Alabama Lawmaker Abandons GOP Over New Law Aimed At Teachers

[cal04]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/alabama-lawmaker-abandons-gop-over-teacher-rights-stripping-law.php

Chalk up another Democratic win this week: Alabama State Rep. Daniel Boman, who entered the legislature as a Republican in November, is switching parties to become a Democrat after he says the GOP went too far in attacking teachers in the state.

It's just the latest example of mainline Republicans turning on their party following the November sweep which put them in control of the House. On Tuesday, the solidly-Republican 26th Congressional District in New York rejected the GOP in part over the party's decision to end Medicare in the House budget. A few days before that, the Democrats stunned the Republican city of Jacksonville by electing the first Democratic mayor in 20 years. In New Hampshire Democrats picked up a surprising win in a legislative special election.

Now there's Bowman, who's walking away from the GOP after it took on the state's public school teachers.

From the Tuscaloosa News:
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20110526/NEWS/110529701/1007?Title=State-Rep-Boman-switches-to-Democratic-Party

Boman, a 36-year-old lawyer from Sulligent, said Wednesday's vote on a bill to change the state's tenure and fair dismissal laws for educators convinced him he was in the wrong party.

[Egnever]

1. Not sure how I feel about republicans just deciding they are democrats,

But I am happy to see the GOP support going south.

[bluestate10]

2. Yeah. I am a bit queasy about the conversion too. But, at least he sees

the insanity of the party that he was a member of. Southern democrats may end up taking in the few moderate republicans left in the republican party.