With a runoff election in just under a month for Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District, one of the candidates competing for the Democratic nomination lives more than a five-hour drive away from the region he’s working to represent.
State Rep. Anthony Daniels is running against former Justice Department official Shomari Figures in the April 16 runoff after the district was reshaped to give black voters more representation following a legal battle that reached the Supreme Court.
Daniels, who serves as the Alabama House minority leader, lives nowhere near the newly drawn 2nd District, which stretches from urban areas in Montgomery and Mobile. The state representative’s office is in Huntsville in the northern part of the state. His LinkedIn also lists his location as Huntsville, which is over 350 miles away and
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