Alabama’s Senate candidate Katie Britt makes good first impression
(June 30) MOBILE, Alabama — There’s a new U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, Katie Boyd Britt, who is a political consultant’s dream. In the next year, we’ll see if she […]
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The best side of retiring senator Richard Shelby
(Feb. 8) MOBILE, Alabama — From a self-interested standpoint, people here in Alabama are lamenting the loss of clout their state will suffer when veteran Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby […]
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The Shelby Stratagem, or Dual Withdrawals
Two intentionally provocative columns by Quin Hillyer at Yellowhammer News, about this mess of an Alabama Senate race; The Shelby Stratagem: Weird messes sometimes require weird remedies. The Republican Party, […]
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No, I haven’t attacked the fine senator, Jeff Sessions
— by Quin; Please allow me to defend myself from an absurd attack by the Yellowhammer News site. The other day, YN ran a headline about me that began like […]
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Richard Shelby’s outlandishly sleazy campaign
by Quin Hillyer For somebody supposedly of invincible political strength, Alabama’s senior U.S. senator, Richard Shelby, sure looks to be running scared as he conducts an amazingly sleazy campaign against […]
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Shelby vs. McConnell for Senate in Alabama
Alabama’s Richard Shelby, still energetic at age 81, is not on many conservatives’ lists of “worst Republican senators,” much less a list of obviously vulnerable ones. But challenger Jonathan McConnell offers […]
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Shelby hoards; Obama fails
While Democratic candidates for the Senate sink in the polls, largely due to their direct affiliations with the failures of Barack Obama, Alabama’s Sen. Richard Shelby sits on an $18 […]
