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TexasTowelie

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Mon Feb 6, 2017, 04:00 AM Feb 2017

Tensions spill over at Alabama Democratic Party meeting

Say this for the Alabama Democrats: Everyone knows where they stand.

The dividing line at Saturday's State Democratic Executive Committee was the table where the Democrats’ executive committee sat, facing about 150 people in the Embassy Suites ballroom.

At many points during the three-hour meeting, the executive committee suggested the party's county chairs held Democrats back. Alabama Democratic Party chairwoman Nancy Worley at one point suggested during a speech that county organizations allowed “the strangest and most unusual people” to run for elected office and leadership positions.

Joe Reed, the chairman of the Alabama Democratic Conference whose allies largely control the party structure, went further, saying the state couldn't take complete responsibility for you "at your local county chapters.”

Read more: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/politics/southunionstreet/2017/02/04/tensions-spill-over-alabama-democratic-party-meeting/97498626/

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