From Mud Puddles to Money Tables: Why Montgomery Fears Andrew Sorrell

By Christopher M Peeks September 28, 2025

While speaking to a reporter about the boredom of the 2026 Alabama gubernatorial race recently, they said off the record, “We can manufacture a story." Like a puppeteer pulling strings behind the curtain, the media can manipulate the masses into reacting like Chicken Little himself—thinking the sky is falling on a day when, in reality, the heavens are as blue as the ocean. Currently in Alabama politics, we see a narrative being fabricated like a car on the assembly line.

The tale being woven together is multilayered, like a rich chocolate cake fresh from your memaw’s oven.

The mainstream Alabama media has felt encumbered to engineer Caroleen Dobson into a political heavyweight as if they were creating a structure reaching to the skyline.

Why, I am not sure. She lost the general election last November for the Second Congressional seat to Shomari Figures, and here of recent, she passed on Governor Ivey’s offer to head the Alabama Public Service Commission after the former president, Twinkle Cavanaugh, left to head USDA. After turning down the appointment, she decided she wanted to be the next Alabama Secretary of State.

Shortly after getting in that race, a story broke about her opponent in next May’s GOP primary, State Auditor Andrew Sorrell, and ties to a Ponzi scheme. Even though innocent of any wrongdoing, the media and Dobson pounced on the maverick politician like birds of prey swooping down from the sky on a wounded animal. Innuendos of scandal swirled over Sorrell’s head like a late July afternoon thunderstorm. Though most politico people know the story had as much teeth as a newborn puppy, the allegations still hang around Sorrell’s neck like an albatross.

Now, after going through the first layers, let's examine the icing going on this dessert.

Perception is not always reality, but image is everything. In Steve Flowers’ most recent column in Yellowhammer News, he attempts to plant a false image in people's heads. Like a tomato plant put in the ground on a cool April morning, Flowers wants the reader to believe Dobson is pulling away from Sorrell.

What does Flowers base this on? Well, he doesn't say. My guess is Dobson’s larger campaign war chest. On the surface, this looks substantial, but when you look deeper and see she loaned herself $500,000, her support looks as shallow as a drying three-day-old mud puddle.

Why is Flowers attempting to bird-dog this race? He is an insider and gets his marching orders from the powers that be—mainly the Business Council of Alabama, or BCA—and they are launching a “Stop Andrew Sorrell Movement” due to his inability to be controlled. Sorrell dances to the beat of his own drum, and this scares Montgomery like a teenage girl in a horror house. If he wins this election, they know they cannot impede his path to the governor's mansion, and when he gets there, look out. Like Christ at the money table, he will turn the Alabama Capitol upside down.

So don't indulge in the fondant Montgomery is serving up. They are trying to pass off splenda, and memaw used sugar in her cake—and the truth is sweeter. The MSM wants you to believe Dobson is winning this race in an attempt to suppress support for Sorrell. Don't buy this fable any more than Aladdin's magic lamp. Nor is Dobson a towering political high-rise building, and my chronicle does need a craftsman—unlike the yarn the Alabama fake news media is trying to sell you.

Christopher M Peeks

Reporter and Columnist

Alabama Political Contributor

Alabama State Auditor Andrew Sorrell