Cheryl Baswell Guthrie
Cheryl Baswell Guthrie is a Huntsville native and attorney. Her grandfather, Edward deGraffenried, represented Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives. Her only previous run for elected office was in 2006 when she lost to Parker Griffith for a seat in the Alabama Senate.
Guthrie’s response to our questionnaire.
Campaign website: www.baswellguthrieforcongress.com
Interview with Dale Jackson of WVNN: 5/5/08
Radio ads:
Campaign commercial:
May 7th, 2008 at 4:53 am
[...] Cheryl Baswell-Guthrie has released a statement that she has raised over $200,000 in the first month of campaigning for the AL-05 Republican nomination. [...]
June 1st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
What about Cheryl Baswell-Gutherie, is she Conservative?
From her radio and TV spots, Cheryl takes strong conservative
positions?
Can Cheryl Baswell-Gutherie prove she is a conservative?
In 2006, she ran against Dr. Parker Griffith for State Senate Dist 34,
in the Huntsville area. While running an honorable race, her
advertisements were plain marketing of her name, with little substance
of promoting the conservative agenda.
Can Cheryl Baswell-Gutherie prove she is a conservative from her
personal life?
Cheryl Baswell Guthrie grew up in Huntsville
Her mother, Grace deGraffenried Baswell taught in the Huntsville Public School System for more than twenty years.
Cheryl attended Mountain Gap Elementary School and graduated from Grissom High School in 1978.
Cheryl and her family are members of a moderate Baptist Church, Willowbrook Baptist Church in Huntsville.
Cheryl the political family history is not very conservative.
Her grandfather, Edward deGraffenried , represented Alabama in the
United States Congress in the 1950s, and was known as a Roosevelt New
Deal Democrat, not a conservative.
Uncle Ryan deGraffenried (her mother’s brother), a member of the Alabama State Seance, headed
up the moderate Alabama New South movement in the
1960s, opposing Wallace for Governor in 1962. Ryan deGraffenried ran as a progressive liberal
Democrat with great emphasis of increasing spending for public schools. He
was supported by the AEA type education groups. Ryan Sr.’s was known as a
moderate “New South” Democratic, opposing the conservative traditional
Dixiecrat movement.
In 1966 he ran again as a progressive “More money for public schools
candidate, seeking to succeed George Wallace, who was prohibited from running for a second term. However, one day after qualifying
for run for governor, he died in a plane crash while campaigning in northeast Alabama.
Nomination and governorship then went to Wallace’s wife, Lurleen Wallace.
Ryan deGraffenried, Jr, also served in the Alabama State Senate. He
supported more government spending for public schools and higher
taxes. After Governor Guy Hunt was removed from office due to criminal conviction, the Lieutenant Governor, Jim Folsom, Jr.
became the new governor. deGraffenried, as the President Pro Tempore
of the state Senate, became the acting Lt. Governor. The Tax Payers
Defense Funds rated him as a high tax liberal, voting for tax increases
70.1% of the time. Ryan deGraffenried, Jr was rated 15 out of 36 for
voting for more government spending and higher taxes, therefore
qualifying to be a liberal.
Cheryl Baswell Guthrie and her political family deGraffenried have an
interesting family history, but her relatives were on the liberal
side of the fence, reducing her claim to the title of being a
“conservative”.