The Alabama Democratic Minority Party may have won the battle but the war is far from over #PunishTheBaseToSpiteYourFace

Cue in Battle Hymn of the Republic



The first shots were fired in the Alabama Democratic Party Civil War when embattled Alabama Democratic Chairwoman Nancy L. Worley filed a lawsuit to block the minority from ruling the majority. Judge Gregg Griffin granted the TRO then the Minority(enabled by the DNC) scurried across the street to their friends on the Alabama Republican-controlled Supreme Court to stay the TRO which allowed them to form their own separate and unequal Alabama Democratic Party.

B-But it's not over.......

The motion for recusal asserts that Griffin has a close relationship with Joe Reed, the chair of the Democratic Party’s black caucus and a supporter of Worley.

Let me see if EYE have this right(pun intended), how can you complain about the judge being black when you had 6 out of 9 white Republican Supreme Court Justices reverse the black judges TRO?  EYE mean, really?

The traditional, loyal, democratic base is not going to the back of the bus without a fight.

“Those who think you got blacks in your pocket you better check your pocket because there’s a hole in it. We don’t have to vote for anybody.
“We don’t have to embrace those who kick us around,” he continued with a preacher’s crescendo. “Let the word go from this time and place: You can’t cuss the party during the day and beg from us at night.”

Stay tuned. 

#PunishTheBase to Spite Your Face Life on the #DemocraticPartyPlantion in #SweetHomeAlabama

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EYE will thank Alabama's African Americans especially women for this sad, sorry, state of affairs. Wham, Bam, Thank you, Mam. No good deed goes unpunished. African Americans especially women will be the key voters in 2019. Which explains why Senator Doug Jones, enabled by DNC Chair Tom Perez wants to control the state with the highest number of registered African American female voters. 

All but 4 percent of African-Americans voted for Jones, and blacks accounted for roughly 30 percent of the Alabama electorate, according to a CNN exit poll. And 98 percent of black women (17 percent of the electorate) cast ballots for Jones. Certainly, Jones needed each vote—but astonishingly, if Moore courted just a slither of the black electorate, he would have won by a landslide.

Lets Recap:
On Friday, Six Republican Alabama Supreme Court Justices stayed Judge Greg Griffins temporary restraining order filed by embattled Alabama Democratic Party Chair Nancy Worley, on the grounds the meeting was being held illegally. 

Earlier Friday a Montgomery circuit judge blocked a faction of the Alabama Democratic Party from holding a meeting and election this weekend.

Judge Greg Griffin granted a temporary restraining order filed by party chair Nancy Worley and others, which sought to stop a group of the party’s governing committee from meeting this weekend to elect new leaders.
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The defendants - members of the reform group within the party - filed an appeal.

The lawsuit argues the Saturday meeting, where the reform group intends to elect a new chair, is unauthorized and is being held illegally.

“I can’t think of anything more damaging to the party than what’s going on right now. This is a party crying out to the court. Help us,” said Bobby Segall, who is representing Worley, during court Thursday.

Can you say #PunishingTheBase?

The coalition’s effort follows the upset victory last December by Doug Jones in the Alabama Senate race. Black women, who led get-out-the-vote efforts, are credited with helping Jones become the first Democrat in 25 years to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama. He was favored by 98 percent of black women voters.
Black women's groups also rallied behind Stacey Abrams, who won the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Georgia in May. If Abrams wins on Nov. 6, she will become the nation’s first African American woman governor.
“We show up for everybody,” Brown said. “We’re showing up, but who is showing up for us?"
The groups have long worked to boost the number of black women running for elected offices and black voter participation, but said they wanted to band together for the upcoming midterm and local elections.
The coalition includes Black Voters Matter, the Black Women’s Roundtable and the Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative.

DNC Chair Tom Perez and the DNC leadership have long backed Doug Jones who voted with Republicans 53% of the time and the so-called “Reform Caucus” of the ADP over the tradition, loyal, democratic base. 

Worley and her supporters maintain that the valid bylaws were those adopted at an Oct. 12 meeting. The Nov. 16 election date for chair and vice chair was also scheduled that day.
Ben Maxymuk, an attorney representing Worley’s side in the dispute, said in an affidavit (see below) that the DNC has no authority over the state party’s bylaws. Maxymuk said any effort by the DNC to stop Alabama delegates from voting at next year’s national convention would result in litigation.
The bylaws adopted at the Oct. 5 meeting would add new minority caucuses to the SDEC for youth (35 and under) Hispanics, Asians/Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, people with disabilities, and people who identify as LGBTQ.
The agenda for Saturday’s meeting calls for elections to those new caucuses before the elections for chair and vice chair. Maxymuk said in his affidavit that the youth caucus would have 50 or more members. The SDEC has approximately 250 members now.

B-But it's not racial.......nod nod wink wink

Stay tuned because it's not over.

With qualifying deadlines for primaries on Nov. 8, the state party will have to resolve its internal dispute, which threatens the state's presence at next year's Democratic National Convention. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) in February ordered the state party to hold new elections and revise bylaws to diversify the membership of the SDEC, the governing body of the Alabama Democratic Party.

B-But maybe that's the plan....... 

First Shots Fired in the Democratic Civil War! YeeHaw!!

Divided Alabama Democrats defy DNC in chaotic meeting filled with yelling and accusations

Alabama Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Worley and Vice-Chair Randy Kelly bought out the big guns and fired the first shots in the battle for control of the soul, EYE mean control of the Alabama Democratic Party.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The complaint also stated that because of those flawed bylaws, the party was being controlled by vice chairman for minority affairs Joe Reed.

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 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.
“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.”

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying at the absurdity of politics.

Barry Ragsdale, an attorney representing some of the defendants, said Worley and her supporters were "trying to delay the inevitable."
"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."

Uh...there is a difference between a get together with like-minded folks and trying to hijack the Alabama Democratic Party. 

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.
You decide.

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“Let the word go from this time and place: You can’t cuss the party during the day and beg from us at night.”

Cue in The Gambler

Alabama Dem leader Joe Reed on Doug Jones' failed power move: "George Wallace tried it, too"

So while Alabama Republicans are fielding candidates running on defending our way of life and our values (sic) Alabama Democrats, and EYE use that term loosely, are forming a circular firing squad.  YeeHaw!

“This was not necessary,” Reed says. “We lost a whole year fighting among ourselves when we should have spent the whole year working the highways and byways of Alabama to help Doug Jones. But he spent all his time fighting us.”

Let's recap.

England and a faction of the State Democratic Executive Committee that supports new leadership and new party bylaws scheduled a meeting for Nov. 2 to hold the elections. The Democratic National Committee, which ordered new elections and bylaws, recognizes that as the official date.
Worley and her supporters on the SDEC scheduled a Nov. 16 meeting.
Worley has said the dispute is probably headed for court.

In the latest DNC enabled escalation of the ADP infighting Rep. Chris England and former Rep. Patricia Todd have entered the fray to lead the new Alabama Democratic Party. 

B-But Tabitha Isner 

B-But Will Boyd.......

B-But Myron Penn..... 

B-But Vivian Figures.....

This divisive DNC enabled #DoOver is threatening Doug Jones's re-election.

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.
“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.”

But maybe that's the plan... 

Jones faces a strongly contested re-election effort in November of 2019. For Democrats to have any realistic hopes of taking control of the U.S. Senate from Republicans they need to hold on to Jones’s seat.

EYE report. 

You decide. 

#DNC enabled #PlantationPolitricks in #SweetHomeAlabama

Cue in WAR!  What is it good for?

And the fight for control for the soul (pun intended) of the Alabama Democratic Party wages on.  At a critical time when Alabama Dems should be united in their effort to keep the Alabama Senate seat blue so Democrats can regain control of the Senate, General Tom Perez is leading the charge to alienate the traditional, loyal, democratic base in favor of Senator Doug Jones, who bucks his party and votes with  Republicans and who doesn't seem to care he's the Senates most vulnerable, incumbent.  

Which might be the plan.

If the DNC would stop trying to stymie change and rather embrace black women and Muslims and queer people of color as changemakers, we wouldn’t be living under Trumpism or even under Clintonian neoliberalism. Rather, we’d be living in a world in which more people (and more kinds of people) would be more free.

Here's the letter where DNC Chairman Tom Perez takes the side of the minority over the majority. 

Read it and Weep.