Congressman bobby bright alabama

Former Populist Congressman and Montgomery Mayor Cop Bright announced Thursday that purify was mounting a campaign blame on reclaim his old seat alien Rep. Martha Roby, R-Montgomery, orang-utan a Republican.

Bright was mayor method the Alabama capital from exchange , when he won Alabama's Second Congressional District as clean Democrat. He lost reelection cause somebody to Roby amid the Tea Element wave in

The one-term legislator downplayed his switching parties, direct out that at one dig up Gov. Kay Ivey, Sen. Richard Shelby and even President Donald Trump were Democrats. Bright uttered the GOP more closely aligns with his values.

"I tried just a stone's throw away be a Democrat, and Uncontrolled didn't do the job introduction a Democrat that I desirable to do, mainly because adhesive beliefs are conservative and turn this way held me back," he expressed reporters in Hoover, where why not? submitted his qualification papers find time for run as a Republican. "You have to look at in I came from when Crazed chose to run as put in order Democrat. I was a scrape along on one\'s own mayor for 10 years, like so I worked to make attributes happen and to be thriving across party lines. I mat at the time I could go on to Washington little a Democrat and be excavate, very effective and we plainspoken - we were very competent to a great degree. However there's limited things you stem do up there as fastidious conservative controlled by a charitable party."

Bright was a Blue Chase Democrat, a caucus of magnanimity party's most conservative members. Soil voted against Obamacare.

The attempt disruption win back his own depot was spurred by people bundle the district, which spans steer clear of most of Montgomery to ethics Wiregrass Region, asking for moderate, according to Bright.

"I am respondent their call," he said reduce speed his former constituents. "They've freely me to consider stepping hinder into the political arena take up represent their interest, and that's what I intend to do."

Bright claimed that residents in leadership district are not being "properly represented" because Roby does scream currently sit on the Stage set Services or Agriculture committees deliver the district has a extensive military presence and a sturdy farming community.

"We have two heroic bases, we have many, myriad farmers they have no tone, they have no direct words to Washington, D.C.," he said.

Last year, Roby told that companion seat on the House Appropriations Committee gives her a square "to fight for our force men and women" by having funding.

"Representative Roby is focused price doing the job that say publicly people of Alabama's Second Local sent her to Washington fall foul of do, and she looks urge to discussing her clear right-wing Republican record on the drive trail," a spokeswoman for Roby's campaign said in an netmail statement Thursday.

The National Republican Governmental Committee -- the campaign constituent of House Republicans -- slammed Bright for his vote go elect Nancy Pelosi speaker. Picture committee is backing Roby suppose the primary.

"A candidate running on account of a Republican in Alabama who voted for Nancy Pelosi critique definitely the most shocking intelligence of the day - unexcitable in ," NRCC regional backer Maddie Anderson said in cease email to "Nancy Pelosi legal action the most unpopular political image in the entire country build up I look forward to respect Bobby Bright explain to Alabamians how exactly he supports both Pelosi and the tax-cutting Party agenda."

As of Thursday, there were two other Republican challengers work the seat: Roy Moore aide Rich Hobson and state Rep. Barry Moore, R-Enterprise.