From the media, calling the Alabama Democratic Party homophobic.
Joe Reed, chairman of the Alabama Democratic Conference and vice chairman of the Democratic Party, not only tried to influence the voting in a Birmingham legislative race, but also he is making sure that a challenge to the voters’ choice stays alive.
Patricia Todd defeated Gaynell Hendricks in the July 18 primary runoff election by 59 votes. The people have spoken. There is no reason to believe the outcome is anything but an honest expression of the preference of voters who went to the polls. It is time to move on.
However, Hendricks and her supporters are contesting the election, trying to find some technical loophole that might allow them to win before a party committee the victory they were unable to win in the field.
Hendricks says she is paying for the contest. However, Reed did deliver a check to the Democratic Party to pay for the contest if Hendricks’ check did not arrive on time, Jerome Gray, field director for the ADC, told a News reporter. The hearing on Hendricks’ challenge was delayed when members of the panel failed to show up.
If an openly gay Republican candidate had won say, a Washington State Primary, and the state party were trying to oust him or her from the ballot, you know and I know that it would be national news and a subject on the Sunday talkshow circuit.
Nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada-fooking-word is what I’m hearing currently.
What a surprise.
(D)onk politics = corruption as usual. Your previous post should tell you that. If it doesn’t, see:
http://rivrdog.typepad.com/rivrdog/2006/08/utter_corruptio.html
I lived the 1986 fiasco…errrrr donkey doo. The discription in the B’ham editorial doesn’t begin to do justice to the 1986 election appointment of Bill Baxley following the primaries. If memory serves, I was one of the cross-over voters. Shortly thereafter, the Democratic Party of Alabama began a massive redistricting to ensure that never again would an Amway salesman from Blount County be elected Governor. At least intil the next election. Apparently nothing has changed…
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