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Big Senate Race in Alabama on Tuesday. Vote for @TTuberville, he is a winner who will never let you down. Jeff Sessions is a disaster who has let us all down. We don’t want him back in Washington!

[This piece is heavy on video and images.] Today is Beauregard’s last stand. – Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the former do-nothing Attorney General who allowed Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller to run the Department of Justice for two solid years, makes his last stand today in Alabama. He trails opponent Tommy Tuberville by a wide margin in the polling leading into today’s GOP primary runoff election to determine which Republican gets to run Democrat Doug Jones out of the U.S. Senate.

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions attacked his July 14 GOP runoff opponent for “being wrong on immigration,” an issue that he calls “one of the most important issues” Congress is faced with as it wrangles with other concerns such as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and police reform. (I’m not saying) that it’s No. 1, but it’s right up there,” said Sessions during a news conference Monday in Mobile. “We have 11 million people here unlawfully. In some years, we’ve had 11 million people arrested at the (U.S.-Mexico) border. If we do this right, the number of attempts for entering...

AUSTIN — Two gubernatorial candidates received rare embraces from leaders of an organization that prides itself on its fierce nonpartisanship and rigid rules for politicians. Democrat Chris Bell got a warm embrace Saturday morning after pledging support for education and healthcare spending, training for livable wage jobs and comprehensive immigration reform all of which make up the "working families agenda" for the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation. Texas comptroller and independent gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn got a big hug on Friday from the Rev. John Bowie of True Light Baptist Church in Houston after Strayhorn offered passionate support for most...

Commentary: Dave McNeely Comptrollers count office as rung up Thursday, April 22, 2004 The three Texas comptrollers since 1975 have wanted to be governor. Carole Keeton Strayhorn is no exception. The first two — the late Bob Bullock and John Sharp, both Democrats — eventually settled for a run at lieutenant governor. Bullock won; Sharp didn't. Strayhorn, one loud grandma, has yet to announce her plans. Though she's a Republican like Gov. Rick Perry, Strayhorn has been slapping Perry every time he turns around. She says he: is an ineffective leader, should put more money into the Children's Health Insurance...

Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, says that the new Texas redistricting plan complicates his attempt to win a fifth term in his Texas Gulf coastal district. Paul blames the Republican leadership for making his reelection task more difficult, while the altered district alignment provides virtual free rides to certain GOP congressmen favored by the party leadership. Paul said that nearly half of his counties have been removed from his district. Instead he has been given new counties with a history of solid Democrat allegiance and a sizeable union vote as well. According to Paul, a friend in the legislaturee called him...

Nolan Ryan joins Sharp campaignBy JOHN MORITZ Star-Telegram 03/22/02 AUSTIN -- Texas baseball legend and Republican activist Nolan Ryan will be pitching for Democrat John Sharp this year, heading a committee to put the former state comptroller into the lieutenant governor's office. Ryan, a Hall of Fame right-hander who has been a loyal ally of Republican President George W. Bush, will officially join Sharp's team today, the Democrat's campaign confirmed Thursday. "No candidate in Texas is better qualified to guide the state through the current budget challenges than John," Ryan said in a news release announcing the formation of Republican...