Birmingham Blues

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 [...]

And the story made the New York Times.  The Alabama Democratic party leadership is trying to commit political suicide.  I just hope the Executive Committee performs an intervention tomorrow.
Pictures courtesy of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.
 
On left, Patricia Todd with her attorneys — On right, Gaynell Hendricks and Mattie Childress with their attorney

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He is pissed! And well he should be. The State Democratic Executive Committee should overturn the ridiculous decision of the subcommittee and uphold Patricia Todd’s election. Saturday’s meeting will be interesting.

…is here.

Thanks, Loretta!  This is what I missed while driving back from Montgomery.  Unbelievable!  Apparently the committee decided to disqualify both candidates for violating an archaic party rule — which every other Democratic candidate violated as well — and the Executive Committee will hand pick someone else to run.  Of course, this supposedly doesn’t affect any [...]

Today’s hearing was a procedural battle of wills.  In one corner, Raymond Johnson, attorney for Mattie Childress, Gaynell Hendricks’ mother-in-law.  In the other corner, Ed Still and Bobby Segall, attorneys for Patricia Todd.  The crowd was larger than last week’s and appeared to be fairly evenly divided by candidate.  Unfortunately, it was almost completely segregated [...]

The Birmingham News has a fairly long article this morning highlighting the District 54 election contest.  It finally mentions something I’ve been pointing out for some time: the Victory Fund contribution that Ms. Hendricks is so worked up about came primarily from local sources.  This was no stealth contribution from the “outside agitators” that we [...]

I’m going to Montgomery for the District 54 contest hearing.  It’s scheduled for 2 pm; perhaps it will actually occur this time.  I’ll post ASAP.
Danny at Doc’s Political Parlor has a good source and some interesting predictions for the outcome of this hearing:
A source-who-is-more-connected-than-most told me that Joe Turnham and Joe Reed have reached a [...]

In a news release today, the Victory Fund stated its intention to stand behind Patricia Todd and support her as she fights to uphold her win in House District 54.  It sounds like the folks there don’t have much faith that the Alabama Democratic Party will do the right thing.
“Democracy means nothing if backroom deals [...]

And I agree; it is time to finish this.