'Fire Pelosi' Bus Tour Rolling to Alabama

The 'Fire Nancy Pelosi' Bus Tour will roll through the state on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, with stops in Montgomery and Huntsville.

The bus will pull into the at the Montgomery County GOP Headquarters, 2801 Vaughn Plaza Road, on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Tuesday. ALGOP Chairman Mike Hubbard will hold a press conference with representatives from Montgomery City Councilwoman Martha Roby's campaign and other local officials and Republican candidates.

Roby, the Republican nominee for congressional District 2, faces incumbent Democratic Congressman Bobby Bright in November and she is hammering hard at his vote to put Pelosi in the speaker's chair.

According to the 'Fire Nancy Pelosi' bus tour Website, the Republican National Committee put the tour on as a grassroots effort to get rid of "out-of-touch Democrats" on Nov. 2. The big red bus is rolling into more than 115 cities throughout the country.

-- posted by Markeshia Ricks

GOP Extends its Hand to Alabama Voters

Republicans are extending their hand to the people of Alabama and asking for control of both chambers of the State Legislature this year.

With GOP elected officials and hopefuls surrounding him, House Minority Leader and Alabama Republican Party Chairman Mike Hubbard said Monday that like the five fingers of the hand, he and his fellow party members have five specific things they would do if they gain control of the Legislature.


What is being called the “Republican Handshake with Alabama” would address job creation and other economic opportunities, measures to stop wasteful government spending, ending corruption in state government, illegal immigration and fighting against the federal government.

The five agenda items also throw their support behind the Republican gubernatorial nominee Dr. Robert Bentley, whom Hubbard said he believes will be the next governor of Alabama.

More specifically the agenda, under these five issues, would do the following:

-- Build on Republican gubernatorial nominee Dr. Robert Bentley’s job-creation tax that was passed successfully during the 2010 legislative session.
-- Expand the small business health insurance tax credit for employers and employees who pay for health insurance
-- Support Bentley’s creation of a cabinet-level office of small business creation
-- Fight to ensure Alabama remains a right-to-work state and the secret ballot is preserved
-- Implement a new budgeting process
-- Ban double dipping by public officials
-- Require lobbyists to report every dime they spend on those officials
-- Push for immigration legislation similar to what was passed in Arizona
-- Fight back against what Republicans see as the “Washington, D.C. power grab”

“We’re saying, put us in charge and we will pass these things,” Hubbard said. “Give us a chance to do it.”


-- posted by Markeshia Ricks