With Democrat Bobby Bright hemorrhaging support in his own polling and badly lagging in the fundraising race against Republican Jay Love, this comes as an extremely timely boost:
The fallout from a brutal Republican Congressional primary race continued Monday when Republican state senator Harri Anne Smith endorsed Democratic Congressional candidate Bobby Bright.
Smith batted current Republican Congressional candidate Jay Love in the 2nd Congressional District Republican Primary race earlier this year, and said Love lied about her during the campaign.
“Jay Love lied about my record just to further his own agenda and now he’s lying about Bobby Bright,” Smith said.
Smith made the announcement Monday morning in Dothan at Wiregrass Veterans Park as part of Bright’s “America First Truck Tour.”
“It is time that elected officials put America’s agenda first and the people’s agenda first,” Bright said. “It’s time to put party labels in the back seat.”
This is the second big GOP endorsement for Bright in the Wiregrass area (Dothan Mayor Pat Thomas was the first), and it couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s hard to say how many supporters she’ll deliver Bright’s way, but it is a good sign that Jay Love is still, well, unloved in some Republican circles.
Doc’s Political Parlor has more.
I mean really. Harri Anne Smith is one of the most vocal and conservative members of the Alabama state Senate, and that’s saying something. She must really have an axe to grind. If I were Bright I’d ask Pat Thomas and Smith to cut an ad together for me, if they really want Love to win, (Smith maybe so she can challenge Bright next year). This should probably help him. I’d like to see a new poll, there hasn’t been one in a couple of weeks, I’d like to see the effects of the economic downturn and all those hundreds of thousands of dollars the DCCC has been spending here.
Harri Anne Smith, Wayne Gilchrest, Colin Powell, Lincoln Chafee…
just put out a release saying that Bright bought off Smith’s endorsement for 150k. Kind of interesting because just last week they were claiming he was dead broke.
Now which way is it.