From an e-mail from Gary Odom. The first two paragraphs are from Ballot Access News. The rest is Constitution Party editorial:
Alabama will hold a special election on June 28 to fill the vacant seat in the State House of Representatives, 105th district. The legislator elected in November 2010, Spencer Collier, resigned in January to take a job in the executive branch of state government. The election will be between Bill Atkinson, the Constitution Party nominee, and whoever wins the special Republican primary on March 22.
The Constitution Party qualified to run in this special election by submitting a petition signed by at least 235 valid signatures (3% of the vote cast in this district in November 2010). No Democrat filed to run, even though a Democrat would not have needed to collect any signatures. Democrats didn’t run for this seat in November 2010 either. The seat is in southern Mobile County. Thanks to Joshua Cassity for this news.
View Bill Atkinson at a recent campaign forum: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdfKTyyPxak
Bill Atkinson deserves the support of Constitution Party members and activists all over the country. Unlike last Fall there are not now hundreds of Constitution Party candidates running for office to divide our attention. We can focus our attention on this legislative special election to help really put the Constitution Party on the map in Alabama! For more news about the Atkinson for State House Campaign please visit the campaign Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/pages/Bill-Atkinson-for-Alabama-House-District-105/139946479403098.
@2 Tried that, in that same area, last year, same dynamics.
About half of them signed my petitions (many grudgingly). Another solid half seemed incapable of understanding that such a thing was possible.
The candidate ended up with 17%.
Time for the third party member to hammer mercilessly that the “otherwise a Democrat will win” excuse doesn’t exist this time.
I liked the Constitution Party until I found out they’re really the Christian party. That’s fine for going to church, but I dread what evangelicals would do if elected.