At the link.  Former U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, increasingly appears to be a man without a party. Davis recently roiled Democrats — and delighted Republicans — by declaring his support for the stricter voter identification laws passed this year by Alabama’s newly empowered GOP Legislature.

and this:

The barbs were even sharper back home. Davis was panned as a “fraud,” a “traitor” and a “closet Republican” on Alabama online message boards.

Davis’ response:

Davis told me he still considers himself a Democrat — but a disillusioned one. “My views are in the political center and don’t neatly fit either party,” he said. “So I count myself as a Democrat, who is disappointed by the forces and personalities who have run the party into the ground in Alabama.”