State Auditor’s Book Part of Emerging Race for Governor

| March 30, 2017 

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It’s spring break for many people this week and Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler has a beach reading pick — his book. Zeigler has self-published “The Making of the People’s Governor 2018.” It’s a fictional account of a future Zeigler administration, though he says the book is not an announcement of his candidacy. We talk about that and others who could run for governor in 2018 with Alabama Media Group columnist John Archibald.

 

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