Thank You, Alabama Democratic Party…
Posted on | August 26, 2006
…for selectively enforcing a previously ignored rule in order to disqualify a woman who might have been your first openly gay legislator:
Attorney Bobby Segall told the committee earlier Thursday that if the party disqualified Todd for not filing a financial disclosure form with the party chairman it would also have to disqualify the party’s nominee for governor, Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley, and for lieutenant governor, former Gov. Jim Folsom Jr.
“Lucy Baxley is out of here. Just let the Republicans take over the state Senate and the House. Jim Folsom is out of here,” Segall said in an emotional presentation to the committee. Committee members announced their decision about two hours after the hearing ended.
Committee members and party officials said the committee’s decision would not affect any other Democratic Party nominees — like Baxley — because the results of other races have already been certified.
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