This gerrymandered new district was created by the federal courts to implement a new majority Black District in the Heart of Dixie. Currently, we have six Republican congressmen and one
Those of you who live in the new 2nd Congressional district have runoffs this coming Tuesday, April 16. This is the most interesting and entertaining political contest in Alabama this year.
People are also reading… Alabama has a super majority Republican legislature, which diligently fought the court to make the 2nd District a less Democratic one. However, their arguments to the court were very lame. The argument that because Mobile County had never been split in half and the county needed to be together because of a “community of interest” flew in the face of what the court was asking for and actually made the plaintiffs’ case for them.
Bless the folks in Macon County’s hearts. The most historic Black city in the country, Tuskegee, along with the rich HBCU Tuskegee University legacy have been stuck in the bottom of the gerrymandered Republican 3rd District for decades with a white Republican congressman from Anniston supposedly representing them. You cannot tell me that the good folks of Macon County will not be more at home with and better taken care of by having a congressman of their persuasion who knows their interests.
One of the more remarkable victories for Figures in the March 5 primary, was the amazing vote he received in Montgomery. Figures campaigned extensively in the two urban vote centers of Mobile and Montgomery and it paid dividends. He got a whopping 50% of the vote in Mobile. That means he outdistanced all 10 of his opponents combined. His 40% of the vote in Montgomery was even more amazing. He crushed Joe Reed’s vaunted ADC machine, who backed Mobile state Rep. Napoleon Bracy.
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