on a particular race, as most ads are doing this close to election day, the AFMA ad is reminding Alabama voters about […]
Southern Progress Action Fund (SPAF), an Arkansas-based liberal group bent on returning Democrats to power in the South is spending over $100,000 to swing Alabama legislative races in the final week of the election cycle. The group, which Bloomberg reported “hopes that the South will rise again — for Democrats, that is,” was launched by […]
USCIS, a union that represents roughly 12,000 officers in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, made waves this week when it disclosed that the U.S. government had ordered enough supplies to make roughly 34 million immigrant work permits and residency cards, presumably to meet needs that could be brought on by President Obama’s seemingly imminent […]
Alabama’s incumbent Republican Attorney General Luther Strange is locked in a heated race against Democratic challenger State Rep. Joe Hubbard (D-Montgomery), but it looks like he’s about to get some help from Alabama’s most popular elected official and a national GOP group with some big money. U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is expected to endorse […]
A spokesperson for Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley responded to speculation that Bentley could be a potential 2016 presidential candidate by simply saying that he’s focused on his current job for now. “Right now Governor Bentley is focused on being the best Governor he can be for the state of Alabama,” campaign spokesperson Rebekah Mason told […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After being inducted into the Alabama Hall of Honor along with University of Alabama head coach Nick Saban, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions and others, Apple CEO Tim Cook urged Alabama to achieve “equality in truth” by granting increased protections for members of the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. “As […]

