Posted on 02/22/2022 2:48:56 PM PST by cotton1706
Tripp Powell, who is seeking the Alabama Senate District 21 seat in the November 2022 general election, was removed from the Republican primary ballot over the weekend.
The Alabama Republican Party removed four candidates from its primary ballot over the weekend, alleging they had supported Democrats in violation of party rules.
The party’s bylaws give the GOP's candidates committee broad discretion to disqualify candidates. But some of those removed from the ballot said Monday they thought the party had arbitrarily applied the rules.
Tripp Powell, a Tuscaloosa businessman who was challenging Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, in the GOP primary, said Monday the reason given for his removal was a $500 donation he made to Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox when he sought the Democratic nomination for governor in 2018.
A 2007 Alabama Republican Party rule allows the removal of Republican candidates who “publicly participated in the primary election of another political party or publicly supported a nominee of another political party” if they held public office as a Republican at the time. But Powell said in an interview Monday he wasn't an elected official when he made the donation.
“I did not feel like the rules were applied fairly to my case,” he said.
A spokeswoman for the Alabama Republican Party said John Wahl, the chairman of the state party, was not available for comment Monday afternoon. The bylaws and rules of the Republican Party do not provide an explicit appeal process.
The party also removed former Rep. Elaine Beech of Chatom, who was looking to return to her southwestern Alabama House seat, which she represented as a Democrat from 2010 to 2018. Beech said Monday that the party told her she had not met a six-year waiting period for former officeholders to run as Republicans.
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Hey, there's always the Democrat ballot, guys!
“Basically I think they didn’t want me in the party, since I had been a Democrat all my life,” Beech said in a phone interview on Monday.
Ya think??
No, it’s disqualifying if we’re ever gonna overthrow the Uniparty.
sounds like in AL Patriots in Control!
Coming to a state near you soon...
I like it!
Good for the Alabama GOP smokin’ out the RINOs!!!!
A brilliant deduction!
We have a real problem with Rats trying to put on elephant suits here in Alabama. . . unethical POS’s all of them.
The same thing has caused major problems for Georgia in the 2020 election. I never trusted Richard Shelby for that reason and others. And I will not vote for Katie Britt because she worked for Shelby, even though I know and like her husband’s family. You know the same folks who pulled Shelby’s strings will pull hers.
Most of the time he voted like AL wanted him to vote, but his voice was noticeably missing during the 2020 election debacle. Any Republican that sat on the sideline when the election needed to be proven is likely a Rat asset giving them aid and comfort.
This is a big part of the rat strategy. Split the vote. That’s how Flake kept getting in.
sounds like pure double-secret, party, firster bs to me. maybe they ought to let whoever wants to run, run, and let We the People “smoke them out.” the gope of al is a total mess. i hope some precint-strategy folks are trying to break in to it. i’ll trust the people over the gope anyday.
Good on them in Alabama for taking out the trash.
I say let the voters decide.
If you’re a businessman you are almost forced to donate to local mayors and councillors.
Trump had sent money to Democrats. Would you let the GOP ban him?
This is happening in a lot of states - not just Red states.
Check out the National Federation of Republican Assemblies - different states have their own version, but all are pro-life, pro-RKBA, pro-traditional marriage, and pro-school choice.
Local paper ran an article about the "Republican Party being split" next town over.
What really happened was the RTC voted out all of the "good 'ole boys" and replaced them with real (read: Reagan) Republicans.
We don’t play down here in Alabama
I agree with this overall. But there is a congressman from south New Jersey who was elected a democrat and switched to republican and even won reelection as a republican. He’s a strong trump supporter. He’d never get the chance in Alabama.
Nice...very nice...
“ We have a real problem with Rats trying to put on elephant suits here in Alabama. . . unethical POS’s all of them.”
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We have that same issue here in Georgia, regarding Gov Kemp, SoS Raffensperger and AG Carr. And we have too many insane people who will vote for them again, insisting they’re the lesser-of-two-evils simply, and I reiterate simply, because they have an R beside their name. Thick. They have a proven history of working with the Democrats, China, UniParty GOPe, CIA, DOJ, Soros and Stacey Abrams. They actually illegally changed laws to protect election fraud to prevent the elections of Trump, Collins and Perdue.
Although I believe Perdue is a Democrat too. Just not as far Left as they knew they could go under the created circumstances.
If they are listed as Republican they need to be approved by the republicans. We can’t just have anyone saying I Am A Republican Candidate.
They can run on their own all they want.
Party discipline.
Great link. The Republican Assemblies folks seem like a good group.
sorry, i don’t get you party firster types. and “we”?...full disclosure, not a republican.
but then i was born into a dem family of blue collar union workers who were eventually screwed by the dem party and voted for the great RR, who was a dem and a president who my family came to love. he basically hijacked the country club gop and started the modern populist movement, which defines my politics.
after bush and the gop screwed us again, i then became an independent, and ever since i’ve watched the depredations and damage created by both parties, including these arbitrary rules which feather the nests and pocket books incumbents and party bosses, and freeze out good candidates, who care nothing for faction or party as many of our Founders warned so against. sorry bud. i don’t buy it.
see i know democrat is a dirty word to some republicans here, but, like CS Lewis, i’m a “democrat” in the sense our Founders meant democrat in the Declaration and Constitution, not because i believe in the righteousness and perfectibility of humanity. i’m a democrat, because i know man is a fallen, untrustworthy creature with the indwelling Spirit of God, and our founders designed this system with in built checks on the depravity of mankind, and his lust for power. exactly the kind of unchecked power that you are advocating for.
oh well, enough. we’re not going to agree, and this comment is overlong already. i’ll close with right is right and wrong is wrong, and woe to those who call right, wrong, and wrong, right. have the last word if you want and may God bless you and yours.
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