Griffith campaign materials at Jackson County Courthouse?

Does this listener video show illegal campaigning in Jackson County?

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[TheAttackMachine]

PubliusIX,

The law, is the law. Here is the statue...

Section 17-17-5

Improper use of state property, time, etc., for political activities

No person in the employment of the State of Alabama, a county, or a city whether classified or unclassified, shall use any state, county, or city funds, property, or time, for any political activities.

...have some one read it to you.

I didn't make the law.

Since when is a "yankee" someone from Florida?

[PubliusIX]

Since when is it "a person in the employment of the state" using state funds or property, when the act is that of a campaign volunteer leaving some brochures on the counter? Also, since the Courthouse is a "public place," that kind of activity is protected under the First Amendment as long as it doesn't disrupt the office. And for the record, but for the gators and skeeters, we lost track of the difference between Florida and Jersey about 1970.

[deesonic41]

So you think Parker Griffith himself put literature on a counter in a public place? Somehow I doubt that. I'm sure all of his supporters, and Wayne Parker's for that matter, have read Section 17-17-5 in its entirety. Haha...

[PubliusIX]

Um, no, it doesn't. Anyone who has lived in Alabama their whole life knows it's customary for candidates to leave their literature on the counters in public places like restaurants, courthouse offices, stores. Only some Yankee transplant would complain about it. And I've seen Republican material on courthouse counters, too, including in Scottsboro.