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Alabama Senate victor Doug Jones a civil rights champion
yahoo ^ | December 13, 2017

Posted on 12/13/2017 4:33:11 PM PST by MarvinStinson

Doug Jones, the Democrat who pulled off a stunning upset victory in Alabama's nail-biter Senate contest on Tuesday, is considered a champion for civil rights in a state that played a seminal role in the 1960s movement for racial equality.

Jones' supporters erupted in cheers and jubilation as it became clear their portly, balding candidate had become the first Alabama Democrat to win a US Senate seat in 25 years.

It came at the bitter end of a vitriolic campaign centered on Jones's Republican rival, Roy Moore, a Christian conservative accused of preying on teenage girls years before.

Moore was forced to step down twice from the state supreme court, the second time for disobedience to the US Supreme Court's ruling legalizing gay marriage.

And Jones' electoral fortunes changed dramatically when The Washington Post reported that Moore had allegedly preyed on teenage girls when he was a district attorney in his 30s -- allegations denied by the now 70-year-old former judge.

Democratic donors from around the country began pouring money into the race, buying television advertisements for Jones and seeking to mobilize African-American voters, who make up about a quarter of the electorate in the state.

Former vice president Joe Biden made an appearance at a Jones rally in Birmingham in October and president Barack Obama pitched in with a robo-call for voters.

"This one's serious. You can't sit it out," Obama said.

Born in Fairfield, Alabama, the son of a steelworker, Jones attended high school when the state was in the midst of court-ordered desegregation of its high schools.

He became an assistant US attorney in Birmingham in 1980 and was named US attorney for the northern district of Alabama in 1997 by former president Bill Clinton.

Jones and his wife, Louise, have three children and two grandchildren.

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To: RetiredArmy

Doug Jones got most of the people under 30...The Republican Party is ignoring the under 30s...If the Republican Party wants to ignore my generation, the Dems might start winning red States..I don’t want that...but us young people don’t mind gays.


21 posted on 12/13/2017 5:29:12 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: MarvinStinson

Former vice president Joe Biden ...

The thigh grabbing pervert...


22 posted on 12/13/2017 5:30:13 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Biden==the extensively videotaped child molester while their parents are sworn in.


23 posted on 12/13/2017 5:36:05 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Regulator

I wonder how many of their true believers are also registered in Mississippi and Illinois?

I know years ago the black Democrats in western Illinois were also registered in Wisconsin, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee- all up and down The Great River Road- in order to get benefits in several states at once. They’d get together to have road trips for the purpose. They used to brag about getting benefits where my mom worked. The black Republican was torqued off about blacks doing that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if any whites learned to do it too from that area.

At the time they didn’t mention for voting in addition to reaping benefits and we didn’t think of that either.


24 posted on 12/13/2017 5:37:11 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ConservaTeen

Todays young people don’t mind anything- they are nihilistic and have no standards except for their desire to appear superficially “good” so they will never have to face conflict among their peers or difficult decisions in life. And unfortunately, some really vile people understand that very well and know how to exploit that obsessive “longing to be loved by everybody” disorder.


25 posted on 12/13/2017 5:50:51 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MarvinStinson

Really ???

what’s he plan to do about the abortion mills where black babies are murdered ???


26 posted on 12/13/2017 5:53:45 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: MarvinStinson

Yahoo has some of the most absurd articles and headlines. Fact is, as Nolte pointed out, when the Obamacare mandate gets repealed next week, that will be the biggest civil rights victory in decades. If national CCW reciprocity passes, that too will be an enormous civil rights achievement.


27 posted on 12/13/2017 5:58:24 PM PST by MountainWalker
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To: MarvinStinson; All
The problem with federal senators winning votes by working in cahoots with the likewise corrupt House to pass every civil rights protection under the sun is this.

Given the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, note that only race and sex related rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect deal only with voting rights, evidenced by the 15th and 19th Amendments.

In other words, every time bleeding heart, career lawmakers win votes by promising civil rights protections outside the scope of voting rights, such laws are an unconstitutional expansion of the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers imo.

”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791

So instead of worrying about election results as a fix for unconstitutionally big federal government, note that patriots can clean the swamp, including simplifying the tax code, better than any president or Congress can by doing the following.

Patriots need to petition their state lawmakers to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments (16 & 17A).

In fact, regardless what Fx Noise tells you about repealing 16 & 17A, the states can arguably repeal those amendments before the 2018 elections, yesterday if they wanted to.


28 posted on 12/13/2017 6:37:36 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: ConservaTeen

under 30 doesn’t vote in large enough numbers for pols to really give a damn about.


29 posted on 12/13/2017 7:07:58 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: ConservaTeen
but us young people don’t mind gays.

And the gays are so happy to hear that.

30 posted on 12/13/2017 7:13:20 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Look at the way the domino falls away)
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To: piasa
Exactly.

The youth of our culture have been enervated much like my European relatives, who just shrug when the few children they have have their bikes stolen and are bullied by immigrant children. Sadly, they don't even seem angry about the fact their standard of living is going to be an order of magnitude lower than their parents.

31 posted on 12/13/2017 7:26:05 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“. . . a champion for civil rights. . . .”

INDEED!

One is compelled to ask about the “civil rights” of the yet-to-be-born!

NO PERSON WHO SUPPORTS ABORTION IS A “CHAMPION FOR CIVIL RIGHTS!”


32 posted on 12/13/2017 8:01:27 PM PST by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: RetiredArmy

So blacks should consider this guy their champion when he wants an abortion mill on every corner in their neighborhoods? Really dumb.


33 posted on 12/13/2017 8:06:44 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: dfwgator

Ha, ha.... wait, he just might do it.


34 posted on 12/13/2017 8:07:47 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: MarvinStinson

Democrats are hardly champions of civil rights. They are champions of special rights and just use black Americans for their vote.


35 posted on 12/13/2017 8:35:59 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: txhurl

Texas is already fairly leftist.

Austin and San Antonio are insanely, barking moonbat leftist. Houston and Dallas are also controlled by the Left.

If I were you, I wouldn’t have such a smug attitude about Alabama. Texas is currently “purple” and will be “blue” very soon.

Texas isn’t the conservative heaven on earth that you want everyone to believe.


36 posted on 12/14/2017 12:55:53 AM PST by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

That was the point: is TX and the South next?


37 posted on 12/14/2017 2:53:28 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: txhurl

Unfortunately, if we don’t stop playing nicely and start fighting dirty, the South will be gone soon.


38 posted on 12/14/2017 10:58:24 AM PST by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: ConservaTeen

If you don’t “mind gays” then I guess you are not a Christian. For that reason I mind them. Not their sin, but their lost souls. I don’t hate gays, I hate their sin and what they do. But, if you like people who raise your medical costs, and all the other costs that comes with their actions, go ahead. I lived for 14 years in Seattle and saw the results of their life styles, the rotting away of the AIDS and HIV lost souls. Cost thousands and thousands for their medical care and it did not save their lives. Yup, go ahead and support their life styles. It cost them, their lives, and you in higher medical costs.


39 posted on 12/14/2017 4:08:32 PM PST by RetiredArmy (We are in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! Do U know Him?)
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