Q & A with African-American Alabama Gubernatorial Candidate Artur Davis

[Rufus2007]

Decent read - interview with Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala.

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A Sit Down With Candidate Artur Davis

By Jeff Poor
Issue #178
May 19, 2009

WASHINGTON – Back in February, Rep. Artur Davis announced a campaign to seek the Alabama governorship in 2010. Should he win, he would be the first African-American to hold the governor’s mansion in Alabama’s history.

Davis represents Alabama’s Seventh Congressional district and is a Harvard-educated Democrat that unseated five-term incumbent Earl Hilliard in 2002. Last week, he took time out from a series of votes on Capitol Hill to talk to Lagniappe about his gubernatorial run.

L: Why do you want to be governor?

AD: Our state is facing some very, very difficult challenges. How do we build a job base that’s stronger than the one we have, that’s more diverse than the one we have? How do we strengthen our public schools to get to the point to where any parent in the state who wishes to put a child in a public school can do that without fearing a loss in quality? How do we get our schools to the point where the people who come out of them can compete all over the world?

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http://www.lagniappemobile.com/articles/336-a-sit-down-with-candidate-artur-davis

[Frances]

1. Interesting interview

Thanks for posting it