Weâve known this for a long time, but the politics of the moment have made this even clearer: The process of getting elected â especially getting nominated â has very little to do with the process of governance.
A few weeks ago, eight candidates for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor met â virtually â in a debate. They spent most of the evening trying to out-do the others on who is the most liberal candidate in the field, something that might bestir the hearts of Democratic activists who will vote in the June 8 primary but not necessarily something that will prove persuasive to general election voters in November. Our ears were tuned not to what the candidates had to say but all the things they didnât say â because those issues never even came up.
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January 8, 2021 By Frank McCormack
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority has named Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey as the group’s chair for 2021. Ivey, who became governor in 2017 after former Gov. Robert Bentley resigned, is in the midst of her first full term as the state’s top elected official. She won a full term as governor by a wide margin in 2018.
Ivey’s time in office has been marked by waterway development and infrastructure investment. Most notably, Ivey led the effort to develop and pass the Rebuild Alabama Act. The centerpiece of that legislation was a 10-cent increase in the state’s fuel tax, which had not been adjusted since the early 1990s. A portion of the tax increase was dedicated to the channel expansion project within Mobile Harbor. Ivey signed the legislation into law on March 12, 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers launched the deepening and widening project in 2020.