From the Nashville City Paper:

The Good Ol’ Boys still run the Tennessee Democratic Party, and on Saturday they got together in the figurative smoky back room and did their best to end the career of their party’s highest-ranking woman.

State Sen. Rosalind Kurita saw her narrow election victory essentially taken from her Saturday at a downtown Nashville hotel as members of the Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee met to try and decide the fate of her 19-vote victory over challenger Tim Barnes.

The party executive committee didn’t have the outright courage to hand the election to Barnes based off the challenger’s razor-thin body of evidence that there were enough irregularities in the 22nd District Democratic Senate primary to overturn the results. Instead, the body voted 33 to 11 to send the decision on whether or not to overturn the primary — and hand it to Barnes — to a board of the executive committees of the county parties in the district.

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