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.
Boss Hogg Naifeh is House Speaker, not Majority Leader, that’s Gary Odom, a twit sitting in a rodent gerrymandered district that drew out the former Republican Minority Leader, John Chiles, back in the early ‘90s.
In the Senate, it’s the Senate Speaker that also is Lieutenant Governor (the only state in the country that has a leader with that title, since Speakers usually refer to House leaders). The Majority Leader is Mark Norris. Ron Ramsey is the former Majority Leader. Unusually, the Senate Majority Leader doesn’t have much power, all that power is vested in the Senate Speaker, but never is the Speaker and Majority Leader from different parties, as it was during the 2005-07 when John Wilder had his last embarrassing turn in the top job.