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Hendricks-Todd hearing delayed
MONTGOMERY— The Democratic party today delayed a hearing that would have decided the outcome of the contested House District 54 runoff between Gaynell Hendricks and Patricia Todd.

Party officials said a mix-up over who would serve on the five-person committee presiding over the hearing forced them to postpone. Some members who had been selected chose not to participate at the last minute, they said.

Todd defeated Hendricks by 59 votes in a June 18 runoff, 1,173 to 1,114. The house district is in Birmingham.

Hendrick’ mother-in-law challenged the outcome on July 28, claiming Todd had received “illegal votes.” She also said Todd failed to file a financial disclosure report on time, thereby hiding from the public a $25,000 contribution by a national gay activist group.

No new date has been set for the hearing, though officials said they hoped to reconvene some time next week.

“I’m very patient by nature,” Hendricks said. “But I’m beginning to get impatient here.”

Jordan H. Weismann

The “mixup” seems a little fishy to me…