Walt Maddox says of Gov. Kay Ivey: 'That is not leadership'

Democratic gubernatorial nominee and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox previewed a general election campaign strategy Thursday of hitting Gov. Kay Ivey hard on Montgomery corruption and the "crisis" in the state's infrastructure, health care system, prisons and schools.

"She has sat there and not addressed any of these issues specifically," Maddox said of Ivey and corruption in the capital. Speaking in his first campaign speech since winning the nomination to Democratic lawmakers and activists, Maddox noted that another state lawmaker was indicted this week in a federal pill mill case in Montgomery.

"All we have heard over the last two years while corruption has shown its face in Montgomery is silence," Maddox told a conference of Democratic leaders and organizers in Florence. "That is not leadership. That is not leadership. Alabama deserves better."

Democratic candidates have been talking issues, Maddox said. "The other party was talking about mountain oysters and Confederate monuments, dividing the state, using empty rhetoric. That is not leadership. That is not leadership."

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