It's interesting that Gray Sasser can't seem to let go of Rosalind Kurita.Despite the fact that the Tennessee Democrat Party pulled the rug out from under her nomination for Senate District 22 and hand-picked the nominee of its choosing, its venerable leader uses every opportunity to fire out press releases and belittle her with snide--and frankly ridiculous--quotes.
Ricky Wallace, a Montgomery County Democrat who nominated Tim Barnes at the kangaroo court called a nominating convention, claims that Sen. Kurita pulled almost $26,000.00 from her political action committee to help finance her campaign, exceeding the limit of $7,500 for a primary or general election. Wallace filed a complaint with the state Registry of Election Finance and wants her to reimburse the PAC and be punished for what she allegedly did.
The Tennessee Democrat Party is only too happy to share this juicy tidbit, adding:
“Unfortunately, Sen. Kurita is so power-hungry that she’s flagrantly violating Tennessee’s campaign finance law,” said Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Gray Sasser. “She broke the law by crossing the one hundred foot boundary during the primary, and now, she’s cheating by illegally using PAC funds to cover her campaign expenses.”
“We’re also calling on Sen. Kurita to abandon her frivolous lawsuits, obey the law, and stop funneling illegal contributions through her PAC.”
I've posted on the whole stolen election debacle numerous times, so I won't rehash it all here. But it's ironic that Gray Sasser would invoke such strong language as "power hungry" and "cheating" and attribute them to Sen. Kurita. It was the power hungry Democrat Party that couldn't stand the fact that she voted to retire a tired old man who had no business being senate speaker and lieutenant governor, a vote that ceded control of the state senate to the GOP for the first time since Reconstruction. The first time! And who's power hungry again, Gray?
The definition of "cheat" is "to practice fraud or trickery." While it may not have been fraudulent what Tennessee Democrats did in taking the nomination fom Sen. Kurita--rightfully won at the ballot box--and handing it over to Tim Barnes, it was trickery; it was a cruel trick that deprived the voters in Montgomery, Cheatham, and Houston counties of their choice for the Democrat nomination. A choice that the Democrat Party allowed voters to make in a taxpayer funded primary, yet one that they could change at their discretion.
Changing the rules once the contest is over: now that's cheating.
I hope Sen. Kurita overcomes the odds, wins re-election, and voters send the Tennessee Democrat Party a clear message that it can't change the result of a taxpayer funded primary election because it doesn't like the outcome.
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It is not a violation of law for a candidate to cross a 100 foot boundary. it is a violation of law for any person to do certain things commonly called "electioneering" within the 100 foot boundary. I attended the TNDP and there was no evidence offered that Kurita did that. Her testimony, uncontroverted, was to the contrary. Yet Sasser, A TN lawyer who is presumed to know the law when he speaks, asserts publicly to the contrary. Even worse, he has signed and sent a letter to voters within the 22nd district that lithely states that Kurita "committed" (not is alleged to have committed but committed) a Class C misdemeanor by entering the "polling place". Polling place is a defined term under TN law. It means the room or rooms where the voting activity is taking place. It expressly does not mean the building where the polling place is located. There was no testimony that anyone saw Kurita enter the polling place and she testified under oath to the contrary. Sasser's written statement that her action was criminal is unethical, defamatory and, uin the context ogf an election may be criminal. it is certainly an offensive action for the son of the well-respected former U.S. Senator from TN to take.
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