Alabama Democratic Party chair Nancy Worley on Tuesday accused Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez of “working to ‘beat Alabama into submission’” following Perez’s criticisms of current state party leadership.

Worley, who lost her credentials to the DNC last month amid a dispute over party bylaws and leadership elections, accused Perez of working with U.S. Sen. Doug Jones of launching “an all-out attack on the Alabama Democratic Party and its leaders to achieve their negative goals.”

“From a continuous, ‘the sky is falling’ media assault on the party and its leadership, to the DNC’s withholding $10,000 per month to Alabama, they have bombarded the Alabama Democratic Party on every side,” Worley said in a statement.

A spokeswoman for Jones and a spokesman for the DNC said in separate conversations Tuesday they had no comment.

The state and national party have been at odds since February when the DNC ordered the state party to hold new leadership elections and rewrite its bylaws to provide for representation on the State Democratic Executive Committee (SDEC) for Hispanics, Asians, youth, LGBTQ individuals and those with disabilities.

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That argument stems from a much longer one over the direction of the Alabama Democratic Party. Critics of Worley say she has done little to stem the Democrats’ repeated losses in state elections since 2010 and neglected the party infrastructure. Worley has said she is trying to pay off party debts and has little room for investment.

Worley held off a Jones-backed challenge to her leadership in August 2018, but the DNC found that some members of the SDEC who voted in that election lacked the proper credentials to do so. Since the February ruling, the national and state party have been in a stalemate, with national Democrats saying the state party has dragged its feet on deadlines and failed to properly address the party’s questions on representation on the SDEC. Worley said the national party was sending confusing instructions.

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The dispute has put the state party’s position at next year’s Democratic National Convention in limbo. In a letter to Jefferson County Democratic Party chair Richard Mauk on Monday, Perez strongly suggested the state party’s delegate selection plan would not win approval from the DNC before proper elections were held.

Perez also said he had withheld $10,000 a month in party-building funds from the state party due to a failure to develop a strategic plan or invest in infrastructure.

“Alabama has fallen far short of meeting its basic obligations to develop an effective strategic plan and build the necessary infrastructure for success,” Perez wrote in the letter. “The ADP has chronically underperformed in virtually every aspect of operation.”

In her statement on Tuesday, Worley said she had worked to meet the DNC’s deadlines on bylaws and representation but claimed that the state party had faced “vicious discrimination” and has been “constantly attacked.”

“It is time for Senator Jones and DNC Chair Perez to work and build with party leaders rather than fight and destroy our party,” the statement said.

Worley raised the issue of the funds before the DNC’s credentials committee last month, in which she suggested her opponents were attempting to undermine African-American voting rights in Alabama and said there would be “a special circle in hell as hot as it can be” for those who did so.