WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines announced plans to purchase 40 new Airbus aircraft consisting of 10 widebody A330-300 aircraft for international flights and 30 large narrowbody A321 jets for domestic flights, a $5.6 billion purchase set for delivery between 2015 and 2017. According to Airbus, many of the A321s in Delta’s order […]

Congressional hopeful Chad Fincher, R-Semmes, yesterday released his campaign’s first television spot in the race to succeed Jo Bonner as Alabama’s first congressional district representative. In the 30-second spot titled “Conservative Values,” Fincher champions his credentials on both social and fiscal issues. “I’m Chad Fincher. I’m a conservative deeply committed to our values,” Fincher says […]

WASHINGTON – In a statement released on Labor Day from his office, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, lobbied against the current immigration reform proposal by pointing out the current state of the U.S. job market based on data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “As the nation recognizes Labor Day, too many Americans remain without […]

WASHINGTON – As members of Congress all along the Gulf Coast battle with the Obama administration over its efforts to micromanage red snapper season, the beleaguered fishing industry could be getting a big boost from Congress, spearheaded by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa. In a letter released on Thursday, the Northeast Seafood Coalition applauded Shelby and Sen. Barbara A. […]

One of the pledges Republican congressional hopeful Quin Hillyer made early on was that he would not go negative. And although Hillyer failed to bring any of the other candidates onboard with him in that pledge, his campaign has worked hard to make most of it. In one of the quirkier of the four spots […]

When Mobile Mayor-elect Sandy Stimpson first expressed his interest in taking on incumbent Mobile Mayor Sam Jones over a year ago, there were very few that thought he would be able to pull it off, and certainly not in the fashion he did on Tuesday night. Stimpson handily defeated the two-term incumbent — who ran unopposed […]

On her Monday night MSNBC program, Rachel Maddow reacted to the weekend’s proceedings at the Alabama Republican Party summer meeting, primarily the party’s decision to not impose an edict banning steering committee members from publicly opposing any part of the party’s national platform. An amendment to the party’s bylaws was originally conceived after Alabama College […]

On Sunday morning, Mobile Mayor Sam Jones took a shot at Sandy Stimpson, his competitor in the upcoming Mobile mayoral election set for Tuesday. One of the signs held up at a Saturday rally for Stimpson said “Keep King’s Dream Alive.” Jones responded with a racially charged response on Facebook calling the sign “a mockery” […]

The Alabama Republican Party will be host to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tonight at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery where Walker will be the keynote speaker at the ALGOP’s Summer Dinner. But under an amendment proposed by Don Wallace of Tuscaloosa and Bonnie Sachs of Double Springs, Walker would not be eligible to be on […]

[Above: listen to Wells Griffith’s latest radio ad] On Friday afternoon, Republican congressional hopeful Wells Griffith unveiled a new radio spot pledging to not accept “a taxpayer funded health insurance plan” until President Barack Obama’s 2009 health care reform law is ended. In the commercial, the Griffith campaign takes an aggressive tack in opposition to […]

In an interview with Raycom’s Max Reiss that aired on Montgomery NBC affiliate WSFA on Wednesday, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore looked back at the Ten Commandments monument controversy from the early part of last decade. On the 10-year anniversary of his suspension from the bench for missing the deadline to remove the […]

None of the Republican members of Alabama’s U.S. House delegation have indicated that they’ll be signing on to the idea of using Congress’ federal budget powers to defund ObamaCare. In fact, the conservative Heritage Foundation recently launched an ad campaign targeting a handful those Republicans nationally, including five of the state’s six Republicans locally. One […]

On Monday, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation’s political arm Heritage Action announced it would be launching a $550,000 so-called “Defund Obamacare” ad campaign. This campaign is set to hit 100 Republican-controlled congressional districts with the goal of encouraging holdouts on defunding Obamacare in the House Republican caucus to support those “conservative efforts” to defund […]

In an appearance on the Fox Business Network Tuesday night, former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who is considering a run for the U.S. House in northern Virginia, reacted to remarks by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in which Reid seemed to speculate that Republican opposition to the president’s agenda may be based on […]

Over the past month, several prominent conservative Republican senators have been promoting the idea of using the threat of a government shutdown to force some form of the repeal of President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care legislation, better known as ObamaCare. Sens. Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have all given varying […]

It’s a ballot that might resemble something you’d see in Heisman Trophy balloting, but the entire first congressional district special election process, which begins with the September 24 primary and could potentially go until December 17, will be using what is called a “ranked-choice” ballot for absentee voters. With this ballot, the voter is asked […]

The country got its first glimpses on Monday of President Barack Obama’s advocacy group Organizing for Action’s climate change push. “Gravity exists. The Earth is round. Climate change is happening. #ScienceSaysSo,” Obama tweeted to his 35.1 million Twitter followers. Gravity exists. The Earth is round. Climate change is happening. #ScienceSaysSo — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August […]

Late last month, State Rep. Chad Fincher, R-Semmes, raised a lot of eyebrows when his congressional campaign received the nod from GOPAC, one of the premier organizations in the national conservative movement. Up until that time, Fincher really wasn’t widely discussed as one of the front-runners. But that endorsement is potentially only the first of […]

On Friday following President Barack Obama’s press conference, Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, attacked Alabama’s immigration law and said she hopes the U.S. House will heed the president’s calls for comprehensive immigration reform. Sewell appeared on MSNBC’s “Martin Bashir” and accused her home state of denying citizenship to illegal immigrants while helping the economies of neighboring […]

On Wednesday morning, Republican congressional hopeful Wells Griffith’s campaign announced they landed the blockbuster endorsement of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., who was the 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee. One of Griffith’s opponents was not impressed with the endorsement. In a release on Wednesday afternoon, Quin Hillyer took a jab at Ryan, denouncing him as “out of […]

Bonner on leaving House, new job Former Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, gave a wide-ranging interview to Mobile Fox-affiliate WALA’s Bob Grip, during which he discussed background on his decision to leave Congress. Bonner revealed that even without the offer to be the University of Alabama system vice chancellor of economic development and government relations, he […]

WASHINGTON – Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, took to the Senate floor on Thursday to attack President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care reform law, better known as ObamaCare. Shelby disputed Obama’s argument that the law has failed to succeed due to Republican attacks. “ObamaCare is not a failure because so many Americans reject it,” Shelby said. […]

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, gave what would be his last speech on the floor of the U.S. House as a sitting member of Congress. Bonner, whose last day is today, will be vacating his seat to take a job with the University of Alabama system as vice chancellor. He began by […]

MOBILE – He’s been described as the anti-establishment establishment’s candidate, having not only scored support from household conservative media names including Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, National Review editor Rich Lowry and American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrell, but other figures including former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, now a Republican, and 2012 GOP presidential hopeful […]