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TexasTowelie

(116,761 posts)
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 01:28 AM Oct 2016

Some Advice For Alabama Democrats

Oh, Alabama Democrats.

I have watched from afar over the past several years as your beloved party – the party that controlled Alabama for more than 100 years – deteriorated into a murky concoction of incompetence and incoherence.

The result is a second party in the state that is utterly inconsequential today.

It’s a sad sight, particularly as we watch the infighting and bickering that has taken hold of the party, and as the entrenched leadership at the top refuses to budge or change.

A few days ago, the party’s most recognizable face, Rep. Craig Ford, called for the Alabama Dems’ top leadership to step aside. Ford wasn’t the first, just the most prominent.

Read more: http://www.alreporter.com/some-advice-for-alabama-democrats/

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Some Advice For Alabama Democrats (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP
the old democratic party of Alabama became the republican party during the civil rights era beachbum bob Oct 2016 #1
We have many fine young Democratic public office holders... yallerdawg Oct 2016 #2
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
1. the old democratic party of Alabama became the republican party during the civil rights era
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 04:43 AM
Oct 2016

the "Dixiecrats"...really never been a "modern democratic" party in Alabama

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. We have many fine young Democratic public office holders...
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 08:50 AM
Oct 2016

coming up through the ranks representing Alabama's minority races and minority political party.

US House Rep. Terri Sewell, for example. Next US Senator - or Governor?

Terri Sewell - pink jacket - US Congressional House gun sit-in. Keeping good company!



The one thing that won't work is abandoning black voters and black leadership and Democratic values (ask Artur Davis).

The Alabama Democratic Party is definitely in bad shape. Dividing Democrats is not the solution.

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