The Prison Vote
Prisoners may have decided an important
Nashville Metro Council Election:
Current law states that someone who is incarcerated and who hasn't formally lost their voting rights must vote by absentee ballot, but that two election judges have to be witnesses to the act, and that at least seven days before Election Day, these judges go to the prison, observe the incarcerated person vote, and then must personally take the ballot to the Post Office. There is, of course, no potential for voter fraud there (sarcasm mine).
Labels: Democrats, Elections, Local politics, Political correctness, Tennessee politics
Davidson's Districts
Democrats in Nashville are concerned that Davidson County could be
split in the new Congressional reapportionment:
While The Tennessean, which was for many years a print media organ of the Tennessee Democratic Party, is trying to argue that Davidson County should not be split, a more appropriate question might be: Why should Davidson County not be split during reapportionment? If the goal is not aggressively partisan districts, but constituencies which are as representative of political reality as possible, then it is true that Davidson Countians who don't live in Nashville proper have been under-represented for years, and that is especially the case with the Metropolitan Government configuration in Davidson County. Democrats have the run of the Metro City-County government, and have since the days that separate county government was abolished in the County of Davidson and replaced with consolidation.
Labels: Conservatism, Elections, Federal politics, Local politics, Republican Party, Tennessee politics
Suppressing Illegal Voters
Tennessee Democratic Chairman Chip Forrester is afraid that Tennessee's new voter identification law will
suppress Democratic turnout among illegal voters:
When we hear Democrats use code-words like "suppress turnout", they really mean that they can't enhance turnout with the constituency groups most likely to be automatic Democratic votes on Election Day, which is why Chip Forrester and his cronies despise the new voter identification law. The groups who would be denied access to the polls-thus "depressing" the turnout-include illegal aliens, those not resident in the precinct in which they are attempting to vote, non-residents of Tennessee, and those which are known no longer to animate this mortal coil
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Labels: Democrats, Duh, Elections, Local politics, Presidential Election, Tennessee politics
"Waaaaaaaaaah...I Want My Naifeh"
Cue the crying Democrats
over redistricting in 3...2...1..:
When Democrats controlled the General Assembly, they allowed Democratic
Congressmen to decide their district lines and threw Republicans the
scraps. When determining legislative districts, former House Speaker
Jimmy Naifeh (D-Covington) had a goal not only of protecting Democratic
incumbents, but especially those that were personally loyal to him.
After the Naifeh crew got through carving up the House to protect
themselves, Republicans would get the leftovers, and if you happened to
get drawn out of your district, oh well...it meant you probably gave
Boss Jimmy trouble in the first place.
Labels: Conservatism, Democrats, Duh, Elections, Federal politics, Local politics, News Media, Presidential Election, Republican Party, Tennessee politics
Beating Doors Down in the 6th Senate District
Voters in the 6th Senate District will soon begin going to the polls in early voting in the special election to
replace former Senator Jamie Woodson:
On September 27th, Knox County voters in the 6th Senate District will go
to the polls to vote in the Republican Primary to decide who may
replace former State Senator Jamie Woodson (R-Knoxville). The Republican
Primary is a three-way race between the well-funded former Knoxville
Mayoral candidate and city councilwoman Maralyn Roddy, and conservative
candidates Victoria DeFreese-who was an interim Knox County
Commissioner-and Becky Duncan Massey, the daughter of former Knoxville
Mayor John J. Duncan Sr., and sister of the current Duncan Congressman
from the 2nd District.
Labels: Conservatism, Elections, Local politics, Republican Party, Tennessee politics
