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KAY IVEY EMPHASIZES CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES

DURING GOP CANDIDATE FORUM

OffersConservative Leadership with Effective Results

(Opelika, AL – January 28, 2010)  State Treasurer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Kay Ivey emphasized herstrong conservative principles during Thursday night’s Lee County Republicancandidate forum in Opelika.

A large crowd filled Opelika High School’sPerforming Arts Center where several GOP candidates for governor appeared onstage. Ivey repeatedly stole the spotlight by staking out firm positions onsuch issues as restoring financial responsibility to state government. 

“People are looking for a genuine, committedconservative to fix our broken government and to lead us out of this financialmess,” she said after the event. “I’m telling them about my record ofdelivering results, about the nearly $5,000,000, after proration, that I havesaved taxpayers while increasing efficiency in the Treasurer’s office. Folksunderstand our next governor must not only be serious about making all of stategovernment work better with less money, she must know how to make that happen.And I can do it.”

Ivey explained how her work as Assistant Director ofADO (where she brought jobs to Alabama and helped existing companies expand andcreate new ones), plus her time working as a classroom teacher at the start ofher career (where she learned the need for making sure tax dollars actuallyreach the teachers and students who need them most), make her uniquelyqualified to lead Alabama through the challenges of the next four years.

“Tonight I got to share my message directly with thepeople of Lee County. I told them about my plans for bringing more good payingjobs to Alabama, for reducing the pork spending that bloats our state budgetsand wastes our tax dollars, about the need to get students learning at highstandards and the steps we must to take – including bringing charter schoolshere — to make that happen. I offer conservative leadership with effectiveresults, and I’m ready to deliver for the people of Alabama!”

More candidate forums are coming up soon for theRepublican candidate.  Ivey is scheduled to appear in Monday night’s forumon education issues in Huntsville.    

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