George Wallace, bored with life as “senior adviser” to his wife, then Alabama’s governor, was pondering a run for president. “I wouldn’t do it,” Mr. Shelby, now the state’s six-term senator, told me by telephone from Washington on Thursday. Mr. Shelby urged voters to write in the name of “some distinguished Republican,” and nearly 23,000 Alabamians seem to have followed suit. That was when Mr. Shelby, having not yet changed parties, won his second term. To outside eyes, Senator Shelby is an unlikely rebel.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2017 02:26 UTC