Politics
Stegall has been identified as an advocate for traditionalist conservatism and a "prairie populist". In 2004 he was profiled on the front page of the New York Times as one of a young generation of conservatives questioning GOP orthodoxy. On January 12, 2009, Stegall began his first term as Jefferson County District Attorney. He has been characterized by the popular and politically left publication Firedoglake as a "rising political star" of the right, has been suggested as a possible candidate for U.S. Senate, and has been described as representing a new path for the GOP in the post-Bush years.
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