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Tim James (Alabama)
Tim James (Republican Party) ran for election for Governor of Alabama. He lost in the Republican primary on May 24, 2022.
Biography
Tim is the son of former two-term Governor of Alabama Fob James, Jr. Tim ran for Governor in the Republican primary of 2002, losing to current incumbent Governor Bob Riley. In mid-2008, Tim announced his candidacy for Governor of Alabama in 2010[1].
Education
- Auburn University
Elections
2022
See also: Alabama gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Governor of Alabama
Incumbent Kay Ivey defeated Yolanda Flowers, James Blake, and Jared Budlong in the general election for Governor of Alabama on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kay Ivey (R) | 66.9 | 946,932 |
 | Yolanda Flowers (D) | 29.2 | 412,961 | |
 | James Blake (L) | 3.2 | 45,958 | |
 | Jared Budlong (Independent) (Write-in)  | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 9,432 | ||
| Total votes: 1,415,283 | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for Governor of Alabama
Yolanda Flowers defeated Malika Sanders-Fortier in the Democratic primary runoff for Governor of Alabama on June 21, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Yolanda Flowers | 55.1 | 32,529 |
 | Malika Sanders-Fortier | 44.9 | 26,469 | |
| Total votes: 58,998 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of Alabama
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Governor of Alabama on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Yolanda Flowers | 33.9 | 56,991 |
| ✔ | | Malika Sanders-Fortier | 32.5 | 54,699 |
 | Patricia Jamieson | 11.7 | 19,691 | |
 | Arthur Kennedy | 9.3 | 15,630 | |
 | Doug Smith | 7.1 | 11,861 | |
 | Chad Chig Martin | 5.6 | 9,352 | |
| Total votes: 168,224 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Governor of Alabama
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Alabama on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kay Ivey | 54.5 | 357,069 |
 | Lynda Blanchard | 19.2 | 126,202 | |
 | Tim James | 16.2 | 106,181 | |
 | Lew Burdette | 6.5 | 42,924 | |
 | Dean Odle | 1.8 | 11,767 | |
| Donald Jones | 0.6 | 3,821 | ||
| Dave Thomas | 0.4 | 2,886 | ||
 | Stacy George | 0.4 | 2,546 | |
 | Dean Young | 0.4 | 2,356 | |
| Total votes: 655,752 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jim Zeigler (R)
2010
James came in third in the June 1, 2010, primary, losing to Robert J. Bentley and Bradley Byrne.
| 2010 Race for Governor - Republican Primary[2] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidates | Percentage | |||
 Robert J. Bentley (R)
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25.2% | |||
| Bradley Byrne (R)
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27.9% | |||
| Tim James (R) | 25.1% | |||
| Bill Johnson (R) | 1.7% | |||
| Roy Moore (R) | 19.3% | |||
| James Potts (R) | 0.3% | |||
| Charles Taylor (R) | 0.5% | |||
| Total votes | 492,480 | |||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tim James did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
James' campaign website stated the following:
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Better Schools for Alabama In US News and World Report’s 2021 ranking of states, Alabama scored 47th nationally in education. Meanwhile, education revenue has soared. This disproves the education lobby’s argument that more money is the answer. We must deconstruct the education bureaucracy that is failing our kids and rebuild it with parents, teachers and principals fully in charge of the success of our students. School choice must be available for the parent or guardian of every student. We need more options tailored to each child’s needs. We need to stand up for and support our teachers. This means paying them well and removing disruptive students from the classroom. We need to empower our principals. Principals need to have the "backs" of their teachers, allowing them to do their jobs, and the governor must have the "backs" of our principals so they can empower our teachers to work with our parents to do what is best for our children. We must fight for both principals and teachers to receive additional compensation and bonuses tied to improving grade scores in their respective schools. We must stop liberals from turning our schools into laboratories of social experimentation. Girls’ sports and bathrooms must be protected from boys claiming to be girls. We will spearhead legislation to permanently ban the teaching of critical race theory as a legitimate worldview in our K—12 schools. Casino Gambling Casino magnates, together with some political leaders in our state, are trying to turn Alabama into the Las Vegas of the South with nine full-scale casinos. That effort must be stopped. Casinos have been shown to have an adverse impact on small businesses, working families and society as a whole. We must not allow the profiteers of gambling to convert our towns into models of decay. Defend Our Values We must protect our Judeo-Christian heritage, and if I am privileged to serve as governor, we will keep faith in God first, and family second in all public policy decisions. These beliefs form the foundation on which America was constructed and undergird our constitutional republic. We will protect the religious liberty of our pastors and churches and will resist any federal order to shut them down, for any reason, as was done in 2020. We must do everything in our power to reverse the unconstitutional court ruling that altered the traditional family. Marriage is a union of one man and one woman as defined by 4,000 years of history and tradition. We must end the plague of abortion-on-demand. The cries of 75 million unborn babes will not cease until this infanticide ends once and for all. Federal Mandates We can never tolerate unconstitutional federal mandates, such as the most recent attempt by the Biden Administration to force Alabama workers to take vaccines against their will, under the threat of losing their jobs and potentially being forced into poverty. Freedom and liberty must be preserved at all costs, and unfortunately, at times there is a price to pay if we stand against federal tyranny. Alabama must never tolerate any attempt by the federal government to become Alabama’s puppet master with unconstitutional mandates and decrees. Illegal Immigration While the Joe Biden White House wages war on its own citizens with vaccine mandates, they have failed on illegal immigration with no plan for stopping the flood of gang activity, illegal drug distribution and the human trafficking that results from not controlling the southern border. Building the wall remains more important than ever. But while Alabama cannot participate directly in building the wall, we can and should take more steps to stop illegal immigration in the port of Mobile and to increase our efforts to stop human trafficking. We will redouble our efforts to coordinate with law enforcement, faith-based agencies and business leaders to stop the spread of violence associated with illegal immigration. Second Amendment Our Founding Fathers expected Americans to be armed as a means of protecting their families from both criminals and tyranny. If the federal government ever makes the terrible decision to overstep its bounds on this issue, we will not submit. Every other constitutional right is guaranteed by our right to bear arms. Tax Cuts We will work to repeal the gas tax passed in 2019 and to eliminate the sales tax on essential groceries. The revenue collected in Alabama’s state coffers has outpaced the rate of inflation over the last decade, and at the same time, delivery of essential services has declined. We must never tolerate misuse of hard-earned taxpayer money, nor tolerate under-performance by any office or division of the State of Alabama. We need to make state government leaner and more efficient from top to bottom and to deliver tax relief for the working families of Alabama. Medical Marijuana This past legislative session, the legislature passed a bill, signed by Governor Ivey, which permits the sale and distribution of “medical marijuana.” Referred to as the "Compassion Act,” this would more accurately be designated the “Bait and Switch Act.” The legislation creates a distribution system where a "dispensary" or pot shop can be placed in towns across Alabama, and the law expressly says any cannabis card holder can have more than 60 doses of marijuana in possession at one time, including parents and their children. Under the current law, theoretically, an entire family can find an approved diagnosis and be cardholders, which is the perfect recipe for fraud and abuse. We must not permit medical marijuana to become a street drug under the guise of medicine. Currently, there are four cannabis-based drugs already approved by the FDA, which any doctor can prescribe for people in need, even for off-label therapies. By supporting further research and development of cannabis-based drugs, we can compassionately help patients in need while protecting the public from the marijuana cartels. This position maintains the integrity of evidenced-base medicine, supports the excellent doctors concerned about the effects of drug abuse, improves the educational outlook for Alabama children and stands with the excellent men and women of our judicial and law enforcement system. The following organizations and leaders have strongly urged the legislature and governor not to pass the medical marijuana legislation, including but not limited to:
Some Medical Organizations against Dispensary Marijuana are as follows:
We should repeal Alabama’s “medical marijuana” law and proceed with a plan that is open, honest and scientifically sound. [3] |
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| —Tim James[4] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ "Talk of 2010 governor's race going strong " The South Alabamian
- ↑ Politico 2010 Election Map - Governor - Alabama
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Tim James' campaign website, “Issues,” accessed May 2, 2022
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