http://www.sacksessions.com Sending an Alabama Democrat to the US Senate Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:22:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My own personal opinion is that Ag Commissioner Ron Sparks was our best shot at taking out Jeff Sessions. I also feel that none of the remaining potential Democratic candidates will be able to mount a viable challenge to Sessions' re-election. As such, this will be my last post at Sack ... http://www.sacksessions.com/104/sack-sessions/ The Birmingham News reports that Ron Sparks has made a decision not to challenge Jeff Sessions: Democrat Ron Sparks announced Tuesday that he will not challenge Sen. Jeff Sessions in 2008. Sparks, the state agriculture commissioner, said he decided not to run after talking with state Sen. Vivian Figures of Mobile, ... http://www.sacksessions.com/103/sparks-is-out/ Tommy Stevenson with the Tuscaloosa News points out how Jeff Sessions' vote against the Gonzales no-confidence resolution seems to contradict the senator's earlier remarks. Stevenson also offers his thoughts on potential Democratic challengers: Despite some sharp questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee ... http://www.sacksessions.com/102/tuscaloosa-news-examines-sessions-vote-of-support-for-gonzales/ A letter to the editor in today's Birmingham News calls on Jeff Sessions to lead the fight for Farm Bill reform. Personally, I wouldn't count on it. We must retool the current system of commodity payments in the federal farm bill in order to expand conservation programs suggested in the recent ... http://www.sacksessions.com/101/dont-count-on-it/ This afternoon, the US Senate voted on a simple resolution: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales no longer holds the confidence of the Senate and of the American people. Jeff Sessions just voted against the resolution, effectively condoning Gonzales' mismanagement of the Justice Department. As a reminder, here's what Sessions voted in favor of continuing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGlOBPNr7Kg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk7Sluyzqr0 http://www.sacksessions.com/100/sessions-places-his-confidence-in-ag-gonzales/ In an editorial entitled "A Failure of Leadership," the New York Times took immigration-reform obstructionists like Jeff Sessions to task: The immigration compromise collapsed on the floor of the Senate Thursday night. Many of its hard-line foes are celebrating, but their glee is vindictive and hollow. They have blocked one ... http://www.sacksessions.com/99/nyt-jeff-sessions-represents-a-failure-of-leadership/ Left in Alabama just put up an amazing post with analysis and the full text of Ag Commissioner Ron Sparks' remarks to the Marshall County Democrats at the Outlaw Steakhouse in Guntersville. Here's the bait, follow it on over to Left in Alabama: Sparks spoke for an hour to a crowd of ... http://www.sacksessions.com/98/left-in-alabama-sparks-remarks-at-outlaw-steakhouse/ Unlike most of us, the staff of Wonkette finds listening to Jeff Sessions to be educational: We’re trying to watch the War Czar’s confirmation hearing (since when do you confirm a czar?), but for the last fifteen or twenty minutes it’s been Hillary Clinton monologuing on Iraq, then saying “and I ... http://www.sacksessions.com/97/wonkette-learns-from-jeff-sessions/ CQPolitics.com takes a look at the Alabama Senate race and declares it to be "Republican favored": Incumbent: Jeff Sessions (first elected in 1996) CQPolitics.com Rating: Republican Favored The conservative views that predominate in this Deep South state have enabled Republicans — including Sessions — to predominate in most recent statewide elections. Sessions enters his ... http://www.sacksessions.com/96/cqpolitics-handicaps-alabama-race/ The Mobile Press-Register's Political Skinny looks into the career moves of a former Sessions staffer: Boeing Co.'s recent hiring of a certain Washington, D.C., law firm to lobby the federal government raised more than a few eyebrows in Mobile. The Chicago-based company hired Kilpatrick Stock ton LLP to lobby on ... http://www.sacksessions.com/95/hiring-of-a-former-sessions-staffer-raises-concerns-in-mobile/