Before the primary, we’ll be featuring information about the candidates running for our Executive Committee. We’ve listed the names of all candidates and information about the candidates who responded to our questionnaire.
Jason Bailey
Tommy Hyche
Tell us about yourself and your experience with the Tuscaloosa Co. Democratic Party.
Currently a TCDEC member. I chair the Campaign Success Committee and I am on the Fundraiser Committee. I ran for HD61 in 2018.
What is your vision for the TCDP Executive Committee? What do you hope to work on as a committee member? To secure voting rights for all people and promote and insure personal rights for all.
What talents do you have to bring to our volunteer efforts? My report card reads, plays well with others. I learn by listening and teach by experience. Campaign Success and Fundraising Committees are my passion but I will work on any Committee if needed.
Murray Silverstone
Tell us about yourself and your experience with the Tuscaloosa Co. Democratic Party.
My wife and I became politically active in the 2008 Presidential General Election Campaign for Barack Obama, and ran a Turf “Change Crew” and helped President Obama win North Carolina. We stayed active in 2009 to help promote what we now call Obamacare. We moved to Tuscaloosa in 2010 and I have been active in the Tuscaloosa County Democratic Party ever since.
What is your vision for the TCDP Executive Committee? What do you hope to work on as a committee member? As the TCDP Executive Committee, we have to reach out to other community organizations to help empower the underserved West End of Tuscaloosa, as well as other underserved parts of our county. We must educate potential voters about the power of the vote, and try to convince the voters that the Democratic Party and its Candidates have their best interests at heart. We must do this with a sensitivity to the past when such voters have not been well served despite their vote for Democrats. And we must find candidates who share our values and are willing to put our party’s name and values out into our communities, and to serve our communities whether elected or not.
What talents do you have to bring to our volunteer efforts? In addition to the skills I learned in the 2008 NC for Change campaign, I want to use my membership in the UA branch of the United Campus Workers of Alabama Union, the Temple Emanu-El Synagogue (and Jewish community) of Tuscaloosa, and my connections as an Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at UA. to broaden the reach of our Democratic Party. I have worked with the Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Trail organization to present and discuss parts of a documentary on Julius Rosenwald and his schools with families of the graduates of The Historic Pickensville Rosenwald School, (which is now a museum). I want to continue my drive for social action through the Democratic Party and its values to elect public servants who will help our entire community, as well as those throughout the state.
Reginald Perkins
Paul L. Stephens
James L. (Jim) Taylor
Tell us about yourself and your experience with the Tuscaloosa Co. Democratic Party. I have been a long time Democrat and a member of the Tuscaloosa County Democratic Party for years. I truly knew the Democratic party was the party for me when the Democratic Congress passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts in 1964 and 1965. That is when the southern Dixiecrats left the party to become Republicans saying “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me”. In my view, the Democratic Party called me and I became a life-long Democrat from that point on! I believe that everyone should have the right to vote and that civil rights should apply to all!
What is your vision for the TCDP Executive Committee? What do you hope to work on as a committee member? I envision a TCDPEC that represents an inclusive Democratic community working for the good of the county and state. I am willing to work in any capacity to promote Democratic values, the Democratic candidates and Tuscaloosa County Democratic Party.
What talents do you have to bring to our volunteer efforts? I have worked to register people to vote and to restore voter rights. I have gone door-to-door attempting to get out the vote for Democratic candidates. I have a great deal of experience working at both the state and federal levels as a non-paid citizen lobbyist promoting causes reflecting democratic values. I have successfully lobbied for strong environmental legislation such as the Forever Wild Program, expansion of the Sipsey Wilderness, and solid waste management laws (preventing Alabama from being a dumping ground for out-of-state garbage).
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