Alabama’s Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks, the Democrat from Fort Payne who wants to be governor, will announce major plans in a press conference Thursday to guarantee advanced education for every child, lower taxes yet higher funding for education and Medicaid, plus a disaster relief fund for agriculture.

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If so, then why did he reject the number one idea proposed by the most citizens of Alabama, legalizing marijuana?

If you haven’t visited our favorite Libertarian blogger in awhile, Loretta Nall, click here now! She’s exposing a major loophole in the campaign of Artur Davis who says he is running for governor of Alabama to make change.

Somehow we don’t think continuing to let Alabama Power make environmental policy in Alabama is much of a change. We don’t think allowing ATnT to continue cooperating with the NSA in spying on innocent American citizens makes for change. And we don’t think ignoring a large block of Alabama’s progressive voters is much change from the politics of the past in this state.

What power brokers is Davis talking about who he blames for criticism of him in this election so far? Certainly he is not talking about his and Karl Rove’s buddy Bill Canary over at the conservative Business Council of Alabama, where they fight tooth and nail for the status quo. Is he talking about Paul Hubbert and/or Joe Reed at AEA? The trial lawyers? I mean hey, Artur, why don’t you just come out and say it?

And here’s a note to The Birmingham News…

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South Carolina Governor Keeps Digging His Hole…

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who recently resigned as the chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association after admitting having an affair with a women from Argintina, now admits more affairs with other women, although he claims they didn’t “cross the sex line.”

Causing MSNBC’s Keith Olberman to make a quip about a new name for a band: Crossing the Sex Line.

Maybe that would also make a great name for a blog. Quick, somebody buy the domain name. CrossingTheSexLine.com. It could house all the sex scandals of all the so-called “family values” Republicans. It would get millions of hits…