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East Tennessee Progressive Says Kurita Decison Bad For Democrats

By Kleinheider Posted on September 14, 2008 at 3:47 pm

R. Neal weighs in on the show trial at the Sheraton:

As it is, a distinguished state senator with a long and successful record of advancing progressive legislation on education, health care, equal opportunity for women, and more, a senator who represented the interests of military personnel and their families attached to the 101st Airborne in Clarksville during a time of war, and one of the few women serving in the Tennessee Senate, has been thrown under the bus because of some inside baseball and hard feelings over one political misstep.

Her replacement will not yield the same power, and this diminishes the Democrats’ influence in the Senate whether or not they are able to gain numerical control.

Ironically, the 33 to 11 vote by the TNDB Executive Committee gave Barnes a larger margin of victory (22 votes) than Kurita got in the primary. It helps that they were the votes that actually counted.

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4 Responses to “East Tennessee Progressive Says Kurita Decison Bad For Democrats”

  1. Jesse Hughes writes
    September 14th, 2008 4:40 pm

    Only way to right ignoring voters’ decision is for the Joint Convention to name Rosalind Kurita its nominee.

    I’m not a Democrat and merely make that suggestion as a concerned outsider.

    Was a bad 48 hours for the Senator from Sullivan County, wasn’t it?

  2. Wintermute writes
    September 14th, 2008 5:34 pm

    Influence assertedly gained for one senate district by betraying the Democratic Party is not the kind of influence acquisition that should be applauded.

    The writer you parade seems to know little about how “numerical control” tranlsates into committee chairmanships and majorities and the movement of legislation or not.

  3. Andy Axel writes
    September 14th, 2008 6:44 pm

    Influence assertedly gained for one senate district by betraying the Democratic Party is not the kind of influence acquisition that should be applauded.

    Neither is overturning a legitimate election result.

    If Barnes had won, I can guarantee you that there wouldn’t be boo said about so-called “interference” by Republican voters in Dist 22.

    Here I thought that Democrats stood for transparency and accountability and fairness in elections. The small print: “Your mileage may vary.” “Offer void in some areas.”

  4. Write-In Ros? : Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee writes
    September 15th, 2008 12:01 am

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