under Alabama Democratic Party.

We'll have to get it straight with Hillary's 50 State Strategy, but I think we can start to build the party back with the Republicans in crisis mode! Power absolutely corrupts.

trof

(54,256 posts)

5. Have to get rid of Joe Reed first.

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 07:42 AM

Jun 2016

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

6. I would say the opposite.

Reply to trof (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 10:38 AM

Jun 2016

We need to join Joe Reed and the Alabama Democrats - instead of ostracizing them and destroying our party.

We have to show them we can - together - elect African-Americans in Alabama.

trof

(54,256 posts)

7. You're not living in the same state I am.

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 05:04 PM

Jun 2016

I wish it were different, but that won't make it so.
Nancy Worley is a joke.
Reed is as corrupt as they come.

As to African - Americans, just look at the outrage in the state over Obama.
To win office in Alabama for the last 7 years all you had to do was run against 'Obummer' and praise Jesus.

Read comments on al.com. about anything political.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

8. To be sure, I don't live in Baldwin County.

Reply to trof (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 05:26 PM

Jun 2016

I live in Montgomery.

The great "falling out" we had began with the election of Obama and how no Democrat in the state would go all in on the national Democratic Party social or fiscal policies Obama pursued.

The end of the Blue Dogs - why pretend they were Republican when you could have a Republican?

Then, the Sparks/Davis governor's primary really ended it. When Artur Davis deliberately dissed the Black Caucus and Reed, it broke the Party by race. Sparks got Reed's endorsement, won the primary, driving Davis out of Alabama where he tellingly joined the Republican Party in Virginia.

Then, the white Democrats started their own little faction - and the Republicans won historic landslides.

"Corruption" is a relative term in Alabama - we have Democrats and Republicans convicted, and serving terms. Reed hasn't even been charged with anything, has he?

Even in Alabama, we need a Big Tent. We have to unite all factions of the Democratic Party, and bring some back home.

We have an opportunity as the Republicans crash in corruption. Our turn again?

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