Joe Reid has accused the Biden campaign team of trying to select its own delegates from Alabama to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Reid, the longtime chairman of the Alabama Democratic Conference, sent a letter to the Biden campaign in which he accused the campaign of disqualifying Black delegates to the convention.

letter Retrieved from Reed, the ADC is Alabama reflector.

“Your attempt to remove the 74 dedicated, loyal and loving Democratic delegates who pledged the Biden-Harris nomination at the Democratic National Convention is completely unacceptable and will be protested with all due respect. I want to impress upon you all that this will be dealt with in any way possible, including going to federal court,” Reed wrote.

“This is an insult to Black voters in Alabama and across the country. I don't think President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris know this yet. But soon everyone will know it. Please don't let Black voters take away their right to vote and elect delegates of their choice to the Democratic National Convention. ”

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Reed continued, “Put another way, the Democratic Party in Alabama is 66 percent black. Most delegates to the Democratic National Convention are elected by black people. By hand-picking individual delegates, , could prevent Blacks and others from voting for popularly elected Democratic delegates and reduce the influence of Black voters on Election Day.”

Reade criticized the Biden campaign for appointing only 19 Black delegates and warned that they were “playing a dangerous game.”

“As a Biden/Harris delegate, how many other state delegates have you informally and arbitrarily declared to be non grata? How will your ploy help Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? mosquito?”

Mr. Reed is also vice chair of minority affairs for the Alabama Democratic Party, and has long been recognized as the most powerful force within the state party. The Alabama Democratic Party met on Dec. 2 and selected 108 members to submit to the Biden campaign.

Rather than selecting delegates from ADP Chairman Randy Kelly's list, the Biden campaign selected 34 members of its own selection as district-level candidates. Assuming Biden wins the Alabama Democratic primary, the campaign will select the remaining 59 Alabama delegates in May.

President Biden and Representative Dean Phillips (D-Minnesota) will both participate in the Alabama Democratic primary on March 5th.

This is just the latest rift between the state and national Democratic organizations.

In 2019, a bizarre power struggle between Vice Chairman Reid and then-U.S. Sen. Doug Jones led the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to confiscate former Alabama Secretary of State Nancy Walley, who the Alabama Democratic Party had conducted in 2018. nullified the state chairman's election and Mr. Kelly's election. Vice-chairman.

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At the direction of the DNC, Jones and a group of supporters gathered in Montgomery to vote for the Alabama Democratic Party's state executive committee. The new State Executive Committee then passed a new ordinance for the Alabama Democratic Party, securing a majority of seats on the State Executive Committee for the LGBTQ+ and Youth Caucus, thereby reducing the minority that Mr. Reed and Ms. Reed had dominated. It weakened the power of the caucus's state executive committee. ADC.

The new state executive committee then elected state Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa) to serve as Democratic Party chair.

Worley and Reed filed a lawsuit, deeming the 2019 election and bylaws invalid. However, Wally died still serving as chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party.

Jones was the last Democrat elected on a statewide ballot, losing in 2020 to former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville, a Republican.

In 2022, England announced that he would not seek a second term as party chairman. Mr. Kelly was subsequently elected.

In 2023, the state executive committee voted to repeal the controversial 2019 ordinance. The DNC is calling on parties to reinstate the bylaws it approved.

Only one state has voted so far. However, 81-year-old Joe Biden appears to be the de facto Democratic presidential nominee.

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