Jesse Battles, an independent candidate for State Senate in Alabama’s Tenth District, has been elected in a very close election against the Republican incumbent. See this story.
This is the first time an independent has been elected to the Alabama legislature since 2014, when Harri Anne Smith was elected to the State Senate.
I know him. Good guy. Not a fake independent IINO hyena demon rat in disguise like a lot of this year’s “independents” . Montgomery establishment kept him out of the primary using rules which are supposed to keep out rhinos but are being used to keep conservatives out in this case. I’m glad he won anyway.
Basically if those rules were applied evenly let’s just say a lot of incumbents would be running as independent and leave it at that.