Alabama Democrats Name Dead Man to Committee

Well, considering how many dead people vote for Democrats, this just seems to be the natural progression.

In 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In an interview this afternoon, Jim Spearman, the state party's executive director, attributed the snafu to outdated records.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.

Maybe the national Democrats can investigate why they have a clinically dead Frank Lautenberg and Robert Byrd still serving in the Senate.