Comments on: Déjà vu All Over Again

By: HD 54’s March to Court » Doc’s Political Parlor

HD 54’s March to Court » Doc’s Political Parlor — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:54:21 +0000

[...] HD 54’s march toward court continues… Kathy at Birmingham Blues has a good write-up of the happenings at today’s hearing. [...]

By: sheila

sheila — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:47:49 +0000

Well, I was happy to hear the Party reversed the decision.

By: Dana Curtis Kincaid

Dana Curtis Kincaid — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:32:03 +0000

I’ve tried to get people over at Daily Kos interested, but they are only interested in being anti-Republican. Corruption in the Democrat ranks doesn’t seem to interest them.

In any case, I’ve posted the info on DK, and called the ‘Bama Democratic Party. This whole thing is embarrassing, not only for the Democratic Party, but blacks in Alabama should be ashamed too. What do Jerome Tucker and Joe Reed think this is, Nigeria or Zimbabwe run by people like Robert Mugabe?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:11:58 +0000

Sheila, my brother was telling me about the problems with the school superintendent. What a surprise to know that Joe Reed is in the middle of it…

By: sheila

sheila — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:47:45 +0000

I read the NY Times story too. We in Montgomery are having what is turning out to be a race-based issue regarding our school superintendent, Carlinda Purcell. As best as I could figure out, it started as a personnel issue and now the city is divided along racial lines. I’ve been posting on my blog about our trouble and have noticed the connection to your situation in Birmingham. Seems to be one Joe Reed. As a Yellow Dog Democrat, I am disappointed to see that a duly elected candidate is being treated this way. No wonder we are losing power.

By: HD 54: Dems Cut Off Nose To Spite Face « The Alablawg

HD 54: Dems Cut Off Nose To Spite Face « The Alablawg — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:47:36 +0000

[...] Kathy continues her reporting on the race here, here, here, and here. Explore posts in the same categories: Elections, Corrupt Politicians, Alabama Legislature [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:40:49 +0000

Finally! Another state is starting to remove the dunce’s cap from Florida’s head! Maybe people will stop talking about how stupid Florida’s voters are and start talking about how corrupt and lacking in intelligence and competence the Alabama Democrats are turning out to be.

By: SI Reasoning

SI Reasoning — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:24:01 +0000

Alabama has had its share of embarrassments throughout its history, from idiots like Bull Conner, opportunists like George Wallace, the whole Graddick fiasco that turned over our state Governorships to Republicans, Fob James monkey walk and now this. It is hard to say which of these is the worst, but having the Democratic Party annul the election results based upon a law that has never been enforced, and if so would eliminate all of Alabama’s current candidates and office holders from office…. I just can’t wrap my brain around the sheer stupidity of it.

The logic is so tortured that a high school student would consider it beneath them to even try this approach….

A law from the 70’s that was superceded in the 80’s and that NO DEMOCRAT EVER FOLLOWS, including all sitting Democrats and all other current primary winners, is all of the sudden applicable to this one primary only????? The logic is even more tortured from the Hendricks side!!! They want only Patricia to be disqualified and not them…. because they brought it up as an issue and Patricia didn’t? This is the current thinking processes of the power brokers of the Alabama Democratic Party? Pathetic

This is the first time in years where the Democratic Party could take advantage of the wholesale corruption and worthlessness of the current brand of Republicans in office and then these clowns try to one-up them? This is beyond embarrassing….

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:15:25 +0000

What the ‘F’ is going on in Alabama’s Democratic party? Who is this Joe Reed and how can we get in touch with him? The bit I’ve read about him reminds me why we as Democrats are losing elections…(read: Crashing the Gates to understand this statement).

Seems this committee made itself the Katherine Harris of District 54.

Democrats outside your state are watching all of this and just rubbing our heads…let’s pray that Saturday will sort all of this out and Ms. Todd can go on with the full support of the community. Good luck and God bless.

By: Dystopos

Dystopos — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:36:40 +0000

As one of the voters from District 54 I did not vote on race or sexual preference, nor did any of my neighbors from whom I heard about the candidates. Those researching opinions in Crestwood North may be able to find some informative conversations archived at groups.yahoo.com/Crestwood_North. Personally I felt we had a strong slate of good candidates, and the primary produced the best of them in the runoff. Events since the runoff election have given me pause regarding one of the candidates, however.

Thanks for explaining the mess for us layfolk. I have to say that the sentence “There is no paragraph 5″ made me laugh out loud.