What you have in Alabama is a non-party apparatus. Lobbyists run the state senate/legislature and the governor’s office. You can pretend to be a Democrat or Republican....it doesn’t matter. These special consultants will arrive to manage your affairs and agendas. Whatever you promised will disappear quickly, and the agenda of the lobbyists will emerge.
All that talk of various state parks needing to be closed, and sold off? Some people now think it was some agenda for the parks to be cheaply bought up, and casino operations to quickly be approved and moved into the commercially-run former state parks.
The medicare budget in the state? Go look at the expansion. Who is walking away with the cash? Someone connected to the lobbyists.
Much like D.C.