Barnes & Ignoble: Kurita Vexed By Plans To Challenge Election Result
Posted on August 16, 2008 at 12:45 pmTim Barnes has decided to call for a recount and the state senator who narrowly defeated him by 19 votes in the 22nd District Senate race is not pleased:
Kurita declined to listen to Barnes’ claims, saying the results speak for themselves.
“I won. It’s over,” she said Friday while in Memphis at a Governor’s Energy Task Force meeting.
“(Barnes) can do or say whatever he wants,” she said.
Barnes also said he has at least one affidavit from a voter who saw Kurita entering a polling place and walking into a room marked “No candidates allowed” with her deputy campaign manager.
Barnes said the sighting happened about 2 p.m. Election Day at the Harpeth High School in Kingston Springs.
“All I can tell you is we’re dealing with a state senator for 12 years who knows the rules and chose to violate them,” Barnes said, adding that he would never do such a thing.
“I would never intrude on a place where people are voting,” he said. “I am appalled at the lack of respect for the sanctity of the polling place.”
Kurita refused to listen to Barnes’ claims.
“I’m not going to listen to any accusations he may make,” she said. “I don’t even want to hear them. He can make any kind of accusations he wants. The fact is I won the election. It’s time to move on.”
Kurita said she has not spoken to Barnes since the election.
“It’s been a week now, you think you would have heard,” she said, adding that he was “grasping to find anything.”
Barnes also said he has affidavits from voters claiming to have received harassing phone calls at odd nighttime hours from people claiming to be part of his campaign.
Additionally, Tennessee Journal reports that Senator Kurita has retained former state senator Bob “The Reptile” Rochelle to represent her if the election is contested.
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2 Responses to “Barnes & Ignoble: Kurita Vexed By Plans To Challenge Election Result”
Typical democrat. Cry like a baby when you lose. Jim Kyle will do anything to steal this election.
Kurita won. And Ghost is right — jim Kyle is trying to versee the stealing of this election. I always though election stealing was the Republicans’ stong suit.
Look, Kyle, you jerk. Kurita did what 90 percent of Tennesseans who knew anything at all about our legislature wanted done — she got rid of the senile old gladbag and acute embarrassment to the entire state, John Wilder. And if you, Mr Kyle, were a leader instead of a temper-tantrum-throwing petulant child, you would have found a way to get Kurita back into the Democraic fold instead of treating her like crap for two years.
If the Senate is 16-16-1 again and we don’t elect a Democratic Speaker, don’t blame Rosalind Kurita. Blame the pitiful excuse for a Democratoc “leader” — crybaby idiot, Jim Kyle.