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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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.
Former vice president Joe Biden ...
The thigh grabbing pervert...
Biden==the extensively videotaped child molester while their parents are sworn in.
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.
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.
Really ???
what’s he plan to do about the abortion mills where black babies are murdered ???
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.
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.
"Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.Section 2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added].”
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
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.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
under 30 doesn’t vote in large enough numbers for pols to really give a damn about.
And the gays are so happy to hear that.
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.
“. . . 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!”
So blacks should consider this guy their champion when he wants an abortion mill on every corner in their neighborhoods? Really dumb.
Ha, ha.... wait, he just might do it.
Democrats are hardly champions of civil rights. They are champions of special rights and just use black Americans for their vote.
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.
That was the point: is TX and the South next?
Unfortunately, if we don’t stop playing nicely and start fighting dirty, the South will be gone soon.
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.
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