You knew they would find a way…
The executive committee of the Alabama Democratic Party was going to take any opportunity they could find to disqualify Patricia Todd, but to use an archaic rule that Lucy Baxley and Jim Folsom have violated as well is outrageous! This should not stand, but it probably will. The Alabama Democratic Party should be ashamed, but it isn’t.
And once again…Alabama gets national attention for idiocy. Who can say that the image is unfair when we continue to exhibit this kind of behavior?
**UPDATE: Steven Taylor at Poliblog is on this story too.
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August 25th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
FWIW, it was not the Executive Committee of the Alabama Democratic Party that disqualified both Patricia Todd and her opponent Gaynelle Hendricks, it was a 5-person sub-committee.
The Executive Committee will take up the matter tomorrow.
August 26th, 2006 at 9:35 am
Roundup on House District 54 (Updated)
As we all know by now, both Patricia Todd and Gaynell Hendricks have been disqualified on a 1974 Alabama Democratic Rule that states candidates must file their Financial Disclosure’s with the State Party. This rule has been ignored since 1988 whe…