Alabama Governor candidate to speak before Selma High-Stan Elmore contest

Published 2:22 pm Thursday, October 11, 2018

Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, the Democrat nominee for Governor, will be speaking Friday at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Stadium parking lot.

It’s part of the Walt Maddox Bus Tour, where Maddox has been touring across parts of the state campaigning in his bid to unseat incumbent Gov. Kay Ivey (Republican) at the General Election on Nov. 6.

Maddox will speak an hour before Selma High’s homecoming contest against Stanhope Elmore at the school’s fish fry.

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This will be Maddox’s third trip to the Queen City this year. He visited the area in June and spoke at the opening of the African-American Episcopal Church Conference at Historic Brown Chapel AME Church on Aug. 21.

Maddox won the Democrat nomination at the June 5 primary election, securing 55 percent of the vote. Sue Bell Cobb was second at 29 percent.

“I’m running for Governor because we hear the shouts,” Maddox said at Brown Chapel on Aug. 21. “We hear shouts of the ballot box in Montgomery. We hear shouts about the mental health system across the state of Alabama. We hear the shouts about the hospitals in Alabama that are closing.”

Earlier Friday, Maddox is scheduled to speak at the Chatom Courthouse and the Downtown Square in Andalusia.

Maddox seeks to become the state’s first Democratic Governor since Gov. Don Siegelman in 1998.