By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Birmingham, expressed concerns about some aspects of the impeachment inquiry in a press call with reporters on Thursday, while continuing to rebuff media questions about how he might vote. “I cant’ say how I’m gonna vote, because I don’t know, one, if it’s coming,…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones will host a forum on environmental justice and community development in the Black Belt at Wallace Community College in Selma, Alabama on Monday, Nov. 25 at 12 noon in coordination with the League of Conservation Voters and The Nature Conservancy. Senator Jones, the Democrat from Birmingham, will moderate a panel of…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — We now know where the Alabama Republican Party stands on impeachment and the rule of law in this American democracy. They are against it, at least the so-called leadership of the party, Republican Party Chair Terry Lathan. She held a news conference in Hoover this week simply to…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alabama Senator Doug Jones, the Birmingham Democrat, officially kicked off his campaign for reelection on Sunday at the B&A Warehouse in downtown Birmingham, emphasizing a centrists theme of common sense solutions and bringing the people of the state together as “One Alabama.” He came on stage with a…
Acknowledging Huntsville Alabama’s Role in Building the Saturn V Rocket – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s not hard to remember exactly where I was 50 years ago when the Apollo 11 space craft launched for the moon on July 16, 1969 with Saturn V rocket motors built in Huntsville, Alabama. Or where…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – People have been complaining about “dysfunction” in Washington, well, since George Washington was drafted to become the first president of the United States. Politicians who want to come here to the so-called swamp, for all kinds of strange reasons, have been campaigning on the issue for decades. Candidate…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Everybody knows the news by now. Ole Ten Commandments former judge Roy Moore just couldn’t resist the opportunity for a little more publicity and another fund raising op. He announced down in Alabama that he’s by god running again for the U.S. Senate seat he lost to Birmingham…
By Glynn Wilson – This might be a good time for Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to sit down for lunch with President Donald J. Trump at the White House, or maybe play a round of golf with him, to explain how tariffs actually work and brief him on the history of how trade…
Will the politicians in Montgomery listen? – Alabama workers have sent $14 billion in Medicaid taxes to fund health care in other states over the past few years, money that could have been used at home to improve health and the economy – By Glynn Wilson – Simply for the sake of partisan politics, Republicans…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama is signaling that he will join other Democrats and a few Republicans to vote against President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to reroute Department of Defense money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. By a vote of 245-182, the House…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — In a room full of mostly white males in business suits at Wintzell’s Oyster House downtown on Dauphin Street Wednesday night, Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne officially announced he will run for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Doug Jones in 2020. The primary vote will take place on March…
By Glynn Wilson – On Day 27 of Trump’s government shutdown, U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama held a conference call with reporters on Thursday and compared the failing negotiations to a “hostage crisis.” He said his colleagues in the Senate are more than willing to debate and fund border security measures, but only “if…
By Glynn Wilson – On Day 20 of the Trump federal government shutdown, U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, held a media conference call with reporters on Thursday to provide an update on what’s going on in Congress and Washington to end the shutdown and other national legislative issues, including the latest on…
Facebook Manipulation Had No Discernible Impact – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Birmingham Democrat Doug Jones had Alabama Republican Roy Moore beat in the U.S. Senate election last year before the Washington Post broke the sex scandal story on November 9, 2017. Our definitive reporting on the campaign clearly shows that, and the…
By Glynn Wilson – The forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Alabama by Donald Trump the day after the midterm elections and right after a contentious White House press conference has set off a firestorm of criticism in Washington and around the country and generated a host of anxiety in the legal community…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A fragile nation, beacon to the world, is on the verge of cracking like a giant arctic ice sheet splitting in half due to warming seas. Meanwhile the lack of informed political leadership in America keeps us distracted by the high school beer drinking…
Is Doug Jones Running for President in 2020? – “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” – Poverb By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room was described as “hell” last week by not only President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Charges of sexual assault have changed the political calculus in the Unites States Senate on conformation of President Donald J. Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court. The charges by a California college professor against Judge Brett Kavanaugh just add more fuel to the fire for Democrats who were…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The right-wing Republican pro-Russia National Rifle Association (NRA) is interfering with our democratic, electoral process again, this time targeting U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama in television ads trying to get people to pressure him to vote for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Many Democrats…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Calling President Donald J. Trump’s proposed 25-percent tariff on imported cars, trucks and auto parts as a national security measure “an absurd way to look at this” in a conference call with reporters on Thursday, U.S. Senator Doug Jones is working with Republican Senators Lamar Alexander of Tennessee…
