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As president of the Alabama branch of the League of Women Voters, Caddell invited both Ivey and her opponent, Democrat Walt Maddox, to participate in a public debate earlier this year. When that didn't work, the group asked both candidates to at least fill out a questionnaire from the group.
While Kay Ivey is not the first Alabama governor to refuse to debate an election challenger, most of her predecessors over the last two decades have been willing to face off with their opponents. Since 1998, three of the state's four governors took on their challengers in debates.
Governor's races are on the ballot this November in 36 states. The most competitive races are expected to be in states where Republicans now hold the job.
More than 25 legislative leaders across America are raking in cash despite running unopposed, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis. These state lawmakers are running unopposed, but still raking in campaign cash More than 25 legislative leaders across America are raking in cash despite running unopposed, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis.
Walt Maddox greets supporters at Tuscaloosa River Market on June 5 after winning the Democratic Party's nomination for governor. [GARY COSBY JR./THE TUSCALOOSA NEWS VIA AP] Alabama Governor Kay Ivey speaks to supporters at her watch party after winning the Republican nomination for Governor of Alabama at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery.
Nowhere is the Republican Party's dominance in Alabama more obvious than on the ballot in Tuesday's primary runoff. The only ballot voters in Morgan, Limestone and Lawrence counties will see is a Republican one.
Only a handful of statewide races are on the ballot in Alabama's runoff election on Tuesday, and all that action is on the Republican side. Most attention nationally will go to the U.S. House race in southeastern Alabama between Rep. Marta Roby and former congressman Bobby Bright.
Gov. Kay Ivey may believe she doesn't need to debate her opponents for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but voters deserve every opportunity to be able to compare the candidates for the office. The Republicans are having a race to see who will be their party's nominee for governor come the Nov. 6 general election.
Missouri State Rep. Jay Barnes speaks alongside House Speaker Todd Richardson at a press conference where it was announced that a committee has been formed to investigate the indictment of Gov. Eric Greitens on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com Eric Grietens with his family on Tuesday, August 2, 2016, at Eric Greitens watch party at the Doubletree Hotel in Chesterfield, after he was declared the winner in the Republican Governor primaries.
Democrat Doug Jones celebrates his Election Night victory on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, during Alabama's special U.S. Senate contest. It could be the last time a special Senate election can occur in Alabama if legislation to do away with them becomes law.
Alabamians are hopeful the ringing in of a new year brings a measure of sanity to politics in the Heart of Dixie. The waning hours of 2017 offered a touch of closure to another year of embarrassing shenanigans that kept the state under the glare of the national limelight.
Well, folks, we have had a more exciting and fun filled political year than we expected. Usually, most of the fun is reserved for even numbered years when presidential or gubernatorial elections are held.
Alabama's election of a Democrat to the U.S. Senate for the first time in a quarter-century qualifies as historic but it does not indicate a sudden massive swing in voter allegiance in that state or nationwide.
The first time ended badly, so when, 156 years later, Alabamians were incited to again try secession, this time from the national consensus that America is a pretty nice place, they said: No. No, that is, to rubbish like this: In April, Alabama's Republican governor, Robert Bentley, resigned one step ahead of impeachment proceedings arising from his consensual affair with an adult woman.
A month before Alabama's special election, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore abruptly faced allegations Thursday of sexual misconduct with minors decades ago - and an immediate backlash from party leaders who demanded he quit the race if the accusations prove true. The instant fallout followed a Washington Post report in which an Alabama woman said that Moore, then a 32-year-old assistant district attorney, had sexual contact with her when she was 14. Three other women interviewed by the Post said Moore, now 70, also approached them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s.
A U.S. judge on Thursday struck down two abortion restrictions in Alabama that limited how close clinics can be to public schools and banned a procedure used to terminate pregnancies in the second trimester. The decision is a blow to abortion opponents in Alabama, who have joined conservatives in other states in enacting new laws that critics said were chipping away at the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v.
In interviews for Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat, Luther Strange promised to "do more" to help former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley. And state Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, "seemed angry" and allegedly threatened to "f - k with" Bentley for the next two years if he wasn't appointed, according to handwritten notes Bentley made from the interviews.
When scandal-plagued former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley appointed his state's then-attorney general Luther Strange to the U.S. Senate, Bentley apparently considered it a good thing that he would get to name a new attorney general. Strange's appointment to fill Sen. Jeff Sessions' seat came as Bentley faced an impeachment investigation by state lawmakers for the fallout of an alleged affair with a staffer.
Despite losing a presidential election, majorities in both houses of Congress, and over 1,000 elected offices across the country throughout the last decade, the Democratic Party is still operating under the status quo. Progressives and young Democrats complain that party leaders ignore Republican-leaning areas of the country and employ dirty tactics in order to defend against progressives attaining leadership roles.