Travis Childers:
"We've been pushed down and stepped on long enough! Start pushing back! We are alive and well!"
Debbie Dawkins (Clinton Supporter)
"Each of us has been in love with our own particular candidate. As time passes, the transfer of affection will be made."
Jamie Franks (and next State Chair):
"I think we've had some infighting, a lack of resources ... we have simply not been on the same page," Franks said of the party's woes. "All I can say is that Republicans better beware, because Democrats are back."
Plus we finally took action on Ike Brown. Mississippi's Democratic Party: Now With More Justice. ;)
Besides choosing the remaining delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention in August, Democrats decided not to re-elect Brown to the state executive committee. As a committee member for the last 20 years, he had helped oversee party policies and certify Democratic candidates for state and congressional offices.
Last summer, a federal judge banned Brown and his associates from helping run Noxubee County elections after ruling he and other black political leaders in the county violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by discriminating against white voters.
The Clarion Ledger Story
No surprise that it's a good piece; it's written by the thoroughly awesome Natalie Chandler. :o)
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping Jamie Franks is a better party chair than he was a lieutenant gubernatorial candidate...and that's all I'm gonna say about that.