One of the best races in this blockbuster election year will be for Lt. Governor. In bygone years, this was a much more powerful position than it is today. For about 50 years, from the 1950’s through the 1990’s, the Lt. Governor controlled the State Senate.

The Constitution gives the power to the State House and State Senate to organize their own bodies. The Senate relinquished this power to the Lt. Governor when the most brilliant parliamentarian in the annals of Alabama legislative history, Jim Allen, became Lt. Governor.