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| Divided Alabama Democrats defy DNC in chaotic meeting filled with yelling and accusations |
Alabama Democratic Party chairwoman Nancy Worley and vice chairman Randy Kelly filed a complaint on Wednesday with the Montgomery County Circuit Court asking for a temporary restraining order to block a scheduled meeting this Saturday, and also asking for an injunction against the breakaway ADP group.Actually, Judge Greg Griffin will rule whether the minority has the right to rule the majority because that's what this war is actually about. The 'breakaway group" sees this as Custer's EYE mean their stand, EYE mean chance to take their party back from Joe Reed and his bunch.
Judge Greg Griffin has set a hearing for Thursday morning on the matter.
He will rule on possibly the oddest lawsuit in some time — one that asks the court to prevent a group of people from meeting in order to elect new ADP leadership, despite Worley and Kelly neither recognizing the legitimacy of the breakaway group nor the power of the Democratic National Committee to authorize the meeting.
That’s at the heart of what started this mess in the first place. After Worley was re-elected in September 2018, several State Democratic Executive Committee members filed a challenge claiming that various issues should make the elections invalid. Among the complaints was an allegation that the ADP’s bylaws were seriously out of line with the DNC’s and failed to provide proper voices to a number of minority groups, including LGBTQ people, Hispanics, Asians and youth.Actually, this mess started with Senator Doug Jones's failed takeover of the Alabama Democratic Party when the #SoreLosers convinced DNC Chairman Tom Perez the SDEC Minority Caucus were a bunch of lying, election stealing racist.
The complaint also stated that because of those flawed bylaws, the party was being controlled by vice chairman for minority affairs Joe Reed.
The feud began last August, when Jones made known he wanted Worley to step aside. But Worley ran for another term — beating back the entire slate Jones supported.Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying at the absurdity of politics.
“He went after Nancy’s seat. He lost,” said Joe Reed, a civil rights veteran who heads the Alabama Democratic Conference, the state’s principal African American Democratic club, and Worley’s most powerful ally. “Doug’s slate lost. He came back. He got with Perez. They then came up with a scheme to challenge Nancy’s election.”
Barry Ragsdale, an attorney representing some of the defendants, said Worley and her supporters were "trying to delay the inevitable."Uh...there is a difference between a get together with like-minded folks and trying to hijack the Alabama Democratic Party.
"It was probably inevitable we would end up here," he said. "To try to tell people they can’t go to a meeting or get together with like-minded folks to talk politics, that's not what Democrats do."
Instead, however, there are those who want us to change our Bylaws to create a Diversity Caucus and manipulate the numbers to achieve unfair results because of a urinating contest between Senator Doug Jones and black Democratic leaders in Alabama over control of the ADP. You were drawn into this “shower,” by virtue of your position; this should not be. This demand on Alabama is not required of any other states. Except for the Vice President of Youth Affairs, Senator Doug Jones backed an all-white slate of officers for the SDEC when Blacks constitute 70% of the Democratic electorate in Alabama. They all lost. We should not be asked or expected to cooperate or accommodate racism to placate anyone. Your energy and influence should be focused on helping us increase the number of registered voters and voter turnout in the Democratic Party.EYE report.
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