POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

In Birmingham, They Love the Gov’ner

And Stacy's known to pick a song or two (yes, he do!):

Tim James was Tea Party before Tea Party was cool. Before the federal bailouts, before most Americans had heard of Barack Obama, before Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck became household names, James helped lead the 2003 effort to stop a tax increase proposed by Alabama's Republican Gov. Bob Riley.

The battle over Amendment One, as Riley's $1.3 billion tax measure was known, was a defining moment for the state's conservatives. James, who had challenged Riley in the 2002 Republican gubernatorial primary, sided with the anti-tax activists who organized an opposition campaign that became known as the "Alabama Tea Party."

Alabama voters rejected the proposal by more than a 2-to-1 margin in a September 2003 referendum and, if politics were logical, James would be the front-runner in this year's GOP gubernatorial contest. Instead, one recent poll showed that the early leader is Bradley Byrne who, as a state senator in 2003, voted for Riley's tax-hike plan.

It's a long way until the June 1 primary, however, and James believes Alabama's voters are ready for his low-tax, free-market message . . . .

Also over at The Weekly Standard, this being a slow news week, Washington-wise, Philip Klein considers the strange phenomena emitting from Sully's fractured brain. The truth is out there, but Sullivan is WAY out there. And if no man is an island, Sully's being one disproves nothing. I don't know whether you've ever noticed, but he puts the sap in sapphic.

Dan Collins

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