Off-Topic: Governor’s Race

Unfortunately I don’t really see a very good field. Ivey probably still the best of the bunch.

Blanchard’s commercials are incoherent. She’s an outsider who served as an ambassador for the previous 4 years. Nobody gets an ambassadorship by being outside the right rooms.

I will commend her because she’s the only one talking about a single coherent policy item but unfortunately I don’t think her plans for fixing schools are going to work. That’s a complicated subject for another day.

Tim James is playing for the cheap seats by acting like what is happening on Fox News is real life. His commercials are a great example of people’s idea of reality almost being entirely shaped by television and social media.

Ivey - and similarly Britt in the senate race - tried to place it down the middle but they’re discovering this probably ain’t a down-the-middle sort of time anymore. They’ve both been trying to “Trump Up” their ads lately.

My gut tells me they’re probably the politicians that might frick around and do the most good for the state in the pool but I worry that Alabama and other states like us have way too many people who rather express their grievances through their vote than try to actually advance the state.

IMO, more important is the Senate race.

Some senator candidates may have the political connections to continue the service Shelby’s done to make sure pork barrel is appropriately apportioned to our universities and major industries.

Britt is the only one I trust to fulfill the transactional relationship at the core of politics. The others are just self-aggrandizing blowhards.

I'm throwing my hat in the ring. I will push for weed and gambling legalization, as well as prostitution. The worst a school does on my test, the less money they receive. Teachers have final say and responsibility in class. If parents don't like it then have kids test for a voucher.

I will push for block chain in government and reducing size of state government starting with hiring freezes and incremental layoffs. Abolishing income tax is another goal. I'm also pro immigrant and would travel to Armenia, India, Lebanon, and China to recruit the cream of the crop.

Also, I would be the first governor in us history to use the tenth amendment. Time to outlaw no knock police actions as well as asset seizures. At the same time, rapists shouldn't see the light of the day.

They are all useless POS'.

While Shelby had a lot of respect in the Senate. He was a career politician that changed party's to maintain his position and continue to milk the citizens of this state in order to get paid! I hate a politician more than I do Auburn. They are Whale shite. It is the lowest thing on earth because it is what sits at the bottom of the ocean.

I won't vote for Britt, because she is being groomed in the typical RINO fashion. The GOP has sat back and allowed the Dems to cheat and manipulate the system, in order to elect and ruin the system of election. Our vote doesn't really count anymore and unless some people with balls stand up, and quick, our freedoms will continue to erode away and we will be no better off than Russia/China, or worse, some 3rd world country.

They all suck. I’ll be leaving the governor bix blank when I vote.

There's a small tyrant in all of us that screams for more control over the next person. HL Mencken predicted this a century ago.

The fact that Ivey may be the best option says a lot. Ugh

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try to actually advance the state.

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The majority of voters in Alabama have never really been interested in advancing the state. It’s why we rank near the bottom in so many categories.