Parker Griffith is a Democrat
Parker Griffith is a Democrat. Say it with me. “Parker Griffith is a Democrat.” Very good.
We have to go through this exercise because in Parker Griffith’s latest ad – an attack ad against Republican Wayne Parker – he conveniently forgets to call himself a Democrat, preferring instead to call himself an “independent.”
To add to the confusion Griffith uses a quote from the Decatur Daily – one of the two most left leaning papers in the state. You might remember that the paper endorsed Cheryl Baswell Guthrie for the GOP nomination, which shows their complete lack of judgement or concern for picking the best candidate for the Republicans.
Going back to Griffith. His time in the Alabama Senate showed that he was anything but an independent. He loyally followed party leadership. On blocking illegal immigration reform he followed Democrats. One of the first votes he cast as a Democrat state Senator was to give himself a 62% pay raise – again sheepishly following the Democrat leadership despite being independently wealthy (maybe that’s what he meant about being an “independent!”). I’ll be covering his record in the Alabama Senate in more detail in the coming months, but it will show him to be anything but an independent. You’ll see that he was an obedient member of the party, giving in to party leaders when told to. Will this “independent” stand up to Nancy Pelosi when he can’t stand up to Alabama Democrats?
But Parker Griffith will “fight for” and “protect our jobs”, right? His most prominent effort at economic development in north Alabama while in the state Senate was creating the TIF to lure Volkswagon. How did that work out? Oh yeah, they went to Tennessee. Good track record Dr. Griffith.
Does sound like there something wrong with calling yourself the Democratic candidate in either AL-02, AL-05 and maybe AL-03.
Would like to see the polling the campaign folks used to come to that conclusion.