Jim Zig Zeigler
Republican · AL
Jim Zig Zeigler is a former Alabama State Auditor and the 2026 Republican nominee for Alabama Public Service Commissioner, Place 2.
Track record
Anti-Corruption
· 2 records
Zeigler filed ethics complaints in 2016 against Governor Robert Bentley and Rebekah Caldwell Mason; the Ethics Commission later found probable cause against Bentley, who resigned in 2017 after pleading guilty to campaign-finance misdemeanors.
March 25, 2016For
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As State Auditor in 2015, Zeigler filed lawsuits against the Alabama attorney general and Baldwin County schools seeking to stop taxpayer money from being spent on political campaigns; the suits were dismissed.
May 4, 2015For
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Cost of Living Reduction
· 1 record
Zeigler opposed the proposed Mobile River bridge toll, and toll opponents won when Governor Kay Ivey said in 2019 that the project was dead.
August 28, 2019For
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Civil Rights
· 1 record
Zeigler gave a September 2015 speech to the League of the South, which the Southern Poverty Law Center described as a hate group.
September 27, 2015Against
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General
· 3 records
Campaign finance reports as of May 1, 2026 listed Zeigler with $22,600 raised, $500 in other receipts, $4,997 spent, and $18,102 cash on hand in the Alabama Public Service Commission Place 2 race.
May 1, 2026
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Following the 2015 Charleston church shooting, Zeigler advocated that parishioners take guns to church.
June 20, 2015
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Zeigler served on the Alabama Public Service Commission from 1974 to 1978 before later serving as Alabama State Auditor from 2015 to 2023.
January 19, 2015
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Elections
- Public Service Commissioner, Place 2 · November 3, 2026 · Alabama
Profile last researched July 4, 2026.