Davis vs Strange on Charleston

    

      The message in an "Op-Ed" in The Birmingham News by Artur Davis seems to agree with Todd Strange. 
     Davis is a candidate for Mayor in the August Montgomery elections, one of a half dozen candidates that includes Strange, the incumbent. 
     Davis quotes "a politician":

"Some people want to call him a left wing, right wing, or no wing. He's a murderer."
That is a characterization I heard from a politician today of the home grown terrorist who slaughtered nine people in a church in Charleston. Murderer, sure, but there is so much emptiness and evasion in the rest of that sentence.

     That "politician" was Davis' opponent, Todd Strange...and the quote came at the end of an Alabama News Network story. 
     I'm not sure why Davis doesn't name Strange.
     Both of those candidates are Republicans, though the city election is non-partisan.

     In concluding his essay, Davis seems to agree with Strange, except perhaps for the level of extremism exhibited by the gunman:

But can we at least agree that neither far-right nor far-left is a space that will yield the common ground our country needs?

     Also on the ballot on August 25th: State Board of Education member Ella Bell, Montgomery County Commissioner Dan Harris, Former candidate for mayor in Prattville Jon DaVoe, and Former candidate for Montgomery Council Buena Browder. Qualifying begins on July 7.