The Cullman County Republican Party gathered Saturday morning to hear speeches from prospective state government candidates.

The Cullman County Republican Party gathered Saturday morning to hear speeches from prospective state government candidates, including lieutenant governor hopeful Rusty Glover and Alabama attorney general contender Chess Bedsole.

Candidate messages centered largely on the importance of using the same GOP momentum that helped President Donald Trump win the Oval Office to fill positions in Alabama’s state government, with committed conservatives focused on getting the state’s political house in order.

Glover promised Cullman’s GOP faithful that if elected, his top priority would be strengthening ties between Alabama’s governor and lieutenant governor offices — regardless of political differences. That, he contends, is the best way to keep state government on track to fulfilling promises made to conservative voters, following a series of distracting political scandals and Montgomery mishaps.

“I pledge to work with the governor, whoever that governor may be,” Glover said, adding. “In the past few decades, I don’t know if we can remember a time where the governor and the lieutenant governor really worked in tandem, or really had a good relationship.”

The former educator and District 34 senator considers workforce training vital to Alabama’s economic future.

“It’s very important to put the people first,” he said. “Because there are very important issues like economic development and workforce development, that I pledge to work extremely hard on, and the governor is going to need help.”

Bedsole, whose most recent political endeavor involved working closely with the fledging Trump administration to reverse President Barack Obama’s executive orders, is similarly interested in establishing a new “normal” in Montgomery.

In an interview with the Trussville Tribune earlier this month, the lawyer and Republican judge stressed the importance of filling the attorney general position with a candidate who bears no ties to the disgrace many GOP members believe former Gov. Robert Bentley brought upon the state.

“We need an Attorney General who neither asked for, nor took anything from Governor Bentley and his cronies. I have clean hands and I am the only candidate who can say that,” Bedsole said at the time. “Therefore, I won’t have to recuse myself or get a special prosecutor to do my job for me.”

The candidate suggested he would handle his duties as Alabama’s attorney general in much the same way former Senator and current U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions did when elected to Alabama’s top law enforcement office in 1994.

Bedsole believes recent Alabama political developments involving the office necessitate the election of a similarly transformative Alabama attorney general.