MOBILE — At this early stage of the 2026 statewide race for an open seat of attorney general, large fundraising may become an issue.
Speaking to the West Mobile Republican Women’s Club on Wednesday, candidate Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey inserted the issue: “Our Attorney General’s office is not for sale.”
“What’s for sale? Our children? Our families?”
Casey, the 14-year Blount County District Attorney, made the comments after two of her opponents reported early fundraising in excess of $1 million each.
Required filings with the Alabama Secretary of State showed AG candidates Jay Mitchell and Katherine Robertson had each raised just under $1.3 million.
The three will face off in the Republican primary on May 19, 2026. The deadline for any other candidates to join the race is January 23, 2026. No Democrat candidates have filed paperwork with the Secretary of State’s office to run for AG.
Meanwhile, Pamela Casey’s report showed she had raised $87,491.
One contribution to a Casey opponent was an eye-catcher and came from out of state.
First Principles Action, a Nashville-based nonprofit, gave Katherine Robertson a $1 million donation for the AG race. First Principles is led by Peter Bisbee, who was previously employed by the Republican Attorneys General Association.
Casey told the GOP women, “I am not for sale. The Attorney General’s office is not for sale. This race does not need to be an auction.”
She said her own fundraising is the campaign leader in individual contributors, and the donors are from all seven of Alabama’s congressional districts.
To check fundraising totals on all 2026 state races, go online to the Alabama Secretary of State and look under Elections for Political Race Search.
“I have traveled all over the state for several months, and my message has been clear. I am the only candidate for Attorney General that has ever been in a courtroom and prosecuted criminals,” Casey said. “As a career prosecutor, I have the experience to do the job from the moment I am sworn in, because I have almost two decades of experience prosecuting and convicting thieves, rapists, child predators and murderers and standing with law enforcement.”
“Crime is one of the most serious issues that families deal with, and they want an attorney general who has actual, real-world experience taking on the bad guys and winning. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer for the state. I am the only one in this race who has stared down a criminal in the courtroom and presented a case to a jury. That is what the people of Alabama want, an attorney general who will work and fight to make Alabama safe.”
Casey was first elected as district attorney in 2010 at the age of 29, making her the youngest female district attorney in the state of Alabama. Previously, she had worked as an assistant and deputy state attorney general.
In 2023, she criticized the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles for failing to monitor violent inmates released from Alabama prisons.
The 44-year-old Casey is from Snead, in Blount County, and is married with two children born by in vitro fertilization.
Jay Mitchell is a former Alabama Supreme Court justice. He resigned that position this year to run for attorney general, as required by law.
Katherine Robertson is the chief counsel for the present Attorney General Steve Marshall, who is term-limited and prohibited from running for a third consecutive term.
Jim ‘Zig’ Zeigler’s beat is the colorful and positive about Alabama -- her people, places, events, groups and prominent deaths. He is a former Alabama Public Service Commissioner and State Auditor. You can reach him for comments at [email protected].
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