Posted on 08/14/2006 5:42:02 PM PDT by Dane
Race becomes undercurrent in Alabama campaign of gay candidate
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Patricia Todd is openly gay, and she expected her sexual orientation to be an issue when she ran for a legislative seat representing a majority black district. What she didn't anticipate is the fight centers on the fact that she is white. Todd, who defeated Gaynell Hendricks, a black candidate in a runoff election last month goes before a Democratic Party subcommittee tomorrow (Tuesday) to defend her 59-vote runoff win in House District 54.
According to Joe Turnham, the state party chairman, a challenge filed over Todd's victory will turn solely on what happened during the vote and state election law.
An attorney representing Hendricks said the issue surrounds claims that Todd tried to keep voters from knowing about a 25-thousand dollar donation to her campaign from the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.
Todd said she's concerned that party leaders could -- quote -- "stack the committee" to install Hendricks as the nominee.
Hendricks' mother-in-law filed the challenge setting the stage for the hearing.
Winning the Democratic nomination is tantamount to election since no Republican is running in District 54.
Although it might be unfair to categorize Gaynell Hendricks in the al sharpton/jesse jackson vein, but given todays democrats, he probably is with the sharpton/jesse jackson poverty pimp wing.
If this keeps up, I'm going to run out of popcorn.
Last Thursday, Gaynell Hendricks held a press conference in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse where her supporters in her plain sight accused white people of stealing the election for Todd.
The modern American democrat party, it's not the issues that count, it's the color of your skin or sexual proclivities, that matter.
Cynthia McKinney has some time on her hands now. I wonder which candidate she would support.....
Here's one if you want it. I really should back away from the computer now!
Poverty and homosexual agenda pimps scratching each others eyes out.
An unintended consequence of the liberal multiculti's balkanizing into identity groups? I just love it when moonbats self destruct!
Wait till the Hispanics get political power in the Democrat Party - socialism, Catholic, anti gay and look down blacks for not being as hardworking as they are. You will need a factory of popcorn to see gay, black, hispanic fighting.
Get a load of this...
...this is why we should ALWAYS try to put forth candidates even in hard-to-reach districts. A Black Republican could take advantage of this situation (and in AL, the legislative terms are 4 years rather than the usual 2).
The GOP should present candidates and fund them, because it is right. The returns may be a long time happening, or never happen, but I don't care. It is a matter of sending out the message that ever voter matters to a party, and they wish to engage in a civil conversation. It is almost a moral issue to me.
I mean, this particular race could be a gold-mine opportunity for us. The one group of people more anti-gay than your average religious Conservative are Blacks. Having a White lesbian as the standard-bearer in a Black district IF we had a Black Republican candidate could yield us a pick-up opportunity. It'll still be hard, but not impossible.
If she won the runoff how can a party defeat the will of the people?
"Having a White lesbian as the standard-bearer in a Black district IF we had a Black Republican candidate could yield us a pick-up opportunity. It'll still be hard, but not impossible."
This seems ludicrous. I don't think Gutknecht is going to have a real problem here. If they try to toss him from the ballot, there will be hell to pay.
I agree, it is silly to claim that states can't treat major-party candidates differently from independent candidates when it comes to signature-gathering---it's a very common practice. But if the MN Supreme Court decides to act in a partisan fashion and rules against the Secretary of State and keeps Gutknecht off the primary ballot, the GOP better look fgor a way for the nominee-by-default to drop out so that they can name Gutknecht to replace him; even a loser Democrat would be favored in that 51% Bush CD if Gutknecht runs as a write-in with another Republican on the ballot (especially if they don't count votes for "Gutnecht" and "Gutknicht" and "Gutneck" for Gutknecht).
It strikes me as rather unlikely that Gutknecht's primary opponent will drop out when he evidently plans to file a brief in support of the challenge to Gutknecht's qualification.
It should be noted that if Gutknecht gets bounced, the "Republican" left on the ballot is anything but one. He's an ultraleft radical Greenie (he was the Green Party standard-bearer in 2002 and Independence Party nominee in 2004), likely well to the left of the 'Rat standard-bearer, and would probably serve to take votes away from him if Gutknecht ran a write-in candidacy.
So the Deviants - Freaks- Losers (DFL) want pull another Paul Wellstone funreal antic?
If Guthknecht gets bounced, we may lose the House seat but maintain Pawlenty's job and have a reasonable Kennedy in the Senate.
"So the Deviants - Freaks- Losers (DFL) want pull another Paul Wellstone funreal antic?
If Guthknecht gets bounced, we may lose the House seat but maintain Pawlenty's job and have a reasonable Kennedy in the Senate."
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