Rosalind Kurita's Chances Must Worry Tennessee Democrats

Yesterday A.C. Kleinheider posted a very interesting essay on Senator Rosalind Kurita's expulsion from the state Democratic Party. It's in response to a ridiculous press release by the party in response to her Republican-hosted fundraiser last night in Nashville. It reads:

Rosalind Kurita has shown her true political stripes by putting her career ahead of her principles. Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Gray Sasser released the following statement in response to a fundraiser for Kurita tonight at the Cherokee Equity Corporation. Cherokee Equity Corporation board member Justin Wilson, in his capacity as Deputy Governor to Republican Governor Don Sundquist, was one of the architects behind Sundquist's disastrous state income tax plans.

"Rosalind will say or do anything to help her floundering campaign. Kurita now sides with the income tax proponents of the Tennessee Republican Party for her personal career advancement and for no other reason. Today, we find that she has cast her lot with Don Sundquist and the income tax wing of the Tennessee GOP. She is so desperate to fund her campaign that she will cozy up to any special interest."

Obviously state Democrats will jab at Senator Kurita with any angle they can create in their imaginations. And it's been a long time since we've heard Don Sundquist's name brought up in political conversation. The income tax may have been Sundquist's idea, but it was Democrats who fervently pushed it for him. Once again, Democrats have self-inflicted memory loss and try to revise history. I always thought the "income tax wing" in state politics was the Democratic Party. Wasn't it Democratic senator Bob Rochelle who was the chief proponent of the measure? Do Tennessee Democrats really want to resurrect memories of the contentious income tax debate a month before the election?

If Senator Kurita's write-in campaign is "floundering" as Gray Sasser claims, why is he so worried about her that he has to issue press releases about her, and with such far-fetched claims? If she's such a non-factor, why bother bringing her name up? Because Gray Sasser and the Tennessee Democratic Party are worried about her. The odds are historically stacked against a write-in candidate, yet there must be uneasiness about backlash from her stolen election for Democrats to continue attacking her.