BIRMINGHAM — Former Alabama Democratic Party chairman Mark Kennedy, who abruptly announced his resignation of the position on Friday, re-emerged Monday afternoon to announce the creation of a new organization devoted to electing Democrats in 2014. In front of a crowd of over 100 people in the Harbert Center in Birmingham, Kennedy said his organization, [...]
Alabama Democratic Party chairman Mark Kennedy will resign the chairmanship of the party effective at noon Monday, according to a statement to be released later today. Kennedy — who clashed with vice-chairman Joe Reed over a personnel issue and the party’s budget at a meeting last month — did not give a reason for his [...]
State Rep. Richard Laird has voted with Republicans for years, but announced on Monday that he would leave the Democratic Party and begin caucusing with Republicans. Laird is the latest white Democrat to leave the party, although he will be an independent. Several other white Democrats jumped ship earlier in this four-year term and became [...]
More than 25,000 people have now signed the petition on the White House Web site requesting for the administration of President Barack Obama to allow Alabama to peacefully secede from the United States after the reelection of — Barack Obama. “If a petition meets the signature threshold, it will be reviewed by the Administration and [...]
While Democrats claimed some key victories nationally on Tuesday, Republicans completed a political shift in Alabama and swept the remaining statewide offices. Now, Republicans control all statewide offices, six of the state’s seven U.S. House seats, and both U.S. Senate seats, and have a supermajority in the Alabama House and Senate. A longtime political observer in the state [...]