Birmingham Blues

The folks at Agape Press are not happy with Patricia Todd’s victory or with the “pro-homosexual” blogs that helped spread the word about her campaign.  Their alarmist rhetoric is designed to widen the supposed rift between blacks and gays.  How Christian of them…
The Democratic Party has always been a hodge-podge collection of misfit toys, but [...]

Loretta Nall is the Libertarian candidate for governor of Alabama.  She is running a write-in campaign because Alabama’s restrictive access laws kept her off the ballot (she did her best to raise the 41,000 signatures required), but her candidacy is real, and she is willing to address issues that the two major party candidates won’t [...]

Two Fox News reporters who had been kidnapped and held in Gaza were released unharmed this weekend.  I know this is a huge relief for them and their families.
The two were forced at gunpoint to make a video saying they had converted to Islam.  Any possibility that their experience will make the people at Fox think [...]

There really is hope for the party based on a couple of things I observed yesterday.
First, there is the saga of selecting a replacement candidate for House District 70.  The local party endorsed Chris England, an assistant Tuscaloosa city attorney who is also the son of county Circuit Judge John England.  Joe Reed doesn’t like [...]

Once again, WE WON!!! 
We’ve been celebrating and rehashing a bit (no alcohol involved — at least not yet — I still have to drive back to Birmingham).  Most of the meeting was just as exciting as you might expect when a bunch of people get together and use parliamentary procedure to communicate.
Of course, Patricia’s dispute [...]

WE WON!!!!!

The wireless signal works in the lobby but not in the meeting room, which is packed with Todd supporters.  We’re just about ready for the appeal of Patricia’s disqualification.  I think it will be 30 to 45 minutes.  They have to finish the Greene County sheriff’s race appeal first.
I had a tip from Kyle Whitmire of the [...]

I’m beginning to feel like a boomerang.  Nephew Zach and I are heading out early tomorrow morning to attend the State Democratic Executive Committee meeting.  It starts at 10 am and will likely last all day.  Once again, I’ll live blog if I can get a wireless connection.  Otherwise, I’ll post ASAP.
Pam has a good [...]

Wow!  Check out Jeff’s post at Politics In Alabama.  It seems the Alabama Democratic Party never received Justice Department approval for the 1974 amendment to its bylaws that was used to disqualify Patricia Todd and Gaynell Hendricks.
This is an example of real bipartisanship — Jeff was aware of this requirement because he worked on amendments [...]

Are you horrified by yesterday’s subcommittee ruling?  Are you wondering what you can do about it?  If you live in the area, come to Montgomery for the State Democratic Executive Committee meeting tomorrow at 10 am at the Embassy Suites (click here for map).  If you can’t come to the meeting, contact state party chair [...]