State Rep. Alvin Holmes has three guns, all “little .38 specials,” and said he is a supporter of the Second Amendment, but said he is opposed to citizens owning assault weapons. “People do not need those kinds of weapons to protect their families and protect their homes,” Holmes said this week. He supports people owning [...]
Rep. Alvin Holmes said Thursday that House Speaker Mike Hubbard misled the public and lawmakers when he sent out a memo on June 8 stating that “no members will be approved for in-state or out-of-state travel through the remainder of the fiscal year.” Holmes said the state reimbursed lawmakers for travel before the end of [...]
State Rep. Alvin Holmes said changing the name of the Rosa L. Parks Avenue Branch Library would send the wrong message to the world. Holmes, D-Montgomery, said if the City Council agrees on Tuesday to change the name to the Willie Welch Branch Library – after the city’s first black librarian at a public library – [...]
Longtime state Rep. Alvin Holmes is criticizing House Speaker Mike Hubbard for the lack of diversity on his staff. Holmes, in a letter to the Auburn Republican, accused Hubbard of discrimination for having no blacks on his six-person staff and pushed for him to immediately rectify the situation. “Mr. Holmes is known for making many [...]
State Rep. Alvin Holmes said Wednesday he will not post bond for 13 of the people arrested a day earlier at the State House protesting the state’s new illegal immigration law because they now have lawyers. Holmes, D-Montgomery, told the Montgomery Advertiser the night before that he planned to pay the bond for those 13 [...]