Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R) easily sailed to his third term.

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Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R) easily sailed to his third term as speaker on a roll call vote of 99-6, despite being indicted on 23 charges of using his office for personal gain. Hubbard, a media executive, became the first Republican speaker since Reconstruction when the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 election. He wrote a book about the experience, entitled "Storming the State House: The Campaign That Liberated Alabama from 136 Years of Democrat Rule." Representative Micky Hammon (R)...