Remarkable woman. Responsible for Supreme Court decision this week

[Fla Dem]

Link to tweet

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If you get a chance, read the opinion piece.

https://www.al.com/news/2023/06/archibald-the-remarkable-life-of-shalela-dowdy-west-pointer-beauty-queen-supreme-court-plaintiff.html

[hippywife]

1. Could you not have just linked to the article...

rather than the twitter link?

[Fla Dem]

3. I'm sorry, did not realize article was unaccessible. Link added.

[hippywife]

5. Many of us aren't clicking on twitter links...

in order to stop supporting Musk. Even just eyes on tweets boosts his revenue.

[marble falls]

2. If. $10/monthly's a stiff price.

[Fla Dem]

4. Link to article added. Don't understand why there is a $10 fee.

I accessed without having to pay. I'm sorry.

[marble falls]

8. Please don't apologize, it's these publications that don't get that most of us don't have an ...

... interest in what they publish past an article. You post great stuff and I look forward to reading anything you post!

[Fla Dem]

9. Thank you Marble Falls. I also follow your postings.

[FM123]

6. Yes, remarkable woman!

Just a little info about her from ACLU website:

https://www.aclu.org/bio/shalela-dowdy

[Fla Dem]

12. Thanks FM123. Would love to see her hold a Senate seat in the near future.

Would be great to see Tommy Tuberville disappear.

[Demsrule86]

7. We could gain as many as five seats thanks to this remarkable woman Shalela Dowdy.

[riversedge]

10. Dowdy grew up the oldest of kids in a housing project..........

Grand story--and like for her--

PS--I had no problems with the link.



https://www.al.com/news/2023/06/archibald-the-remarkable-life-of-shalela-dowdy-west-pointer-beauty-queen-supreme-court-plaintiff.html

........She’s been a coach and an advocate for justice, working for voter rights in Mobile. She received a fellowship to educate Alabamians about redistricting, and to encourage people to get involved in voting issues.

It was that work that led her to become a plaintiff in the case known as Milligan vs. Merrill, in which the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a 5-4 ruling that shocked many observers, that stymies, for now anyway, a conservative effort to water down the Voting Rights Act. It will affect the way congressional districts are drawn, and perhaps the content of Congress itself.

“We were simply fighting for fair maps and fair representation,” Dowdy said Friday. To me it was a form of protecting democracy … and making sure that when it came to black voters in Alabama, that equality was present.”

Did I mention Dowdy is just 33?

“She’s amazing,” fellow plaintiff Letetia Jackson said. “I’m on the wind down of life, and she’s just getting started.”

What’s Dowdy’s secret? It’s not so secret. She figures she was born into the expectation of leadership, what with herding all those siblings. She had more responsibilities than most people her age could handle. But she had drive, and people to lean on, and certain gifts.

Dowdy says she was blessed by mentors, such as Lt. Col. (Ret) Steven E. Garner, who helped her understand leadership, and an aunt who inspired her and cared for her, such as friends she visited at West Point when she needed support.

As Garner put it in a video about the JROTC program, Dowdy “evolved from just being a basic cadet to being a battalion commander, which is the top of a 160-person program. This took a lot and she learned those things from other people as well as developing within herself.”...........................

[Spazito]

11. Very impressive young woman....

there is NO doubt she will achieve her goals and we may well see her in Congress not too long from now, imo.

[niyad]

13. Thank you for sharing this remarkable woman.

[Fla Dem]

14. I had not heard of her until I read this article.

Already in her life she has overcome and accomplished so much. Greater things are definitely ahead for her.

[ancianita]

15. So THAT's what was behind the ruling. A great legal story. Thanks!

[NNadir]

16. Wow. She isn't characteristic of the type who elected CTE victim Tuberville. But Alabama did...

...elect Doug Jones, but then lost him, preferring an ignorant jock.

May Alabama someday be worthy of this woman.

[iluvtennis]

17. Awesome!! n/t

[UTUSN]

18. K&R

[dlk]

19. An amazing success story

Thanks for sharing.