Could Democrat Ron Sparks abandon his race for the Democratic nomination for Governor and run instead for the U.S. House Seat held by newly minted Republican Parker Griffith?
According to a Huntsville Times story, he's not ruling it out.
You can just hear the Artur Davis team going "Yes! YES!"
It would certainly save the Davis campaign millions in campaign costs between now and the primary, allowing them to save their resources for the General Election while the 500 Repubs battle it out till the June primary and maybe a runoff.
Meanwhile, the Alabama Democratic Party is demanding Griffith return a mass of party voter data that he downloaded the night before he switched parties. Sneaky, of course. But would it have been OK if he had done it a week earlier? A month? Allowing all candidates access to that data includes certain risks, including last minute decisions that they aren't members of the party after all.
[UPDATE: The camapaign consultant who did the downloading also worked for the Artur Davis campaign. Note the past tense. The Davis Camp has canned him and his firm.]
Parker Griffith never was a Democrat, and the one person from whom it would be most interesting to hear has not spoken, nor apparently has been contacted.
ReplyDeleteThat of course, would be Parker Griffith's previous endorser... and Democratic gentleman whom previously held that seat - Bud Cramer.
Invective would not satisfy what Griffith has done, or how his self-centered move has damaged the Tennessee Valley he purported to serve - including, but not limited to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the Army's Redstone Arsenal, and others.
I write it again, because Griffith never was a Democrat.
And by all reports, within and without the political spectrum, he has assured his own defeat, committed political suicide, etc.
He is political history.
Goodbye, and good riddance.
Don't let the door hit you in your arse on the way out.
This might actually a win-win situation for both Sparks and Davis.
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