January 31, 2022 Group Watch: Hank Sanders Hoping to Return to the Senate
Hank Sanders, who represented a Black Belt district for nine terms in the Alabama Senate before stepping aside for his daughter in 2018, is running for his old seat. Sanders, a lawyer from Selma, announced that his daughter, Senator Malika Sanders-Fortier, will not run for a second term and that he will run for the district 23 seat. Sanders says that his focus will include Medicaid Expansion. He may be unopposed in the race. Thus far, no Democrats or Republicans have qualified in the heavily Democrat-leaning district. Sanders was one of the Senate’s most powerful members when Democrats held the majority before losing it in 2010. He chaired the education budget committee.
