The hearing was the latest battle in a years-long war over the direction of the once dominant political force that is now largely powerless.
Two factions of the Alabama Democratic Party faced off in an intense, nine-hour hearing held Friday by the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C.
Complaints followed, including one from Vice Chair Tabitha Isner. The DNC – which demanded the adoption of the 2019 bylaws after a disputed leadership election in the party – launched an investigation. Testimony from Reed indicated that party leaders did not have a list of SDEC members or a list of who paid the $50 fee. Reed said the SDEC would be 19% percent youth under the new bylaws, but the Reed-side could not produce how many people that would be.
“I took the exact same $50 bill that the person at the registration table had asked me to not leave with her to the chair’s podium, and I left it on the podium,” she said. Reed’s side held that all members of the SDEC needed to pay that fee. They argued a notice was sent, or posted on the party’s website, by the previous chair.
A months-long standoff ensued between the DNC and then-chairwoman Nancy Worley, loyal to Reed. Later that year, the DNC recognized a new leadership group aligned with then-U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, which implemented the new bylaws. “Whatever the Native Americans are entitled to, then they ought to have it. Our goal was not to get rid of anybody, we didn’t take those votes away. We changed the way those caucuses were structured. We didn’t change representation,” he said.
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