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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Tue Feb 9, 2016, 11:39 AM Feb 2016

Alabama: Team Clinton or Team Sanders? [View all]

The SEC Democratic Primary March 1st! An indication of where Alabama stands:

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/alabama_shakes_brittney_howard.html#incart_river_index

Source: al.com by Leada Gore

Team Hillary Clinton

Clinton has received $334,351 from Alabamians, the second highest amount behind only Republican Ben Carson.

Donations
•Mark Kennedy, former Alabama Supreme Court Judge - $2,700
•Joe Ritch, Huntsville attorney, chairman of the board of TVA - $2,700
•Joe Reed, Alabama Democratic Party - $1,500
•Constance Hill – CEO Girls Inc. of Central Alabama - $1,500
•Rep. Louise Alexander, Alabama House member - $1,000
•Daniel Robinson – Executive Director Alabama USDA Farm Service Agency - $1,000
•Jeffrey Bayer, president Bayer Properties , of Mountain Brook - $1,000
Janet Buskey, Montgomery County revenue Commissioner - $700
•Retired Huntsville Circuit Judge Laura Hamilton of Huntsville - $500 plus
•Poarch Band of Creek Indians - $500
•Judge Richard Meadows of Montgomery - $200

Delegates and committee

Clinton has a large campaign committee that includes a number of the state's most prominent Democrats. Many of those on the campaign committee are also pledged to Clinton as delegates. Her campaign committee includes:
•U.S. Rep Terri Swell (Sewell had officially endorsed Clinton.)
•State Sen. Linda Coleman
•State Sen. Vivian Davis Figures
•State Sen. Priscila Dunn
•House Democratic Caucus Chair Darrio Melton
•Birmingham Mayor William Bell
•Former Alabama Gov. Jim Folsom
•Former First Lady Marsha Folsom
•Former Congressman Earl Hilliard

Her delegates and committee members include:

•State Rep. James Buskey
•State Sen. Quinton Ross
•Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford
•Former State Sen. Roger Bedford
•Former Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Smoot

Supporters help open Hillary Clinton's Birmingham campaign office




Team Bernie Sanders

Sanders, the Independent Senator from Vermont, has received $53,485 from Alabamians. His campaign has capitalized on small donors and a look at his contributors includes professors from universities across Alabama, including Samford University, Auburn University, UAB, University of Alabama and UAH.

Donations include:
•Brittany Howard of Athens, member of Alabama Shakes - $450

A political cartoon by J. D. Crowe - "A Special Place in Hell" (Please! Hillary has been depicted as Satan for the last 25 years! Just a freakin' Alabama cartoon - and a taste of things to come.)





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