Birmingham: Cooper Drops Election Challenge, Langford Under Investigation
December 18th, 2007 by Steve
Patrick Cooper dropped his challenge of the election results in the Birmingham mayoral race.
Patrick Cooper, who placed second in the Oct. 9 vote for mayor of Birmingham, today withdrew his challenge to Mayor Larry Langford’s election.
Cooper’s claim that Langford had failed to meet residency requirements to serve as mayor was rejected by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Allwin Horn, but he had filed a notice of appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court.
Birmingham Blues is speculating that it may be that Cooper suspected that Leaping Larry may be end up residing on the same cell block as Don Siegelman and Richard Scrushy.
Or does he figure Larry’s going down anyway? Stay tuned.
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Ron Hoff wrote on 12/19/07 at 3:20 am :
“WHY ARE “NEWHOUSE NEWPAPERS” DISTORTING THE TRUTH ABOUT DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS?”
The three largest newspapers plus the Internet site al.com in Alabama are owned by Advance Publications Inc. Newhouse Newspapers is the newspaper publishing division. Advance Publications is owned by billionaires Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr. and his brother Donald Newhouse.
These three newspapers instruct their writers to start every article that they write about Siegelman with this statement, “Our newspapers endorsed Riley and we believe Siegelman to be a crook.” Then instead of being impartial they twist every sentence to sound negative.
It has taken a few months, but most Alabamians now know that these newspapers were a major part of the conspiracy to remove a popular Democrat in Alabama by distorting the truth about ex governor Don Siegelman, by not accurately reporting how his elections were taken from him, by not reporting how millions of dollars of Choctaw Indian Casino money flowed into Alabama to get Riley Elected and to kill Siegelman’s education Lottery.