Friday on Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” Alabama Democratic Party chairwoman Nancy Worley reacted to criticisms from candidates of her party as Alabama Democrats suffered many defeats a few days earlier.
Worley acknowledged to “Capitol Journal” host Don Dailey that the Democratic Party’s effort within the borders of Alabama could have been better. She also defended her party against claims put forth in a Montgomery Advertiser story that the party didn’t spend the money it could have to help its candidates in those Tuesday elections.
Two of the Alabama Democratic Party’s most prominent critics were congressional hopefuls Mallory Hagan and Tabitha Isner, both of which who suffered landslide defeats on Tuesday. Worley, a former Alabama secretary of state, responded directly to Hagan’s attacks and called the former Miss America out for her earlier attempt to make voter suppression a campaign issue.
“I think it’s just a learning adventure in politics,” Worley said. “I know in the case of Ms. Hagan – she came by my office in October when she was here in Montgomery. She and her third campaign manager that she had wanted to make a big issue out of voter suppression in Alabama, and how we had all these purged voters in Alabama because that had been an issue on the eastern side of the state for Georgia.”
“Having been secretary of state, I knew how our purge process works,” she continued. “And it takes a long number of years to get on that list. And so I tried to explain to them that you don’t want to say things that are not true. You don’t want to make an issue out of something that is not an issue. And they disagreed with me greatly on that. That’s a process of ‘Nancy Worley is not going to tell somebody she knows when she knows it’s not the truth.’ And other people are willing in politics to get out there and create strawmen. So, that’s the way politics works.”
Worley said overall the Alabama Democratic Party was still active, but added the caveat there was still “work to do.”
“I say the state party is alive and well,” Worley declared. “I think we’ve got a lot of work to do. We certainly need to go out into many of our counties and have a more active organization because all politics is local. It’s grassroots.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and is the editor of Breitbart TV.
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