Once again, state and local Democrats do their level best to disenfranchise voters.  Heaven forbid there be some independent thinking among their ranks.  Not this time either.  From Nashville City Paper:

A convention of Democratic Executive Committee members from Cheatham, Houston and Montgomery counties voted overwhelmingly last night to name Clarksville attorney Tim Barnes the Democratic nominee for state Senate in District 22. The seat is currently held by Sen. Rosalind Kurita of Clarksville.

Eighty-seven members of the three committees were eligible to vote in Wednesday night’s convention. The vote was a landslide victory, 61-4 for Barnes.

Despite the decision by the convention to name Barnes the nominee, Kurita is still a candidate and will be looming large in the district between now and November.

On Monday, Kurita filed a certificate of write-in candidacy in all three counties as a contingency in case this convention voted, as they did, to strip her from the ballot as Democratic nominee.

Kurita did not attend the hearing which, in previous comments to reporters, seemed to be conceding to Barnes.

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