A new television ad produced by GOPAC touts AL-01 congressional candidate Chad Fincher’s ability to win tough legislative battles. Alluding to Fincher’s sponsorship of the Alabama Accountability Act, the ad says, “He defeated the liberals and the teachers’ union, and now schools are more accountable and parents have more control — more choice for parents […]

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 […]

Backstreet’s back, but not anywhere you might expect — the University of Alabama football weight room. Yes, Alabama’s football team got a visit from members of the 90s boy band on Tuesday. Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, and Kevin Richardson stopped by to check out the Alabama Football Complex and hang out with members of the […]

GQ magazine recently commissioned Warren St. John, the author of the definitive Alabama fan book Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, to write a profile piece on University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban. Here are seven things we learned from St. John’s piece: 1. He’s concerned the national championship game takes away from his recruiting time. […]

Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R-Indian Springs, one of the most ardently pro-life members of the Alabama legislature, is retiring at the conclusion of her current term after 16 years of service. “It has truly been a wonderful 16 years, Rep. McClurkin told Yellowhammer today by phone. “It has been a great opportunity to serve the […]

I was in Greenville, S.C. yesterday for a Daily Beast piece on the state of play of Gov. Nikki Haley’s reelection prospects.  The draw, of course, were the three governors with designs on the White House in 2016: Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker. Standing on a stage before a giant American flag, each pepped up […]

Iowa Rep. Steve King — one of the most polarizing conservative voices in Congress — is seeking to influence the 2016 GOP presidential primary contest not as a candidate, but by playing the role of gatekeeper. King, who appeared at a meeting of conservative activists in Charleston Monday, is also planning tours of New Hampshire […]

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 […]

Faulkner University was put into lockdown earlier today after reports of an active shooter on campus were disseminated through the University’s emergency information system. The situation has now been resolved. According to the Montgomery Policy Department, a custodial employee was shot by her estranged husband after a physical altercation on the campus. She is currently […]

Almost half of the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence were 40-years-old or younger, the youngest being 26. Two of them went on to be President of the United States. Most Americans tend to the think the Founders were older, more “experienced” men, possibly because the paintings depicting the Declaration’s signing show them […]

(Above: Highlights of Kevin Spacey’s keynote address at the Edinburgh Television Festival) Since 2006, political drama junkies have been relegated to watching old reruns of The West Wing to get their fix. That is, until Kevin Spacey delivered the surprise hit of 2013 with his Netflix original series, House of Cards. House of Cards debuted […]

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 Farmers Federation (ALFA) and the Alabama Association of Realtors have both decided to not get involved in the Alabama First Congressional District Republican primary. According to sources with knowledge of ALFA’s political operation, the group commissioned a poll earlier this month in order to get a better handle on the current state of […]

Alabama Republican Party interim press secretary and communications professional Jonathan Barbee has announced his candidacy for Alabama Public Service Commission, Place 2. “After much consideration I have made the decision to run for Public Service Commissioner,” Barbee said Friday night. “Together, we must join forces to fight the Washington, D.C. liberal environmentalists before they regulate […]

Alabama State Senator Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, announced Monday that he will seek re-election. Orr is the chairman of the Senate General Fund Budget Committee, one of the most powerful posts in the legislature. In his announcements, Orr highlighted his work to lower unemployment, decrease government spending and make state government more accountable to taxpayers. “Since […]

Despite polls showing him sliding behind in the Virginia governor’s race, it appears the 2016 GOP cavalry is coming to the aid of Ken Cuccinelli. At least three prospective Republican candidates for president are expected to campaign for the attorney general this fall, The RUN has learned, continuing the tradition of pols with higher ambitions […]

Could Auburn University take the “Happiest place on earth” title away from Disneyland? Okay, probably not, but working around Toomer’s Corner and Jordan-Hare Stadium does have employees, at the college feeling good, resulting in a career website dubbing it the “Happiest University in the Nation to Work”. Auburn University received a rating of 4.40 out […]

Well heeeeeeere we go. @ALGOP executive committee meeting. pic.twitter.com/xlKmm0oKP5 — Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) August 24, 2013 The state executive committee does not like being told what to think, or do Flashback seven or eight months to the most recent election for Alabama Republican Party chairman. Most of Alabama’s most prominent Republican elected officials lined up […]

It has been roughly eight months since Jim DeMint left the United States Senate. His reason for leaving the world’s greatest deliberative body was simple; he believes he can make more of a difference from the outside than he could as a senator. As Heritage Foundation president, he now leads the country’s preeminent conservative policy […]

The South Carolina Republican Party voted Saturday to ban CNN and NBC from conducting presidential primary debates in the state ahead of the 2016 campaign if they move forward with programming featuring Hillary Clinton. The resolution was passed by the state executive committee at its quarterly meeting in Columbia. “If CNN and NBC continue to […]

Ted Cruz acknowledged to an audience in New Hampshire Friday the plan to defund Obamacare has been dubbed “deceptive, deceitful, nuts, crazy, stupid and wacko.” And that’s just what his Republican colleagues think, he half-joked. Standing before a breathtaking bucolic backdrop of a Dublin forest, the ambitious, steely freshman senator from Texas asked the attendees […]

Colorado — the second-tier battleground state that has sided with the White House victor in the last four presidential elections — looks antsy once again. Ten months after reelecting President Obama, Colorado voters seem ornery and itching for a change, issuing its incumbent Democratic governor harsh marks and providing gleams of hope for the GOP’s […]

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 […]