“From the horse’s mouth and in his own words,” says Wade Perry on Facebook about the leading candidate to win the Republican primary in the Alabama governor’s race…

“Give it a look and share it with your friends,” he says.

Indeed.

In the interest of, you know, exposing the truth and connecting the dot dot dots…

by Glynn Wilson

The race for governor of Alabama is close with just months to go before the June 1 primary, according to a new survey just released by Public Policy Polling out of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Bradley Byrne and Artur Davis are the early leaders, “although both are in pretty close races,” Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling, said in a press release announcing the results.

According to a survey of 407 likely Democratic primary voters and 457 likely Republican primary voters in Alabama interviewed March 27-29, Davis leads the Democratic field with 38 percent declared support to 28 percent for Ron Sparks and 9 percent for Sam Franklin Thomas.

Davis leads with liberal, moderates, and conservatives alike by margins ranging from 8 to 14 points, according to the survey, although Sparks is ahead 33-29 with white voters.

Davis has the overall lead thanks to a 48-23 advantage with African Americans aligned with the Democratic Party, although there are some warning signs for Davis in the poll. Eighty percent of likely Democratic Party primary voters support the health-care bill that Davis opposed. Only 14 percent said they were against it.

Perhaps because of his position on health-care, there are actually more Democratic voters with an unfavorable than favorable opinion of Davis by a margin of 34-28 percent, according to the survey.

On the Republican side, Byrne and former judge Roy Moore are the early front runners.

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Right-Wing Militia Members Arrested in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana

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Nine suspects tied to a Christian militia that was preparing for the Antichrist were charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then kill scores more by attacking a funeral using homemade bombs, federal prosecutors said Monday.

The Michigan-based group, called Hutaree, planned to use the attack on police as a catalyst for a larger uprising against the government, according to newly unsealed court papers. U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said agents moved quickly on the group because its members were planning a violent mission sometime in April.

Members of the group, including its leader, David Brian Stone, also known as “Captain Hutaree,” were charged following FBI raids over the weekend on locations in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Seven people were arraigned in Detroit on Monday, and another one of Stone’s sons, Joshua, is missing, according to the Associated Press.