The whole familiar strains of bitterness have returned to Goat Hill in Montgomery.

Paul Hubbert, leader of the Alabama’s dominant teachers union and one of the state’s most powerful lobbyists, wrote a letter to Re publican lawmakers this week casting state GOP Chairman Marty Connors as an aspiring “dictator.”

Connors responded with a letter of his own to legislators, defending his opposition to the Alabama Education Association. And in a subsequent interview with the Mobile Register, he said Hubbert is engaged in a “classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.”

“If anyone is a dictator in Ala bama, it’s Paul Hubbert,” Connors said, adding that he told lawmakers as much in his letter. “We’re trying to give the legislators a little liberation.”

This disagreement bears an eerie resemblance to a third grade schoolyard fight. But he started it! No, he started it! Alabama voters need to respond with, I don’t care who started it, we’re going to finish it. We have returned to a stalemate in the legislature, with few bills of substance being passed. This is no way for government to operate and a clear message needs to be sent that if you can’t work together, the citizens will find new representation.

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