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TexasTowelie

(111,304 posts)
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 02:45 AM Dec 2017

Liberal Outsiders Pour Into Alabama Senate Race, Treading Lightly

SELMA, Ala. — In the poinsettia-trimmed pulpit of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday morning, the Rev. James Perkins Jr., the first black mayor of a city where the right to vote was won in blood, announced his support for the Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama’s special Senate election. He reminded his Selma congregants, without telling them how to vote, that sheep are to follow their shepherd.

Not that the congregation needed much reminding.

With only hours until the polls open on Tuesday in this unlikeliest of battleground states, Democrats are deploying a sprawling, multimillion-dollar get-out-the-vote operation in an effort to steal away a Senate seat and reduce the Republican majority to a single vote.

A constellation of liberal groups outside the state has showered money and manpower on turnout efforts aimed at helping Mr. Jones. But they are working discreetly, hoping to avoid the appearance of trying to dictate whom Alabamians should support.

As part of those efforts, former Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, only the country’s second elected black governor, was at Ebenezer to make the case for Mr. Jones. In the vestibule were stacks of sample ballots for the Democrat, whose smiling visage was on literature left on every car in the parking lot. A few blocks away, at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of Bloody Sunday in 1965, the message was starker: “Vote or Die” read a sign aimed at this region’s black majority, whose turnout could decide the race.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/10/us/politics/richard-shelby-roy-moore.html

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Liberal Outsiders Pour Into Alabama Senate Race, Treading Lightly (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2017 OP
This what you posted perked me up in The Department of Hope! sprinkleeninow Dec 2017 #1
I'm scratching all over. TexasTowelie Dec 2017 #2
Sorry about the scabies HelenWheels Dec 2017 #3

sprinkleeninow

(20,133 posts)
1. This what you posted perked me up in The Department of Hope!
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 02:53 AM
Dec 2017

And how are you yourself faring?

Appreciating them posts of yours!

~sprink

TexasTowelie

(111,304 posts)
2. I'm scratching all over.
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 03:05 AM
Dec 2017

I'll be at the doctor's office later this morning because I think that I've come down with scabies.

I've already read up about scabies and also have a sister that is a nurse so I've started treatment with the topical creams which are providing some relief, but I expect that I'll be getting shots over the next few days It's about as bad as when I had chicken pox when I was young.

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