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INSIDE THE STATEHOUSE: Gov. Kay Ivey should coast to re-election
The Tuscaloosa News
For over a year, I have been touting that the 2022 election year in the Heart of Dixie was going to be the busiest and most monumental in history. Folks, it looks like it is not going to be as eventful as anticipated.
Yes, everything is on the ballot, but the power of incumbency is thwarting the drama. It appears the U.S. Senate race is going to be the marquee event.
Most states have their big election years in the same year as the presidential contest. Not so in Alabama. Our carte blanche election year is in-between presidential elections, in what is referred to nationally as off years.
The Tuscaloosa News
Kay Ivey is doing a good job as governor. She is a strong and decisive leader who has done more than steady the ship of state. She is getting things done. She is making her mark as a good governor.
She did a good day’s work when she got Jo Bonner to be her chief of staff. They make quite a team. This duo from Wilcox County were cut out to be leaders.
Ivey is only the second governor to hail from Wilcox County. Benjamin M. Miller was the first. The Black Belt region of Alabama has spawned an inordinate number of governors and legislative giants.
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Former U.S. Rep. Herbert Leon “Sonny” Callahan, who represented south Alabama in Congress for 18 years, died early Friday morning. He was 88 years old.
Gov. Kay Ivey’s office announced Callahan s death on Friday. Ivey’s chief of staff, Jo Bonner, was an aide to Callahan and succeeded him after he retired.
“Without question, Sonny’s service to Alabama and to America was unrivaled,” Ivey said in a statement. “He was one of South Alabama’s most beloved public servants, and his legacy of helping others stands out as just one of his many wonderful qualities.”
Callahan, a native of Mobile, served in the Navy and attended the University of Alabama before going to work in his family’s trucking and warehouse business, becoming president of the firm after his uncle’s death in 1964. He first won election to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1970 as a Democrat, serving two terms in that chamber before winning a term in the Alabama Senate in 1978. He left the