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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 09:17 AM Mar 2018

Record number of black women are candidates in Alabama

Source: NBC News




They're fueled by Democrat Doug Jones' stunning upset Senate win, the #MeToo movement, opposition to Trump and a desire to carry on Obama's legacy.

by Adam Edelman / Mar.23.2018 / 4:36 AM ET

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It's an unlikely location for a political uprising: A onetime drug rehab center in an office park, where metal bars still line the windows and the hum from the nearby I-20/I-59 overpass is constant.

But it is here that Jameria Moore, a 49-year-old attorney, launched her campaign for a judgeship on the Jefferson County Probate Court. She is one of about three dozen African-American women who are running for office as Democrats across deep-red Alabama.

It's an unprecedented number, according to party officials. Many, like Moore, are running for the first time. And many, like Moore, say Democrat Doug Jones' unexpected Senate victory in December inspired them to take a chance.

But there's more to this wave of black women candidates than that.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/record-number-black-women-are-candidates-alabama-n857576

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Record number of black women are candidates in Alabama (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
K & R!!! 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2018 #1
This is amazing. Changing things, one step at a time. Honeycombe8 Mar 2018 #2
Excellent- glad to see them inspired to try to get elected - yay! iluvtennis Mar 2018 #3
Black women coming to our rescue. AGAIN. SunSeeker Mar 2018 #4
Southern black women are the strongest women I've been privileged to meet. raven mad Mar 2018 #5
Hear hear!! flibbitygiblets Mar 2018 #6
saved from Roy Moore Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2018 #8
A line from The Who.......... raven mad Mar 2018 #9
I hope that Alabama does not have any of these laws question everything Mar 2018 #7
GOPer response in article Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2018 #10
A much needed development. Rec, nt Mc Mike Mar 2018 #11
Good Going! Cha Mar 2018 #12

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
2. This is amazing. Changing things, one step at a time.
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 09:31 AM
Mar 2018

This will require many black voters to get to the polls to vote. And they have someone worthwhile TO vote for.

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
5. Southern black women are the strongest women I've been privileged to meet.
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 01:28 PM
Mar 2018

My daughter is excited by this news - none in her district, but she'll work to the bone for the others!

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
9. A line from The Who..........
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 03:50 PM
Mar 2018

I get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again!

They absolutely did, and were major supporters in getting Doug Jones into office. My daughter and her BFF wore out 2 pair of shoes EACH on the stump!

question everything

(47,211 posts)
7. I hope that Alabama does not have any of these laws
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 01:55 PM
Mar 2018

that demand an ID, or that shorten the days before election day.

Hermit-The-Prog

(32,891 posts)
10. GOPer response in article
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 04:08 PM
Mar 2018

From the article:


Meanwhile, Republicans dismiss the gender and race of the Democratic candidates, saying the GOP is focused on issues.

"We are excited to showcase our winning policies as opposed to the failed ones of the liberal Democrats regardless of who is on their ballot," Alabama GOP chair Terry Lathan said.


The Government Of Putin sticks with the same old lies that their base feeds on.
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