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Checking in on redrawn Alabama 1

Last year’s court-ordered Congressional redistricting — actually it was a re-redistricting — had the awkward effect of placing two sitting Congressmen in Alabama’s First Congressional District.

On policy, both have shown to be conservative. On the political side, they’ve both hitched their wagons to former President Donald Trump.

So, as AL.com’s John Sharp reports, that all has led to an increasingly attacking campaign that’s had Barry Moore call Jerry Carl the “status quo” supported by the “Swamp” and Jerry Carl saying that Barry Moore isn’t dedicated enough to the Trump Agenda, such as building a wall on the southern border.

For GOP primaries in the current political climate, there’s nothing new about those arguments. But what this campaign might give us that DOES stand out is a high-profile election in which the candidates show up to debate one another.

The campaign trend has been moving away from debates, often because a frontrunner refuses to take part. Notable examples of this are Gov. Kay Ivey’s gubernatorial campaign and Trump’s current presidential campaign.

But Carl and Moore are scheduled for a one-hour debate at 6 p.m. today at the Daphne Civic Center.

RIP, Terry Dunn

Terry Dunn, who was elected to the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2010, has passed away, reports AL.com’s Mike Cason.

Dunn’s wife, Alicia Dunn, said her husband’s death was a shock.

Dunn was a Southside, Alabama, Republican. He reportedly believed the commission was too chummy with Alabama Power, and he made his mark on the Commission by calling for more scrutiny of the utility’s profits and rates it charged customers.

David Rountree was Dunn’s chief of staff. “He did speak his mind,” Rountree said of Dunn. “And sometimes for politicians, it’s better to maybe prevaricate a little more than Commissioner Dunn did. Because he was awfully blunt.”

To clarify: “Prevaricate” is a verb meaning “to shuck and jive.” And that wasn’t Dunn’s style, according to Rountree. He lost his reelection bid in 2014.

Before he left, in 2013, the PCS approved a change in the rate-setting process. Dunn, however, did not get the rate hearings that he’d pushed for.

Terry Dunn was 64 years old.

Stanley who?

The next trend I get in on will be my first, so I can’t pretend to have inside information on the big Stanley cups craze. I did have one of their green thermoses for taking coffee in the truck, but I don’t remember feeling any cooler for having done it.

The Stanley Quencher insulated tumbler has a recent history of selling out about as soon as they reach the store. They can cost from $35-$60, and folks have camped out in line for these things.

AL.com’s William Thornton reports that a Birmingham-area teenager has received some attention over her Stanley collection.

High School sophomore Amelia Awad was reported on by the Wall Street Journal and has a TikTok following of more than 137,000 people who want to see how she coordinators her various colors of Stanley cups with her outfits.

It can be a dilemma, trying to match tumbler and t-shirt. But it helps that Amelia has 67 Stanleys to choose from each morning.

Her folks have reportedly spent around $3,000 on the tumblers.

More Alabama news

Born on this date

In 1997, actor Dylan Riley Snyder of Tuscaloosa.

On the calendar

It’s National Beer Can Appreciation Day. (I don’t make these up, by the way.) Today celebrates the day in 1935 when producers started selling beer in cans.

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