We are in the beginning of the Governor’s Race year. It would not be a gubernatorial year without harkening back and remembering ole Shorty Price.

Alabama, in bygone days, would have a slew of what I called “run for the fun of it” candidates. They would run knowing full well they did not have a snowball’s chance to win but they made it a fun show.

By far, the most colorful of these perennial, “also-ran” candidates was William Ralph “Shorty” Price. Shorty was born and raised in Barbour County just like the successful Alabama politician, George C. Wallace. They were not only from the same county, but from the same town of Clio. They even, briefly, roomed together at the University of Alabama.

Shorty had tremendous enmity toward George Wallace, probably because Wallace was as successful as

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