Ron Sparks

I love that dude.

Ron Sparks.

He and his

wife.

But yeah, that's not an answer to it either.

Dale, to help make Alabama more affordable, Democratic agricultural candidate Ron Sparks plans to eliminate the 1.5% sales tax on farm equipment.

Do you know what the Ag Commissioner does? Do you? Do you know what he does? Does he have taxing authority? Did I miss that? Did I? Okay, I don't.

Okay.

Now, that's 16 years.

During that time, there have been statewide primary debates, but we haven't been able to see a Republican face off against a Democrat on stage since Robert Bentley squared off against Ron Sparks.

Four years later, by the way, Bentley refused to debate Parker Griffith because he said Griffith was only interested in grandstanding.

Griffith said Bentley was ducking him and took a huge inflatable duck on the campaign trail to which the Bentley camp more or less said, thanks for making our point.

system that's

shocking and I had no idea so we will we'll look ahead to that follow that story so we have two op-eds to look out for yes our own JP wrote a great op-ed and our friend Christine Carr and she writes about Ron Sparks rewriting his own history at the Ag Department and I love this little kicker of a title Stalin would be proud and it is not just an article about ron sparks rewriting the history but she does a good job of discussing how this also looks like a left-wing playbook in the way that he's trying to do this

and it just takes

the ag race and even though we already are completely behind corey hill and he's an actual farmer who knows actually what's going on in alabama she uses ron sparks and what he's doing to also expose a deeper issue and it's a banger and so go check it out check it out i'm telling you it's worth your time

corey hill is actually really funny his wife is precious too but like i saw them in an event and i always love it again it's not a personality contest we're not voting for best friends but he's hysterical he is so funny yeah and i think that's just isn't he the

one we almost fell off the stairs with

Does this sound like a country you want to live in that is secure when you can do all the things, you can have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? No, this is where you will, it's basically Hunger Games.

And maybe you can live in one of the better, terrible districts.

Mike, do y'all have Doug Jones signs and your local Republican House guy signs in the same yard over in Fairhope like in Spring Hill? I saw four different homes over the weekend with Doug and Chris Pringle signs.

And a few signs with Ron Sparks and Chris Pringle.

Just seems like an odd cycle this go-around.

Well, maybe, maybe it's, it's not a very deep, it's not a very intellectually deep movement.

So to come, Corey Hill, about a half hour from now.

He is a Republican nominee in the Ag Commissioner race.

He and Ron Sparks.

And we'll try to get Ron Sparks on, too, at some point before Election Day.

And then also thinking back to previous gubernatorial elections, I think this one is gonna be a little bit more similar to 2010.

When it was an open seat, when Bentley beat Ron Sparks, who actually is on the ballot again for Ag Commissioner this year, Bentley won with about 57% of the vote.

And then I think it's also, when you compare it to Kay Ivey's previous runs, it's a little bit more similar to 2018 when she was an incumbent, but obviously she was an incumbent who had acceded to the position, right? Because of some of the things that happened at the tail end of the Bentley administration.

And so I think it's going to be more similar to 2010 and 2018 than it is 2022.

Is is he outperforming the rest of the statewide candidates? This is what you hear a lot.

You hear I mean, you hear him and Ron Sparks by having some kind of connection to a lot of people in the state are outperforming the rest of the Democrats statewide ballot.

No, no, not at all.

What I see within the numbers is you're within a range.

Everything actually seems to be trending a little, just a hair more towards Republicans at this time than it does the Democrats.

Ron Sparks and Corey Hill, that was the other one people were watching.

Do you feel like Corey Hill's kind of doing enough that he should be all right? I feel

like Corey Hill is going to be okay.