Comparing The Kurita And Williams Situations

By Kleinheider Posted on February 15, 2009 at 12:21 pm

Tom Humphrey explores the differences in the two cases of party disloyalty:

[T]he Democrats held their Kurita hearing in public and voted in the open. The party chairman at the time, Gray Sasser, left the decision to the executive committee.

The Republicans, in accord with their bylaws, left the actual decision on Williams to Smith but had a secret vote of the executive committee on a resolution urging Williams’ ouster — refusing even to make public a copy of the resolution until Smith made her announcement and said it was approved overwhelmingly.

It might be, however, that Kurita would have been better off if tossed out of the party back in 2007. She would have had two years to prepare for election as an Independent (or Republican?).

As it was, she was effectively unelected by the party executive committee when her name was removed from the ballot. She tried to run as a write-in candidate, but that crusade was doomed.

Williams does have time to organize a campaign as an independent and, conceivably, could benefit from a Carter County backlash.

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