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Citing rewarding and exhausting term, history-making Lewiston councilor will not seek reelection
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Citing rewarding and exhausting term, history-making Lewiston councilor will not seek reelection
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A recent article (“Lewiston Democrats in turmoil as election season begins,” July 28) cited the allegations of three former Lewiston Democratic Committee officers that Vice Chair Safiya Khalid was the target of racial abuse at the committee’s July 22 meeting.
I attended that meeting. I can attest that at no time did attendees engage in such bigoted behavior against Khalid. Indeed, she was encouraged and welcome to run for any office, including chair.
Since the outgoing chair had convened the whole committee only once before July 22 in the last 15 months, there was heated discussion at the meeting over how the officer elections should proceed.
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Lewiston School Committee member Kiernan Majerus-Collins, right, at a meeting in September. Majerus-Collins has stepped down as chair of the Lewiston Democratic Committee.
Daryn Slover/Sun Journal file
LEWISTON With the election just a few months away, a rift has formed within Lewiston’s Democratic Committee.
City Councilor Safiya Khalid, who had been the local party’s vice chair since 2017, took to social media over the weekend, describing a recent committee meeting that turned hostile, which she said forced her to withdraw her candidacy to lead the party.
“Democrats usually pride ourselves on being inclusive, welcoming, and open-minded, but what took place in that meeting was completely awful,” she said in a Facebook post. The post has since received more than 120 comments and has been shared 28 times.