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Jim Zig Zeigler

Republican · AL

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Jim Zig Zeigler is a former Alabama State Auditor and the 2026 Republican nominee for Alabama Public Service Commissioner, Place 2.

Where Jim Zig Zeigler stands, based on their records

Supports

Cost of Living Reduction (1 record)

Campaign Finance Information — Public Service Commissioner, Place 2

Campaign Finance Information · Public Service Commissioner, Place 2 · November 3, 2026

Data last updated September 2, 2026

Raised
$226,504
Spent
$179,313
Cash on hand
$8,437

Contribution-size amounts cover itemized cash contributions only; the raised total also includes non-itemized cash, in-kind contributions, and other receipts.

Direct contributions by size
  • $5,000+$167,000
  • $1,000-$4,999$17,500
  • $500-$999$1,000
  • $250-$499$1,600
  • $1-$99$50

Source: Alabama FCPA Reporting System · 2026 cycle · fcpa.alabamavotes.gov

Track record

Track record — Cost of Living Reduction

Cost of Living Reduction · 1 support
  • 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, 2019Supports Cost of Living Reduction

    Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 4, 2026

Track record — General

General · 7 records
  • Zeigler and his wife Jackie campaigned against Alabama's proposed Amendment One, which would have replaced the elected state school board with a board appointed by the governor; voters defeated the amendment in the March 3, 2020 primary.

    March 3, 2020

    Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 31, 2026

  • Zeigler posted a photograph on Twitter comparing Congresswomen dressed in white to the Ku Klux Klan, drawing nationwide condemnation, and publicly defended the post.

    March 2, 2017

    Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 31, 2026

  • 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, 2016

    Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 4, 2026

  • 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, 2015

    Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 4, 2026

  • Following the 2015 Charleston church shooting, Zeigler advocated that parishioners take guns to church.

    June 20, 2015

    Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 4, 2026

  • 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, 2015

    Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 4, 2026

  • 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

    Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 4, 2026

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Profile last researched July 4, 2026.