Posted on 09/13/2008 5:34:59 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee has voted to declare state Sen. Rosalind Kurita's thin primary victory invalid.
The panel voted 33-11 on Saturday to declare Kurita's 19-vote August victory "incurably uncertain" after her opponent, Clarksville attorney Tim Barnes, alleged heavy Republican interference in the Democratic nominating contest.
A joint convention of the Democratic executive committees in Cheatham, Houston and Montgomery counties will now determine who the nominee will be. There is no Republican running in the general election.
Barnes' candidacy was boosted by Democrats who were upset that Kurita helped unseat John Wilder, a Mason Democrat, from the Senate speakership by supporting Republican Sen. Ron Ramsey in 2007.
No Republican will be on the November ballot, . . .
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Tennessee almost always goes red in the presidential and US Senate elections but its like pulling hens teeth to get a Republican elected in the state and local elections. In our district, we have finally got a Republican on the ballet for the general and the local yokels are about to have a stroke over the general. They are scared to death.
Joe really understood politics.... especially when he held all the aces.
Like Obama, they don’t want stinking elections. Dictators don’t need elections. And worse, the winning candidate was a woman!!! No racists in that campaign
Let no woman win.
‘RAT fraud again
Is that something to brag about???
“No Republican will be on the November ballot, . . .”
That is the real crime. The GOP is folding all around us.
If the Dems can nominate who they choose at this late date, then why can’t the GOP?
So they had to have examined the voting history of each person casting a ballot in the democRAT primary to make their determination. "Sorry, voter, you registered as a democRAT for this election but we've decided that your vote doesn't count after all." Why bother having primaries at all? If you don't like the count, THROW IT OUT. The wrong woman wins in Tennessee? Overturn it. Hillary wins the popular vote? Sorry, you're not black enough.
All Democrats are crooked. They won’t even bother to abide by their *own* rules.
Like anyone need more proof that Stalin would happily be Dem Party Chairman.
Kurita ought to be outraged. There is no party affiliation registration in Tennessee, anyone can vote in either primary.
I don’t get it.
What sort of ‘Democracy’ allows a political party to throw out the results of an election?
Well, if your gaydar didn’t go off yet, it might be due for a tune up.
Rosalind Kurita is a long-term liberal DEMOCRAT that got angry about the dictatorial tactics of the State Senate Majority Leader, who in Tennessee automatically becomes the Lieutenant Governor.
The Democrats had been in charge forever, but the vote was going to be close - and the Leader had offered a Kurita’s committee chairmanship to a RINO member in exchange for his vote. But Kurita found out, and voted for the Republican leader, Ron Ramsey, giving repubs control for the first time. The RINO voted with his party in the end, but his treachery was known and he lost his committee positions in the realignment.
Getting rid of Wilder was worth a lot, but we still have Democrat Jimmy Naifeh as State House Majority Leader, and he is even more of a crook.
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