Two members of the Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee wrote to say a late-campaign $8,500 ‘pass-through’ from the state party should never have moved without a committee vote.
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An $8,500 Pass-Through Splits Mobile County’s Democrats: Outrage or Politics as Usual?
Mobile County’s Democratic leaders were divided over $8,500 in state party money that moved through their committee to a get-out-the-vote group. The chairman called it laundering. Others called it Tuesday.
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Mobile County Democrats Take Their Meetings on the Road and Eye Two GOP-Held House Seats
The county Democratic executive committee planned to meet around the county during 2009 to build interest, as two Democrats were reported preparing challenges to Republican state Reps. Victor Gaston and Jim Barton.
Chickasaw
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South Alabama Sizes Up Joe Biden: Mixed Verdicts From Mobile’s Political Class
Judges, lawyers, party officials and consultants across Mobile and the Eastern Shore delivered a split verdict on Barack Obama’s selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate in August 2008.
Chickasaw
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School Board Hopeful Quits Democratic Primary, Calls County Party ‘a Disgrace’
LaVeeshia Pittman abandoned the Democratic primary for Mobile County school board District 3, saying party leaders discouraged her. The county chairman said no one in the party had ever met her.
Mobile
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Langham Bows Out of Treasurer’s Race, Leaving Democrats Scrambling Before Friday’s Deadline
Retired labor leader Don Langham decided against a run for Mobile County treasurer, reopening the question for Democrats with the qualifying deadline hours away. Party chairman Brad Warren reconsidered his own bid.
Baldwin County
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A Retired Union Leader Entered the Treasurer’s Race — With One Condition
Don Langham said he would run for Mobile County treasurer as a Democrat unless party officials allowed a troubled congressional candidate to qualify, a caveat that revealed the party’s anxieties.
Chickasaw
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Mobile Democrats Opened Their Season With Karaoke, a Food Drive and a Treasurer’s Race in Flux
County Democrats planned a kickoff reception with neighboring party chairs from three states, a retired union leader weighed a run for treasurer, and a Bishop State student announced for school board.
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He Wanted the Job So He Could Eliminate It: A Candidate Runs to Abolish the County Treasurer’s Office
The chairman of the Mobile County Democratic Party announced a run for county treasurer on a pledge to shut the office down within two years, calling the post an expensive relic of another era.
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A Punch on the Senate Floor, and a Standing Ovation in Birmingham
State Sen. Charles Bishop was publicly condemned for punching a Democratic colleague on the Alabama Senate floor. At a Republican dinner in Birmingham, he got a standing ovation, and Mobile Democrats were appalled.