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Want to help our Democratic ticket win this November? Join us at one of the volunteer trainings Organizing for America - Alabama is hosting this summer to learn what you can do to help your candidates win this fall.Continue reading "Learn what it takes to win in 2010!"
2010 Runoff Results
July 13, 2010
Click Read More for the UNOFFICIAL 2010 Democratic Party Runoff Results. Updating of these results will continue until Official results are posted at noon on Friday, June 23rd, as mandated by law. To view results via news services, visit: www.al.com or www.wsfa.com.Continue reading "2010 Runoff Results"
Democratic Runoff Elections
June 11, 2010
Today the Alabama Democratic Party certified its official election results with Secretary Beth Chapman at the Secretary of State's Office. There will be one statewide run-off in the Attorney General's race, but don't forget to check on any local run-offs that may be occurring in your county.
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2010 Primary Results
Click Read More for the UNOFFICIAL 2010 Democratic Party Primary Results. Updating of these results will continue until Official results are posted at noon on Friday, June 11th, as mandated by law. To view results via news services, visit: www.al.com or www.wsfa.com.Continue reading "2010 Primary Results"
Live from Birmingham, It's Thursday Night!
May 5, 2010
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Candidates: Know your voters
April 8, 2010
Candidates have qualified, and campaigning is in full swing. But who's going to vote this year?
If you are a candidate or are helping on a campaign, get this: There are over 4.7 million people in Alabama yet only half are registered to vote. In addition, in the primaries of 2002 and 2006, slightly better than 35% of eligible voters turned out, while only 15% showed up during the 2008 primary. That means that on average, only 1 in 10 people will vote in June!
Even though there's an open gubernatorial race, and primary races in both party primaries, turnout is likely to be similar, so knowing who the voters are in your area is key to making or breaking your chances of election.
Fortunately, the Alabama Democratic Party offers the most advanced, state-of-the-art, sophisticated and user-friendly online voter file system ever devised.
Click here for more information or contact the state party office today.
Aladems Applauds Passage of Health Care Bill
March 22, 2010
The Alabama Democratic Party congratulates President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for last night's historic health care reform victory. After nearly a century of effort by seven different Presidents, this Democratic Administration has passed some of the most comprehensive health care reforms since the creation of Medicaid - not to mention legislation with the largest deficit reduction since 1993.
Over the course of the next decade, this impressive legislation will cut the deficit by $130 billion dollars and help ensure that 95% of Americans have access to health care. Many of the biggest benefits of the program will be enacted by 2014, but the House Democrats have provided a list of the top ten immediate benefits enacted by passing the Senate version of the bill.
As soon as health care passes, the American people will see immediate benefits. The legislation will:
* Prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions for children in
all new plans;
* Provide immediate access to insurance for uninsured Americans
who are uninsured because of a pre-existing condition through a
temporary high-risk pool;
* Prohibit dropping people from coverage when they get sick in
all individual plans;
* Lower seniors prescription drug prices by beginning to close
the donut hole;
* Offer tax credits to small businesses to purchase coverage;
* Eliminate lifetime limits and restrictive annual limits on
benefits in all plans;
* Require plans to cover an enrollee's dependent children until
age 26;
* Require new plans to cover preventive services and
immunizations without cost-sharing;
* Ensure consumers have access to an effective internal and
external appeals process to appeal new insurance plan decisions;
* Require premium rebates to enrollees from insurers with high
administrative expenditures and require public disclosure of the percent
of premiums applied to overhead costs.
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Aladems Offers Condolences to Rep. Beck's Family & Friends
February 26, 2010
The Alabama Democratic Party offers condolences to the family and friends of the late Representative Warren Beck (R-Geneva), who died February 24. Rep. Beck received a B.S. in Marketing and a M.S. in education from Troy University.Rep. Beck was in his second term in the State Legislature and served on the Tourism and Travel and Commerce committees. As Speaker of the House, Seth Hammett said of Rep. Beck in a statement Wednesday,
"Warren will long be remembered for his honesty and love of public service. When Warren told you he would do something, you could count on him to get it done. He understood the problems faced by his constituents in Geneva and Houston counties and he worked hard to represent them to the best of his ability."
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