Son of a steelworker, Doug Jones works to connect with Alabama voters (al.com)

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Updated on September 29, 2017 at 5:11 PM Posted on September 28, 2017 at 2:24 PM

By Greg Garrison

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The summer he was 19 years old, after his freshman year at the University of Alabama, Doug Jones worked in the cotton tie mill at the U.S. Steel plant in Fairfield.

The thin steel bands used for tying cotton bales would sometimes get tangled as they came through the production line. One day, a piece of steel went flying off the machinery and hit Jones right between his eyes.

Blood began spewing. "There was a stream of blood coming from my forehead about this big around," Jones said, reaching out with his right thumb and index finger in a circle about the size of a nickel. "It could have hit me in the eyes."

He was rushed to Lloyd Noland Hospital in Fairfield, where a doctor stitched his wound shut. Then he thought about the steel mill's safety record. "I don't remember how many stitches I got," Jones said. "I just remember rushing back to work to sweep or whatever so we didn't lose any hours for an industrial accident."

The faint jagged scar, about an inch long, is still visible between his eyebrows. It's the mark of a blue-collar background that the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Alabama can draw on in his appeal for votes in the Dec. 12 special election. He will oppose the Republican candidate, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.
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AL voters have a choice -- a former prosecutor who enforces the rule of law, or an activist judge who legislates from the bench and considers himself above the law.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Uphill battle, he is, after all, not crazy and hasnt dedicated his life to destroying theirs like

his opponent has.

They like that stuff there.

[kimbutgar]

2. And I pity the man because the money and slime thrown at him will be odious

[Persondem]

3. I had a thought on this just a few minutes ago

I was reading an article about just how zealous Moore is ... he is so very on the fringe and literally does not believe in, nor will he support and defend, the Constitution. Assuming he wins and takes the oath of office, he could be impeached for perjury as he will be 100% lying. He is on record saying some very un-Constitutional things. Might have to wait until after the oath and then spouts his religious nonsense. Still, he cannot truthfully say that he will defend the Constitution.

[bluestarone]

4. not

by these repubs sorry to say

[Persondem]

5. Perhaps there is another way ... VA (DC)?) Attorney General charges Moore with

perjury and the case gets resolved in a regular courtroom instead of the Congress. If Sessions has jurisdiction then the idea is scuppered of course.