Screenshot of Evanston, Illinois’ Patrick Cooper’s website.
Well, he’s finding the whole situation quite interesting. The Patrick Cooper in Virginia that is. He was the one that came up first when you would look up the name of the former Birmingham mayoral candidate and current contester of the election during the early days of his campaign [...]

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UPDATE: 10:40:04 a.m., The motion for dismissal by Langford is up at NBC13: http://media.mgnetwork.com/vtm/images/langford.pdf . Thanks to Steph for finding that.
UPDATE: 10:25:36 a.m., It appears that Fox 6 has removed the Langford document, FYI.
The folks at Fox 6 have obtained a copy of a motion to dimiss the contest filing of former mayoral candidate Patrick [...]

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Photo credit: André Natta
Larry Langford was officially certified as the winner of the 2007 mayoral race yesterday. Patrick Cooper, as reported about in this morning’s Birmingham News, has announced plans to file this contest of the October 9 election (PDF file).
The image shows Cooper speaking with reporters at a 10 a.m. press conference at his [...]

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Photos of Ralph Cook, Sr. (l) and Charles McCrary (r).
Birmingham Mayor-elect Larry Langford has brought on former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Ralph Cook, Sr. and Alabama Power CEO Charles McCrary to lead his transition team. They won’t have long to work, as Langford said he plans to be sworn into office the second Tuesday in [...]

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Larry Langford returned to the County Commission today in triumph with a warm-and-fuzzy moment with fellow commissioners, who celebrated his decisive win in Tuesday’s mayoral election.
As Birmingham’s mayor-elect, Langford immediately extended an olive branch across the table to his colleagues, saying he would need their help to carry out initiatives that will move the city [...]

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With all of the attention focused on Tuesday’s mayoral election results, very few people have been talking about the other race that occurred that evening - the one for the vacant city board of education seat in District 3.
When Howard Bayless won the seat on Tuesday evening, defeating Earnest Lumpkin (click here to view the [...]

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We’ve just opened an email that is being forwarded throughout the city of Birmingham this afternoon. It was sent by the Cooper for Mayor campaign:
As widely reported many Birmingham voters were disenfranchised on October 9th as they tried to cast their ballot in the mayoral election.  Right now, only 174 votes separate Patrick from a [...]

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