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Where The Boys Aren’t

By Kleinheider Posted on September 15, 2008 at 9:24 am

Sean Braisted takes issue with the meme that those who executed the political lynching of Rosalind Kurita were “good ol’ boys”:

There are an equal number of men and women on the board of the TNDP. There is a man and woman elected to the committee in each of the state senate districts in Tennessee. The chair is a man, the vice-chair is a woman. And while Sasser didn’t vote either way last Saturday (I don’t think he could as he was not an elected member of the committee), the Vice Chair, Elisa Parker, did vote to throw back the election to the county level, and with a 33-12 vote, more women than not voted to accept Barnes’ side of the story. In Nashville, from what I recall, both Jerry Maynard (19) and Will Cheek (21) voted against the measure.

SEE ALSO: Jerry Maynard explains his vote.

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5 Responses to “Where The Boys Aren’t”

  1. Donna Locke writes
    September 15th, 2008 2:36 pm

    As I posted on Sean’s blog, I really wonder if this would have played out as it has if Kurita were one of the guys. I’m rather familiar with the male Democratic mafia in my little county, with its female figureheads at the top.

  2. Wintermute writes
    September 15th, 2008 3:12 pm

    Is this the way a blogger-”journalist” does his job, throwing the label “lynching” around?

  3. Kleinheider writes
    September 15th, 2008 3:20 pm

    I don’t know. What do you think?

  4. Eleanor A writes
    September 15th, 2008 3:24 pm

    I think you don’t have to be a man to be a good old boy. It’s called “Stockholm Syndrome.”

    Braisted’s got something of a history of distorting facts when it suits him, I might add (which is why I don’t hang out over there, personally.)

  5. Donna Locke writes
    September 15th, 2008 3:29 pm

    He’s just so cute, though, misguided as he is.

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