#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.......