Comments on: Outrage

By: David

David — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:28:07 +0000

There is a reason that one of the many names for the Marshall/Newman amendment is the “We want to get in line behind Alabama” amendment.

By: Anonymousisawoman

Anonymousisawoman — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:19:32 +0000

This is an embarrassment and an outrage. And it certainly is not representative of the Democratic Party. It seems, from the little I know of the facts, that a group of party insiders were sore losers – the complaint came from the loser’s mother-in-law – and so they sought to overturn the results of a legal election based on a minor technicality.

Hopefully, that will not stand. Obviously the rank and file Democrats of that district weren’t that bigoted if they elected Patricia Todd in the first place.

They have real Democratic core values, which includes inclusiveness and welcoming all people.

By: mosquito

mosquito — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:52:58 +0000

This is what bothers me about the two major parties in the usa…Both the Republicans and the Dems have too many party bosses….One reason I would like to see our country end up with a multi-party system. (It would also make it more difficult for the corporations to buy off multi parties.)

Currently there’s a revolution going on in the Dem party with the grassroots flexing their money to out the established dem party bosses. We aren’t going to stop until we have thoroughly cleaned house.

I hope the Alabama Dem grassroots will be able to quickly “OUT” some party bosses and boot them on out of any power positions.

I also hope the Republicans will be successful in taking their party back from the control by a minority of rightwing extremists. They have successfully screwed up the GOP (now, the Grand Oil Party) and our country.

I’m so thankful a number of Republicans are voting Dem this fall in order to restore a power balance in Congress and hopefully stop the march to another quagmire in Iran. You’d think the Iraq disaster would have taught some folks a lesson. I wonder what makes extremists so illogical?.

Buzz…Buzz…

By: Alice Marshall

Alice Marshall — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:29:27 +0000

Alabama Democratic bloggers certainly are not pleased -

http://www.leftyblogs.com/alabama/

By: vjp

vjp — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:51:24 +0000

And the Democratic Party of Virginia, by and large, would not stand for this kind of subversion of democracy.
Are you sure?

By: Doug in Mount Vernon

Doug in Mount Vernon — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:49:09 +0000

I agree Vivian….this is utterly outrageous! These people who did this ought to be ashamed, and the Alabama Democratic Party had better put these renegades in their place.

If not, we ALL ought to be letting Alabama Democrats know that this subversion by attempting to unseat a democratically elected nominee, simply because of her sexual orientation, cannot be tolerated.

This one really make me angry. My agency is moving to Alabama in 3-4 years. This is just more confirmation for me of why I will ABSOLUTELY not consider moving there….even some DEMOCRATS in Alabama are bigots.

I know, maybe Virginia isn’t much better? Actually in my experience, despite the archane laws and amendments we face, it is much better. And the Democratic Party of Virginia, by and large, would not stand for this kind of subversion of democracy.