Amid Roy Moore Scandal, the Last Thing Alabama Democrats Want Is Help
WASHINGTON — Alabama Democrats have a message for out-of-state allies eager to help in the state's Senate race: Thanks, but no thanks. "I tell them to stay home," said Giles Perkins, the former executive director of the Alabama Democratic Party. "This is an Alabama race, and we will decide it here."
Allegations of sexual impropriety against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore may have created an opening for Democrats. But the scandal has also blown up Democrat Doug Jones' strategy of keeping the race under the radar in the overwhelmingly Republican state — and out of the national partisan fray.
"I’ve been nervous about this hoopla involving Roy Moore because of the danger of sucking out the issues — kitchen table issues — that Doug needs to focus on," said Bob Vance, a Democrat who came within striking distance of beating Moore in the 2012 race for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
Jones has been trying to avoid polarizing the race along party lines, since that would spell doom in one of the reddest states in the country, and that means keeping national progressive groups and personalities on the sidelines.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/last-thing-alabama-democrats-want-help-n820411
Food for thought. According to Doug Jones's allies the best thing we can do to help is to not help.
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the best way to support him would to "support his agenda!"
Not go in and talk about "national issues" (yeah, I know, it's a senatorial election - it could/should be "national"
- but, whatever the candidate and his team feels is significant to win the votes in his own domain.
Yes, we'd love to have an ANTI-TRUMP/PROGRESSIVE person there for us, but, it is SO important to be sure that we do not have a bigoted pervert in the US Senate!
involved, at least visibly, in their politics.
