Tag: STEVE MCCLINTON

Just weeks after Birmingham podcaster Iva Williams filed an ethics complaint against State Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham) for paying her brother for campaign services in her race for Birmingham mayor against incumbent Randall Woodfin, the Alabama Ethics Commission informed Givan that the case was “closed.” But that closure isn't the end.

Hoover City Councilman Steve McClinton is speaking out after the Alabama Ethics Commission cleared him of wrongdoing in what he described to 1819 News as a “weaponized” complaint filed by council president John Lyda, with support from Mayor Frank Brocato and City attorney Phillip Corley. 

With the qualifying period closed, at least three members of the Hoover City Council will be vacating their seats. Curt Posey, Sam Swiney, and John Lyda chose not to run for reelection.

One year ago this week, Hoover City Councilor Steve McClinton proposed removing Council president John Lyda from his leadership position and replacing him with Councilman Casey Middlebrooks. Of the six members on the council present that evening, only one voted against the motion to vacate.

Four of seven councilmen have endorsed Derzis in his effort to unseat incumbent mayor Frank Brocato, with two council members saying they'll stay neutral and one who did not respond to a request for comment.

Hoover City Council meetings can be described in many ways, but boring is rarely one of them. This week’s meeting was no exception.  

Hoover City Councilman Steve McClinton announced his intention to seek reelection to the council in the August 26 election this year.

An impromptu special meeting to consider how to proceed with negotiations for an incentive package on the second phase of Stadium Trace Village in Hoover could not proceed on Friday, as not enough council members showed up at the 1:30 p.m. meeting to vote.

The Stadium Trace Village Phase 2 saga took another unusual twist on Thursday.

A Hoover city councilman thanked state lawmakers for working on legislation to increase penalties for false reporting following the staged kidnapping of Hoover’s Carlee Russell, which gained national attention earlier this year.

By Brandon Moseley Helena City Councilwoman Leigh Hulsey announced on Thursday her candidacy for State Representative in Alabama House...