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brooklynite

(94,520 posts)
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 03:31 PM Sep 2019

Doug Jones: Alabama Democratic Party is 'being destroyed from within'

Source: Montgomery Advertiser

U.S. Sen. Doug Jones on Thursday accused Alabama Democratic Party leaders of making the state party “nonfunctional” and said they were hollowing out the organization.

Jones, who backed an effort to replace Alabama Democratic Party chair Nancy Worley at an August 2018 meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee (SDEC), dismissed Worley’s accusations earlier this week that he was working with DNC Chair Tom Perez as part of an “all-out attack” on the state party.

“The problem is the leadership of our party believes they are the party,” Jones said on a conference call Thursday morning. “They believe they’re the only people who are important. There have been efforts to overturn the election of party leaders — that is not an attack on the Democratic Party. If there is any conspiracy at all it is a conspiracy to build that party.”

The remarks came amid a tense standoff between Worley and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over new leadership elections for the Alabama Democrats and the revision of by-laws to ensure diversity on the state party's governing body.

Read more: https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/09/12/doug-jones-alabama-democratic-party-being-destroyed-within/2300738001/

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Crowman2009

(2,495 posts)
1. Nancy Worley and Joe Reed have screwed up the state party completely.
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 04:47 PM
Sep 2019

They didn't support any of the candidates running the US House, didn't have anyone run against Jeff Sessions in the last election, do nothing to help the county parties, and have done nothing to increase representation in the state legislature. So I'll be glad when both of those non-functioning losers are gone!

kimbutgar

(21,137 posts)
3. Who knows if she is not really a repuke mole MEANT to destroy the Alabama Democratic Party?
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 06:20 PM
Sep 2019

I would not put anything past repukes nowadays.

elleng

(130,895 posts)
4. Very interesting. Didn't we just see this story/post,
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 06:52 PM
Sep 2019

that the national Party has decided not to 'support,' or fund, the AL party?

DNC withholds funds from Alabama Democratic Party.

https://www.al.com/news/2019/09/dnc-withholds-funds-from-alabama-democratic-party.html

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