MONTGOMERY (AP) – Alabama’s hard-to-beat primary election drama Tuesday features a former Democratic governor, who’s on trial on government corruption charges, and Alabama’s Ten Commandments judge, who’s attempting a political comeback after getting kicked out of office.
On the Democratic side, former Gov. Don Siegelman has spent the last five weeks in federal court facing racketeering and bribery charges — and likely will be there on election day, too — while his main opponent, Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley, has been traveling the state. Polls show Baxley beginning to pull away from Siegelman after they initially ran close.
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