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The campaign for Republican Caroleene Dobson of Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District tried to paint Democratic challenger Shomari Figures as a Washington insider. The figures, however, do not attempt to hide the national connections.

Figures comes from a political family and has served in the Obama and Biden administrations.

Look for Democrats to pour into the state this week as the national party hopes to flip Alabama 2 for the first time in 14 years, AL.com’s John Sharp reports.

You have to go back to 2010 when Martha Roby defeated Bobby Bright to turn the seat red. A landslide victory would give Alabama two Democrats of its seven lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas was in Montgomery over the weekend for a church roundtable and to meet with students from the state of Alabama.

Former US Attorney General, Eric Holder, will continue his campaign with Figures in Mobile today. Then later in the week, House Minority Leader and New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries will be on the stump in Montgomery.

The precious Wurlitzer

After eight months offline, the grand organ is back to work at the Alabama Theater in Birmingham, AL.com’s Mary Colurso reports.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ was built in 1927. This is the year Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs and also the year the Alabama Theater opened on Christmas Day. People at the theater that day and many others for nearly a hundred years watched the great organ rise from under the stage to give a performance.

Along the way, she earned the nickname “Big Bertha.”

In fact, much of the tool remains hidden in parts of the building. But that console you see standing up is one that spent several months in repair and maintenance at AE Schlueter Pipe Organ Co. from Lithonia, Georgia. It is the first major work performed on the organ since 1998.

He returned to Alabama in time for last weekend’s screening of the 1925 silent film “Phantom of the Opera.”

Delayed gratification

NASCAR has officially recognized Hueytown’s Bobby Allison as the winner of the 1971 Myers Brothers Memorial.

Whether he finished the race first, ahead of Richard Petty, was never in question. But there was a problem because both the Grand American and Grand National Series ran together at the track at the same time, an occasional practice at the time, and Allison was driving Grand American’s car.

So when he won the race, he wasn’t credited with a win in the Grand National — NASCAR’s top series at the time.

NASCAR rectified that 53 years later, AL.com’s Mark Inabinett reports.

And it’s actually a bigger deal than it sounds. Allison had been tied with Darrell Waltrip for fourth in career wins, so he now sits alone in fourth.

The top 5 in all-time wins are Petty (200), David Pearson (105), Jeff Gordon (93), Allison (85) and Waltrip (84).

(Sorry DW)

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“What you will see is that you don’t know as much as you think you do. You’ll learn that no matter how smart you think you are, you’ll be shocked at how much you don’t know.”

Rapper Doug E. Freshtalking to students at AH Parker High School about something many of us have found to be true.

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