How GOP took Over Bama Statehouse

[Stephen Fox]

Was larger article in Bham News Today but I am having trouble finding it online

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/ ... 604476.php

[Stephen Fox]

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/05/mike_hu ... insid.html

And I meant to put the Artur Davis link in this thread. Hubbard is an interesting character. Emory's Joe Crespino examines his kind in the Book in Search of Another Country. In the end Hubbard would never be taken seriously by the likes of Judge Frank Johnson. Johnson could smell George Wallace on him. Then again with the exception of a few folks Alabama Democrats don't have an answer, politically, to Hubbard and his kind.

There is strong cell of folks who move forward outside the political carnival in the state. Pockets. The promise of Lincoln and Frank Johnson, even Gov Brewer and the late Tom Corts seem to have disappeared for a good ten years,and may never come back.

We can thank Paige Patterson and Albert Lee Brewer for that. I hope they are proud.

[Stephen Fox]

Atlantic takes his measure.

Also google Glen Browder at Huffington Post; and John Archibald in Bham News On the Switch.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... rm/257958/

[Stephen Fox]

http://cynthiatucker.com/2012/06/the-be ... ocrat.html

Somewhere between Tucker's take and John Archibald of Bham News is the truth of this matter.

Tucker was at Samford in 93 for a Ed.con sponsored event. I spoke to her there. Like Harper Lee, she is from Monroeville, Alabama