Arold Mathews is a Republican attorney in Bibb County, Alabama, who wanted to run for District Judge in this year’s Republican primary. The party is refusing to let him run because in 2018, he contributed $500 to someone who was running for office as a Democrat. See this story.
Mathews will attempt to qualify as an independent candidate.
People who would willingly give money to demon rats should be horsewhipped through streets and then locked in the stockade for a few days, with a nice pile of stones helpfully available for passers by.
So on the one hand Republicans are running around the country arguing in court that the voters should be able to vote for whoever they want to and it’s damaging to the election process if a candidate isn’t on the ballot for people to vote for, but on the other hand the same Republicans will block a candidate from appearing on the ballot because he gave money to a Democrat once? Just shows how disingenuous these folks are.
ANY WHITE DEMS REMAINING IN EX-SLAVE STATES — SINCE USA 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT ???
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ANOTHER REASON FOR NONPARTISAN JUDGES
Joshua, who from the Alabama Republican Party is flying around the country doing that? Additionally, we’re in no way keeping the rhino traitor from appearing on the ballot. He’s welcome to run as a demon rat since he loves to support them financially, or, there’s still plenty of time before the deadline to collect independent candidate signatures.
Me! And I’m running, not flying. One day I just started running, and kept running.
AZ, yes, primarily homosexuals, college professors, and homosexual college professors. I’m not sure what that has to do with whether judge candidates have a party label. Voters tend to figure out which party a judge candidate is with, with or without party ballot label.
Run, Forrest, Run!
Were you born a homo or did you work at it your hole life?
Either way, it worked out fine cause you’re a homo tonight.
See Trump Run.
See Trump Win.
Win, Trump, Win!
I support a party’s right to pay for their own nomination process and make their own rules for picking candidates.
If your rules cause people to flock elsewhere, that’s your loss.
But don’t you dare make it difficult for me to vote for another (looking at you, Alabama).
Again, nobody is saying you shouldn’t be able to vote for him, to my knowledge. He can run as a dummy crap, petition as an independent, petition to organize a new minor party, or his supporters have the right to write in his name without any petition.
The only issue is his supposed right to pollute the purity of the Republican Party brand. That’s like having a public swimming pool that would have a policy of allowing negroes to urinate, drip jerry curl juice, etc in the water. Most folks wouldn’t want to swim there, or let their younguns in that water.
Or say you were courting what you thought was a beautiful White woman only to find out there was a negro in the woodpile who defiled her great grandmother and polluted her genetic pool, and that every Sunday after church and Sunday dinner she sneaks off to the local Motel 6 to get rawdogged in all her holes by a bunch of drunk illegal Mexican invaders who steal construction jobs from White men. Unless your a complete moron, you’d break it off right then and there.
We can go on with as many examples as y’all want, but you smart folks get my point. Purity is no less important when it comes to the GOP name brand than when it comes to the water we swim in or the genetic racial heritage we pass on to our grandchildren and their grandchildren’s grandchildren.
When it comes to partisan loyalty, it’s of paramount importance to support segregation today, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever here in the heart of the great Anglo-Saxon Southland.
I’m an Alabama Rigger and I wanna be free
Hell with the N double A C P
I dont drink
I dont cuss
I wanna ride on the front of the bus
I’m an Alabama Rigger and I wanna be free
Hell with the N double A C P
I wanna eat where the white folks eat
cause I’m white on the bottom of my feet.
I’m an Alabama Rigger and I wanna be free
Hell with the N double A C P
We dont screw like the white folks do
we just screw til we get through
I’m an Alabama Rigger and I wanna be free
Hell with the N double A C P
I wanna be white more and more
so i can bitch at the rigger next door
I’m an Alabama Rigger and I wanna be free
Hell with the N double A C P
I’m glad this tune came along
we done wore out one rigger song.
I’m an Alabama Rigger and I wanna be free
Hell with the N double A C P
I wanna be white dont you understand
so I can play in a trashy white band
I’m an Alabama Rigger and I wanna be free
Hell with the N double A C P
I’m an Alabama Rigger and I wanna be free
Hell with the N double A C P
Do y’all believe in food purity laws? Partisan and racial purity laws aren’t any different in principle.
@Alabama Republican
“Again, nobody is saying you shouldn’t be able to vote for him, to my knowledge. He can run as a dummy crap, petition as an independent, petition to organize a new minor party, or his supporters have the right to write in his name without any petition.”
1. Except, running as a Democrat and losing the nomination does not place him on the November ballot. There is only one vote that you and I have a right to, and that is the one in November.
2. If he wants to petition as an independent, then he faces the hurdle of collecting valid signatures equal to 3% of the number of votes cast in his district for governor in the last election. This is included in the article that Richard linked to. For candidates for statewide office, that would be 3% of statewide votes, which is over 40,000 signatures (1.4 million votes in 2022 times 3%). That is one of the highest requirements in the country, and why I commented on this post. I forget about the new party process in Alabama.
3. I don’t know about how Alabama handles write-ins. As far as I know, some states won’t count your vote if you’re not a certified “write-in candidate”. I oppose that. Some states won’t let you write in at all, or just don’t count any of them. I also oppose that.
4. The public pool analogy is bad because I do not support your right to “purity” in public, only in private. If political parties are private, then fine. But they’re not private if the state funds their qualifier “primary” or gives them special/automatic access to the November ballot. I’m not sure exactly how it works in Alabama.
Mr. Cerini, thank you for the reply.
It’s true that the femocrats might deny him their nomination. After all, nobody likes or trusts traitors, not even the beneficiaries of their treason.
That is not a valid argument to force Republicans to have him on our ballot, and potentially to sully the good name of all God fearing, loyal, and pure Republicans who could be forced to share the ticket with him by association, should he somehow bamboozle the good folks through some type of trickery or deception in the primary.
The process to qualify as an independent or minor party is exactly the same, except for independent presidential candidates. The latter have a significantly less severe signature burden than if they wish to additionally qualify a statewide minor party in addition to themselves, which would allow them to run candidates for every office up and down the ballot, as opposed to independent presidential candidate petitions which don’t qualify any other office.
The write in process is quite simple. Write ins are allowed, there is no candidate certification or registration or filing required, and they are automatically counted and recorded if the number is significant enough to affect the outcome of any given contest.
That alone should be enough to demonstrate conclusively that no registered voter in the state of Alabama is ever prevented from voting for any candidate of his or her choice.
Granted, it’s substantially more difficult to inform voters of your interest in their vote for you or your buddy for a given office if they have to write the candidate’s name in, as opposed to having it already printed on the official printed ballot with the oval to fill in in pencil next to the name.
That’s why you also have the option of gathering the verified signatures of registered voters equal to 3% of total votes cast for all gubernatorial candidates put together in the more recent election, either as independent candidates or as a minor political party.
It’s important to note that all registered voters can have such signatures qualify, even if they didn’t vote in the prior gubernatorial election, or even in any election ever, for that matter. This means that only a wee bit over 1% of eligible signers need sign to qualify a minor party or independent candidate in order to have that candidate’s name included on the official printed ballot at taxpayer expense. The precise percentage changes based on turn out in any given governors race, but that is roughly speaking the actual signature burden in practice.
You are correct that the state funds the primary. Personally, I wish they didn’t, but I don’t have nearly sufficient pull with the old goats on goat hill to change that fact, and both they and I have too many other priorities for that to change in the foreseeable future, so let’s call it an unfortunate fact that we are practically speaking powerless to change.
That no way, no how, not ever changes the fact that control of an organization’s right to associate with someone or choose not to is of paramount importance.
Public universities receive taxpayer funding as well, and again that’s a fact you and I aren’t about to change regardless of whether we wish it weren’t true. That doesn’t entitle me or any other drunk bubba from the stands to jump out on the football field and decide I’ll be the new substitute for Coach Saban, or that I might could do a better job carrying the ball than the team’s players are doing in the season opening or any other game. It doesn’t entitle me to presume I can walk into any classroom and take over for the professor, etc.
Only a full blown idiot who’s too dangerous to themselves and folks around them to ever allow outside the confines of Bryce hospital would seriously advocate the type of chaos that would ensue if there was no right of dissociation or conditional entry to any public accommodation which receives tax money.
If you seriously believe public pools ought not have the right to disallow urination directly into the pool water, simply because they receive tax funding, all I can say is I sure enough hope we never go swimming at the same pool.
You’re not necessarily wrong to suggest that too many entities rely on taxpayer funds. I would agree with that proposition, though perhaps you’d go further with it than I would. Regardless, given that so many things do and for the foreseeable future will continue to receive tax money, it’s utter madness and folly to suggest that they therefore give up all rights to set any kind of rules, including the right to eject members of the public engaged in what they deem to be unacceptable behavior.
1.x % of eligible signers doesn’t seem like a very difficult barrier to overcome to qualify a candidate or minor party, regardless of how they do it up north. The population of Bibb County being roughly 2% of Alabama, we’re probably talking about roughly 200 signatures, not 40,000. Granted, they do have to be Bibb County registered voters, not just Alabama voters. But there’s no shortage of those all over Bibb County.
Indeed, chances are pretty good that any given adult who answers when you knock on any house door in Bibb county is a registered Bibb County voter. Depending on specifically where in the county you go and the nature of the proceedings the chance of them being such varies; you might ought to ask them which county they’re registered to vote in before you tout the virtues of your candidate in seeking their autograph.
Either way, they are required to legibly print their name and date of birth should they decide your candidate or party belongs on the ballot, and with that information alone the petition signatures can be verified through a free state government website by the petition organizers to know when they have a sufficient number of valid signatures before they even hand any in for official verification to the appropriate county or state officials.
Thus, the candidate in question and his supporters have a number of options to win office.
They can collect roughly around 200 valid signatures of Bibb County voters to qualify as either an independent or minor party, which one they choose being completely up to them.
They can pay the filing to either the Republican or Devil Rat party and see if the party will accept them as a candidate in the primary. Granted, that does not ensure a place on the November ballot, but some folks find that preferable to knocking on strangers doors or attempting to waylay them down while they’re going about their business in public and try to persuade them to sign to place your candidate on the ballot, or for that matter to pestering their friends, family, neighbors, co-workers etc to sign such petitions.
And if they wish to avoid entirely the difficulties presented by paying filing fees, the risk of losing in the primary, as well as the effort required to qualify a minor party or independent candidate for the ballot, they can instead attempt to inform a sufficient number of voters in any given contest of their availability and interest in having their name penciled in for said office; there are any number of means to attempt to do so.
With all those different ways to try to get into office, again, there is nothing whatsoever even remotely preventing any voter in the state of Alabama from voting for any candidate for any office in any election. Not one single solitary thing.
And if you think accepting public funding means foregoing the right to control access and set rules of any sort, I sure enough hope we never go to the same library, drive down the same road, have kids at the same school, and so on.
Or, if you merely naively hold such a ludicrous belief while being the most wonderful fellow to be around yourself, I hope folks who share such an eccentric belief with you never, ever gain sufficient political power to actually try that idea out with the general public as guinea pigs. I doubt that will happen, but then I doubt my grandfather could have imagined many of the sorts of foolishness that just about everyone takes for granted nowadays could ever become remotely possible.
I disagree with Alabama Republican, as you might expect.
What’s the big deal about a few people urinating in a public pool? The same inbred imbeciles who go on and on about that don’t think for half a second before jumping in to swim in a river, creek, lake, or down at the beach in Gulf Shores. There’s way more foul things floating around in those waters, urine of any number of species being far from the worst of which, than you’ll ever find in any chlorinated pool, even if they were to actively encourage not getting out of the pool to pee.
I kinda think what really irks them is the race of the swimmers, far more than whether anyone is actually peeing in a pool or not, or how many people or how often do it.
If these country rednecks had to choose, I’m guessing they’d much rather have everyone at the klan rally take a leak directly in their mouth and swallow as much of it as they physically can than to ever let their kids swim in the same pool with black kids, even if those happened to be the most well behaved African American children in the whole state.
Of course, that’s only a guess. I’ve never actually been to a Klan rally. Alabama Republican would most likely know much better than me whether or not I guessed correctly.
Public roads? Personally, I think Black Lives Matter protesters have no less right to be out in the middle of the road than cars do.
Drunk Bama fans jumping out on the field throughout the game? Awesome idea. War Eagle!
And if someone wants to masturbate in front of a public library computer, so what? You either want to look at what they’re doing, or you turn and look at your own screen or in any other direction . Otherwise, you’re lying to everyone and quite possibly yourself and really do want to look, and probably much more than just look, and just don’t want to admit it. Grow up, and deal with your repressed sexual urges in some way other than being a hypocritical prude.
When it comes to elections, the main issue with running as a Democrat in a majority white rural county isn’t whether you win the primary. Doing that is fairly straightforward – you go to the black churches each Sunday during campaign season and talk to folks. Your problem will far more likely be that winning the Big D primary won’t get you any closer to holding office than winning a Darwin award would.
The real issue there is that those counties have a huge supermajority of voters who would about as soon ever vote for a Democratic candidate for any office as their grandpappy would have been to ever vote for a Republican. That is, they’d about as soon do that as they would be happy about seeing their daughters give birth to and raise a bunch of mixed race children by different fathers in a public housing project. For about the same exact reasons.
Therefore, the GOP should be stripped of any right to control access to their primaries, since for practical purposes winning their primary means winning the general election. They won’t like it, but then their kind never did like black kids being allowed to go to the same schools as white kids. To whatever extent those policies ever change, it’s only because of the federal courts, backed up by the threat or actual deployment of federal troops.
Otherwise, Bubba and Bubba Jr and every other bubba in the county and state Will go to the polls on election day, look for the elephant, find it, and fill in that oval, then head directly outside to their truck with the Trump bumper sticker and go on to wherever they’re headed next. And nothing will ever change that way even if Alabama keeps having elections until the sun swallows the earth.
To put it simply: Alabama Republicans can go jump in a lake. Hold them down, pull off their pants, and force all our candidates all the way on their ballot no matter how much they do, don’t, or pretend not to like it, the big bad black Democrats especially. Then, and only then, can Alabama overcome its shameful racist past.
HOW MUCH OF THE BRAIN POWER IN EX-SLAVE STATES WAS KILLED OFF IN 1861-1866 BY SLAVER MONARCHS/OLIGARCHS —
LEAVING 66.6 IQ BARELY OPERATING MORONS IN 2024 IN SUCH STATES ???
Northerners are racially superior to southerners, with higher IQ from the freezing cold temperatures. There’s fewer blacks up north too, so that for sure helps too.
Lincoln was going to ship all the blacks to Africa, but then he got assassinated. Now, us enlightened Yankee carpetbagger know it all’s need to finish the job Lincoln started, create a world government, destroy all borders, and forcibly mix all the races until there is only one perfect slave race left to serve an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent world government and its totalitarian satanic religion of Luciferian Islam.
Are you with me?
-AZ
Sorry, calculation on the fly error in my most immediate past comment. The population of Bibb County is less than one half of one percent of the population of Alabama. My guesstimate of roughly about 200 signatures was ballpark correct.
I found one other error I made, this one of omission: where I said that any adult who answers a knock on any house door in Bibb County has a good chance of being a Bibb County voter, and then that the likelihood varies depending on where in the county you go etc, the latter part is meant to gathering signatures while out and about in public, as opposed to the first part, which was by knocking on voters doors.
While there is some minor variation in what percentage of the population is registered to vote between different areas, it won’t vary all that much. On the other hand, if you get permission to gather signatures at a filling station just off I-59 exit 97 in Bibb County, for example, hardly anyone will admit to being a Bibb County voter, and most of them will in fact be from Tuscaloosa, Jefferson, and various other counties and states.
The variation in percentage of eligible signers to passers by will be much more dramatic depending on place, time, and nature of why people are there in public places than going door to door.
As for the intervening comments by Alabama Democrat, AZ and Aryan Zuperman (same person or parody?): good God.
This should go without saying, but jackasses who literally glorify interracial gang rape, forced race mixing, and totalitarian world government aren’t on the right side of any argument.
This may be less obvious to some, but should be equally obvious to all: jackasses who glorify authoritarian federal government forcing its will on states and local communities, whether under the pretext of racial fairness or whatever other excuse they find most convenient for emotionally short circuiting rational thought, aren’t ever on the right side of any argument either.
The candidate donated $100 and $200 to Democrat judicial candidates in Jefferson County where he practices law in 2016. The state rules say “prior election”. If someone contributed to Andrew Jackson they would be excluded.
It appears the county chair wanted Mathews to run against the incumbent.
Lastly @ Alabama Democrat,
Drunk fans could then do the same thing at Jordan Hare. Even an Auburn fan should be smart enough to figure out how and why that would be. Roll Tide!
Have fun in your urine infested swimming pools, but please keep your bizarre sexual fantasies about KKK rallies to yourself. I have never been to one, and have no interest at all in what type of debauchery may or may not happen there. Senator Sessions once said they go out in the woods and smoke a bunch of marijuana, and that alone would be enough to keep me far away, even if they weren’t also drunk, stupid, low class trash.
I’d certainly much rather swim in a pool someone peed in than actually have anyone urinate in my mouth and drink it, but both are incredibly disgusting. You do you, and notice my ool has no p in it…please keep it that way.
If you block a road I’m driving down with your racist, anti law enforcement protest, I’ll run you over. Here’s a tip: don’t play in traffic. And if you ever masturbate in a library around my kids, that will be the last time you will have anything to jerk down there.
Have all the fun you want with your interracial cuckold fantasies and with the family visits to your daughters and mixed race grand kids in housing projects, jails, etc. I’ll keep resisting your kind trying to force that life on me and mine, and I won’t apologize for doing so.
Parents who want their kids to go to school with kids of other races should have that right. Parents who want their kids going to a school with kids only of their own race should have that right too. Parents who prefer to educate their kids at home, same thing.
All of them should be responsible for paying for whatever kind of education they want for their kids along with other likeminded parents and whoever voluntarily agrees to help them out, instead of running to the government for tax money like children begging their parents for an allowance.
But that’s one of those unfortunate facts that we are practically powerless to do much about for the foreseeable future. Hopefully, in time enough adults become mature enough to stop acting like they were kids and government was mommy and daddy. We’re obviously not there yet.
And yes. I do like to go vote in my truck with a Trump bumper sticker. Just like you said, I get my ballot, look for the elephant, fill in the oval, and leave. That is because I have a job and a family to get back to, rather than taking longer than I have to in order to vote against y’all jackasses. If you don’t have a job and family that keep you busy, work on changing that, instead of thinking I’m not as good as you due to mine keeping me busy.
Jim Riley, is anyone who contributed to Andrew Jackson alive? To my knowledge, no. Or, perhaps you’re referring to some other Andrew Jackson, not the early 19th century President? Either way, I don’t understand what your point is.
The rule is that if someone seeking to run in our primary contributed financially to our opposition in the past, we have the right to reject their candidacy. We also have the right to accept it, for example if that happened a long time ago and they demonstrate convincingly that they are completely and permanently penitent and rehabilitated, or provide some other sufficiently convincing proof that it was a momentary lapse of reason, etc.
Consider what sort of approach you might take, for example, towards a young man seeking your permission to ask for your daughter’s hand in marriage, asking you as an employer to hire him, etc, if he has a history of giving money to the Church of Satan, or say just has that one arrest for fellating a couple of donkeys on a farm in Bibb County back in 2016. Here, I mean four legged donkeys, not Democrats.
Do you overlook that record of egregious misbehavior solely because it was a few years ago? I wouldn’t, although I might decide that on balance you’re worth the risk given enough other mitigating factors. Our rule in question gives us that same discretion, with the burden of proof of prodigal redemption being on the applicant.
@AR,
OK, perhaps Lester Maddox or Jimmy Carter. How about Richard Shelby before switched parties? Rigid application of rules is folly.
It appears that the incumbent District Judge in Bibb County might not be such a competent judge. If you are a lawyer practicing in his court you won’t want stupid or unlawful decisions which require you to appeal. It appears that the county chair in Bibb County favors the challenger.
The challenger mostly practices in Jefferson County (Birmingham). He made a couple of small contributions to judges. Maybe he went to law school with them, or they practiced for the same firm.
The rule isn’t rigid. It allows for exceptions.