AL-Gov: Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican nominee, will stay in that position after a challenge to the Alabama Republican Party regarding his residency (he lives in Florida and has a tenuous connection to Alabama) fell flat yesterday.
If we keep saying it’s all hopeless and we’re living in the end days, that’s what will happen. We’d be giving the GOP what they want on a silver platter. We have to keep fighting if we want this to end, and it can end if we keep fighting. Trump’s approval rating is abysmal, and the pro-Dem energy is so great the GOP couldn’t even win by rigging the maps. Don’t give up yet. Besides, if it really is all hopeless, why are we posting here on an elections site? If it doesn’t matter, what would be the point?
Treasurer, Auditor and the Utilities Commission seat are all open. So is AG, where they last nominated a candidate in 2018. Think Kloucek is the only won who's actually won an election before, he spent 22yrs between the state house and state senate. The Repub convention will be on 6/27.
I'm loving that FL legislative seat flip that'll happen in November. You know, the one where GOP incumbent Paula Stark failed to qualify for the ballot (but the two Democratic candidates did).
AL-PSC: Incumbent Chris Beeker is expected to lose to former state auditor Jim Zeigler on Tuesday. Though both are Republicans, Zeigler supports the regulation of data centers and renewable energy sources, as Alabama deals with rising energy costs. He also gained notoriety as auditor for auditing the corrupt administration of Gov. Robert Bentley. And, FWIW, Beeker is running on his ties to Trump.
It's possible he legitimately wants to address rising rate prices. He was known as a budget hawk the two times he was actually elected as auditor and when he was on the PSC as a Dem in the 70s.
Whoa, buried in this is that the PSC is being radically changed with the state passing a law to expand it from three to seven members (one per congressional district), meaning the governor will appoint four members (from a shortlist by the LG, Senate president pro temp and the House speaker) before 7/15. It's not super clear to me if the split will always be three elected statewide and four appointees, or phase in all seven elected (and if the elections will be by district or all continue to be at-large). A previous version of the legislation was aimed ending PSC elections and making all its members appointed, but that doesn't seem to have been included.
Seems like an initial impulse was to force the PSC to hold public rate case hearings every three years when the commission apparently hasn't done so in decades, and then morphed into this full restructuring (potentially to stop them?). They're all also subordinate to a new state cabinet member, an appointed energy secretary, who will set the PSC's meeting agendas. There's a freeze on the base rate until 2029, so hold they couldn't even hold a rate hearing until 2029 at the earliest, and only if the energy secretary requests one or if a supermajority of five members vote for one. The original state rep sponsor voted against the bill on final passage because of the rate case dilutions.
Edit: Looked at the bill text, and it's a complicated phasing of elections. The four appointees will be split into 2yr and 4yr terms, one of each term type chosen by the Repub leaders described above and the others chosen by the Dem minority leaders in the state senate and state house. Those candidate lists were supposed to be submitted on 6/1. The 2026 election with the two currently up PSC seats goes forward as normal, then the 2028 election will switch from at-large to congressional districts (one member has to be from AL-02, which is... a now blown apart former VRA district). All districts won't be fully transitioned over until the 2032 election. Full terms have been increased from 4yrs to 6yrs, effective from the two elections happening this November. Appointees to vacant seats have to be from the same party as the previous elected member, selected by the same shortlist method. The president is no longer a designated seat elected at-large, but will be chosen among the members (with a VP) after the current president's term expires in 2028.
There'll be two Dems appointed at the start, but will probably go down to one barring a sea change in the state once it fully transitions over to elections by district. They passed this overhaul before Callais came down (the AL-02 mandatory representation piece is clearly only there because of VRA fears).
Judd Legum and staff did an article on Progressive Champions PAC in the Substack Popular Information. The ties to Republicans are more than apparent. We need to educate voters to see through these deliberately misleading names.
Georgia. Insider Advantage has Jackson up 49-46 and Collins up 48-46.
https://insideradvantage.com/note-due-to-brian-kemps-endorsement-in-the-governors-race-and-donald-trumps-endorsement-in-the-senate-contest-we-will-post-another-georgia-gop-survey-tomorrow-evening-races-narrow-jackson-l/
(In the GOP primary runoffs)
Congeals with my prediction.
They mentioned given the weekend endorsements from Trump and Kemp, they will release a final poll today. Lol
Ig the correct winners. The margins should be larger than that.
Who do we want here?
https://www.al.com/news/2026/06/gop-rules-for-tommy-tuberville-in-residency-case-ex-coach-remains-republican-gubernatorial-nominee.html
AL-Gov: Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican nominee, will stay in that position after a challenge to the Alabama Republican Party regarding his residency (he lives in Florida and has a tenuous connection to Alabama) fell flat yesterday.
This has got to be your best headline ever. We *are* living through the end days, and we have Trump to guide us. I need a drink…
If we keep saying it’s all hopeless and we’re living in the end days, that’s what will happen. We’d be giving the GOP what they want on a silver platter. We have to keep fighting if we want this to end, and it can end if we keep fighting. Trump’s approval rating is abysmal, and the pro-Dem energy is so great the GOP couldn’t even win by rigging the maps. Don’t give up yet. Besides, if it really is all hopeless, why are we posting here on an elections site? If it doesn’t matter, what would be the point?
I was going for sarcasm with the end-of-days comment. The headline is hilarious; it reads like the title of a cheesy, 1950’s sci-fi horror flick.
Ah, got it. Sarcasm is infamously hard to detect online. On Reddit people often append /s to the end of a post to denote sarcasm.
Agreed. My bad
Texas has a flesh-eating parasite attacking it. It also has a screwworm infestation.
Go KLOB https://x.com/Mwilburn123/status/2066522187016618180?s=20
If she doesn't Klobber Demuth by more than 55%...
The South Dakota Dem Party had its convention to nominate downballot statewide candidates:
-SOS: Terrence Davis
-AG: None
-Treasurer: Margaret Kuipers
-Auditor: Tom Cool
-Superintendent/Lands Commissioner: Raeann Mettler
-Public Utilities Commission: Frank Kloucek
Treasurer, Auditor and the Utilities Commission seat are all open. So is AG, where they last nominated a candidate in 2018. Think Kloucek is the only won who's actually won an election before, he spent 22yrs between the state house and state senate. The Repub convention will be on 6/27.
https://www.sdstandardnow.com/home/south-dakota-democrats-name-candidates-for-statewide-office
Why no AG candidate when all other positions have one?
I'm loving that FL legislative seat flip that'll happen in November. You know, the one where GOP incumbent Paula Stark failed to qualify for the ballot (but the two Democratic candidates did).
https://tuscaloosathread.com/alabama-primary-runoff-elections-3/
AL-PSC: Incumbent Chris Beeker is expected to lose to former state auditor Jim Zeigler on Tuesday. Though both are Republicans, Zeigler supports the regulation of data centers and renewable energy sources, as Alabama deals with rising energy costs. He also gained notoriety as auditor for auditing the corrupt administration of Gov. Robert Bentley. And, FWIW, Beeker is running on his ties to Trump.
Wasn’t Ziegler a past SoS candidate backed by the MyPillow guy’s wacko coalition? Seems there’s some intra-MAGA tensions going on.
It's possible he legitimately wants to address rising rate prices. He was known as a budget hawk the two times he was actually elected as auditor and when he was on the PSC as a Dem in the 70s.
https://archive.ph/lMWGA
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/29/archives/nuclear-power-development-encounters-rising-resistance-with-curbs.html?eafs_enabled=false
But I think it's mostly Zeigler just wanting to run for office again lol. His electoral history:
-1974: PSC Commissioner (won!)
-1976: PSC President (lost – stayed as a member till his term ended in 1978)
-1978: Education Board (lost)
-1982: Supreme Court (lost)
-1986: Treasurer (lost)
-1996: Civil Appeals Court (lost – he switched parties from Dem to Repub for this)
-1998: PSC Commissioner again (lost)
-2002: Auditor (lost)
-2014: Auditor (won!)
-2018: Auditor (won reelection!)
-2022: SOS (lost primary runoff after winning the first round)
-2026: PSC Commissioner (won primary round one!)
Whoa, buried in this is that the PSC is being radically changed with the state passing a law to expand it from three to seven members (one per congressional district), meaning the governor will appoint four members (from a shortlist by the LG, Senate president pro temp and the House speaker) before 7/15. It's not super clear to me if the split will always be three elected statewide and four appointees, or phase in all seven elected (and if the elections will be by district or all continue to be at-large). A previous version of the legislation was aimed ending PSC elections and making all its members appointed, but that doesn't seem to have been included.
Seems like an initial impulse was to force the PSC to hold public rate case hearings every three years when the commission apparently hasn't done so in decades, and then morphed into this full restructuring (potentially to stop them?). They're all also subordinate to a new state cabinet member, an appointed energy secretary, who will set the PSC's meeting agendas. There's a freeze on the base rate until 2029, so hold they couldn't even hold a rate hearing until 2029 at the earliest, and only if the energy secretary requests one or if a supermajority of five members vote for one. The original state rep sponsor voted against the bill on final passage because of the rate case dilutions.
https://alabamareflector.com/2026/05/27/democratic-candidate-files-lawsuit-against-psc-bill-approved-by-legislature/
https://www.al.com/news/2026/06/alabama-public-service-commission-faces-shakeup-with-tuesdays-republican-runoff.html
Edit: Looked at the bill text, and it's a complicated phasing of elections. The four appointees will be split into 2yr and 4yr terms, one of each term type chosen by the Repub leaders described above and the others chosen by the Dem minority leaders in the state senate and state house. Those candidate lists were supposed to be submitted on 6/1. The 2026 election with the two currently up PSC seats goes forward as normal, then the 2028 election will switch from at-large to congressional districts (one member has to be from AL-02, which is... a now blown apart former VRA district). All districts won't be fully transitioned over until the 2032 election. Full terms have been increased from 4yrs to 6yrs, effective from the two elections happening this November. Appointees to vacant seats have to be from the same party as the previous elected member, selected by the same shortlist method. The president is no longer a designated seat elected at-large, but will be chosen among the members (with a VP) after the current president's term expires in 2028.
https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2026RS/HB475-enr.pdf
I wonder if the partisan makeup will reflect congressional districts, with a 6-1 Republican majority (per the new map).
There'll be two Dems appointed at the start, but will probably go down to one barring a sea change in the state once it fully transitions over to elections by district. They passed this overhaul before Callais came down (the AL-02 mandatory representation piece is clearly only there because of VRA fears).
https://legiscan.com/AL/bill/HB475/2026
Judd Legum and staff did an article on Progressive Champions PAC in the Substack Popular Information. The ties to Republicans are more than apparent. We need to educate voters to see through these deliberately misleading names.