I just want to go on record that I HATE most of my fellow Alabamians...

[Ferrets are Cool]

at least 60% if them. Hate is a strong word, but it is fitting here. Doug Jones is a wonderful man and deserves better than the treatment he got yesterday.

A big ole FUCK YOU to every MFer who voted for the scum named T. Tubbyville.

[Laelth]

1. I suspect that Senator Jones will find a place in the Biden administration.

But, yes. I hate to see him leave the Senate.

-Laelth

[elleng]

2. VERY sorry to hear about his loss;

wondering whether Dem party might have done more for him. (and Espy in Mississ.)

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. I believe he had plenty of assistance. It's just that this state is so brainwashed by repug hate

radio and FauxNews. They are taught to hate everything 'librul'.

[elleng]

4. Gotcha;

thanks for the info.

Kind of 'surprising,' due to past successes of Governor Siegelman.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Oh, he only got one term as Governor but

Siegelman is the only person in Alabama's history to be elected to serve in all four of the top statewide elected offices: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and Governor.

U.S. Representative Bob Riley defeated Siegelman in his November 2002 reelection bid by the narrowest margin in Alabama history: approximately 3,000 votes.

On the night of the election, Siegelman was initially declared the winner by the Associated Press. Later, a voting machine malfunction in Baldwin County was claimed to have produced the votes needed to give Riley the election.

Democratic Party officials objected, stating that the recount had been performed by local Republican election officials after Democratic observers had left the site of the vote counting. This rendered verification of the recount results impossible. The state's Attorney General, Republican Bill Pryor, affirmed the recounted vote totals, securing Riley's election. Pryor denied requests for a manual recount of the disputed vote; he warned that opening the sealed votes to recount them would be held a criminal offense.

In other words, he got screwed over. One thing I will forever hold against President Obama is that he never pardoned Siegelman. He should have.

[elleng]

6. He was an 'early' victim of repug/rover dishonesty;

they couldn't then, and can't NOW stand public servants FOR the People.

As to the pardon that didn't happen, I'm WITH you, and I recall reading that pardon was 'hindered' by then A/G/Holder (against whom I've had a major grudge ever since.)

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. I agree

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

8. It's AL.. if the ballot read Lucifer (Republican) he'd win...

I lived my first 39 years in Alabama... school, college, first 2 jobs... but escaped in 1995. WHEW!

Now I have no plans to ever go back except I still have family there who are aging and one of my sister's is now having health issues... Not sure 'never' will hold. However as long as things are going well, I'll make NO plans to just 'visit' in person.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. You are correct