Candidates running in Alabama’s June 5 primaries periodically must file reports with the Secretary of State’s Office naming their contributors. Here are contributions through the end of March for candidates in the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and chief justice races. Read more.
Candidates running for lieutenant governor recently filed campaign finance reports listing contributors to their campaigns. Here are contributions of $2,500 and up declared by each candidate. Read more.
Candidates running for chief justice recently filed campaign finance reports listing contributors to their campaigns. Here are contributions of $2,500 and up declared by each candidate. Read more.
Candidates running for attorney general recently filed campaign finance reports listing contributors to their campaigns. Here are contributions of $2,500 and up declared by each candidate. Read more.
Candidates running for governor recently filed campaign finance reports listing contributors to their campaigns. Here are contributions of $2,500 and up declared by each candidate. Read more.
U.S. Attorney Richard Moore, who presides over the Southern District of Alabama, based in Mobile, said listening to his community is a big part of tackling the hardest problems in South Alabama. “You know, first we have tried to start with making sure that we listen to the community, meaning the community leaders – the people who have the most interest in their streets, their neighborhoods – to see what the will is of the community and to talk about possibilities with them,” Moore said. Listening to community leaders might not be what some would expect from a federal prosecutor appointed by President Donald Trump and working in Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department. Moore said his priorities are the same as those of all U.S. attorney’s around the country. At the same time, his jurisdiction is facing some particular issues, he said. Read more.
Incumbent Steve Marshall has raised $629,185 in his bid to win a full term as Alabama’s attorney general, according to his latest financial disclosure report. Marshall faces two former prosecutors, Troy King and Alice Martin, in the June 5 Republican primary. Birmingham lawyer Chess Bedsole rounds out the field of candidates for the GOP nomination. On the Democratic side, Birmingham attorneys James S. “Chris” Christie Jr. and Joseph Jay Siegelman are vying for the nomination. Read more.
The two leading candidates for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor have raised a total of just over $250,000 for their campaigns, but both came into the race with large amounts of money in the bank. Read more.
Gov. Kay Ivey has raised $3.18 million in her bid to win a full term, almost as much as the combined total of her three challengers in the Republican gubernatorial primary, according to campaign finance reports filed this week. Among Democrats, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox holds a slight advantage in fundraising over former Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb as the campaign for the June 5 primary heads into its final two months. Read more.
Associate Justice Tom Parker is leading the campaign-contribution contest as he seeks to defeat Chief Justice Lyn Stuart in the Republican nomination for chief justice of Alabama, according to reports filed this week with the Secretary of State’s office. Parker, who was elected to the Alabama Supreme Court in 2004 and 2010, has raised $210,750. Stuart, who has served on the court since 2001 and was appointed chief justice last year after the ouster of Roy Moore, reported contributions of $130,000. Read more.
