Moore hopes to regain seat

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Republican candidate Roy Moore received a warm welcome at the South Alabama Republican Men's Breakfast Saturday. 

Moore hopes to regain the seat he lost in 2003 when he refused to remove a granite monument of the Ten Commandments from the state judicial building in Montgomery.

"This election will determine the course of our future," Moore said.

After winning the republican nomination in March, Moore is confident his campaign is on the right track, and that's what he wants for his party.

"The Republican party itself has got to go back on principals," Moore said.

Moore will face Democrat Harry Lyon in November. Lyon believes it would be an embarrassment for the state if Moore is re-elected.

"In no other state in the history of the US has a judge hat's been thrown off the bench, much less the Chief Justice gets thrown off the bench for violating the law, but it's never happened that anybody got back on the bench," Lyon said.

Lyon admits he hasn't avoided criticism in the media. Several years ago, he made a comment about hanging some illegal immigrants from the rafters.

"I made a joke back in a 2006 gubernatorial race.  I have a very great sense of humor, and I just made a comment to some reporter in joking about the immigration issue, and it was taken out of context," Lyon said.

Neither candidate will talk about their personal views on immigration, because the position they're seeking requires impartiality. But Moore did talk to his supporters on the subject in a general sense.

"What I can tell you, is I can tell you what the United States Supreme court did was miss the boat so far on this immigration thing," Moore said.

Voters will decide between the two candidates in November.