1. Sue Bell Cobb’s handling of her campaign’s hiring of a rapist could not be worse
— Sue Bell Cobb continues to react poorly and attacks the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department as a politically motivated agency that targeted her staffer.
— Jefferson County Sheriff’s Randy Christian said, “How sad that a candidate for governor supports a convicted sex offender over sexual assault victims.”
2. Chief of Staff John Kelly’s comments on immigration were both correct and not offensive
— Liberals and their media erupted on Friday and continue pretending Kelly’s comments about education and assimilation were somehow not based in reality. What they meant is that they are “unkind.”
— John Kelly is 100 percent correct which is why you saw zero “fact checks” that debunked his words, because “Among all undocumented immigrants ages 25-64, 47% have not completed high school (compared with 8% of U.S. born adults in the same age range) and of these, more than half (29% of total) have less than a ninth grade education.”
3. Trump official’s comment on Sen. John McCain exemplifies everything wrong with American politics
— The American right, which voted for McCain in 2008, only hate him now because he has become so absurdly anti-Trump in both his words and deeds.
— In 2000 and 2008, the liberal media that is losing its mind asked questions about John McCain’s patriotism. Only after he went anti-Trump did they care for him.
4. Senator Richard Shelby is the latest Alabama politician to call out Special Counsel Robert Mueller
— Last week Congressman Mo Brooks was joined by 17 Congressmen, the Vice President, and a majority of the American people in calling out this political investigation. New e-mails showed Mueller and Comey coordinated.
— Yellowhammer News quoted Shelby from an event over the weekend saying, “I have voted not to have special prosecutors. That all came about because Senator Sessions recused himself. Then he appointed a deputy who happened to be — let’s be honest, a real liberal prosecutor. And then he appointed Mueller. I don’t know how it’s going to wind up, but the sooner, the better.”
5. Oh good, six weeks of protest are planned for Alabama’s version of “The Poor People’s Campaign”
— The protest kicks off with a rally at the Capitol, and more will take place every Monday at 2 p.m. and are guaranteed to have almost no impact.
— The national protest is targeting the 2017 tax cut and will also call for universal health care and a higher minimum wage.
6. That road project in [insert your area] is a top priority, the road project in [insert another area] won’t impact it
— As Gov. Kay Ivey and Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle are fighting over road dollars, Ivey wants everyone to know their project is important, and this is totally not election year finagling.
— Both the Mobile River Bridge on I-10 and I-565 widening projects are totally moving forward, both can go on without affecting the other, according Ivey’s staff.
7. Most folks think the 2018 governor’s race is over, that’s why money is pouring into the lieutenant governor’s contest
— Governor Kay Ivey is expected to walk away with the GOP nomination with polls showing she has 47 percent of the vote in a 4-way race. Barring an unexpected swing, this is over.
— Because the GOP field will decide the race in November and because of Ivey’s age, PACs and donors have put $2,255,029.81 into the race — almost double 2014’s amount.
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