Party above all
Tennessean has a bit on the Rosalind Kurita incident:
Tennessee Democratic Party leaders voided a bitterly contested Senate primary result on Saturday, a move likely to result in the ouster of the Senate’s second-most-powerful member, Sen. Rosalind Kurita, and a hard-fought victory for her opponent.
The party executive committee voted 33-11 to declare the Senate District 22 primary “incurably uncertain” and referred the election outcome to county party executives to decide. The result of that vote is also uncertain, but many predicted that county officials would declare Clarksville attorney Tim Barnes the winner.
A write in Kurita campaign as kicked off.
During the 2000 election, there was a saying kicked around: Only Democrats and dictators fear elections. In TN, seems to be the case.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
That’s how they run things here in CA – it’s a politburo style operation with a veneer of legalese.