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2023 Pulitzer Prize winner. Columnist for @aldotcom. I write about character, cruelty and corruption.

Washington, D.C.
Joined December 2009
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The most curious data point in this election cycle isn’t any poll, but that Fox News viewership is down 27% since this time a year ago, while CNN and MSNOW are up. Lachlan Murdoch blames it on “viewer fatigue.”
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Voting should be something anyone can do on their lunch break. Anything longer is a broken system.
Early voting lines at the Montgomery County Board of Elections are an estimated 3 hour wait time as of 3 pm today.
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There is so much RFing happening this election cycle.
BREAKING — The political text campaign last night promoting a nonexistent Doug Jones Pride rally appears to have been commissioned by a PAC with ties to Tommy Tuberville. lagniappemobile.com/news/ala…
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This will be the issue in Alabama in 2027. No matter who comes out on top Tuesday, they’ll be buried under Kay Ivey’s prison disaster for quite some time.
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For the Alabama House Speaker to come out against Kay Ivey, Alabama’s billion-dollar (plus) prison must be going horribly wrong. If only someone had tried to warn them. 🧐
I think the world of Governor Ivey, but her administration’s handling of the construction of Alabama’s two new men’s prisons is flat out wrong. Taxpayers deserve to understand what has transpired during the failed construction of the first facility before they are asked to foot the bill for a second. Below is a letter I shared with her before today’s Alabama Corrections Institution Financing Authority meeting.
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For the life of me, I don’t understand why Dems don’t just play this stuff 24/7 instead of some of the ads I see.
Trump's affordability message: "You could even come to Mar-a-Lago. You'll be my guest. The problem is that for $5,000 the most you'll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert. I'm not even sure you could buy that! No, don't go there. It's not a good place if you're price conscious."
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Wait. Kansas’ senator lives in Florida, too? At least Alabama is next door.
Replying to @davidhudnall
I struggled to find locals willing to put their name behind any kind of statement of support for Marshall. Partially a function of small-town politeness, but there is clearly something else going on too. Much more here (gift link): kansascity.com/opinion/opn-c…
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Finally, he tells the truth.
TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
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Kyle Whitmire retweeted
Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted Toforest Johnson’s death sentence to life without parole. Johnson, 53, has maintained his innocence in the 1995 killing of Jefferson County Deputy William G. Hardy and had been on death row since 1998. #alabama #deathpenalty
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Swamp the vote? So MAGA is the swamp now? Also, how do Florida fans feel about this?
TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF ALABAMA, MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE FOR:   – Barry Moore for U.S. Senate – Tommy Tuberville for Governor – John Wahl for Lieutenant Governor – Katherine Robertson for Attorney General – Jerry Carl for U.S. Congress (AL-01) – Rhett Marques for U.S. Congress (AL-02) – Mike Rogers for U.S. Congress (AL-03) – Robert Aderholt for U.S. Congress (AL-04) – Dale Strong for U.S. Congress (AL-05) – Gary Palmer for U.S. Congress (AL-06)   These Great Patriots have my Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down! President DONALD J. TRUMP swampthevoteusa.com/alabama/
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Tommy Tuberville kicked @Lagniappe_Daily reporter @johnson_scottb out of an event after he asked whether Tuberville gave his Senate salary to veterans as he promised. Tuberville's tax records don't show he did.
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This is not how a candidate with a 10-point lead behaves. Nor is it how someone with a good answer to the question behaves. Does Tuberville have either?
ICYMI: U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday had a reporter who attempted to question him kicked out of a Mobile campaign stop. The reporter tried to ask Tuberville about his pledge to donate his Senate salary to Alabama veterans.
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