Bobby Bright

Bobby Neal Bright, Sr. (* July 7, 1952 in Midland City, Dale County, Alabama ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was from 2009 to 2011 member of the U.S. House of Representatives and represented most recently the second congressional district of the state of Alabama. Previously, he spent ten years mayor of Montgomery, Alabama's capital.

In the congressional elections in 2008 succeeded Bright, feeling short enforce against his Republican competitors and Jay Love to conquer the constituency, who was firmly in Republican hands since 1965 for the Democrats. Bright himself was long party affiliation; only on the occasion of his candidacy, he was a member of the Democratic Party. He lost his seat at the 2010 elections the Republican Martha Roby.

On his homepage is Bright designated as a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a moderate conservative faction within the Democratic Party.

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