Posted on 09/24/2019 5:22:33 AM PDT by ManHunter
A top Democratic official in Alabama has said that one of his party's U.S. senators in the state "is a racist" and accused him of marginalizing black party members and wanting them "to pick the cotton" but not "manage the plantation."
The Democratic National Committee's Black Caucus Vice Chairman Randy Kelley, who is black, blasted Doug Jones, who is white, and his allies in the DNC for pressuring African Americans to increase the representation of Hispanic, Asian, youth, gay, and disabled party members in a new "Diversity Caucus," a move he argues would reduce the influence of black Democrats.
Kelley and state party chair Nancy Worley, who is white, are furious about a DNC challenge to how votes were counted in their 2018 reelection.
“This is a racist attempt to undermine our black voters and steal an election," Kelley, a United Methodist pastor, told the Washington Examiner. "There is not anything wrong with Nancy Worley or the bylaws. The only thing that is wrong for them is they lost the election."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Doug Jones is the guy who beat Roy Moore after Moore was pilloried by Democrats and the Republican Party elite. This isn't going to do Jones's re-election efforts any good at all.
Rats pull their punches.
If the AL GOP can find another Tim Scott, things are going to be rough for the DNC
Isn't diversity wonderful? Gee and to think as we continue to import more & more diversity how much better it will all be.
Somewhere, Orville Redenbacher must be watching all of this Dem infighting and feeling a touch jealous.
Picking Cotton is a job at least.
Stupid black democrats are beginning to see the writing on the wall. The new breed AOC democrats will put them towards the back of the line, behind the man/fish sex advocate wing of the party.
I knew this would happen. As Latinos and gays get more power, they will ignore the blacks. Democrats are dumb. They protect the latest flavor of the month and go all in ignoring the rest. Kinda funny. I knew blacks would get screwed in the identity politics game.
What do we need another Tim Scott for?
Pass the popcorn!!
“A top Democratic official in Alabama has said that one of his party’s U.S. senators in the state “is a racist” . . .”
I was afraid something like this would happen.
It could not happen to a nicer, more deserving guy.
This is a republican stronghold, even with the lily-livered, breast-clutching namby-pamby RINOS we have among us, here.
This mook will NOT be re-elected.
Take that to the bank.
The idiots that engineered the kneejerk whining reactions to Roy Moore are no longer in positions of power...and even if that nitwit decides to run again, it will not happen.
Most likely candidate and next republican senator from the Great State of Alabama will be Tommy Tuberville.
I dare say if we asked the current labor pool to pick we’d all be wearing polyester.
DNC shoves bitter medicine down Alabama Dems’ throat
This is an opinion column.
Party politics on cable news can be interesting. But the intra-party politics of national and state executive committees should come with one of those warnings at the ends of prescription drug commercials.
Stop listening and get help immediately if you have changes in behavior or thinking …
On Friday, the Democratic National Committee’s Rules & Bylaws Committee met by phone. For about an hour, I listened to some painfully deliberate people discuss the finer points of caucusing rules in Iowa before the committee got to our dear old Alabama.
… bleeding from eyes, bleeding from ears …
Because as difficult as this stuff is to get through, a great deal is at stake: Nothing less than whether Alabama will be allowed to participate in next year’s Democratic primary. Or if it will survive at all.
… night terrors, loss of taste, loss of smell …
“It is amazing how little we have asked of Alabama, and how resistant they have been of everything,” said former Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes said Friday who, with Maryland Democrat Yvette Lewis, is tasked with resuscitating a dying Alabama party.
… aggression, hostility, suicidal thoughts or actions …
And with Alabama, the medicine never goes down easy.
Political triage
Here’s the short version of how we got here.
Alabama Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Worley retained her party office last year through an election that looked a lot like cheating: 190 of the state party’s committee members voted, according to Worley’s headcount, even though only 142 committee members had signed up to vote. Worley won by 12 votes.
One DNC official called last year’s Alabama party elections something from the Keystone Cops, with Worley inventing rules and procedures out of thin air.
Since then, the DNC has demanded Alabama do three things:
Pass new bylaws that match the national party’s rules. Hold new elections for state officers. And Alabama has done … err … let’s see … none of those things.
Instead of consenting to the DNC’s intervention, Worley has stubbornly refused, blowing off deadlines and spending what’s left of the party’s dwindling cash on lawyers to fight the DNC. Last month the DNC got sick enough of Worley that it stripped her of her DNC membership.
After that, DNC chairman Tom Perez sent Alabama Democrats a letter warning that their participation in next year’s convention is in jeopardy.
And on Friday, the DNC escalated the conflict again: Passing new Alabama bylaws and giving them to the state party to vote on. The DNC resolution also demands the Alabama party hold new elections by Oct. 19.
Lewis said it’s important the DNC monitor any Alabama elections.
“In light of the circumstance of what’s gone on before, it’s mandatory that we have someone there," she told the committee.
A poisoned party
The reason for Worley’s intransigence is simple: These new rules will dilute, if not destroy, the power she and vice-chair Joe Reed, hold within the Alabama Party.
This week, Worley again accused the DNC of being part of a racist conspiracy with Sen. Doug Jones, trying to “beat Alabama into submission.”
Worley’s control over the state party probably wouldn’t be such a big deal if she had shown any competence running it. But in the last four years, she and Reed have made one embarrassing blunder after another:
Strong-arming candidates into contributing to an unregistered PAC. Ignoring free social media tools, especially Twitter.
Letting the party’s website registration lapse and be taken over by ads for weight loss scams and cheap abortions.
Sending committee members and party donors a strange and meandering Christmas letter describing, among other things, how Worley had gotten stuck on a toilet.
It’s up to Worley and Alabama Democrats to decide whether to accept the changes the national party is handing down. If Worley refuses to call a state party meeting, a majority of the state committee members can do that for her.
“Given the lack of cooperation, I’m not at all sanguine that Worley is going to do any of this,” Ickes told the other DNC members.
The DNC resolution included yet another warning: Approve these bylaws or risk “further and appropriate action by the RBC up to and including further action on the delegate selection plan.”
Translation: Take your medicine or y’all ain’t coming to Milwaukee next year.
Those party officials on the conference call may live and work in the mind-numbing minutiae of party rules and procedures. Like ER docs, they can spend hours with their fingers poking the insides of a dying patient
. But with Alabama, even they seem to have found the limit of how much even they can take. In the meeting Friday, Ickes said he, Lewis and the others tasked with fixing Alabama had expected to be working on this for a year.
“I think if any of us had known then what we know now,” Ickes said, “none of us would have agreed to have done this.”
Blacks better get used to the idea that Democrats now think of Hispanics as their favored minority.
Some people can’t get enough of Cheap Labor Express stooges.....?
Interesting video, couple of years old, about corruption in Alabama politics.
“Alabama Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Worley retained her party office last year through an election that looked a lot like cheating: 190 of the state party’s committee members voted, according to Worley’s headcount, even though only 142 committee members had signed up to vote. Worley won by 12 votes.”
The Alabama party does locally (fix elections) what the DNC does nationally and gets called on the carpet for it?
Blacks need to face the facts, they have aborted so many of their babies they are no longer the firewall they once were.
The various central and South American browns and the muslims are quickly stealing their thunder and their place at the table.
Speaking of crooks
former Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes
The long arm of the Clinton Crime Syndicate
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