361 days before the June 1, 2010 primary, Rep. Artur Davis kicked off his campaign to be the first black governor of Alabama in Birmingham's Linn Park before a crowd of 500 people. There will be more on this later, but 500 people strikes me as a very good crowd. I did some googling and found that a Lucy Baxley rally drew a crowd of 100 supporters on September 29, 2006, a mere 39 days before the general election.
Here are a couple of excerpts. We don't hear this kind of thing nearly often enough in Alabama.
No matter what you think of what Alabama used to be, no matter what you think of what some people outside of Alabama say about our state, the Alabama we have now is the new one, the best one we've ever had and the one that's going to take us places we've never been ...
I will give you a governor and an administration that believes Alabama is ready for the 21st century and I will give you a governor who understands ... that the key to leadership is looking off in the distance and pointing at the horizon and saying that the horizon that seems so far off is not so distant.
The forces that we're having to contend with ... they won't have the nerve to tell you they don't believe in progress, everybody says they believe in progress. But what they will tell you is that progress is not for us, it's for our children. They will tell you that progress is for some other point, some distant time called someday. Ladies and gentlemen, this will be a campaign that will tell you that we can claim the future now and we're ready for progress not at some distant point, not later but right now in 2010.
Video from the Davis YouTube channel is on the flip.
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