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Thad McClammy is a Democratic member of the Alabama House of Representatives, representing District 76. He was first elected in 1994. McClammy is running for re-election in the primary on June 5, 2018. The general election will take place on November 6, 2018.
McClammy was born on October 22, 1942. His professional experience includes working as the national financial secretary for Tots and Teens Inc., owning the company Capitol Realty, and serving as president of Trenholm State Technical College.
Chair, Public Safety Committee, Alabama State House of Representatives, present
Chair, Black Belt Infrastructure Committee, 2000
Member, Adeen Oversight, 1998
Member, Mental Health Advisory, 1998
Member, State Parks Oversight, 1998
Member, Financial Services Committee
Ranking Minority Member, Judiciary Committee
Ranking Minority Member, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee
Chair, Montgomery County Legislation Committee
Member, Permanent Legislative Committee On Reapportionment
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- X
2. Abortions should always be legally available.
- X
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- X
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Greatly Increase Funding
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase Funding
3. Environment
- Slightly Increase Funding
4. Health care
- Slightly Increase Funding
5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Funding Status
6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase Funding
7. Welfare
- Maintain Funding Status
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
4. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Increase
5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status
7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Greatly Increase
8. Inheritance taxes
- Maintain Status
9. Property taxes
- Greatly Increase
10. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
12. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
13. Should Alabama create a state lottery with proceeds funding education?
- Yes
14. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Yes
15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of two four-year terms for Alabama governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Alabama state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- Undecided
2. PAC
- Undecided
3. Corporate
- Undecided
4. Political Parties
- Undecided
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Undecided
6. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- No
7. Do you support requiring voters to present photo identification before voting?
- Undecided
8. Do you support voting on-line?
- Yes
9. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- No Answer
10. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Alabama are closed?
- No
11. Should Alabama recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
12. Should Alabama restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes
13. Should Alabama hold a constitutional convention to rewrite the state constitution?
- Yes
14. Should the Alabama legislature rewrite the state constitution?
- No Answer
15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
- No Answer
3. Support the use of the death penalty in Alabama.
- No Answer
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- No Answer
6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
7. Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
- X
8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer
9. Support the lower .08 blood-alcohol-content limit defining drunk driving.
- No Answer
10. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
11. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X
12. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
- X
13. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
14. Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
- X
15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious).
- No Answer
3. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X
4. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
5. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- X
6. Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- No Answer
7. Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
10. Increase state funding to expand Head Start programs.
- No Answer
11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
12. Support a constitutional amendment giving communities control over local school funding and standards.
- No Answer
13. Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
14. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
- X
6. Include sexual orientation in Alabama's anti-discrimination laws.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. College and university admissions
- Yes
2. Public employment
- Yes
3. State contracting
- Yes
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused or abandoned.
- X
3. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
- Yes
4. Should state environmental regulations be stricter than federal law?
- No
5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- No Answer
2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
3. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X
6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- No Answer
7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
8. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X
5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied by their HMO.
- X
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
7. Legalize physician-assisted suicide in Alabama.
- No Answer
8. Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support current time limits on welfare benefits.
- No Answer
2. Increase employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.
- X
4. Provide child care for welfare recipients who work.
- X
5. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X
6. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
7. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
8. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
In a total of seventy-five (75) words or less, please explain what your two main legislative priorities will be if elected. Please explain how you would obtain any additional government funding needed to implement these priorities.
- No Answer
Type: resolution Chamber: lower
Type: joint resolution Chamber: lower
Type: bill Chamber: lower
Rep. Richard Laird is tired of wading through dozens of lobbyists just to get from his office to the floor of the House. The Roanoke Democrat gets aggravated every time he has to push his way through the hallways. It just shouldn't be that way, he said. Outside the room where the House Public Safety Committee meets, Rep. David Grimes has seen times when citizens can't get into the room. It's too small, so they line the hallways trying their best to hear what's going on inside. When people can't get into the meetings, they get mad, Grimes, R-Montgomery, said. Tired of jostling past lobbyists and watching the public get shut out of committee meetings, Laird decided it was time to do something. So he sponsored a bill that created the Legislative Building Committee and charges the panel with the task of analyzing how to best use the limited space in the State House. Everything is on the table -- including renovation and even construction of a new State House. Gov. Bob Riley signed the bill Thursday. "We have been talking about this for many years," said Laird. "Sometimes we have to wade through 300 lobbyists in the hallways." The bill has its detractors -- especially those who oppose any plan to build a new State House. Grimes, R-Montgomery, won't support new construction. "I don't think that's necessary at this point," said Grimes, who pointed out he thinks the Senate is already too elaborate. But he does agree that more meeting space is needed. The House Public Safety Committee is a good example of the problem. "Every meeting they have, people are spilling out into the hall," Grimes said. Rep. Thad McClammy, D-Montgomery, chairs that committee. The tight quarters don't allow much room for would-be spectators, he said. "They think they deserve more and they do," said McClammy, referring to people who routinely find themselves standing in the hallways. Sen. Wendell Mitchell has seen similar meeting space issues in the Senate, particularly when public hearings are scheduled. "When you have a major issue, people line the walls," said the senator from Luverne. McClammy said most citizens don't understand how cramped quarters are at the State House, so he thinks talk about renovation or a new building won't have much public support. "They probably think we live in some luxury," he said. "The average legislator is conducting business in something about the size of a big broom closet." Sen. Larry Dixon, R-Montgomery, sees the space problem differently. If legislators didn't hire unnecessary staff, space wouldn't be an issue, he said. "The Legislature is expanding itself," Dixon said. "If we didn't hire them, we wouldn't need more space." A plan to move the Alabama attorney general's office out of the State House would free up 90,000 square feet of space. The attorney general's office would be relocated to the old Public Safety Building in front of the Capitol by August 2008. However, the Legislature hasn't appropriated money to cover the move, said Chris Bence, spokesman for the attorney general's office. Those funds also would be needed to cover the 60 percent increase in rent the attorney general's office would pay the state finance department for space that's about 5,000 square feet less than the State House location. Bence said until the financial issue is resolved, the office will stay put. "We're pretty much stuck where we are," he said.
