Panel to Revise Alabama Constitution Organizes (Brewer goes after banking and corporations)

WTVY ^ | 9/01/11

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Panel to Revise Alabama Constitution Organizes
Reporter: AP
Posted: 5:30 AM Sep 1, 2011

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Former Gov. Albert Brewer is serving as chairman of a new commission suggesting revisions to some articles of Alabama's Constitution.

Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh got the Legislature to create the Constitutional Revision Commission, which held its first meeting Wednesday in Montgomery. In addition to choosing Brewer as chairman, commission members picked Republican state Rep. Paul DeMarco of Homewood to be vice chairman.

The commission will meet again Sept. 21 in Montgomery to consider changes to the article in the Constitution dealing with banking and corporations.

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Albert P. Brewer (1968-71)
In May 1968, Lieutenant Governor Albert Brewer (1928- ) assumed the governorship when Governor Lurleen Wallace lost her struggle with cancer. In his 33 months as chief executive, Brewer established by executive order Alabama's first code of ethics for state employees, decreased the power of special interests in the capital, and formed a constitutional reform commission.

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1528

Brewer led Wallace in the Democratic primary but failed to win an outright majority. He then faced Wallace in a runoff. Wallace, running an openly racist campaign that accused a "black bloc" of trying to take over the state, openly slurred Brewer and his family. Wallace narrowly won the Democratic runoff. He later won the general election over his Republican opponent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Brewer