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January 26, 2007
The Newest State Senator (-to-be): Beverly Marrero
The Democratic Party held its primary election to nominate a candidate for the state Senate in District 30, which had been represented by Congressman Steve Cohen.
The partisans overwhelmingly backed state House member Beverly Marrero (89th District), and that move pretty much guarantees that she'll win the general.
A.C. Kleinheider has the links.
UPDATE: Adam Groves reminds us of the House District 92 results.
This news provides a good opportunity to ask you, the reader, what could make this site a better resource for information related to elections in Tennessee. I did receive some generous feedback regarding the content and layout for the 2006 cycle, but since we're in an off year I think it's time to evaluate and prioritize a few improvements.
My focus will continue to be informing voters about their upcoming choices over analyzing results or campaigns; but part of the aforementioned objective is to really watch current government and report/opine on its members' effectiveness. It also obviously involves identifying resources for information about candidates not now in any office. Fortunately, there are others apparently intent on doing these same things. I'd leave someone out if I tried to list you all here, but keep up the good work.
One thing I will be adding is a link from basically all Tennessee Ticket pages to Project Vote Smart ~ specifically to provide my visitors easy access to the function that identifies voting districts for a given ZIP+4. I'll also add a link to the USPS site that will give you the ZIP+4 code for a street address, because not everyone knows it. (PVS has one as well.) The Hamilton County Election Commission's website identifies a voter's precinct and local districts from an input street address, so there's that as well. (Other counties may be out of scope for my capacity to commit time.)
But then it's a matter of getting the visitor back here, and organizing her district/candidate info in a usable format that serves as a portal to all the websites (candidates/campaigns, blogs, online press, or other materials) a person could use to make the "right" decision in that district's election, which is to say "the most confident, knowledge-based decision possible."
Site News , State Senate Elections | By joe lance | 12:53 PM