Special Election for 2 Assembly Seats: Primary

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August 01, 2005

Special Election for 2 Assembly Seats: Primary

This Thursday (8/4), voters in Senate District 29 will go to the polls to select their parties' nominees to replace John Ford, who resigned after being indicted in the recent FBI sting dubbed "Tennessee Waltz."

Amazingly enough, John's sister Ophelia (nice name, by the way) is in the running (though she reportedly lived in another district until this opportunity arose) and is making blog news in some noticeable places.

Also up for grabs in Thursday's primary is the Democratic spot for Ford's Waltzing partner Kathryn Bowers, who left her House District 87 post when she won election earlier this year to the District 33 Senate seat (which had been vacated by yet another who would end up indicted in the sting (Roscoe Dixon)). (There's, like, some kind of revolving door over there in Memphis, I think. Plus a requirement that people have the last name as much as possible. Remember Lois DeBerry? John DeBerry is one of the candidates running for John Ford's old seat.) I don't know of any Republicans (or others) in the running for the House 87 seat. According to the article linked above, there are four Democrats in the race. I will update the pages with the winners of the primaries -- this close in, I don't feel the need to list all the contenders.

Now, if you're like me, you're wishing that there were a couple more elections being held this week -- namely, for Bowers' District 33 seat itself and, of course, for District 11 10 (duh, Joe; sorry, Senator Fowler), right here at home.

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