Tim Barnes Hasn’t Killed Anyone

By Kleinheider Posted on October 15, 2008 at 10:06 am

Jeff Woods runs down what Senator Rosaind Kurita is up against in her write-in bid to retain her seat:

With help from Republican senators, Kurita says she hopes to raise at least $100,000 to get out the word. But that’s probably about half what she really needs.

Tennessee’s last winning write-in candidate was Charlotte Burks, the widow of state Sen. Tommy Burks. She ran 10 years ago after the Republican candidate in the race, Byron “Low Tax” Looper, murdered her husband three weeks before the election. Burks outpolled Looper 30,252 votes to 1,531. Kurita won’t have it that easy. She isn’t running against an assassin.

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