Alabama Dems reinstate lesbian candidate for Legislature...

[Rowdyboy]

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=14505

Openly gay Patricia Todd was reinstated Saturday as the Democratic Party’s nominee for a seat in the Alabama Legislature in a vote that turned more on the race of the candidates than sexual orientation.

The Alabama Democratic Party Executive Committee voted 95-87, mostly along racial lines, to reject the ruling of a subcommittee that had voted to disqualify Todd, who is white, and her black opponent, Gaynell Hendricks, in the race for the House seat from Birmingham’s predominantly black District 54.

Todd defeated Hendricks by 59 votes in the July 18 party runoff election.

The subcommittee had voted 5-0 that both candidates should be disqualified because they violated a party rule requiring candidates to file a campaign finance disclosure report with the party chairman.

[donco6]

1. Good for them.

Too bad the vote was so close.

[peacetheonlyway]

2. this is GREAT news.. thanks for posting

it was ridiculous of the Dem. party to kvetch over the silly disclosure report.
In GA if you file late you get hit with a $25 ethic fine and that's it. The truth
is racial politics are often deeper than it seems. When the african community and the
gay community have so many similar causes to fight for I hope one day we can find a way to bridge that gap.

It's awesome we have now 2 openly gay candidates, with Drenner in GA and Todd in Alabama
and hopefully that will usher in a new era of openly gay candidates into office.

great post rowdyboy!