Now this could be interesting to watch.  Of course – popularly electing these positions would be even more interesting!  From WSMV.com:

“I owed her at least a consideration there,” said the Blountville Republican. “That obviously is not going to happen, and I have no problem with that. Keep in mind, I don’t appoint this position.”

Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, said other GOP lawmakers and Republican activists in his district were opposed and “it was beginning to escalate.”

In 2007, Kurita’s vote for Ramsey over longtime Democratic Speaker John Wilder infuriated fellow Democrats. After she won an 11-vote victory in the August Democratic primary, Democrats stripped her of her nomination, forcing her to run as an independent. She lost in the Nov. 4 election.

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