With qualifying a year away, Mobile County Democratic leaders ran a hands-on workshop on recruiting candidates, raising money and organizing communities early.
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Mobile County Democrats Set a Goal of Turning Blue by 2020
Mobile County Democratic leaders told supporters the party could gain the upper hand as soon as 2020 if it solves a persistent problem: turnout in its own strongholds.
Baldwin County
Conscience or Survival? Alabama’s Political Class Weighs the Griffith Defection
Republicans, Democrats and operatives across Alabama, including Mobile County party figures, offered blunt assessments of Parker Griffith’s party switch. Almost none of them called it principle.
Local News
The Davis-Reed Rift: A Feud That Tested the Machinery of Alabama’s Democratic Party
The public break between gubernatorial front-runner Artur Davis and Democratic power broker Joe Reed raised a question veteran Alabama strategists were happy to answer: is the old machine still the machine?
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South Alabama Democrats Float an Independent Run for Jim Folsom Jr., and Fellow Party Members Wince
Some south Alabama supporters urged Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. to skip the 2010 Democratic primary and run for governor as an independent. Party veterans warned the math simply did not work.
Mobile
Two Little Girls, a Front Porch in Oakleigh and a Yard Sign Nobody Expected
Five days before the presidential election, a Mobile attorney sat on his Oakleigh porch in a funny hat and overheard two trick-or-treaters puzzle over the campaign signs in a white neighborhood’s yards.
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Money Gap Yawns in Mobile County’s District 1 Commission Race
Democratic nominee Merceria Ludgood held a nearly 100-to-one fundraising lead over Republican Juan Chastang heading into the Oct. 9 special election to restore the Mobile County Commission to full strength.
Bayou La Batre
A Crowded Field Shapes Up Against Mobile County Commissioner Mike Dean
Mobile County Commissioner Mike Dean looked at a Republican primary fight and a likely Democratic opponent in his 2008 re-election bid, with names from Dauphin Island to Bayou La Batre in circulation.
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Mobile County Democrats Called a Saturday Meeting on Government Street
The Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee scheduled its regular meeting for Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005, at the Boilermakers hall on Government Street, with local party chairman Bob Beckerle presiding.