State Democratic party names dead man to Mobile County committee

[dixiegrrrrl]

Amazing....you would think they would at least talk to someone before appointing them to a committee.

October 13, 2009, 2:02PM
Alabama Democratic Party logoIn assembling a new committee of Mobile County Democrats, the state Democratic party included one person who died last year, his widow and other party members confirmed this morning. Reynolds Smith, Jr., of the Eight Mile community, passed away in November at age 83, according to a Press-Register obituary at the time.

In an interview this afternoon, Jim Spearman, the state party's executive director, attributed the snafu to outdated records. The party had gotten Smith's name from a 2006 list of candidates for the county committee, he said, and then used a state voter list to verify that he was still an active voter. The list, which Spearman said dated from around last November, did not reflect that Smith had died. Spearman said he will write Smith's family to explain what happened.

Smith is one of more than 60 people listed on the new interim Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee announced by state party Chairman Joe Turnham in a Monday news release, after he disbanded the previous committee.
But one of those people, long-time Democrat Ed Kahalley, Sr. of Mobile, said this morning that he had not agreed to join the new panel and had no intention of serving. Turnham is "part of the problem, not the solution," Kahalley said.

The state party's decision to name the interim committee provoked a lawsuit today from members of the previous panel, but Mobile County Circuit Judge Rick Stout this afternoon rejected their bid for a temporary restraining order. "What happens in the party stays in the party," Stout said. "This seems to be an internal dispute in the Democratic Party."

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