MOBILE MORNINGS - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17 HOUR 3

Sean Sullivan, Dalton Orwig, Senate Republican primary race, Bradley Byrne, job interview-style ad, over the weekend the gloves come off, Sessions campaign returns fire against Byrne and Tuberville, amnesty advocacy, Tuberville said he supported a wall to slow down drug trafficking, 'we want them to come in, we just need to know who's here', pro-Trump stances, State Auditor Jim Zeigler, Alabama concerns first over national Trump concerns, senators like diplomats to Washington from the state, Doug Jones, the primary is much more like the general, Sessions spent 8 years during Obama's Presidency laying out what would eventually become Trump's election campaign, examiners of public accounts, Jim Zeigler is in the studio, SB83, State Senate governmental affairs committee, no members from Mobile county, Chris Elliott, And Greg Albritton, auditing state properties, switching costs and agencies, increase staff size, move staff over, abolishing State Auditor's office if bill passed, budget and staff cutbacks, field auditor, audited the Speaker of the House, looked for and found an item: missing printer, report to Attorney General, 'half' means part-timer, lost office space and parking spaces, petty cut-backs, a lot of cutbacks happened before the toll bridge issue, Amendment 1, removing vote for State Board of Education, only appointed by Governor from there on out, Jackie Zeigler, won the electon against the Governor's 'pick', would never have been appointed by that Governor,