Twinkle Andress, executive director of the state Republican Party, denounced the findings, refusing even to entertain the notion that the study's data could show a correlation. If he's not on Jere Beasley's payroll, he's probably looking to get a job, and if you want to get a job, you have to kowtow to these guys. Ware laughed out loud when told of those comments. I'm willing to go on record to say arbitration is the reason I'm voting Republican in this election, because I want courts to enforce arbitration. Though more measured in his criticism, state Democratic Party executive director Phillip Kinney also disputed the idea that campaign donations buy judges.
Campaigns cost money.
People give to campaigns for a number of reasons. It could be that they like the person personally, or they go to church with them, or it's their neighbor. There are as many reasons to give to campaigns as you can possibly think. Those venues are where arbitration cases go on appeal. The route of choice for Alabama trial attorneys has been to funnel money to the state Democratic Party, which parcels it out to candidates - much of it to judicial races, according to campaign finance records on file with the Secretary of State's office.