On May 10, the voters filled a vacancy in the Alabama State House, 105th district, in Mobile County. Only two candidates were on the ballot, Republican nominee David Sessions and Constitution Party nominee Bill Atkinson. The unofficial results are: Republican 1,926 votes, 54.0%; Constitution 1,641, 46.0%. See this story.
The Constitution Party is now automatically ballot-qualified in this district, for this particular race, in the 2014 election, assuming redistricting does not cause the district to cease to exist. Alabama grants parties permanent ballot status in any district in which the party polls at least 20%. Thanks to Joshua Cassity for this news. This is the best showing the Constitution Party has ever made for a partisan state legislative race, outside of Montana.
In my opinion, it will be very hard for the GOP redistricting to do away with this district. Mobile County actually had a large increase in population on the 2010 census. If they do try to eliminate the district it will slice one of their own members. However, Alabama is also one of the few states the DOJ has the finale say on all redistricting. Joshua Cassity
Excellent showing for Atkinson.
Close is ok we don’t want close but to WIN. Enough of the moral victories already. The GOP pulled ever underhanded trick in the book in the last 48 hours to squeak out this victory but a what cost? They showed the true colors of the GOP and that they are absolutely corrupt to the CORE!
This should be a wake up call for all true patriots and conservatives the GOP is no different from the Democrats at the core . It is simply a machine that gives lip service to conservatism but in realty cares only about POWER!
“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself of be ruled by a small elite.”
Thomas Jefferson
Today that small elite won a battle in Alabama House District 105. However if this group that was involved in this race will stay together in 3 and half years we can win the WAR!
Fredrick Douglass
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
With this race this day May 10th 2011 I hope that in South Alabama we have reached that limit!
Richard Rutledge
Constitution Party of Alabama Vice Chair.
How many votes in the last regular election in the gerrymander district involved ???
What is the MORON area fixation in the U.S.A. — as moron as in the U.K. ???
P.R. and App.V.
Thanks for sharing, Demo Rep.
#4, the vote in November 2010 in the 105th district was unanimous for the Republican nominee. He got 7,807 votes.
#3, you go!! fight for ballot access for third parties and keep it up!
My hat is off to the Constitution Party candidate for his good showing. This proves that 3rd parties do better in smaller, local electoral districts, and of course, being the so-called “2nd candidate” in the race didn’t hurt either.
However, the more important question is, did the CP candidate attempt to “out-conservative” his GOP opponent? Did he campaign on some real issues which also appealed to the Democrats (who didn’t field a candidate)? Did he make any strong appeal to the “blue collar” voters or to the Black voters? You know, one can do so without abandoning their “Constitutionalist” values – though many Constitution Party people are brainwashed that such cannot be. “It’s strictly doctrinaire” with some of them or not at all.
Oh well, as I’ve said before, 3rd partisans are often their own worst enemies.
The ballot access win for the CP and the exposure are SUPER! We just need to keep it up. Local is winnable. I hope this motivates others to get involved.
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I was puzzled as to why no one responded to my previous post (#8) asking about the issues the CP nominee, Bill Atkinson, used in his recent special election legislative campaign. So I had to find his website, and sure enough, just as I suspected, he attempted to “out-conservative” his GOP opponent. It was “Republican lite” and not a single issue was posed to win votes from “Blue Collar” Democrats (who had no candidate) nor any appeal to Black voters. Just the typical “we’re for the Constitution, lower taxes, and opposition to Obamacare,” but no sound alternative to the private system we have today which is the gouging policy holders, and denying coverage if it threatens profits for the stockholders.
As I’ve said so many times, “3rd partisans are their own worst enemies.”
Ala Ind.
Did you even look at the candidate the GOP fielded? Why appeal to the democrats when he was a democrat? His campaign was run by democrats, he admitted to supporting democrats, etc..
Our grassroots team did everything you mentioned above. So instead of raining on the parade, what did you do to help Atkinson get elected? Not one libertarian party member called or offered their help. Joshua Cassity
Joshua:
How was the GOP nominee a “closet Democrat?” You may have “appealed” to the “blue collar Democrats” and Black voters, but Mr. Atkinson’s website was typical “Republican lite.” So I assume he campaigned as such. Why didn’t Mr. Atkinson at least create some real “populist” appeal by advocating for a State Owned Bank – to help begin the process of destroying the private banking system in Alabama and in the nation which is destroying real “competitive free enterprise?” Or, are you so blinded by decades of “conservative doctrines” or have been taught the false doctrine that the Constitution of the United States does not allow a government-owned National Banking System where it could issue its own currency, which would in time eliminate the National Debt, and provide the people a debt-free and interest-free currency.
Or, are you, as you claim of the GOP nominee, really “closet Republicans?”