Bama's New Obama?

Interesting read about Artur Davis's campaign for Governor of Alabama:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — If Artur Davis wins the Democratic primary here on Tuesday, placing him within one step of becoming the first black governor of Alabama, he will have reached this milestone in the most improbable of ways: bypassing the hierarchy of the state’s oldest civil rights organizations.
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In this combustible election season, as President Obama’s policies are fueling a fierce debate in midterm races across the country, there is a different test under way in Alabama. Can Mr. Obama’s coalition style of victory — winning over white voters before gaining support from black leaders — be replicated in the Deep South?

If you would like to learn more about Artur Davis and his campaign, here is his website.

Hangover: Alabama Shooting

We have more information on the Alabama shooting:

On Saturday, the story took an odd twist when Braintree, Mass., Police Chief Paul Frazier announced that Bishop had shot and killed her brother in December 1986 after an argument. The police report of the incident could not be found, but the officer who wrote it up recalled that Bishop was arrested after fleeing the scene with a shotgun, Frazier said in a statement.

And a motive:

But Bishop was apparently not happy with the school: In recent months, she had been denied a tenured faculty position, said college spokesman Ray Garner. Dick Reeves, chairman of a company that plans to market one of Bishop's innovations, said she was upset by the slight.

Still no reason to kill another person.

3 Dead in Alabama

Another unfortunate school shooting in Alabama, at the Huntsville campus.