She knows what she did

Alberto

ABC News: 1st Tropical Depression Heads Toward Fla.

That'll be the name if it makes it to tropical storm status. It will be marginal if it does, but will bring lots of rain. Really, it's just softening Florida up for the next storm.

The fish win for once

ConocoPhillips withdraws LNG proposal

While the need for this liquified natural gas plant is actually pretty great, it was questionable if the benefits (more energy) outweighed the cost (devastation of an already weak fishing industry). Riley claimed that he would veto any authorization of the plant, so the company withdrew its proposal and is investigating if it can build one without the "open-loop" reheating system which would have killed off wildlife.

Oh, is this still going on?

On 27th day, prosecution rests

I doubt that spending a month going on about the former governor's alleged malfeasance is really the way to go. Juries get bored.

What candidate?

Pro-white candidate's showing surprises political observers

The Mobile Press-Register uses the term "pro-white" in its headline; I don't think I've seen it before. Anyway, Larry Darby is the scum of the earth. He is the closest thing to a Nazi that American politics is likely to throw up. I mean, look at this:

Still, Darby attributed his "strong showing" to people who identified with his message and platform of "dealing with the Mexican invasion" and fighting "for equal rights for European-Americans."

44 percent of Democratic voters voted for him for Attorney General.

Why is this? I find it unlikely that an admitted atheist would be that popular -- or that Holocaust denial is that impressive of a campaign issue. "Equal rights for European-Americans" certainly isn't an attraction for many Democratic primary voters.

I think that the Democratic Party Chairman, Joe Turnham, has it right: Darby did so well because he was listed ahead of John Tyson Jr., because the ballot listed them in alphabetical order, and Tyson sat on his money (waiting for the November election) rather than spend anything on advertising.

I like Tyson. I think he's about as good of a guy as we're likely to get. And I like this statement:

Tyson said that as he continues his campaign, he may or may not be interested in attracting the Democratic voters who chose Darby.

"If people in north Alabama confused him with another family that's very popular up there, then yes, I'd like to try," Tyson said. "If they literally want to line the state with National Guardsmen and shoot to kill immigrants, then I'm not interested in that vote. If his votes are from people who deny the Holocaust actually occurred, I'm not terribly interested in those either."

But he screwed up, and he should know that.

The last problem is that Joe Reed is an asshole. Reed, chairman of the Alabama Democratic Caucus (the largest black voters group) refused to endorse Tyson because he prosecuted the horrendously guilty but black school board member David Thomas and caused Thomas to plea to a felony. In other words, out of a fit of pique, Reed almost got a white supremacist the Democratic nomination for attorney general. Good one, Joe.

Many of them are stupid

Majority in state vote for Democrats

In four years, the Republican primary will probably see more voters than the Democratic for the first time. In a minute, I will talk about the stupid people.

The final martyrdom of St. Roy

Too much religion may have turned off voters - Tuscaloosa

That's a bad sign, there, because religion is pretty much what St. Roy had going for him. It's like saying that "Too much spastic behavior may have turned off moviegoers" about a Jim Carrey movie.

Two years ago -- less than that, really, I remember conversations from spring of last year -- Bob Riley was dead. He was a lame duck from the minute his tax plan went down to defeat -- a defeat largely engineered by Roy Moore. The Business Council of Alabama was funnelling money to Lucy Baxley because they thought she was the only person who could stop Moore.

Now, Roy Moore is dead. He was slaughtered 2:1 in a head-to-head matchup with Riley in which he was never able to gain any traction on anything. I don't think it was really "too much religion" so much as it was Riley Judo. Riley was able to use religion to his advantage, because he really is a religious guy, while at the same time he was able to look moderate to corporatist and suburban Republicans.

Whither Roy? I have no idea. He can try to rehabilitate himself, I guess, but his only elected ally (Tom Parker) is also out now after getting beat badly in the Chief Justice race. I think he might just fade away.

I don't understand you people!

al.com: Elections

How is this possible?

Attorney General 2,119 of 3,240 Precincts Reporting

Winner

Candidate

Party

Votes

% of Total

John Tyson

Dem

143,155

53.23%

Larry Darby

Dem

125,784

46.77%

This is the sort of thing that turns sane people Libertarian. More in the morning.