by: lawdog
Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 13:53:38 PM CST
Here is a link to a story that aired on WHNT last night featuring the reaction of Jeremy Sherer to the “thief in the night” Alabama PACT deal that recently was approved by the PACT board:
Here is the Link: http://www.whnt.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=faf052c9-8aaf-489b-b5ab-5a91c32e1a03&src=front
note: a transcription is on the flip for those [...]
By PHILLIP RAWLS
Associated Press Writer
The board of Alabama’s financially troubled prepaid college tuition program approved a survival plan Tuesday that would end the tradition of paying all tuition costs at public universities in the state.
The decision drew immediate criticism from the participants’ group Save Alabama PACT.
Co-founder Patti Lambert of Decatur said the decision seemed designed [...]
by RogerShuler
Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 09:47:27 AM PST
U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith (R-AL) chose yesterday to announce that he is switching from the Democratic to the Republican Party.
What does the move say about Griffith? It says he is clueless, shallow, dishonest, shortsighted, untrustworthy . . . and we’re just getting warmed up.
Perhaps worst of all, we suspect [...]
WAFF-News
The following lawmakers and candidates for office react to Parker Griffith’s decision to switch to the Republican Party.
Rep. Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn), Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, issued the following statement Tuesday:
“It was a pleasant surprise when Congressman Griffith called me this morning to inform me that he is leaving the Democrats to become a [...]
The Locust Fork News-Journal
December 22nd, 2009
It didn’t take long, after the news hit the Web in what was billed as an “exclusive” by Politico that Huntsville Congressman Parker Griffith was abandoning the Democratic Party that got him to Washington to join the Republicans, before Democrats began to express their disappointment and betrayal.
Joe Turnham, chairman of the [...]
By Phillip Rawls
Associated Press Writer
MONTGOMERY — State Treasurer Kay Ivey wants to shift part of the money in Alabama’s prepaid college tuition plan to public and private universities in Alabama and have them guarantee tuition for students in the plan.
Ivey’s proposal unveiled this week would move some financial responsibilities of the tuition program from state [...]
By PHILLIP RAWLS
Associated Press Writer
State Treasurer Kay Ivey wants to shift part of the money in Alabama’s prepaid college tuition plan to public and private universities in Alabama and have them guarantee tuition for students in the plan.
Ivey’s proposal unveiled Tuesday would move some financial responsibilities of the tuition program from state taxpayers to the [...]
by: countrycat
Wed Dec 02, 2009 at 08:37:09 AM CST
In a statement released yesterday, Jeremy Sherer, candidate for Alabama Treasurer, criticized Kay Ivey’s so-called “Kay Ivey Partnership for PACT.”
“I am pleased that after more than a month from when State Representative Greg Wren’s proposed legislation guaranteeing PACT contracts was first released that Treasurer Ivey has decided to support the [...]
Montgomery, Alabama – State Treasurer Kay Ivey wants to shift part of the money in Alabama’s prepaid college tuition plan to public and private universities in Alabama and have them guarantee tuition for students in the plan.
Ivey’s proposal unveiled Tuesday would move some financial responsibilities of the tuition program from state taxpayers to the universities, [...]
By Michael J. Brooks
Jeremy Sherer, a candidate for Alabama State Treasurer, made his first visit to Judson College’s Hockey Day on Nov. 7 at the request of his wife, Christy, an ‘03 graduate of the college.
Sherer, who is associated with the Birmingham law firm of Whatley, Drake and Kallas, met and married Christy Ross during his campaign [...]
