Alabama Bill to Restrict the Ability of Parties to Block Candidates from Their Own Primaries

Alabama law lets political parties block candidates from running in their primaries for virtually any political reason.  Representative Phillip Pettus (R-Killen) has pre-filed HB 6 for the 2025 session.  It would not allow a party to block a candidate from its own primary on the basis that the candidate had received a campaign contribution from a non-member of the party.

The 2025 session of the legislature is many months away, but legislators are permitted to introduce bills for that session at this time.


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Alabama Bill to Restrict the Ability of Parties to Block Candidates from Their Own Primaries — 4 Comments

  1. Sounds like a hopeless bill to me. Republicans totally control that legislature, so it won’t pass unless their party leadership backed it. And they are the ones guilty of keeping candidates out of their primaries.

  2. It may the case that candidates being challenged are by local party leaders. They might have become party leaders because they couldn’t get elected to public office. Legislators may believe that they have special qualities – or believe that they were elected through their own campaign efforts.

  3. MINORITY RULE LEGISLATURES IN ALL 50 STATES —

    1/2 X 1/2 = 1/4

    MUCH WORSE PRIMARY MATH

    >>> ALL STATES ARE DE FACTO MONARCH/OLIGARCH REGIMES — SINCE 1776

    NOOO PRIMARIES

    PR

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