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Sessions holds big fundraising lead in House 105 primary
All 3 Republicans competing in Tuesday's special election have said that improving the cost and availability of coastal insurance was a top priority.
Each has endorsed the Property Insurance Clarity Act, a proposal
initiated by HHII that would force insurers to publish a detailed, searchable online database of insurance premium rates and losses. Each also said that the state should be able to force insurers who cover cars or upstate property in Alabama to write wind policies along the coast.
Burdine and Meredith rejected the idea of state price mandates, but Sessions said he would consider such a measure depending on what data made public by the Clarity Act might show.
Alabama Farmers Federation helped give Sessions unmatched resources to
compete but the group’s donations could be a political liability in a coastal Alabama House district hard hit by rising home insurance rates.
Alfa Mutual Group, the Montgomery-based organization’s insurance wing, is Alabama’s second-largest homeowners insurance company. It is also a frequent opponent of bills in the Legislature intended to improve the availability and affordability of coverage near the coast.
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George Altman's original 3/20 story in Press-Register
Posted 3/20/2011 |
DISTRICT 105 CANDIDATE FORUM
The Candidate Forum in Theodore Thursday night, March 10, hosted
by The Quest for Justice, Alabama Christian Coalition, & HHII,
with the support of Senator Ben Brooks, focused
exclusively on solving the hurricane insurance crisis. All of the candidates agreed to support the Clarity Bill and fight to significantly lower our premiums.
The Just Faith Class at Corpus Cristi Catholic Church took a leadership role
in putting it together. The organizational mingling evolving around this crisis
is significant. Baldwin and Mobile counties share
leadership; as do affluent and poor, black and white, Democrats,
Republicans, and Tea Partiers.
The candidates are running in a special election for the state representative position vacated by Spencer Collier who accepted a position in the new governor's cabinet. The district covers much of the southwestern part of Mobile County, but the race is significant to everyone because of the nature of the hurricane insurance crisis.
Updated 3/12/2011 |