MONTGOMERY, AL – “It is with deep humbleness and honor that I accept the endorsement of the Alabama New South Coalition”, stated Jeremy Sherer, Democratic candidate for State Treasurer.
“My campaign for Treasurer is focused upon moving Alabama’s Treasury forward, out of the disarray and financial woes which have resulted under the current Republican administration of [...]
April 18, 2010By Phillip Rawls
The Associated Press
The first predominantly black political organization to make an endorsement in Alabama’s race for governor rebuffed the black candidate Saturday and endorsed his white opponent.
The Alabama New South Coalition voted overwhelm ingly to support state Agri culture Commissioner Ron Sparks over U.S. Rep. Artur Davis in the state’s Demo [...]
Democratic candidate for Treasurer, Jeremy Sherer, is offering a possible solution to the growing legislative impasse over bills to save Alabama’s Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program (PACT): the state’s unclaimed property fund.
As I noted yesterday, the house-passed bill (HB228) has run into the immovable force that is Rules Committee Chair, Lowell Barron.
Barron objects to the tuition [...]
“The best investment Alabama can make is in itself,” says Jeremy Sherer, Democratic candidate for Alabama Treasurer, as he pledged to deposit state money in Alabama financial institutions that “…make small business loans, entrepreneurial loans, farm loans, student loans, and invest within our local socio-economic fabric.”
If only Sherer had been Treasurer last summer – instead of [...]
The DeKalb Advertiser• Fort Payne • AL
January 26, 2010
Commenting on newly released unemployment figures for the state of Alabama, which reflect unemployment growing to a statewide rate of eleven percent, Jeremy Sherer, Democratic candidate for Treasurer, stated, “Today’s newly released unemployment numbers for Alabama are gut-wrenching, and inconsistent with the overly-optimistic view of the present [...]
By Jacob Probus, News Editor
A roomful of worried PACT parents turned out for SAVE Alabama PACT’s Etowah County meeting — the group’s 30th such meeting across the state. They heard from a gubernatorial candidate and two state treasurer candidates — and the group’s energetic founder and de facto leader, Patti Lambert, of Decatur.
Lambert, a concerned [...]
“When You Make A PACT….” Who’ll Keep Alabama’s PACT Promises?
by: countrycat
Wed Jan 06, 2010 at 15:51:08 PM CST
Just how committed is former PACT board member Bradley Byrne to the Prepaid Affordable College Tuition program? How committed is present Treasurer Kay Ivey? (ASK HER! She’s hosting the Dale Jackson show on WVNN in Athens (92.5 FM) from 6-9am tomorrow [...]
Kendra Carter
The Times-Journal
Published January 5, 2010
About 40 worried parents and grandparents came to First Baptist Church in Scottsboro with one concern on their minds—how to save their loved ones’ college tuition funds.
The first Jackson County-Fort Payne Save Alabama PACT meeting was held Monday night. Save Alabama PACT was co-founded by Patti Lambert and Dr. Richard [...]
By David Brewer
January 04, 2010, 9:31PM
SCOTTSBORO, AL. - A gubernatorial candidate and two candidates for state treasurer showed up here Monday night to encourage investors in the state’s Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (PACT) program to urge legislators to save it.
“The state has a moral obligation to honor every PACT,” said state Rep. Robert Bentley of Tuscaloosa, one [...]
