Posted on 07/08/2017 5:11:42 AM PDT by cotton1706
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks won a straw poll Thursday night conducted at a candidate forum in his hometown of Huntsville.
Brooks was among nine candidates participating in the forum organized by the Christian Citizen Task Force, which estimated more than 300 people attended the event.
Organizers said 240 ballots were cast - 200 for Republicans and 40 for Democrats.
Brooks was the first choice on GOP ballots with 101 votes, followed by former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore with 74.
U.S. Sen. Luther Strange - who was appointed to the seat in February that is on the ballot in a special election next month - finished tied for sixth on the GOP ballot with just three votes. The only candidates who finished below Strange were James Beretta, Joseph Breault and Dom Gentile, who didn't receive any votes.
Strange did not attend the forum.
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
Primary is in August
I’ll be voting Judge Roy Moore. I’ve had it with these establishment politicians.
The primary elections will take place on August 15, 2017, with primary runoffs on September 26, 2017, if necessary.
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Alabama,_2017
General Election Date
December 12, 2017
I am voting for Mo Brooks. He’s not an establishment guy.
I would guess that Brooks would be a stronger candidate in the general election, so I’d vote for him if I were living in Alabama (heck, maybe I’ll vote for him anyway, no one checks! just kidding). Moore’s history with the Commandments would worry me a bit in the general election.
Again, just peanut gallery talk from someone with very little local knowledge (other than visiting and enjoying Alabama multiple times).
I assume from this that Alabama has an election to select the new senator, unlike many (most?) states where the governor appoints a senator to serve until the next scheduled election. Is that correct?
He just hates Donald Trump.
Looks like Brooks and Moore could easily split the vote allowing Strange in
The two will split the vote and strange will win it. Same old story.
Strange can’t prevail by a plurality here. A candidate must get 50% in the primary or it goes to a runoff. If Moore and Brooks get a combined 60% (or 30% each) and Strange gets 40%, he will still have to face one of them, and he has been severely tainted because of the manner in which he was appointed by ex-Gov. Bentley.
Don’t discount Moore at all. After he was wrongly removed from the bench for the Ten Commandments issue, he ran for his old office and won again (only to be wrongly removed for standing up to the blasphemous and unconstitutional “gay” marriage issue). He’s probably the most principled jurist in America today and a genuine hero and isn’t afraid to lose a high office to stand on what is right.
Ordinarily, Strange would’ve served until the November 2018 elections, but because of the situation involving his appointment to the office by the ex-Governor, the new Governor called a special election a year ahead of time.
I’m just noting that we’ve had bad luck at times when running national figures...but it’s not my state so I’ll check out of this debate and be more than happy to hold the seat with either one.
Thanks.
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