Ricky Wallace Don't Take Kindly To Republicans Voting For Democrats
The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle posted a letter from a perturbed constituent of Rosalind Kurita's who doesn't much like her hissy-fit lawsuit which names every TNDP Exec Committee member, including those who voted for her, as a defendant:
I think it is outrageous that Republicans should try to get involved in a Democratic primary election, either through commentary or directly attempting to influence the outcome of an election.
Under law passed in 1972, Democrats and Republicans have absolute authority on who their party's nominee should be. The Democratic Party voided the Barnes-Kurita election due to numerous irregularities, including voters being misled by poll workers and a concerted effort by the Republican Party to influence the election.
While one might not like the outcome of the TNDP hearing, Mr. Wallace does have a point in so far as they acted within the bounds of the law, and any claim to 14th Amendment due process protections is erroneous.
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The Democratic Party's executive committee may have acted within the bounds of the law, but it doesn't mean it was the correct decision. The party wanted Sen. Kurita voted out in the primary for purely partisan reasons. When it didn't work out the way they wanted, they reversed the outcome and the will of the voters. What is consistently left out of this discussion is because there was no Republican challenger, the primary between two Democrats WAS the general election. The winner would get the seat. In this case, Republicans voters had the right to vote in the primary, regardless if it was a Democratic primary. Would Democrats stay out of an election between two Republicans for a state senate seat? I don't think so.
Luckily, and with all due respect, no one has a right to select a party's nominee more than the state Democratic Executive Committee.
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If the executive committee wanted Barnes in the first place, why spend taxpayer dollars to hold an election at all? Just let the committee make the choice it wants to make and take it out of the hands of the voters. That's a democratic concept, isn't it? :)
The Republicans tried to steal a Democratic nomination in the primary, got caught, and the results were thrown out. Now their just openly trying to steal a Democratic nomination. They're candidate is suing to be put on the ballot as the Democratic nominee.
And if you don't like that we have primary elections at all, then that's something to take up with the next General Ass or with the Coordinator of Elections.
Republicans voted in the election as was their right to do so. Even Tim Barnes admits some voted for him. Stealing is what the executive committee did to one of their own. It's what they did to the voters by throwing out the person they voted for.
I personally have no problem at all with a primary election, as long as the results are honored. It's when those results are tossed aside at a political party's discretion there should be a problem.
At the time of the vote, did the Democratic Executive Committee have in place any rules that required voters in their primary to be registered Democrats? Did the rules stipulate how long one had to be registered as a Democrat before being eligible to vote in their primary?
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